82 Notable alumni of
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Illinois Institute of Technology is 721st in the world, 268th in North America, and 248th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 82 notable alumni from Illinois Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Virgil Abloh
- Occupations
- disc jockeyrecord producercomposerdesignercivil engineer
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Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. He began his own line of luxury streetwear clothing, Pyrex Vision, in 2012, and became the chief executive officer of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013. Abloh was also the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection beginning in 2018, and was given increased creative responsibilities across the LVMH brand in early 2021.
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Martin Cooper
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- electrical engineerentrepreneurinventor
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Martin Cooper is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.
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Nandamuri Kalyan Ram
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- film produceractor
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Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Telugu cinema. He is the son of actor-politician Nandamuri Harikrishna. Ram is best known for his roles in action films such as Athanokkade, Hare Ram and 118. Ram is the chairperson of the production company N. T. R. Arts, named after his paternal grandfather NTR.
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Roger Bruce Chaffee
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- astronautaerospace engineeraircraft pilotmilitary officer
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Roger Bruce Chaffee was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar
- Occupations
- politiciancomputer scientist
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a junior minister in the incumbent Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology of India. He is also an entrepreneur, technocrat and a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha from BJP representing Karnataka. He served as National Spokesperson of BJP and was vice-chairman of the Kerala faction of the BJP-led coalition National Democratic Alliance.
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Sam Pitroda
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- businesspersoncomputer scientist
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Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, also known as Sam Pitroda ( Hindi: [sɔt̪jɔnaːraːjɔɳɔ ɡɔŋgaːraːmɔ piʈroɽaː]) is an Indian telecommunication engineer and entrepreneur. He was born in Titlagarh in the eastern Indian state of Odisha to a Gujarati family. He was also an advisor to the PM during Dr. Manmohan Singh's tenure and for United Nations.
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Valdas Adamkus
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- engineersprinterpoliticiancivil engineer
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Valdas Adamkus is a Lithuanian politician, diplomat and civil engineer who served as the fifth and seventh president of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.
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Ajit Singh
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- politician
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Chaudhary Ajit Singh was an Indian farmer leader and politician. He was the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a political party recognised in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was son of the former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh. He tested positive for COVID-19 and was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Gurugram. He died on 6 May 2021 after his condition deteriorated.
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James Young
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- singer-songwritersongwritersingermusicianguitarist
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James Vincent Young is an American musician who is best known as one of the guitarists in the American rock band Styx, having served as the only continuous original member of the band. Young began playing keyboard and piano at the age of five. He attended Calumet High in Chicago and learned to play clarinet and guitar during those years. He was nicknamed by Styx members & long time fans as "J.Y." and is often referred to as "the Godfather of Styx".
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John H. Cox
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- lawyerpoliticianradio personalitybusinessperson
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John Herman Cox is an American businessman, housing developer, and political activist, who has run for public office several times, mostly recently for Governor of California as a Republican Party candidate.
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Mohsen Sazegara
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- politicianjournalist
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Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. He was the founder of IRGC (Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps) after the revolution in 1979. He held several offices in the Government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election but was declined.
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Kwame Raoul
- Occupations
- politician
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Kwame Raoul is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Jack Steinberger
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- university teacherphysicist
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Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the discovery of the muon neutrino. Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University (1950–68), and the CERN (1968–86). He was also a recipient of the United States National Medal of Science in 1988, and the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990.
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Peter Roskam
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1989 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerteacherpoliticianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Peter James Roskam /ˈrɒskəm/ is an American politician and lobbyist who is the former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district, serving six terms from 2007 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the Chief Deputy Majority Whip from 2011 to 2014, ranking fourth among House Republican leaders. Previously, he served in the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives. He served as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy for the 115th Congress. Roskam was defeated by Democrat Sean Casten in the 2018 election. In 2023, he was named federal policy head of the lobbying practice at Washington, DC-based law firm BakerHostetler.
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Hans Hollein
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- designerdraweruniversity teacherarchitect
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Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.
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Kevin Roche
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- architectengineer
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Eamonn Kevin Roche was an Irish-born American Pritzker Prize-winning architect. He was responsible for the design/master planning for over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. These projects include eight museums, 38 corporate headquarters, seven research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for six universities. In 1967 he created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and thereafter designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections including the reopened American and Islamic wings.
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Otis Boykin
- Occupations
- scientistinventor
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Otis Frank Boykin was an American inventor and engineer. His inventions include electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers.
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Tim Michels
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- politician
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Timothy James Michels is an American businessman who co-owns and co-manages Michels Corporation, a family-owned and operated construction company. A member of the Republican Party, Michels was the party's unsuccessful nominee in the 2004 United States Senate election in Wisconsin and the 2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.
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Jack Dongarra
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- engineercomputer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
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Jack Joseph Dongarra is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the American University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018). Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021.
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Randy Hultgren
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- politicianlawyer
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Randall Mark Hultgren is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Sidney Coleman
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- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicist
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Sidney Richard Coleman was an American theoretical physicist noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics.
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Jamshyd Godrej
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneur
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Jamshyd Naoroji Godrej is an Indian industrialist and member of the Godrej family, currently serving as managing director and chairman of Godrej & Boyce, the holding company of the Godrej group. Godrej & Boyce is a diversified business with a presence across 10 industry sectors.
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Gloria Ray Karlmark
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- computer scientisttechnical writereditor-in-chief
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Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark is a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. One of the three children of Harvey C. and Julia Miller Ray, she was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School where she was barred from entering by the Arkansas National Guard, under the order of Governor Orval Faubus who opposed integration. They returned to the school weeks later protected by federal troops.
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Tamar Simon Hoffs
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- film directorscreenwritertheatrical director
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Tamar Simon Hoffs is an American filmmaker, best known for directing the indie films Red Roses and Petrol (2003) and Pound of Flesh (2009), both starring Malcolm McDowell.
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Susan Solomon
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- atmospheric chemistresearcher
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Susan Solomon is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she serves as the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Science. Solomon, with her colleagues, was the first to propose the chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole.
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Grote Reber
- Occupations
- physicistengineeramateur radio operatorastronomer
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Grote Reber was an American pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies.
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Rajinder Singh
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Rajinder Singh is the head of the international, non-profit organization Science of Spirituality (SOS), known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission. To his disciples he is known as Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj. Singh is known for his work toward promoting inner and outer peace through spirituality and meditation on the inner Light and Sound.
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Ameya Pawar
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- alderman
- Biography
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Ameya Pawar is an American politician who served as the alderman for the 47th Ward of the City of Chicago. He was first elected in the 2011 municipal elections, and was elected to a second term on February 24, 2015. Pawar's 2015 re-election was secured with over 82% of the vote, the largest margin in the election cycle. Pawar is the first Indian American and Asian American in Chicago City Council history.
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Richard B. Ogilvie
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- politician
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Richard Buell Ogilvie was an American attorney and law enforcement officer who served as the 35th governor of Illinois and served from 1969 to 1973. A wounded combat veteran of World War II, he became known as the mafia-fighting sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, in the 1960s before becoming governor.
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Ethel Percy Andrus
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- educator
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Ethel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958.
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto
- Occupations
- cinematographercamera operatorphotographerarchitectural photographer
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto was a Japanese-American photographer. His decades-long career explored expressions of modernist design in traditional architecture, the quiet anxieties of urban life in Tokyo and Chicago, and the camera's capacity to bring out the abstract in the everyday and seemingly concrete fixtures of the world around him.
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Taleb Rifai
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- architect
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Taleb Rifai is a Jordanian businessman and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations' World Tourism Organization between 2010 and 2017. He was the first Jordanian to hold a UN agency Secretary General position.
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Stanley Tigerman
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- architect
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Stanley Tigerman was an American architect, theorist and designer.
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Arthur Krock
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- journalist
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Arthur Bernard Krock was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist. In a career spanning several decades covering the tenure of eleven United States presidents he became known as the "Dean of Washington newsmen".
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Victor Skrebneski
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- fashion photographerphotographer
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Victor Paul Skrebneski was an American photographer born in Chicago to parents of Polish and Russian heritage. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1949. He set up his own studio in Chicago in 1952. The Art Institute of Chicago had an exhibit of his work in 1969.
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Peter Schutz
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- industrialistbusiness executivemotivational speakerentrepreneur
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Peter Werner Schutz was the president and CEO of Porsche between 1981 and 1987, a time in which the company greatly expanded sales, primarily in the United States. He was a motivational speaker and co-founder of Harris and Schutz Inc., with his wife Sheila Harris-Schutz.
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen
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- designergoldsmith
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen, was a Norwegian goldsmith, enamel artist, and designer. She is one of the most well-known Norwegians in the Scandinavian Design movement, and has been referred to as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design". Through her work she contributed to internationalisation, innovation and scientific research. She was one of the few Norwegian practitioners who shaped the Scandinavian design style in the post-war era and is the periods’ most renowned Norwegian practitioner. Kittelsen's aim was to make beautiful and user-friendly everyday objects available for everyone. She had a vast and varied production. With her enamelled objects and jewellery she has been a pioneer in design in the post-war era and a model for the next generation of designers. Today her pieces constitute design icons and are sought-after collectables.
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James G. Roche
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- military officer
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James Gerard Roche is an American politician. He served as the 20th Secretary of the Air Force, serving from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2005. Prior to serving as secretary, Roche served in the United States Navy for 23 years, and as an executive with Northrop Grumman.
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Martin C. Jischke
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- scientist
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Martin Charles Jischke is a prominent American higher-education administrator and advocate, and was the tenth president of Purdue University.
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Wally Feurzeig
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- artificial intelligence researchercomputer scientist
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Wallace "Wally" Feurzeig was an American computer scientist who was co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo, and a well-known researcher in artificial intelligence (AI).
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Aiham Alsammarae
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- politician
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Aiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic, Sunni, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List (headed by Iyad Allawi) and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba'athification, since his resignation as Minister of Electricity. Previously, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the U.S. for over 30 years.
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David Edwards
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- chemistbiomedical engineer
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David A. Edwards is an American biomedical engineer, and the founder of Sensory Cloud. He was the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University.
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Charles L. Bolte
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- military personnel
- Biography
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General Charles Lawrence Bolte was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. In World War II he distinguished himself as commander of the 34th Infantry Division during the Italian Campaign, for which he was twice awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal. Later promoted to four-star general officer rank, his final post was Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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Scott Waguespack
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott Waguespack is a member of the Chicago City Council, representing the 32nd ward since May 2007. The current 32nd ward includes parts of the neighborhoods of Bucktown, Goose Island, Hamlin Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, and Roscoe Village. He is a member of the council's Progressive Reform Caucus, and was the chair during 2015–19. During the 2019–23 term, he was selected as the chair of the Finance Committee.
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Cyrus Tang
- Years
- 1930-2018 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Cyrus Tang was a Chinese American businessman and philanthropist who had holdings across a wide array of industries, including steel, aluminum, technology, and life sciences.
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Diego E. Hernández
- Occupations
- military officer
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Vice Admiral Diego E. Hernandez was a United States Navy officer who was the first Hispanic American to be named Vice Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
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Jacob Matijevic
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- engineermathematician
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Jacob Matijevic, also known as "Jake" Matijevic, (3 November 1947 – 20 August 2012) was an American NASA engineer of Croatian origin who worked on Mars Exploration Rovers. Dr. Matijevic was involved in developing the "Sojourner", "Spirit", "Opportunity" and "Curiosity" rovers. For his contributions to the rover projects, NASA named several landmarks on the planet Mars (including "Matijevic Hill" and "Jake Matijevic" rock) after him.
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Francis G. Pease
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Francis Gladheim Pease was an American astronomer.
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Carl W. Buehner
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- priest
- Biography
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Carl William Buehner was a German-American politician who was general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1952 to 1961 and was the Republican Party candidate for governor of Utah in the 1968 election.
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Conrad Roland
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- architectengineer
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Conrad Roland was a German architect and pioneer of the construction of space nets (tensile structures), which primarily are to be found as rope climbing frames on playgrounds. In 1978 he designed and constructed the biggest spacenet of the world until today, the Super Four Mast Spacenet, for the Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA).
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Albert W. Hawkes
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
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Albert Wahl Hawkes was a United States senator from New Jersey.
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Georges C. Benjamin
- Occupations
- international forum participantphysician
- Biography
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Georges C. Benjamin is an American public health official who has served as Executive Director of the American Public Health Association since 2002, and previously as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Cabinet of Governor Parris Glendening from 1999 to 2002. He is a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Benjamin is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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Mathai Varghese
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Mathai Varghese is a mathematician at the University of Adelaide. His first most influential contribution is the Mathai–Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with Daniel Quillen, and which has since found applications in index theory and topological quantum field theory. He was appointed a full professor in 2006. He was appointed Director of the Institute for Geometry and its Applications in 2009. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2013, he was appointed the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. In 2017, he was awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship. In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Hannan Medal and Lecture from the Australian Academy of Science, recognizing an outstanding career in Mathematics. In 2021, he was also awarded the prestigious George Szekeres Medal which is the Australian Mathematical Society’s most prestigious medal, recognising research achievement and an outstanding record of promoting and supporting the discipline.
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Anthony Adducci
- Occupations
- inventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Anthony J. Adducci was a pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota. He is best known for co-founding Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. The lithium-iodide cell revolutionized the medical industry and is now the standard cell for pacemakers.
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Ronald G. Douglas
- Occupations
- university teacheracademic administratormathematician
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Ronald George Douglas was an American mathematician, best known for his work on operator theory and operator algebras.
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Abdul Jerri
- Years
- 1932-.. (age 92)
- Occupations
- theoretical physicistmathematician
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Abdul Jabbar Hassoon Jerri is an Iraqi American mathematician, most recognized for his contributions to Shannon Sampling Theory, It's Generalizations, Error Analysis, and Historical Reviews, and in particular his establishment in 2002 of the journal Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (STSIP- ISSN 1530-6429) with over thirty top international experts as its editors, besides establishing its Sampling Publishing, also his contribution to the general understanding of the Gibbs Phenomenon, where he wrote the first book ever on the subject, published by Springer - Verlag, then he followed it by editing another book on Advances in Gibbs Phenomenon published by Sampling Publishing.
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George J. Eade
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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George James Eade was a four star general in the United States Air Force who served as Deputy Commander in Chief, United States European Command from 1973 to 1975.
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Jeff Essmann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeff Essmann is an American politician and a Republican former member of the Montana Senate. Essmann was appointed to the Montana Senate in 2005 to represent Senate District 28. He was subsequently elected in 2006, and reelected in 2010. Essmann served as the president of the Montana Senate from 2013 to 2015.
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Cheryl Hyman
- Born in
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United States - Biography
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Cheryl L. Hyman is the vice provost for academic alliances at Arizona State University and former Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago. During her tenure at City Colleges of Chicago, she launched the Reinvention of City Colleges program in 2010, and the City Colleges' College to Careers program in 2011. She is also the author of Reinvention: The Promise and Challenge of Transforming a Community College System.
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Matthew Woll
- Occupations
- trade unionistphotographer
- Biography
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Matthew Woll was president of the International Photo-Engravers Union of North America from 1906 to 1929, an American Federation of Labor (AFL) vice president from 1919 to 1955 and an AFL-CIO vice president from 1955 to 1956.
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Fred Ernst Busbey
- Occupations
- politicianinvestor
- Biography
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Fred Ernst Busbey was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Xavier Vilalta
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Xavier Vilalta is a Spanish architect and professor. He studied architecture in Barcelona, London, and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
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Margaret Mann
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Margaret Mann was a noted librarian and teacher who dominated the field of cataloging for almost fifty years. The bulk of her career was spent as a professor at the University of Michigan. She was hired as one of the first three full-time faculty members in the department of library science at Michigan in 1926 and retired in 1938. In 1999, American Libraries named her one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".
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Thomas Patrick Gerrity
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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General Thomas Patrick Gerrity was a United States Air Force general and was commander of the Air Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
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Richard Neapolitan
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Richard Eugene Neapolitan was an American scientist. Neapolitan is most well-known for his role in establishing the use of probability theory in artificial intelligence and in the development of the field Bayesian networks.
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Thomas Roszak
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Thomas Roszak, FAIA is an American architect, real estate developer, business executive, author, and academic.
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Carter Manny
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Carter Hugh Manny, Jr. studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and spent his career as an architect and foundation administrator in Chicago. His work helped shape Chicago O'Hare International Airport, the FBI Building in Washington, D.C., the First National Bank of Chicago, and the addition to the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Carl Spetzler
- Occupations
- chemical engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Carl Spetzler is an American businessman, author, and academic. He is known for his research, publications, and expertise in the fields of decision quality and decision theory.
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Mary Eileen Ahern
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Mary Eileen Ahern was an American librarian, a leader of the modern library movement, and an early organizer of libraries in the United States. Throughout her career as a state librarian, journal editor, public speaker, and organizer, Ahern crusaded for the value of public libraries in educating the public. Ahern was inducted in the Library Hall of Fame in 1951, and named in American Libraries in 1999 as one of the "100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century."
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Jan Lorenc
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Jan Lorenc is a Polish-American designer and author. Born in Jaśliska, Poland in 1954, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 8. He formed Lorenc Design in 1978 in Chicago, and later moved it to Atlanta in 1981.
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Alice S. Tyler
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Alice Sarah Tyler was an American librarian and advocate.
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John M. Carmody
- Years
- 1881-1963 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John Michael Carmody was an American administrator, noted as editor of Factory and Industrial Management, and as administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Federal Works Agency in the 1930s.
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Howard Paul Savage
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Howard Paul Savage was an American businessman who served as the National Commander of The American Legion from 1926 to 1927.
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David A. Lucht
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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David Allen Lucht is an American engineer and fire safety expert. His career was devoted to public service in government, academia and the nonprofit sector. He served as the Ohio State Fire Marshal; the first presidential appointee to serve in the United States Fire Administration and the inaugural head of the graduate degree fire protection engineering program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he served for 25 years
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Bernard S. Baker
- Years
- 1936-2004 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Bernard S. Baker is an American electrochemist who was a pioneer in the field of electrochemistry. He was a founder and served as president, chief executive officer and chairman of Energy Research Corporation (now called FuelCell Energy, Inc., in Danbury, Connecticut), developer and manufacturer of direct fuel cells (MCFC) used to generate electric power. Power plants based on his concepts are providing electricity in distributed generation locations throughout the world.
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Leverett S. Lyon
- Years
- 1885-1959 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- juristmanagereconomistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leverett Samuel Lyon was an American economist, lawyer and business executive, known for his works on education, government, marketing, and economic life, and particularly on the National Recovery Administration.
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Harvey S. Leff
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Harvey S. Leff was an American physicist and physics teacher who is known primarily for his research and expository articles in physics, focusing on energy, entropy, Maxwell's demon, and the foundations of thermodynamics. He introduced the 'energy spreading' metaphor for entropy change. Leff died on December 30, 2023, at the age of 86.
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Susan Sorenson
- Occupations
- sociologistepidemiologist
- Biography
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Susan B. Sorenson is a professor of social policy, and of health and societies, at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a senior fellow in public health, director of the PhD program in social welfare, and director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center there. She is known for studying gun violence from a public health and political perspective, and she has argued for increasing the availability of data to researchers regarding this subject.
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Anita Douthat
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Anita Douthat is an American photographer.
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Lea Demarest Taylor
- Years
- 1883-1975 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- social worker
- Biography
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Lea Demarest Taylor was the head resident of the Chicago Commons, a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, from 1922 to 1954. Although often overshadowed by her famous father, Graham Taylor, she made significant contributions to the settlement house movement in her own right.
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Reuben Slonim
- Years
- 1914-2000 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- journalistphotojournalistrabbi
- Biography
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Reuben Slonim was a Canadian rabbi and journalist.
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James Henry Alesia
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James Henry Alesia was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
