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University of Chicago alumni

  • Kevin M. MurphyKevin Miles Murphy was born in 1958. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981.
  • Leonard H. LeskoLeonard H. Lesko was born in the mid-20th century to a family that would eventually support his lifelong study of ancient Egypt.
  • Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
  • Robert Lucas Jr.Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. was born on the 15th of September 1937 in Yakima, Washington. His parents ran an ice creamery there before it failed during the…
  • Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
  • Saul BellowSolomon Bellows arrived in the world on the 10th of June 1915, within the quiet streets of Lachine, Quebec. His parents had fled Saint Petersburg, Russia…
  • Douglas Q. AdamsDouglas Quentin Adams earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972. This academic milestone marked the beginning of a career focused on ancient…
  • Carl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was born on the 9th of November 1934 in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father Samuel worked as a garment worker who had…
  • Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman was born on the 31st of July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish working-class immigrants from Beregszász in Carpathian…
  • Kirk W. JohnsonKirk Wallace Johnson was born in West Chicago, Illinois. His father served as a Republican State Representative and Senator.
  • Julia AngwinJulia Angwin was born in Champaign, Illinois, to university professor parents who moved to Silicon Valley in 1974. They worked in the emerging personal…
  • Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, on the 15th of May 1915. His family consisted of upwardly mobile Jewish immigrants from Poland who had prospered…
  • Marshall HodgsonMarshall Hodgson was born on the 11th of April 1922 in Richmond, Indiana. He grew up within a practicing Quaker family that shaped his early worldview.
  • Herbert A. SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 15th of June 1916. His father Arthur Simon arrived from Germany in 1903 after earning an…
  • Walter PittsWalter Harry Pitts Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, on the 23rd of April 1923. He taught himself logic and mathematics as a child without formal schooling.
  • James M. BuchananJames McGill Buchanan Jr. was born on the 3rd of October 1919 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He grew up on a farm that suffered during the 1920s when his father…
  • Agustín CarstensAgustín Carstens was born on the 9th of June 1958 in Mexico City. He began his academic journey at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology where he…
  • Leon BotsteinLeon Botstein arrived in New York City at the age of two, having been born in Zürich on the 14th of December 1946. His parents were Polish-Jewish physicians…
  • Gary BeckerGary Stanley Becker was born on the 2nd of December 1930 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a Jewish family within that small coal-mining town.
  • James HeckmanJames Joseph Heckman entered the world on the 19th of April 1944. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, born to John Jacob Heckman and Bernice Irene Medley.
  • James S. ShapiroJames S. Shapiro was born in 1955 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Midwood High School before earning his bachelor's degree from Columbia…
  • Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber Jr. entered the world on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber.
  • Claudia GoldinClaudia Dale Goldin was born in the Bronx, New York City on the 14th of May 1946. Her father Leon Goldin worked as a data processing manager at Burlington…
  • Richard B. SpencerRichard Bertrand Spencer was born on the 11th of May 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Preston Hollow, Dallas, Texas, as the son of…
  • James KahnJames Kahn was born in Chicago on the 30th of December 1947. He began playing guitar at age twelve while living in that city.
  • George SteinerFrancis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His right arm withered from birth yet his mother insisted he use…