List of University of Chicago Laboratory Schools people

This is a list of notable people who attended, taught at, or were otherwise affiliated with the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Alumni Name Year Notability Reference1988physician, emergency medicine practitioner1969Jazz trombonist, composer, bandleader, artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University1935American businessman and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co.1990Stand-up comic and television host2002Former child actor, starred in The Indian in the Cupboard; internet entrepreneur1946Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Chicago1962Jazz musician and instructor1999San Francisco district attorney1967Oregon Secretary of State1957Maryland Secretary of Natural Resources1960Blues musician and bandleader1971Law professor at Duke University; dean of the law school at University of California, Irvine; dean of UC Berkeley School of Law1988Murder victim, INS attorney1979Author, screenwriter, and cartoonist of alternative comic books1939Dance historian and dance critic for The New York Times1967Oregon Secretary of State1958Former member of the Illinois House of Representatives1945Sculptor1982Chicago Public Schools CEO, US Secretary of Education1981Children's author1962Author, contributor to The Old Farmer's Almanac1961Economist, physicist, legal scholar and libertarian theorist1977Historian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign1982Professor of Film, Yale University1983Astrophysicist, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008), Nobel Prize winner (2020)1936Professor of Theology and comparative religions, University of Chicago1979Chicago alderman19901990 winner of the Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search1947Writer and runner, longtime contributor to Runner's World1979Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, radio host, producer1977Pathologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine2009Professional Basketball player for Grand Rapids Drive(attended)Senior advisor to United States President Barack Obama1947Dance educator, former director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater1964Pulitzer Prize-winning author, former theater critic at the New York Times, professor at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts1951Connecticut congresswoman (1983–2006)1978Folk singer and songwriter1954Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago1998President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy and Let's Move! Executive Director1974Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School1958Political scientist2006NBA executive(attended)Illustrator1999Journalist and writer1962Former chief of Paramount Studios and Academy Award winner (2007)Judge and dean, Duke University Law School1928President of the University of Chicago, United States Attorney General1965Chairperson of Legal Services Corporation1969Trombonist, composer, author, Columbia University professor, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2002), AACM member1983Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco1970Infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University1919Murderer of Bobby Franks (along with Nathan Leopold)1970Playwright; artistic director of McCarter Theater1952Biologist, University of Massachusetts Amherst1934Professor emeritus, University of Chicago History Department, National Humanities Medal winner1968Principal Deputy White House Counsel to the U.S. President; Professor, Harvard Law School1982Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago1969Geriatrician, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008)1972Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmakerAeronautical engineer1970Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House Judiciary Committee; director and lawyer at People for the American Way1999Academy Award-winning screenwriter and author1983Director and artist1983Treasurer of the City of Chicago1923Public servant, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom, namesake of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University(attended until December 2008)Daughters of United States President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama1970Newspaper columnist and author1984Professor of Law, University of Chicago1982Illinois Attorney General1950Professor, classics and social thought, University of Chicago1985Film and television actress1976Founding chairman and chief executive officer of Ariel Investments1940Pulitzer prize-winning composer and author1992Reality TV star, Wall Street Journal contributor, historian, and author1983Non-fiction writer, academic, professor at Boston College1978Artistic director, playwright, Theater J, Washington, D.C.1942Geneticist, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom1977Businessman, journalist, three-time Emmy award winner1975Professor, history department, University of California, Berkeley1981U.S. Secretary of Labor(attended)Photojournalist1997Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and podcast host1978Author and newspaper and magazine columnist1977UC Berkeley School of Law professor and scholar of crime and punishmentJustin Slaughter1998Member of the Illinois House of Representatives1937United States Supreme Court Justice1967Curator, critic, painter, dean of Yale School of Art1962Law professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law1956Television journalist1987Professor of phonology and morphology at University of Cambridge1957Seven-time Emmy award-winning screenwriter and author1973Professor, Harvard Law School1992Artist and architectAndrew Hill(attended c. 1945)Jazz pianist and composer1972Artist1967Actress

Michael Hudson (born 1939), economics professor

Faculty Blue Balliett, former 3rd grade teacher, author of acclaimed children's books Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3, among others. Barbara T. Bowman, early childhood education expert and advocate. Wayne Brasler, former U-High Journalism adviser, awards annual Brasler Prize for outstanding high school journalism. Langston Hughes, author. Bertha Morris Parker, educator and author of science encyclopedias for children Vivian Paley, former teacher and noted child psychologist. Craig Robinson, former head basketball coach, former Oregon State University head basketball coach; brother of Michelle Obama.

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