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Notable Alumni of Illinois Institute of Technology

Notable alumni of Illinois Institute of Technology include Valdas Adamkus (Former President of Lithuania), Jack Steinberger (Physicist; 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate) and Roger Bruce Chaffee (NASA astronaut in the Apollo program).

College data and admissions

Alumni list

Politics and law

  • Valdas Adamkus 1926–

    Former President of Lithuania

  • Peter Roskam 1961–

    Former U.S. representative from Illinois

    Juris Doctor · Class of 1989

    Also attended: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • John H. Cox 1955–

    Businessman and 2018 Republican nominee for Governor of California

    Also attended: University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Randy Hultgren 1966–

    Former Republican US representative from Illinois

    Juris Doctor · Class of 1993

    Also attended: Bethel University

  • Richard B. Ogilvie 1923–1988

    35th Governor of Illinois

    Also attended: Yale University

  • Albert W. Hawkes 1878–1971

    Businessman and U.S. Senator from New Jersey

    Juris Doctor · Class of 1900

  • Rajeev Chandrasekhar 1964–

    Indian politician and entrepreneur

    Also attended: Harvard University

  • Ajit Singh 1939–2021

    Indian politician and farmer leader

  • William Levi Dawson 1886–1970

    Chicago congressman, first Black committee chair

    Juris Doctor

    Also attended: Northwestern University, SUNY at Albany, Fisk University

  • Henry Horner 1878–1940

    28th Governor of Illinois

    Also attended: University of Chicago

  • Adolph J. Sabath 1866–1952

    Illinois congressman and dean of the US House

    Juris Doctor · Class of 1891

    Also attended: Lake Forest College

  • Kwame Raoul 1964–

    Attorney General of Illinois

    Also attended: DePaul University

  • Yosef Rom 1932–1997

    Israeli engineer and Likud member of the Knesset

    Also attended: California Institute of Technology

  • Charles Nelson Pray 1868–1963

    Montana congressman and federal district judge

    Bachelor of Laws · Class of 1891

    Also attended: Middlebury College

  • Frank J. Corr 1877–1934

    45th Mayor of Chicago

  • William Emmett Dever 1862–1929

    Mayor of Chicago from 1923 to 1927

  • Jim Ryan 1946–2022

    Two-term Illinois Attorney General

    Juris Doctor · Class of 1971

    Also attended: Benedictine University

Business

  • Sam Pitroda 1942–

    Indian telecommunications engineer and entrepreneur

  • Paul Galvin 1895–1959

    Co-founder of Motorola

  • Victor Tsao 1951–

    Co-founder of Linksys, sold to Cisco

    Also attended: Pepperdine University

  • Marissa Mayer 1975–

    Former CEO of Yahoo!

    Also attended: Stanford University

Science and academia

Arts and media

  • Hans Hollein 1934–2014

    Austrian architect, key figure of postmodernism

    Also attended: University of California-Berkeley

  • Virgil Abloh 1980–2021

    Fashion designer and founder of Off-White

    Also attended: University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Kevin Roche 1922–2019

    Pritzker Prize-winning architect

  • Dorothy Thompson 1893–1961

    Journalist and radio broadcaster

    Also attended: Syracuse University

    Spouse: Sinclair Lewis (Yale University, Oberlin College)

  • Helmut Jahn 1940–2021

    Architect of The Center Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

  • Rex Beach 1877–1949

    Novelist, playwright and Olympic water polo player

    Also attended: Rollins College

  • Phyllis Lambert 1927–

    Canadian architect and philanthropist

    Also attended: Vassar College

    Sibling: Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (Williams College)

  • James Young 1949–

    Founding member and guitarist of Styx

  • Nandamuri Kalyan Ram 1978–

    Indian Telugu film actor and producer

  • James Ingo Freed 1930–2005

    Architect

    Spouse: Hermine Freed (Cornell University)

  • Philip Yordan 1914–2003

    Screenwriter, won Best Story for Broken Lance

  • Serge Chermayeff 1900–1996

    Russian-born British-American architect and educator

  • Pravina Mehta 1923–1999

    Indian architect, planner and political activist

    Also attended: University of Chicago

  • Yasuhiro Ishimoto 1921–2012

    Japanese-American photographer

  • Arthur Paul 1925–2018

    Graphic designer, founding art director of Playboy

    Also attended: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Bertrand Goldberg 1913–1997

    Architect of Chicago's Marina City

    Also attended: Harvard University

  • Dorothea Brande 1893–1948

    Writer and editor, author of Becoming a Writer

    Also attended: University of Chicago, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    Spouse: Seward Collins (Princeton University)

  • Jane Heap 1883–1964

    Publisher and editor of The Little Review

    Also attended: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • B. B. Kahane 1891–1960

    Film producer

  • Gary Sherman 1945–

    Film director, screenwriter and producer

  • Judith Joy Ross 1946–

    American portrait photographer

    Master of Science · Photography · Class of 1970

    Also attended: Moore College of Art and Design

  • Grete Prytz Kittelsen 1917–2010

    Norwegian goldsmith, enamel artist and designer

  • Conrad Roland 1934–2020

    German architect and space net pioneer

From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.

Alumni network

Colleges that share the most alumni with Illinois Institute of Technology (people who attended both).