Notable International House Alumni

Name	Time at I-House	Accomplishments
Alberto Pedro Calderón (1920-1998)	1949, 1950, 1960	PhD’50; National Medal of Science: Mathematics & Computer Science, 1991; Partial Differential Equations Contributions To Studies Of Harmonic Analysis Pure Mathematics
Walter Fred Berns, Jr. (1919-2015)	1951	AM'51, PhD’53; Faculty, 1984, 1989; National Humanities Medal, 2005
Mary Ann Glendon	1959	AB’59, JD’61, MCL’63; National Humanities Medal 2005
James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967)	1949	Author, Poet, Playwright; Leader of the Harlem Renaissance
John B. Goodenough	1946-51	SM’50, PhD’52; Nobel laureate in Chemistry 2019; Credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery; Awards: 2011 National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize in 2001 and the Enrico Fermi Award in 2009
John Payne Mitchell	1955	PhD'55; former Director, General Civil Services of Liberia and the first African student to earn a PhD from the University of Chicago
(George William) Senteza Kajubi (1926-2012)	1952-1955	SM'55; Director, National Institute of Education at Makerere University College (1964-77) and first African Fulbright Scholar to the United States
Zalmay Khalilzad		PhD'79; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003-05), Iraq (2005-07), and the United Nations (2007-09)
Frances O. Kelsey (1914-2015)	1939-41	PhD'38, MD'50; Pharmacologist responsible for detecting Thalidomide danger
Deane R. Hinton (1914-2015)	1942-43	AB'43; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1981-83), Pakistan (1983-86), Costa Rica (1987-90), and Panama (1990-94)
James Hoge	1958-59	AM'59; Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times (1958-84) and Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Watch (2010-13)
A.W. Clausen (1923-2013)	1943-44	President and CEO of the Bank of America (1970-81) and President of the World Bank (1981-86)
Ray Scherer (1919-2000)	1946-47	AM'47; NBC correspondent and Vice President of RCA (1975-86)
Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. (1920-2001)	1947-49	AM'49; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1977-81) and the People's Republic of China (1981-85)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)	1940 & 1942	Nobel laureate in Physics, 1938
Hastings K. Banda (1898-1997)	Summer 1933	PhB'31; President of Malawi (1966-94)
Chen Ning Yang	1946-50	PhD'48; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957; National Medals of Science: Behavioral & Social Science, 1986
Daniel Tsui	1961	SM'63; PhD'67; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1998
George Stigler (1911-1991)	1933-36	PhD'38; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1982; National Medals of Science: Behavioral & Social Science, 1987
Thomas Sowell	1959	PhD'68; Economist; Winner of the National Humanities Medal, 2002; Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1980-present)
Myron Scholes	1962	MBA'64, PhD'70; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1997
Bernard Sahlins (1921-2013)	1941	AB'43; Co-founder of comedy troupe Second City
David Rockefeller (1915-2017)	1938-39	PhD'40; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); University trustee
Roderick W. Pugh (1919-2010)	1946-49	PhD'49; Clinical Psychologist; Diplomat, American Board of Professional Psychology
Marjorie Holloman Parker (1916-2006)	1938	AM'51, PhD'51; Presidential appointee to City Council in Washington, D.C.
Sara Paretsky	1968	AM'69, MBA'77, PhD'77; Author of V.I. Warshawski detective novels
Robert Mulliken (1896-1986)	1956	PhD'21; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1966
Omar Ramadhan Mapuri	1984	AM'85; Minister of Education and Minister for Home Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania
Tsung-Dao Lee	1946-49	PhD'50; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957
Chimere Ikoku (1928-2002)	1949-51	SM'52, PhD'64; Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria; pan-Africanist; anti-apartheid advocate
Donald Hopkins	1963	MD'66; Director of health programs at the Carter Center; former Deputy Director of International Health, Centers for Disease Control; recipient of the MacArthur fellowship award
Warren E. Henry (1909-2001)	1938-41	PhD'41; Physicist and professor in magnetism and superconductivity; developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships in World War II; his demonstration of the proof of non-interacting paramagnetic ions is used in a number of physics texts
Nathan Hare	1954-55	AM'57, PhD'62; Author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar, then dubbed "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis" by the New York Times
Katharine Meyer Graham (1917-2001)	1936-38	AB'38; Former chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History, 1998; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)	1934	AB'36; Former author and columnist of 'Mathematical Games" in the magazine Scientific American
Thomas Frank	1988-89	AM'89, PhD'94; Author, journalist, and columnist for the Wall Street Journal
Luther H. Foster (1913-1994)	1940-1941, 1949	AM'41, PhD'51; Former President of Tuskegee Institute (1953-1981)
James Watson Cronin (1931-2016)	1954	SM'53, PhD'55; University Professor Emeritus in Physics; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1980; National Medal of Science: Physical Sciences, 1999
Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)	1965	SB'32, SM'34, PhD'36; Nobel laureate in physics, 1968; National Medal of Science: Physical Sciences, 1963

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