10 Notable alumni of North Central College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
North Central College is ranked #2,704 in the world and #702 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from North Central College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with North Central College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Marc Chandler
1961-. (aged 65)
economist
Marc Chandler is a foreign exchange market analyst, writer, speaker, and professor. On August 19, 2009, Bloomberg L.P. published Chandler's first book, Making Sense of the Dollar.
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2. Mildred Rebstock
1919-2011 (aged 92)
pharmacologist
chemist
Mildred Catherine Rebstock was an American pharmaceutical chemist. She and her team were the first to fully synthesize chloromycetin, also known as chloramphenicol. This was the first instance of an antibiotic being fully synthesized. The World Health Organization classifies it as critically important for human medicine.
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3. Harris W. Fawell
1929-2021 (aged 92)
lawyer
politician
Harris Walter Fawell was an American lawyer and politician from Illinois who served seven terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1999.
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4. Wayne Randazzo
1984-. (aged 42)
sports commentator
Wayne Randazzo is an American sportscaster. He is the primary television play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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5. Frederick Louis Maytag I
1857-1937 (aged 80)
businessperson
Frederick Louis Maytag I also known as F. L. Maytag, founded the Maytag Company, which eventually became the Maytag Corporation and in turn was acquired by the Whirlpool Corporation in 2006.
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6. John Warne Gates
1855-1911 (aged 56)
businessperson
John Warne Gates, also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois. He did not enjoy farm life and began offering neighbors various business propositions at an early age, including the sale of firewood to homes...
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7. P. J. Hyett
businessperson
programmer
Phillip Jeffrey Hyett is an American software developer, technology entrepreneur, racing driver, and a co-founder of GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git, which he created with Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanstrath in 2008.
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8. James Henry Breasted
1865-1935 (aged 70)
egyptologist
anthropologist
university teacher
pharmacist
historian
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901, he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on...
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9. Sherrill Milnes
1935-. (aged 91)
opera singer
Sherrill Milnes is an American dramatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera. His voice is a high dramatic baritone, combining good legato with an incisive rhythmic style.
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10. John Giannini
1962-. (aged 64)
basketball coach
John Manfredo Giannini is an American college basketball coach, Director of Athletics at Rowan University, and college basketball analyst for NBC Sports and other networks. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Rowan University from 1989 to 1996, the University of Maine from 1996 to 2004, and La Salle University from 2004 to 2018. Giannini led Rowan to...
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