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100 Notable alumni of University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign is ranked #24 in the world and #19 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jill Wine-Banks

1. Jill Wine-Banks

1945-. (aged 81)
lawyer writer
Jill Wine-Banks, formerly Jill Wine-Volner, is an American lawyer who was one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal. She was the first woman to serve as US General Counsel of the Army (1977–80) under President Jimmy Carter. She is also the first woman to have held the position of executive director of the American Bar Association.
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Robert Novak

2. Robert Novak

1931-2009 (aged 78)
journalist businessperson columnist politician
Robert David Sanders Novak was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which...
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Kendall Gill

3. Kendall Gill

1968-. (aged 58)
basketball player boxer
Kendall Cedric Gill is an American former professional basketball player who now works as a television basketball analyst. Throughout his NBA career he was known as “Cold World” for his ice cold demeanor on the court.
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Derek Harper

4. Derek Harper

1961-. (aged 65)
basketball player
Derek Ricardo Harper is an American former professional basketball player. A second-team All-American at the University of Illinois, he was the 11th overall pick of the 1983 NBA draft and spent 16 seasons as a point guard in the National Basketball Association with the Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, and Los Angeles Lakers. Harper is widely regarded as...
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James Tobin

5. James Tobin

1918-2002 (aged 84)
economist statistician military personnel professor
James Tobin was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Yale University. He contributed to the development of key ideas in the Keynesian economics of his generation and advocated government intervention in particular to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic...
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Scott Turner

6. Scott Turner

1972-. (aged 54)
athletics competitor American football player politician
Eric Scott Turner is an American politician and former professional football player who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of housing and urban development since February 2025. He played cornerback in the NFL.
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Nelson Algren

7. Nelson Algren

1909-1981 (aged 72)
writer novelist
Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
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Thomas Siebel

8. Thomas Siebel

1952-. (aged 74)
computer scientist businessperson entrepreneur information scientist
Thomas M. Siebel is an American businessman, technologist, and author. He founded the enterprise software company Siebel Systems and was the founder, chairman, and former CEO of C3 AI, an artificial intelligence software platform and applications company. He is currently the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company.
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Scott Atlas

9. Scott Atlas

1955-. (aged 71)
pundit neurosurgeon radiologist
Scott William Atlas is an American radiologist, political commentator, and health care policy advisor. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank located at Stanford University. During the United States presidential campaigns of 2008, 2012, and 2016, Atlas was a Senior Advisor for Health Care to several presidential candidates....
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Red Grange

10. Red Grange

1903-1991 (aged 88)
actor American football player
Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American college and professional football halfback who played for Illinois, the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League (NFL). Grange became a nationally known celebrity in the 1920s and is often cited as one...
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Tim McCarthy

11. Tim McCarthy

1949-. (aged 77)
U.S. Secret Service agent police officer
Timothy J. McCarthy is an American retired police officer and special agent of the U.S. Secret Service. He is best known for defending then-president Ronald Reagan during the assassination attempt on Reagan's life on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C.
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Ayo Dosunmu

12. Ayo Dosunmu

2000-. (aged 26)
basketball player
Quamdeen Ayopo "Ayo" Dosunmu is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini, earning consensus first-team All-American honors in his junior season. The Chicago Bulls selected him with the 38th pick in the 2021 NBA draft.
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Neel Kashkari

13. Neel Kashkari

1973-. (aged 53)
engineer businessperson investment banker politician
Neel Tushar Kashkari is an American banker, economist, and politician who is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. As interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability from October 2008 to May 2009, he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that was a major component of the U.S. government's response to the 2008 financial crisis....
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Sheila Crump Johnson

14. Sheila Crump Johnson

1949-. (aged 77)
businessperson violinist film producer editor
Sheila Crump Johnson is an American billionaire businesswoman, co-founder of BET, and CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts.
Gene Shalit

15. Gene Shalit

1926-. (aged 100)
literary critic film critic journalist
Eugene Shalit is an American retired journalist, television personality, film and book critic and author. After starting to work part-time on NBC's The Today Show in 1970, he filled those roles from January 15, 1973, until retiring on November 11, 2010. He is known for his frequent use of puns and his comical “absent-minded professor” appearance, which consists of an...
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Irving Azoff

16. Irving Azoff

1947-. (aged 79)
talent manager
Irving Azoff is an American businessman, who is chairman of Full Stop Management, a company that represents recording artists. During the course of his career, he has worked as an agent, personal manager, concert promoter, movie producer, independent record label owner, merchandiser, music publisher, and CEO of a record label.
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Luke Nosek

17. Luke Nosek

1975-. (aged 51)
engineer
Łukasz Nosek is an entrepreneur, notable for being a co-founder of PayPal.
Jon Corzine

18. Jon Corzine

1947-. (aged 79)
banker chief executive officer politician
Jon Stevens Corzine is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006, and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran for a second term as governor in 2009 but was defeated for re-election by Republican Chris Christie. A member of the Democratic...
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Richard Powers

19. Richard Powers

1957-. (aged 69)
novelist science fiction writer writer
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University...
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Jonathan Kite

20. Jonathan Kite

1979-. (aged 47)
film actor actor television actor
Jonathan Kite is an American actor, comedian and impressionist. He is best known for his role as Oleg Golishevsky on 2 Broke Girls.
Arte Johnson

21. Arte Johnson

1929-2019 (aged 90)
screenwriter voice actor television actor actor
Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson was an American actor and comedian, who was best known for his work as a regular, portraying himself, in the NBC sketch comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967–1971).
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Suze Orman

22. Suze Orman

1951-. (aged 75)
investor writer screenwriter podcaster financial adviser
Susan Lynn "Suze" Orman is an American financial advisor, author, and podcast host. In 1987, she founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her work as a financial advisor gained notability with The Suze Orman Show, which ran on CNBC from 2002 to 2015.
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Ned Luke

23. Ned Luke

1958-. (aged 68)
voice actor television actor actor film actor
Ned Armstrong Luke is an American actor and YouTuber. He is known for portraying Michael De Santa in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, a role he reprised in 2025 for Grand Theft Auto Online. Throughout his acting career, he has appeared in 29 films and television shows, in addition to performing in over 100 commercials.
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Ed Boon

24. Ed Boon

1964-. (aged 62)
screenwriter video game designer game programmer director video game developer
Edward Boon is an American video game programmer, voice actor, and director. Boon is best known for co-creating the fighting game series Mortal Kombat along with John Tobias, and directing the Injustice series. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time for his involvement in the Mortal Kombat series.
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Avery Brundage

25. Avery Brundage

1887-1975 (aged 88)
businessperson athletics competitor modern pentathlete basketball player art collector
Avery Brundage was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972, the only American and first non-European to attain that position. Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany.
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Robert L. Johnson

26. Robert L. Johnson

1946-. (aged 80)
businessperson
Robert Louis Johnson is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors. Johnson is the former majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats (now Charlotte Hornets). He became the first African American billionaire...
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Philip Ng

27. Philip Ng

1977-. (aged 49)
choreographer television actor actor kickboxer stunt performer
Philip Ng Wan-lung is a Hong Kong-born actor, martial artist and action choreographer. He is currently based in Hong Kong.
Esther Povitsky

28. Esther Povitsky

1988-. (aged 38)
television actor stand-up comedian actor film actor
Esther Povitsky, for a time known by the stage name "Little Esther," is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, and producer. Povitsky, from Chicago, is the co-creator and star of the comedy series Alone Together (2018); she starred as Izzy in the Hulu series Dollface. Her debut comedy special, Hot for My Name, premiered on Comedy Central on July 17,...
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Ryan McPartlin

29. Ryan McPartlin

1975-. (aged 51)
model television actor voice actor actor film actor
Ryan John McPartlin is an American actor, known for his role as Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb on the action-comedy series Chuck.
George Will

30. George Will

1941-. (aged 85)
journalist
George Frederick Will is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator. He writes columns for The Washington Post on a regular basis and provides commentary for NewsNation. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America". Will won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.
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Dorothy Day

31. Dorothy Day

1897-1980 (aged 83)
feminist writer autobiographer social activist suffragist
Dorothy Day OblSB was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
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Dan Savage

32. Dan Savage

1964-. (aged 62)
writer podcaster journalist sex educator
Daniel Keenan Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBTQ community activist. He writes Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth. He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan.
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Max Levchin

33. Max Levchin

1975-. (aged 51)
computer scientist businessperson entrepreneur web development
Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman. In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and was the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test.
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Brendan Eich

34. Brendan Eich

1961-. (aged 65)
computer scientist chief technology officer programmer
Brendan Eich is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language and co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. He served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned shortly after his appointment due to pressure over his opposition to same-sex marriage. He...
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Dave Eggers

35. Dave Eggers

1970-. (aged 56)
novelist science fiction writer editor journalist activist shareholder
Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. His 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Eggers is also the founder of several literary and philanthropic ventures, including the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literacy project 826 Valencia, and the human rights...
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Jeremih

36. Jeremih

1987-. (aged 39)
singer singer-songwriter lyricist rapper record producer
Jeremy Phillip Felton, known professionally as Jeremih, is an American R&B singer. He embarked on a musical career after meeting record producer Mick Schultz in 2008, and signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings the following year.
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Martin Eberhard

37. Martin Eberhard

1960-. (aged 66)
entrepreneur engineer
Martin Forest Eberhard is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) with Marc Tarpenning in July 2003, where Eberhard was its original CEO serving until late 2007. In 2015, he was inducted into the University of Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame.
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Meyers Leonard

38. Meyers Leonard

1992-. (aged 34)
basketball player
Meyers Patrick Leonard is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini before being selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 11th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft. After spending his first seven seasons with the Trail Blazers, he was traded to the Miami Heat in the 2019 off-season. He reached...
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Terrence C. Carson

39. Terrence C. Carson

1958-. (aged 68)
actor television actor voice actor
Terrence "T.C." Carson is an American actor known for his performances across television, film, stage, and video games. He is best known for portraying Kyle Barker on the Fox sitcom, Living Single, and is the original voice of Kratos in the God of War video game series, playing the role from 2005 to 2013 before returning in 2026. Additionally, Carson...
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James Holzhauer

40. James Holzhauer

1984-. (aged 42)
game show contestant gambler
James Holzhauer is an American game show contestant and professional sports gambler. He is the fourth-highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. Holzhauer is best known for his 32-game winning streak as champion on the quiz show Jeopardy! from April to June 2019, during which he set multiple single-game records for winnings, and for winning the following Tournament of...
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Donna Mills

41. Donna Mills

1940-. (aged 86)
stage actor television actor film producer actor film actor
Donna Mills is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the next year in The Incident. She then starred for three years on the soap opera Love Is...
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Barbara Bain

42. Barbara Bain

1931-. (aged 95)
stage actor model television actor voice actor film actor
Barbara Bain is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter Crawford on the action television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also starred as Dr. Helena Russell on the British-Italian coproduction science-fiction television series Space: 1999 (1975–1977). Bain has also...
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James Brady

43. James Brady

1940-2014 (aged 74)
press agent politician
James Scott Brady was an American journalist, politician, activist and American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Brady during Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred two months and ten days after Reagan's...
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Dan Fogelberg

44. Dan Fogelberg

1951-2007 (aged 56)
singer mandolinist singer-songwriter composer guitarist
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist widely known for his 1970s and 1980s soft rock hits, including "Longer" (1979), "Same Old Lang Syne" (1980), and "Leader of the Band" (1981).
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Tony Khan

45. Tony Khan

1982-. (aged 44)
entrepreneur businessperson
Antony Rafiq Khan is an American businessman, sports executive, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the founder, owner, president, chief executive officer, executive producer, and head booker of All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also the owner of Ring of Honor (ROH), which he purchased and turned into AEW's sister promotion.
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Kevin Anderson

46. Kevin Anderson

1955-. (aged 71)
academic administrator athletic director
Kevin Michael Anderson is a South African former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking of world No. 5 on 16 July 2018. He was the first South African to be ranked in the top 5 since Kevin Curren was No. 5 on 23 September 1985.
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Marc Andreessen

47. Marc Andreessen

1971-. (aged 55)
inventor investor entrepreneur blogger computer scientist
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company...
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Jeffrey Jordan

48. Jeffrey Jordan

1988-. (aged 38)
basketball player
Jeffrey Michael Jordan is an American former basketball player who played for the University of Illinois and the University of Central Florida. He is the oldest child of retired Hall of Fame basketball player Michael Jordan. Jeffrey Jordan is the co-founder of Heir Jordan, a philanthropic foundation that he runs with his younger brother Marcus.
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Arden Cho

49. Arden Cho

1985-. (aged 41)
film actor model television actor actor taekwondo athlete
Arden Lim Cho is an American actress, singer, and model. Cho first gained recognition by portraying Kira Yukimura in the MTV series Teen Wolf (2013–2016), as well as her several YouTube collaborations. She has since starred in several Netflix projects, including the legal drama series Partner Track (2022), the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024), and the Sony...
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David Otunga

50. David Otunga

1980-. (aged 46)
television actor lawyer professional wrestler actor
David Daniel Otunga is an American actor, professional wrestler and lawyer. He is best known for his tenure with WWE from 2009 to 2020.
Deron Williams

51. Deron Williams

1984-. (aged 42)
basketball player
Deron Michael Williams is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini before being drafted third overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. A three-time NBA All-Star with the Jazz and Brooklyn Nets, Williams also played for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League during the 2011 NBA lockout, and was...
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

52. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

1958-. (aged 68)
singer stage actor television actor actor film actor
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut as an understudy in the 1980 revival of West Side Story, and went on to appear in the 1983 film Scarface as Al Pacino's character's sister, Gina Montana, which proved to be her breakout role. For her role as Carmen in the 1986 film The Color...
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Steve Chen

53. Steve Chen

1978-. (aged 48)
computer scientist engineer designer businessperson
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur who is a co-founder and ex CTO of YouTube. After he co-founded AVOS Systems, Inc. and built MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.
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Kelly Loeffler

54. Kelly Loeffler

1970-. (aged 56)
businessperson politician
Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who has served as the 28th administrator of the Small Business Administration since February 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021.
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Shahid Khan

55. Shahid Khan

1950-. (aged 76)
engineer businessperson entrepreneur
Shahid Rafiq Khan is a Pakistani and American businessman. He owns the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) and Fulham F.C. of the Premier League and is also a lead investor of the American wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), owned by his son, Tony. Khan is also the owner of Flex-N-Gate, an American supplier of motor vehicle...
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Alan Ruck

56. Alan Ruck

1956-. (aged 70)
stage actor television actor writer actor film actor
Alan Douglas Ruck is an American actor. He is known for portraying Cameron Frye in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as television roles as Stuart Bondek on the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996–2002) and Connor Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), the latter earning him Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. His other...
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Jawed Karim

57. Jawed Karim

1979-. (aged 47)
entrepreneur computer scientist YouTuber software engineer television producer
Jawed Karim is a German-American software engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 382 million times as of February 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where...
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Larry Ellison

58. Larry Ellison

1944-. (aged 82)
computer scientist entrepreneur actor aircraft pilot
Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American centibillionaire businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded the software company Oracle Corporation. He was Oracle's CEO from 1977 to 2014 and is now its CTO and executive chair. According to Forbes, as of 2026, Ellison's estimated net worth is $245.3 billion, making him the world's third-richest person.
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Nick Offerman

59. Nick Offerman

1970-. (aged 56)
stage actor actor voice actor film producer comedian
Nicholas David Offerman is an American actor, comedian, carpenter, and writer. He became widely known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), for which he received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy and was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy...
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Gene Hackman

60. Gene Hackman

1930-2025 (aged 95)
voice actor stage actor racing automobile driver actor military personnel
Eugene Allen Hackman was an American actor. Considered one of the greatest actors of his generation and a paragon of the New Hollywood movement, Hackman's mainstream acting career spanned over four decades. He received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, one Silver Bear and four Golden Globe Awards.
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Jerry Orbach

61. Jerry Orbach

1935-2004 (aged 69)
stage actor television actor voice actor actor film actor
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a "versatile stage and film actor." Over his career he received a Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three...
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Hugh Hefner

62. Hugh Hefner

1926-2017 (aged 91)
writer nightclub owner voice actor political activist socialite
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher and businessman. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury mansions where Playboy Playmates shared his wild partying life, fueling media interest.
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Mike Cernovich

63. Mike Cernovich

1977-. (aged 49)
journalist
Michael Cernovich is an American right-wing social media personality and political commentator. Though he initially called himself alt-right, he dissociated from the movement after Richard Spencer became its public face. Cernovich describes himself as part of the new right and some have described him as part of the alt-lite.
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Andy Richter

64. Andy Richter

1966-. (aged 60)
television actor television presenter actor writer voice actor
Paul Andrew Richter is an American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer. He is best known as the sidekick for Conan O'Brien on O'Brien's talk shows: Late Night, The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS. He was also the star of the Fox television series Andy Richter Controls the Universe. He voiced Mort in the Madagascar film...
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Jerry Colangelo

65. Jerry Colangelo

1939-. (aged 87)
basketball coach entrepreneur basketball player autobiographer businessperson
Jerry Colangelo is an American businessman and sports executive. He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League, and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the original Winnipeg...
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Iris Chang

66. Iris Chang

1968-2004 (aged 36)
writer human rights defender journalist political activist
Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, historian, and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking...
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Jill Lepore

67. Jill Lepore

1966-. (aged 60)
writer university teacher essayist academic journalist
Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.
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John B. Anderson

68. John B. Anderson

1922-2017 (aged 95)
university teacher politician
John Bayard Anderson was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 to 1981. Initially a member of the Republican Party, he also served as the Chairman of the House Republican Conference from 1969 until 1979. In 1980, he ran an independent campaign for president, receiving 6.6%...
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Jack Welch

69. Jack Welch

1935-2020 (aged 85)
writer businessperson entrepreneur manager engineer
John Francis Welch Jr. was an American business executive. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) between 1981 and 2001.
Timothy Zahn

70. Timothy Zahn

1951-. (aged 75)
novelist
Timothy Zahn is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy. He is known best for his prolific collection of Star Wars books, chiefly the Thrawn trilogy, and has published several other series of sci-fi and fantasy novels of his own original creation, in addition to many works of short fiction.
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Atsugiri Jason

71. Atsugiri Jason

1986-. (aged 40)
board member owarai tarento actor writer
Jason David Danielson, known professionally as Atsugiri Jason (厚切りジェイソン, Atsugiri Jeison; lit. 'Thick-sliced Jason'), is an American comedian based in Japan and associated with Watanabe Entertainment. Danielson's comedic narrative is based on his confusion with kanji, ending with the punchline, "Why Japanese people?!"
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Kendrick Nunn

72. Kendrick Nunn

1995-. (aged 31)
basketball player
Kendrick Melvin Nunn is an American professional basketball player for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague.
Temple Grandin

73. Temple Grandin

1947-. (aged 79)
biologist non-fiction writer university teacher activist zoologist
Mary Temple Grandin is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior.
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Robert Mercer

74. Robert Mercer

1946-. (aged 80)
computer scientist banker hedge fund manager entrepreneur
Robert Leroy Mercer is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer and is the former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies.
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Tommy DeVito

75. Tommy DeVito

1998-. (aged 28)
American football player
Thomas DeVito is an American professional football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played five seasons of college football for the Syracuse Orange and one with the Illinois Fighting Illini before signing with the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2023.
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Sean Evans

76. Sean Evans

1986-. (aged 40)
television producer podcaster YouTuber vlogger
Sean Evans is an American professional basketball player, who last played for Dinamo București of the Romanian League. Standing at 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in), he plays at the power forward and center positions. After playing four years of college basketball at St. John's, Evans entered the 2011 NBA draft, but he was not selected in the draft's two...
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Jesse Jackson Jr

77. Jesse Jackson Jr

1965-. (aged 61)
taekwondo athlete lawyer politician
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. is an American former politician. He served as the U.S. representative from Illinois's 2nd congressional district from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and, prior to his career in elected office, worked for his father in both the...
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Jesse Jackson

78. Jesse Jackson

1941-. (aged 85)
religious leader human rights defender pastor civil rights advocate founder
Jesse Louis Jackson was an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From 1991 to 1997, he served as a shadow delegate and shadow senator...
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Chris Lattner

79. Chris Lattner

1978-. (aged 48)
computer scientist
Christopher Arthur Lattner is an American software engineer and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler infrastructure.
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Shanola Hampton

80. Shanola Hampton

1977-. (aged 49)
actor television actor
Shanola Hampton is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Veronica Fisher on Showtime dramedy Shameless, Gabi Mosely in the NBC drama series Found, and as the face model of Rochelle in the video game Left 4 Dead 2.
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David A. Johnston

81. David A. Johnston

1949-1980 (aged 31)
volcanologist geologist
David Alexander Johnston was an American United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington. A principal scientist on the USGS monitoring team, Johnston was killed in the eruption while manning an observation post six miles (10 km) away on the morning of May 18, 1980....
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John Bardeen

82. John Bardeen

1908-1991 (aged 83)
inventor physicist electrical engineer university teacher
John Bardeen was an American condensed matter physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory.
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Jack Kilby

83. Jack Kilby

1923-2005 (aged 82)
photographer physicist university teacher engineer inventor
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electronics engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Chadchart Sittipunt

84. Chadchart Sittipunt

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Chadchart Sittipunt is a Thai politician, engineer, and professor who is the incumbent Governor of Bangkok. He previously was Minister of Transport from 2012 to 2014.
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Ang Lee

85. Ang Lee

1954-. (aged 72)
screenwriter director film director writer film producer
Ang Lee OBS is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2003, he was ranked 27th in The Guardian's 40 best directors.
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Andrew Yao

86. Andrew Yao

1946-. (aged 80)
computer scientist university teacher
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's principle.
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Annette Lu

87. Annette Lu

1944-. (aged 82)
women's rights activist lawyer politician
Lu Hsiu-lien, also known by her English name Annette, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer. A feminist active in the Tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1990 and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was vice president of the Republic of China...
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Lin Chuan

88. Lin Chuan

1951-. (aged 75)
politician economist
Lin Chuan is a Taiwanese economist, lawyer, and politician who served as the Premier of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2017. He was the first cabinet head under the Tsai Ing-wen government. Before his premiership, he had also served as the Minister of Budget, Accounting and Statistics and Minister of Finance during Chen Shui-bian's presidency.
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Fidel Ramos

89. Fidel Ramos

1928-2022 (aged 94)
military personnel military commander politician
Fidel Valdez Ramos CCLH GCS KGCR, popularly known as FVR and Eddie Ramos, was a Filipino general and politician who served as the 12th president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. He was the only career military officer to reach the rank of five-star general. Rising from second lieutenant to commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Ramos is credited for...
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati

90. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher economist politician
Sri Mulyani Indrawati is an Indonesian economist who served as minister of finance from 2016 to 2025 under President Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto. She also served in the role under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono between 2005–2010.
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Arvind Krishna

91. Arvind Krishna

1962-. (aged 64)
chief executive officer
Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM...
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Fazlur Khan

92. Fazlur Khan

1929-1982 (aged 53)
engineer structural engineer civil engineer architect
Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John...
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Betsy Brandt

93. Betsy Brandt

1973-. (aged 53)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Betsy Brandt is an American actress. She is known for portraying Marie Schrader in the crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which she received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She also appears in the sitcoms The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–2014) and Life in Pieces (2015–2019), the miniseries Soulmates (2020), and the psychological drama series Saint X (2023).
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Andrew Davis

94. Andrew Davis

1946-. (aged 80)
film producer screenwriter cinematographer director film screenwriter
Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE was an English conductor. He was the long-time chief conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He was music director at the Glyndebourne Festival from 1988 to 2000, and especially known for conducting the traditional Last Night of The Proms, including Last Night speeches. He was music...
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Piergiorgio Odifreddi

95. Piergiorgio Odifreddi

1950-. (aged 76)
historian of science university teacher logician mathematician science communicator
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.
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Money Boy

96. Money Boy

1981-. (aged 45)
singer rapper
Sebastian Meisinger, better known by his stage name Money Boy, is an Austrian rapper and singer. He became famous with his hit "Dreh den Swag auf".
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Rafael Correa

97. Rafael Correa

1963-. (aged 63)
politician economist
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR....
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César Pelli

98. César Pelli

1926-2019 (aged 93)
university teacher architect entrepreneur
César Pelli was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Three of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the World Financial Center in New York City, and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. The American Institute of Architects named him one of the ten most influential...
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Roger Ebert

99. Roger Ebert

1942-2013 (aged 71)
television presenter film critic journalist presenter reporter
Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated...
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Stephen Moore

100. Stephen Moore

1960-. (aged 66)
writer pundit
Stephen Thomas Moore AM is an Australian former rugby union footballer, who played Super Rugby for the Brumbies and Queensland Reds and has 129 caps for Australia internationally, including 24 tests as captain.
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