# List of Loyola University Chicago people

Here follows a list of notable people of Loyola University Chicago:

## Academia
### Prominent professors

* Pamela L. Caughie
* Vincent A. Mahler
* David Schweickart

### Alumni

* Lawrence Biondi, former President of Saint Louis University
* Margaret Callahan, Dean of the College of Nursing at Marquette University
* Richard A. Cosier, Dean of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University
* Rona M. Fields, psychologist
* Christian Gostečnik, dean of Faculty of Theology of Ljubljana
* Marsha Linehan, psychologist who pioneered suicide research and creator of dialectical behavior therapy
* Vincent A. Mahler, prominent political scientist
* J. Dennis O'Connor, former Chancellor of University of Pittsburgh
* Robert A Wild, S.J., President of Marquette University
* Sho Yano, child prodigy
* Scott Yenor, professor at Boise State University

## Business
### Alumni

* Brenda C. Barnes, chairman and CEO, Sara Lee Corporation; first female CEO of Pepsi Cola
* Frank Considine, former CEO of American National Can Corporation
* Lori Greiner, inventor, investor, entrepreneur, and television personality
* Joseph Grendys, CEO of Koch Foods
* George Halas, Jr., former president/owner of the Chicago Bears
* Joseph M. Juran, quality expert
* Stephen McGowan, former CFO of Sun Microsystems
* James Mulvaney, president of the United States National Bank of San Diego and president of the San Diego Padres (PCL)
* Jennifer N. Pritzker, billionaire, and former co-owner of The Marmon Group
* Michael R. Quinlan, McDonald's Corporation Chairman
* Todd Ricketts, co-owner of Chicago Cubs
* John E. Rooney, CEO of US Cellular
* Thomas Schoewe, CFO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
* William Scholl, founder of Dr. Scholl's footcare
* Mamie Till, activist, mother of Emmett Till
* John York, co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers

## Entertainment
### Alumni

* Leslie David Baker, actor (The Office)
* Ian Brennan, creator of Glee
* L. Scott Caldwell, Tony Award-winning actress
* Karla DeVito, singer
* David Draiman, lead singer of Disturbed
* Wendolly Esparza, Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2014
* Mary Gross, actress, comedian
* James Iha, The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle guitarist
* Richard Kiley, Emmy-winning actor, singer and narrator (attended)
* Tim McCoy, cowboy actor
* Jennifer Morrison, actress (House M.D., Once Upon a Time)
* Joel Murray, actor
* Bob Newhart, Peabody Award-winning actor and comedian, The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart
* Jim O'Heir, actor (Parks and Recreation)
* David Pasquesi, actor
* Bill Rancic, television personality
* Sosay, professional wrestler
* Meredith Marks, television personality, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

## Government and politics
### Alumni
#### Activists

* Jerry Harkness, former professional basketball player and civil rights activist
* Jerome G. Miller, advocate for alternatives to incarceration and the deinstitutionalization of persons with developmental disabilities
* Mary Morello, progressive activist
* Michael Pfleger, Roman Catholic priest and social activist

#### Attorneys

* Anita Alvarez, former Cook County State's Attorney
* Richard A. Devine, former Cook County State's Attorney
* Neil F. Hartigan, former Illinois Attorney General, candidate for Governor, former Lt. Governor
* Donald Lee Hollowell, civil rights attorney
* Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General
* Dan K. Webb, Chairman of Winston & Strawn LLP

#### Cabinet members

* William M. Daley, President Obama's White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton
* Susan Ralston, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor

#### Judges

* William Joseph Campbell, chief judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Ruben Castillo, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* David H. Coar, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* John W. Darrah, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Thomas R. Fitzgerald, 1st District Justice Supreme Court of Illinois
* Lee M. Jackwig, United States Bankruptcy Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
* Virginia Mary Kendall, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Howard Thomas Markey, the first Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Peg McDonnell Breslin, member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1991 and the first woman elected to the Illinois Appellate Court outside of Cook County.
* Mary Ann G. McMorrow, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois
* Mary Jane Theis, judge, Supreme Court of Illinois
* Robert R. Thomas, current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois

#### Legislators

* Harry P. Beam, former U.S. Congressman
* Charles A. Boyle, former U.S. Congressman
* Emmet Byrne, former U.S. Congressman
* Fred Crespo, member of Illinois House of Representatives
* Daniel Cronin, former Illinois State Senator
* John Cullerton, current Illinois State Senator; President of Illinois State Senate
* Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff and former Illinois State Representative
* Ed Derwinski, former U.S. Congressman, 1st United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
* Michael Dvorak, former Indiana state representative and St. Joseph County, Indiana Prosecutor
* Samuel Epstein, Illinois state representative, lawyer, and physician
* John N. Erlenborn, former U.S. Congressman
* John G. Fary, former U.S. Congressman
* Edward Rowan Finnegan, former U.S. Congressman
* Michael Patrick Flanagan, former U.S. Congressman
* La Shawn Ford, current member of Illinois House of Representatives
* John J. Gorman, former U.S. Congressman
* Mary Jeanne Hallstrom, former member of Illinois House of Representatives
* Shawn Hamerlinck, former Iowa State Senator
* Henry Hyde, former U.S. Congressman
* Daniel Hynes, current Illinois State Comptroller
* James T. Igoe, former U.S. Congressman
* Peter C. Knudson, current Utah State Senator
* Gary LaPaille, former Illinois State Senator
* Michael Madigan, former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois
* William T. Murphy, former U.S. Congressman
* Thomas L. Owens, former U.S. Congressman
* Lillian Piotrowski, former Illinois State Representative
* Mike Quigley, current U.S. Congressman
* Trey Radel, former U.S. Congressman
* Christine Radogno, former Illinois State Senator; former Republican Minority Leader in the Illinois State Senate
* Daniel J. Ronan, former U.S. Congressman
* Dan Rostenkowski, former U.S. Congressman
* Martin Sandoval, current Illinois State Senator
* Ira Silverstein, current Illinois State Senator
* James M. Slattery, former U.S. Senator
* Rudolph G. Tenerowicz, former U.S. Congressman
* Donne Trotter, former Illinois State Senator
* Arthur Wilhelmi, former Illinois State Senator
* Corinne Wood, former Illinois Lieutenant Governor

#### Other

* Lieutenant General Joseph Carroll, founding director of Defense Intelligence Agency and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
* Nina Kasniunas, Political scientist, author, and professor
* Major General Enrique Méndez, Jr., Army Deputy Surgeon General
* Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer (1998–present); earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Loyola in 1976
* Todd Ricketts, Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee since January 31, 2018
* Edith S. Sampson, US delegate to the United Nations

## Journalism
### Alumni

* Susan Candiotti, CNN correspondent
* Philip Caputo, author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
* Susan Carlson, WBBM-TV Chicago news anchor
* Shams Charania, sports journalist covering the NBA for The Athletic and Stadium
* Robert Jordan, WGN-TV weekend news anchor
* Christina Kahrl, co-founder of Baseball Prospectus, writer for ESPN.com
* Ernie Manouse, TV anchor and producer, PBS
* Bill Plante, CBS White House correspondent
* Jim Quinlan, credited with the story and screenplay for Michael
* Victoria Recano, news anchor
* Mercedes Soler, news anchor for Univision and CNN en Español
* Patricia Thompson, TV and film producer

## Literature
### Alumni

* Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author, poet, teacher
* Stuart Dybek, author
* James McManus, author
* John R. Powers, novelist and playwright; author of Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
* Daniel Quinn, author
* Dinesh Sharma, author
* Bill Zehme, author

## Medical
### Alumni

* John L. Keeley Sr., Chicago surgeon who was personal physician to two Chicago cardinals
* Bruce Lerman, cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital
* Charlie Pechous, Major League Baseball player and physician

## Religion

* Mark McIntosh, Professor of Christian Spirituality
* Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, current chaplain of the men's basketball team who became a major media celebrity during the team's 2018 Final Four run

### Alumni

* Daniel Coughlin, chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
* Norman Geisler, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina
* Roger William Gries, auxiliary bishop of Cleveland
* Daniel A. Lord, Catholic writer
* Anthony Petro Mayalla, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza
* Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and ‘Primate of England and Wales’ (see Archbishop of Westminster for explanation)
* Mar Awa Royel, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
* John George Vlazny, Archbishop of Portland, Oregon

## Sports
### Alumni

* Lucas Bartlett, professional soccer player
* Elliot Collier, professional soccer player
* Clayton Custer, professional basketball player and coach
* Milton Doyle, professional basketball player
* Jack Dwan, former professional basketball player
* John Egan, basketball player
* Armando Favela, professional golfer
* Eric Gehrig, professional soccer player
* Jerry Harkness, former professional basketball player
* Alfredrick Hughes, former professional basketball player (1st round pick in 1985 NBA draft)
* Les Hunter, former professional basketball player
* Donte Ingram, NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks
* Thomas Jaeschke, professional and U.S. Olympic men's volleyball player
* Jeffrey Jendryk, professional and U.S. Olympic men’s volleyball player
* Jack Kerris, former professional basketball player
* Nick Kladis, former professional basketball player, part-owner of White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals
* Cameron Krutwig, professional basketball player
* LaRue Martin, former professional basketball player (# 1 pick in 1972 NBA draft)
* Andre Moore, former professional basketball player
* Mike Novak, former professional basketball player
* Tom O'Hara, former indoor mile world record holder, 1964 Olympian
* Mickey Rottner, former professional basketball player
* Vic Rouse, basketball player, made game-winning shot to give Loyola 1963 NCAA championship
* Lenny Sachs, Hall of Fame basketball coach
* Blake Schilb, professional basketball player
* Eddie Slowikowski, former NCAA All-American runner
* Andre Wakefield, former professional basketball player
* Phil Weintraub, Major League Baseball player
* Brian Wheeler, broadcaster for NBA's Portland Trail Blazers