This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University.
Ali MalekzadehTheodore L. Gross, the last presidentEdward J. Sparling, the first presidentMarian AndersonPearl BuckRalph BuncheAlbert EinsteinMarshall FieldThomas MannGunnar MyrdalEleanor RooseveltAlbert SchweitzerAlbert A. Robin Campus Community Advisory Board
Norman Alesi: Haskris CompanyRita Athas: Director of Regional Programs, City of ChicagoSharyn Bowling: President, SJB Enterprises, Inc.Clark Delanois: Managing Director, Northern Trust CompanyDr. Carlee Drummer: Executive Director of College Advancement and the Educational Foundation, Oakton Community CollegeAlbert Henriksen: Principal, Anchor Bolt & Screw CompanyDavid Hill: Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kimball Hill Homes, Inc.Mark Iammarino: Vice President and General Manager, Turner ConstructionJoseph Klein: Partner of Stitt, Klein, Daday, Aretos & GiampietroMarianne Kral: Partner of Kral, Goodenough, KralAl Larson: Village President, Village of Schaumburg, IllinoisFrank Lazowski: Vice President of Human Resources, Material Sciences CorporationJohn Licht: President and Chief Executive Officer, Duraco Products, Inc.Edward Loughridge: President and Chief Operating Officer, Globe Marketing Partners, Ltd.Mark Lusson: Vice President of Human Resources, Northwest Community HealthcareSidney Mathias: State Representative - 53rd District, Illinois General AssemblyMary Jo McCarthyJeff Miller: owner of Divine Signs, Inc.Arlene Mulder: Mayor, Village of Arlington Heights, IllinoisRita Mullins: Mayor, Village of Palatine, IllinoisKenneth Nelson: Mayor, City of Rolling Meadows, IllinoisTerry Parke: retired State RepresentativeLisa Pinion: Human Resources Manager, Navistar Financial CorporationBillie Roth: President, Village of Streamwood, IllinoisMartin Roth: President, MASTR Business SolutionsMichael Silverman: Chairman of the Board, First Northwest BankDr. Margaret Skold: Vice President of Academic Affairs, William Rainey Harper CollegeRoger Stelle: Partner of Meltzer, Purtill & StelleLaurie Stone: President, Schaumburg Business AssociationKenneth Tucker: Principal, Tucker Development CorporationTony Alcantar: actorPeri E. Arnold: Chairman, Department of Government and International Studies, University of Notre DameAndrew Barrett: former Commissioner, Federal Communications CommissionMelissa Bean: politician (U.S. Congressman, Illinois 8th 2005)Ira Berkow: sportswriter, The New York TimesJesse Brown: U.S. Secretary of Veteran's Affairs 1993-97Clark Burrus: former Senior Vice President, First National Bank of ChicagoSusan Carlson: news anchorSylvia Flanagan: Senior Editor, Jet MagazineMarilyn Flynn: Dean, University of Southern California, School of Social WorkBrenda Gaines: President and CEO, Diners Club North AmericaEckhard Gerdes: novelistKaren Gibbs: co-anchor, Wall $treet Week with FORTUNECharles V. Hamilton: political science professor and co-author of Black PowerMark Handler: former President, Macy's Department StoresEddie Harris: jazz musicianPatricia Harris: Assistant Vice President of Diversity for McDonald's CorporationPhillip Jackson: politician and community organizerDonald Jacobs: retired former Dean, Kellogg Graduate School of Business Administration, Northwestern UniversityHoward Johnson: former chairman, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyT.E. Kendall: screenwriterColleen Kelly: Host and Executive Producer of the National PBS Series Family Travel with Colleen KellyAmbassador Jacques Paul Klein ('63, '71): special representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia with the rank of Under-Secretary-GeneralMort Kondracke: political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's DiseaseBasil Kromelow: president, Gold Coast Group of HotelsRamsey Lewis: jazz musician, host of Legends of Jazz and The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, WNUA radioJohn Licht: President, CEO and Chairman of Duraco ProductsBlanche Manning: U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of IllinoisLeRoy Martin: Chief of Police for the State of Illinois, Central Management ServicesRobert Mednick: retired Managing Partner, Professional and Regulatory Matters at Andersen WorldwideEugene Morris: Chairman and CEO, E. Morris CommunicationsSteven Nasiter: president of the Jewish Federation, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, and JFMC Facilities CorpTerry Peterson: CEO, Chicago Housing AuthorityMel Reynolds: politician and Congressman, Illinois 2nd 1993-95Bobby Rush: politician and Congressman, Illinois 1st since 1993Wallace S. Sayre: Professor of Government, Columbia UniversityHarold Horton Sheldon, professor and physicistWilliam Sheldon: Chicago broadcasterHarold Washington: late mayor of Chicago and the first African American to hold the titleReginald Weaver: president, National Education AssociationDavid Woolridge: retired Corporate Vice President, MotorolaFounder of Chicago Musical College:
Florenz ZiegfeldArchitects of the auditorium building:
Dankmar AdlerLouis SullivanNotable faculty:
Rose Hum Lee, first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956 