This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University.
Ali Malekzadeh
Theodore L. Gross, the last president
Edward J. Sparling, the first president
Marian Anderson
Pearl Buck
Ralph Bunche
Albert Einstein
Marshall Field
Thomas Mann
Gunnar Myrdal
Eleanor Roosevelt
Albert Schweitzer
Albert A. Robin Campus Community Advisory Board
Norman Alesi: Haskris Company
Rita Athas: Director of Regional Programs, City of Chicago
Sharyn Bowling: President, SJB Enterprises, Inc.
Clark Delanois: Managing Director, Northern Trust Company
Dr. Carlee Drummer: Executive Director of College Advancement and the Educational Foundation, Oakton Community College
Albert Henriksen: Principal, Anchor Bolt & Screw Company
David Hill: Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kimball Hill Homes, Inc.
Mark Iammarino: Vice President and General Manager, Turner Construction
Joseph Klein: Partner of Stitt, Klein, Daday, Aretos & Giampietro
Marianne Kral: Partner of Kral, Goodenough, Kral
Al Larson: Village President, Village of Schaumburg, Illinois
Frank Lazowski: Vice President of Human Resources, Material Sciences Corporation
John 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 Healthcare
Sidney Mathias: State Representative - 53rd District, Illinois General Assembly
Mary Jo McCarthy
Jeff Miller: owner of Divine Signs, Inc.
Arlene Mulder: Mayor, Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois
Rita Mullins: Mayor, Village of Palatine, Illinois
Kenneth Nelson: Mayor, City of Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Terry Parke: retired State Representative
Lisa Pinion: Human Resources Manager, Navistar Financial Corporation
Billie Roth: President, Village of Streamwood, Illinois
Martin Roth: President, MASTR Business Solutions
Michael Silverman: Chairman of the Board, First Northwest Bank
Dr. Margaret Skold: Vice President of Academic Affairs, William Rainey Harper College
Roger Stelle: Partner of Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle
Laurie Stone: President, Schaumburg Business Association
Kenneth Tucker: Principal, Tucker Development Corporation
Tony Alcantar: actor
Peri E. Arnold: Chairman, Department of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame
Andrew Barrett: former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Melissa Bean: politician (U.S. Congressman, Illinois 8th 2005)
Ira Berkow: sportswriter, The New York Times
Jesse Brown: U.S. Secretary of Veteran's Affairs 1993-97
Clark Burrus: former Senior Vice President, First National Bank of Chicago
Susan Carlson: news anchor
Sylvia Flanagan: Senior Editor, Jet Magazine
Marilyn Flynn: Dean, University of Southern California, School of Social Work
Brenda Gaines: President and CEO, Diners Club North America
Eckhard Gerdes: novelist
Karen Gibbs: co-anchor, Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE
Charles V. Hamilton: political science professor and co-author of Black Power
Mark Handler: former President, Macy's Department Stores
Eddie Harris: jazz musician
Patricia Harris: Assistant Vice President of Diversity for McDonald's Corporation
Phillip Jackson: politician and community organizer
Donald Jacobs: retired former Dean, Kellogg Graduate School of Business Administration, Northwestern University
Howard Johnson: former chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
T.E. Kendall: screenwriter
Colleen Kelly: Host and Executive Producer of the National PBS Series Family Travel with Colleen Kelly
Ambassador 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-General
Mort Kondracke: political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease
Basil Kromelow: president, Gold Coast Group of Hotels
Ramsey Lewis: jazz musician, host of Legends of Jazz and The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, WNUA radio
John Licht: President, CEO and Chairman of Duraco Products
Blanche Manning: U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
LeRoy Martin: Chief of Police for the State of Illinois, Central Management Services
Robert Mednick: retired Managing Partner, Professional and Regulatory Matters at Andersen Worldwide
Eugene Morris: Chairman and CEO, E. Morris Communications
Steven Nasiter: president of the Jewish Federation, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, and JFMC Facilities Corp
Terry Peterson: CEO, Chicago Housing Authority
Mel Reynolds: politician and Congressman, Illinois 2nd 1993-95
Bobby Rush: politician and Congressman, Illinois 1st since 1993
Wallace S. Sayre: Professor of Government, Columbia University
Harold Horton Sheldon, professor and physicist
William Sheldon: Chicago broadcaster
Harold Washington: late mayor of Chicago and the first African American to hold the title
Reginald Weaver: president, National Education Association
David Woolridge: retired Corporate Vice President, Motorola
Founder of Chicago Musical College:
Florenz Ziegfeld
Architects of the auditorium building:
Dankmar Adler
Louis Sullivan
Notable faculty:
Rose Hum Lee, first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956
