University of Illinois alumni

The list University of Illinois alumni includes Hugh Hefner, David Otunga, Cynthia Plaster Caster, John Franklin and Johnnie Black. The list consists of 1,066 members and 4 sublists.

University of Illinois Chicago alumni
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University of Illinois at Springfield alumni
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University of Illinois College of Medicine alumni
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
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1.

Hugh Hefner

founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine

Overview: Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles ...

Date of birth: 9 April 1926

Date of death: 27 September 2017

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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American copywriters 50T

Pipe smokers 77T

Hefner family 6T
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Larsa Pippen

American television personality (born 1974)

Overview: Larsa Marie Pippen (born July 6, 1974) is an American socialite and reality television personality. She is an original main cast member on Bravo's reality TV series The Real Housewives of Miami, appearing ...

Date of birth: 6 July 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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The Real Housewives cast members 82T
3.

Cynthia Plaster Caster

American artist (1947–2022)

Overview: Cynthia Plaster Caster (born Cynthia Albritton, May 24, 1947 – April 21, 2022) was an American artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who gained fame for creating plaster casts of famous persons' ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1947

Date of death: 21 April 2022

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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2022 deaths 2,287T

Artists from Chicago, Illinois 611T

Groupies 85T
4.

David Otunga

American professional wrestler; lawyer

Overview: David Daniel Otunga (born April 7, 1980) is an American actor, lawyer, and former professional wrestler currently signed with WWE as a panelist and color commentator. He was the runner-up on the first ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: American

Occupation: Wrestling

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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African-American male professional wrestlers 137T

Sportspeople from Elgin, Illinois 29T

American people of Luo descent 4T
5.

John Franklin

Actor

Overview: John Franklin (born John Paul Salapatek; June 16, 1959) is an American actor, writer and former school teacher, best known for playing Isaac Chroner in Children of the Corn (1984), and Cousin Itt in The ...

Date of birth: 16 June 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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Schoolteachers from California 81T

LGBT people from Illinois 229T

American male film actors 11,928T
6.

Gloria Foster

American actor

Overview: Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress. She had acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career.

Date of birth: 15 November 1933

Date of death: 29 September 2001

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century African-American women 2,490T

21st-century African-American women 3,099T

Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery 41T
7.

Cassidy Hubbarth

American sports anchor (born 1984)

Overview: Cassidy Hubbarth (born September 19, 1984) is an American television anchor. Hubbarth formerly hosts ESPN2's NBA Tonight and also anchors ESPN's SportsCenter and College Football Live.

Date of birth: 19 September 1984

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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College basketball announcers in the United States 629T

American people of Filipino descent 612T

American people of German descent 5,224T
8.

Jon Michael Hill

American actor

Overview: Jon Michael Hill is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Marcus Bell in the CBS series Elementary.

Date of birth: 28 July 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company players 36T

Actors from Waukegan, Illinois 11T

Male actors from Illinois 259T
9.

Rafer Weigel

American broadcast journalist (born 1969)

Overview: Rafer Weigel (born May 5, 1969) is an American broadcast journalist who most recently was an early morning weekday news anchor and general assignment reporter at WFLD-Channel 32 in Chicago. Formerly ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Margie Ellisor (Engaged)

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American male journalists 4,328T

Chicago, Illinois television sports anchors 8T

Evanston Township High School alumni 65T
10.

Aja Evans

American bobsledder

Overview: Aja L. Evans (born 12 May 1988) is an American Olympic medalists bobsledder (Two-woman) who competes as a brakeman. At her Chicago public high school she was an All-American track & field City Champion ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: American

Occupation: Bobsleigh

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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21st-century African-American women 3,099T

Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics 166T

Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in bobsleigh 26T
11.

Kandeh Yumkella

Director General of UNIDO

Overview: Alhaji Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella (born July 5, 1959) is a Sierra Leonean Agricultural economist, politician, and the former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Special Representative of the ...

Date of birth: 5 July 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: Sierra Leonean

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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People from Kambia District 7T

Sierra Leonean officials of the United Nations 4T

Christ the King College 7T
12.

Beth Henley

American writer and actor

Overview: Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' ...

Date of birth: 8 May 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Writers from Jackson, Mississippi 35T

Actors from Jackson, Mississippi 15T

21st-century American women writers 4,233T
13.

Ruth Attaway

American actress (1910–1987)

Overview: Ruth Attaway (June 28, 1910 – September 21, 1987) was an American film and stage actress. Among the films she appeared in are Raintree County (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959) and Being There (1979).

Date of birth: 28 June 1910

Date of death: 21 September 1987

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Mississippi 56T

Actresses from New York City 1,485T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T
14.

Dink Trout

American voice actor

Overview: Francis "Dink" Trout (June 18, 1898 – March 26, 1950) was an American actor and radio personality.

Date of birth: 18 June 1898

Date of death: 26 March 1950

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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People from Beardstown, Illinois 20T

American male radio actors 531T

Male actors from Illinois 259T
15.

Carlos Carrasco

American actor

Overview: Carlos Carrasco (born April 5, 1948) is an American actor who has appeared in film, television and video games.

Date of birth: 5 April 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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American male video game actors 798T

Hispanic and Latino American male actors 281T

20th-century American male actors 8,672T
16.

Patricia Thompson

American documentary film maker

Overview: Patricia Thompson (August 14, 1947 – December 20, 2010) was a Paris-based American television producer and documentary filmmaker.

Date of birth: 14 August 1947

Date of death: 20 December 2010

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Producer

Gender: Female

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2010 deaths 8,925T

Loyola University Chicago alumni 288T

American expatriates in France 692T
17.

Brian Courtney Wilson

Singer

Overview: Brian Courtney Wilson is an American gospel and CCM singer.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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American singers 1,833T

American male singers 5,190T

Living people 968,462T
18.

Shahid Khan

American businessman

Overview: Shahid "Shad" Khan (Urdu: شاہد خان‎; born July 18, 1950), is a Pakistani born American billionaire businessman. Khan is the CEO and owner of Flex-N-Gate an American automotive company and OEM which ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Pakistani industrial engineers 1T

All Elite Wrestling executives 5T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T
19.

DJ Earworm

American DJ

Overview: Jordan Roseman (born March 25, 1982), known professionally as DJ Earworm, is an American mashup artist from San Francisco, California. who has achieved recognition for his technically sophisticated, s ...

Date of birth: 25 March 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: American

Occupation: Disc Jockey

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American mashup artists 4T

American rock mashup groups 6T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T
20.

Burt Baskin

American businessman

Overview: Burt "Butch" Baskin (December 17, 1913 – December 24, 1967) was an American businessman who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with business partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1913

Date of death: 24 December 1967

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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People from Studio City, Los Angeles 97T

American food company founders 142T

Businesspeople from San Diego, California 79T