Academics

• Robert Coover
  Robert Coover
  Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...
  
  , T.B. Stowell Adjunct Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University
  Brown University
  Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
  
  
• Sir Curtis Price
  Curtis Price
  Professor Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE has been Warden of New College, Oxford since October 2009. He was previously Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London.Price was raised in Charleston, Illinois and received his...
  
  , KBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , current head of New College, Oxford
  New College, Oxford
  New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...
  
  , former President of the Royal Academy of Music
  Royal Academy of Music
  The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
  
   and former president of the Royal Musical Association
• John Blackburn, Award-winning educator, facilitator, and historian.

Businesspeople

• Curt Jones, founder of Dippin' Dots
  Dippin' Dots
  Dippin' Dots is an ice cream snack, invented by Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduate Curt Jones in 1987. The confection is created by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen; consequently, Dippin' Dots contain less air than conventional ice cream...
  
  
• Kenny Troutt, founder of telecommunications company
  Company
  A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
  
   Excel Communications
  Excel Communications
  Excel Communications was founded in 1988 by Dallas entrepreneur Kenny Troutt as a long distance reseller in the US telecom sector at the birth of telecom deregulation. It began selling franchises using a multi-level marketing business model, eventually selling over 200,000 of these franchises, or...
  
  
• David Bauer, RPSA at John Hancock
  John Hancock
  John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
  
  
• Tyler Olshefsky, Top Level RPSA at John Hancock
  John Hancock
  John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
  
  
• Tim Southey, Vice President at Green View Companies
• Kevin Wobrock, founder and CEO at Wobrock's Design & Landscape Co.
• Ed Fetter, founder and CEO at Fetter's Landscaping & Garden
• Cal Masear, Commercial Department Manager at Jim Maloof
• Mike Fergus, President/CEO Allied Van Lines
• Athos Bouyoukas, Founder & CEO of Bouyoukas Capital Management, LLC

Entertainers

• Randal Mario Poffo, also known as professional wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage. Graduated 1971.
• James Belushi
  James Belushi
  James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...
  
  , actor/comedian
• Don S. Davis
  Don S. Davis
  Don Sinclair Davis PhD was an American character actor, theatre professor, painter and captain in the United States Army.-Career:He was perhaps best known for playing General George S...
  
  , actor best known for role on Stargate SG-1
  Stargate SG-1
  Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
  
  
• Jackie Debatin (attended), actress/businesswoman
• Bil Dwyer
  Bil Dwyer
  William Michael "Bil" Dwyer is an American stand-up comedian and game show host. Television shows he has hosted include GSN's Extreme Dodgeball, I've Got A Secret and The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time, the PAX TV game show Dirty Rotten Cheater, and the FSN game show, Ultimate Fan...
  
  , actor/comedian
• Dennis Franz
  Dennis Franz
  Dennis Franz is an American actor best known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a hard-boiled police detective in the television series NYPD Blue. He previously appeared as Lt...
  
  , actor best known for his work on NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
  
  
• Dick Gregory
  Dick Gregory
  Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory is an American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur....
  
   (attended), actor/author/comedian/activist
• Steve James
  Steve James (producer)
  Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine...
  
  , documentary director/producer of Sundance award winning Hoop Dreams
  Hoop Dreams
  Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players....
  
  and Stevie
• Jenny McCarthy
  Jenny McCarthy
  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and...
  
   (did not graduate), actress and Playmate of the Year, was studying nursing at SIU when she submitted her photo to Playboy
• Gary Miller
  Gary Miller (sportscaster)
  Gary Miller is an American sportscaster and radio host.-Education:Miller graduated in the same high school class, in Naperville, Illinois, as former CNN news anchor Paula Zahn....
  
  , ESPN
  ESPN
  Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
  
   SportsCenter
  SportsCenter
  SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 7, 1979. Originally broadcast only daily, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores and highlights from major...
  
  anchor
• Tom Minton
  Tom Minton
  Tom Minton is an American animation producer, writer, story editor and storyboard artist. He created and wrote the "Toby Danger" episode of Freakazoid!, wrote the lyrics to the song "Brainstem" and served as head model for the Warner Bros character the Brain in Pinky and the Brain...
  
  , animation producer/writer/artist
• Bob Odenkirk
  Bob Odenkirk
  Robert "Bob" Odenkirk is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer. He is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr...
  
  , actor/writer/comedian
• Tim O'Malley
  Tim O'Malley (actor)
  Tim O'Malley is an American actor and playwright, director living in Chicago. He is a Core Faculty Member at The Second City Training Center. He is most recognizable as Patrick, the bartender in Return to Me.-Career:...
  
  , actor/comedian, Godshow, Second City Alum
• Paul Pabst, executive producer of The Dan Patrick Show
  The Dan Patrick Show
  The Dan Patrick Show is a syndicated sports talk show hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by DirecTV Sports Group and is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. The three-hour program broadcasts live every day beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern/6 a.m. Pacific time on Fox...
  
  
• Rick Rizzs
  Rick Rizzs
  Rick Rizzs is an American sportscaster and is the lead radio voice for Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners.-Early life and career:Rizzs is a 1975 graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. From 1975 to 1980, he handled baseball play-by-play duties at the double-A level for...
  
  , broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners
  Seattle Mariners
  The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July...
  
  
• Richard Roundtree
  Richard Roundtree
  Richard Roundtree is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and in its two sequels, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa .-Personal life:Born in New Rochelle, New York, Richard Roundtree graduated from...
  
  , actor (Shaft
  Shaft (1971 film)
  Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the...
  
  )
• Robert K. Weiss
  Robert K. Weiss
  Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer. His productions include films by director John Landis, producer Lorne Michaels, and the “Z. A. Z.” team of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. He also co-created the science-fiction TV series Sliders...
  
  , producer of The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers (film)
  The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James...
  
  and other films
• Walt Willey
  Walt Willey
  Walt Willey is an American actor. He is best known for playing Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera All My Children from 1987 to 2011....
  
  , actor best known his work on All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  

Musicians

• Hamiet Bluiett
  Hamiet Bluiett
  Hamiet Bluiett is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument...
  
  , jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
• Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
  
  , musician/singer
• Darryl Jones
  Darryl Jones
  Darryl Jones , also known as "The Munch", is an American bass guitarist. Jones began his notable career as a session musician, where he gained the experience and confidence to play with some of the most highly regarded recording artists, in jazz, blues, and rock music...
  
  , bassist of The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
  
• David Lee Murphy
  David Lee Murphy
  David Lee Murphy is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1994, Murphy made his first appearance on the Billboard country charts that year with "Just Once", a song from the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds. A year later, Murphy's debut album Out with a Bang was...
  
  , musician/singer

Politicians and government officials

• Roland Burris
  Roland Burris
  Roland Wallace Burris is a former United States Senator from the state of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  , former Illinois Comptroller, Attorney General and U.S. Senator
• David Coss
  David Coss
  David Coss is a U.S. politician who is the current mayor of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was elected to a four-year term in March 2006 after serving on the Santa Fe City Council from 2002-2006...
  
  , mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
  
  
• Randy Daniels
  Randy Daniels
  Randy Daniels is an American journalist and educator who served as Secretary of State of New York from 2001 to 2005. He resides in Westchester, New York and is currently employed as Vice Chairman of , a real estate investing firm....
  
  , former New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   Secretary of State
  Secretary of State
  Secretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government....
  
  
• Donald McHenry
  Donald McHenry
  Donald Franchot McHenry is a former American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 until January 20, 1981.-Biography:...
  
  , United States ambassador to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   (from 1979 to 1981)
• Albert E. Mead
  Albert E. Mead
  Albert Edward Mead was the fifth Governor of Washington, serving in that position from 1905 to 1909.Mead was born in Kansas on December 14, 1861. There is conflicting information about his town of birth: most reliable sources say it was Manhattan, Kansas, but there is one claim he was born in...
  
  , former Governor of Washington
• Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq
  Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq
  Ch Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq is a prominent Pakistani politician and a businessman who served as a Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Minorities under the Government of Prime minister Shaukat Aziz. A former Pakistan Army officer, Haq joined the Pakistan Army in 1971, as second lieutnenat, but...
  
  , Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  i politician and son of former President
  President of Pakistan
  The President of Pakistan is the head of state, as well as figurehead, of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Recently passed an XVIII Amendment , Pakistan has a parliamentary democratic system of government. According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by the Electoral College to serve a...
  
   General Zia-ul-Haq
• Glenn Poshard
  Glenn Poshard
  Glenn Poshard is a former Illinois State Senator, U.S. Congressman, Gubernatorial Candidate, and is currently President of the Southern Illinois University system.-Early career:...
  
  , former U.S. Congressman, gubernatorial candidate, president of SIU

Baseball

• Jim Dwyer, Former Major League Baseball outfielder
• Steve Finley
  Steve Finley
  Steven Allen Finley is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.-Early life:Finley, who grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, attended Paducah Tilghman High School and Southern Illinois University, where he earned a degree in physiology and played for the baseball team from 1984–87.-College, Team USA,...
  
  , Former Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   center fielder
  Center fielder
  A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field – the baseball fielding position between left field and right field...
  
  , 5-time Gold Glove winner, 2-time All-Star
  All-star
  All-star is a term designating an individual as having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into vernacular and been borrowed heavily by the entertainment industry...
  
  
• Jason Frasor
  Jason Frasor
  Jason Andrew Frasor is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball. He made his debut with the Toronto Blue Jays in , and he had a 4.08 ERA in 63 games....
  
  , Major League Baseball pitcher
• Joe Hall
  Joe Hall (baseball)
  Joseph Geroy Hall is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played during three seasons in Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 10th round of the 1988 amateur draft...
  
  , Former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jerry Hairston, Jr.
  Jerry Hairston, Jr.
  Jerry Wayne Hairston, Jr. is a Mexican-American professional baseball utility player.-Professional career:...
  
  , Major League Baseball second baseman
• Duane Kuiper
  Duane Kuiper
  Duane Eugene Kuiper is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, and is currently a five-time Emmy award-winning radio and television sportscaster for the San Francisco Giants...
  
  , Former Major League Baseball second baseman, announcer, commentator for EA Sports
  EA Sports
  EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...
  
   baseball video games
• Al Levine, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Dave Stieb
  Dave Stieb
  David Andrew Stieb [STEEB] is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.-Playing career:Born in Santa Ana, California, Stieb played varsity baseball at Southern Illinois University as an outfielder...
  
  , Former Major League Baseball pitcher, 7 Time All Star, Pitched No Hitter on 9/2/1990.
• Bill Stein
  Bill Stein
  William Allen "Bill" Stein is a retired professional baseball player and manager. His playing career spanned 17 seasons, 14 of which were spent in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals , the Chicago White Sox , the Seattle Mariners , and the Texas Rangers...
  
  , Former Major League Baseball infielder

Basketball

• Ashraf Amaya
  Ashraf Amaya
  Ashraf Amaya is a retired American basketball player.Amaya attended Oak Park and River Forest High School for his freshman year but he transferred to Walther Lutheran High School to finish his high school career. While at Walther, Amaya led the Broncos to a 3rd place finish in the 1988 Illinois...
  
  , Former NBA player
• Chris Carr
  Chris Carr (basketball)
  Chris Dean Carr is an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 2nd round of the 1995 NBA Draft. Carr played six seasons in the NBA for the Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Jersey Nets, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics...
  
  , Former NBA player
• Walt Frazier
  Walt Frazier
  Walter "Clyde" Frazier is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He was blessed with a unique combination of court vision, quickness, and size for a guard...
  
  , Basketball Hall of Fame
  Basketball Hall of Fame
  The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, honors exceptional basketball players, coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the game of basketball worldwide...
  
  r and named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
• Mike Glenn
  Mike Glenn
  Mike Theodore "Stinger" Glenn is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'2" guard, Glenn graduated in 1973 from Rome's Coosa High School, where he was an all-state standout, still holding the school points record at over 2,400 points for his high school career...
  
  , Former NBA player
• Troy Hudson
  Troy Hudson
  Troy Hudson is a former American professional basketball player at the point guard position.-Basketball career:After a college career at the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University that finished in his junior year,Hudson was not selected in the 1997 NBA draft, and played his first...
  
  , NBA guard
• Chris Lowery
  Chris Lowery
  -External links:**...
  
  , current Salukis men's basketball head coach
• Joe Meriweather
  Joe Meriweather
  Joe C. Meriweather is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'10" center from Southern Illinois University, Meriweather played ten seasons in the NBA as a member of the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz, New York Knicks, and Kansas City Kings...
  
  , NBA center.

Football

• Tom Baugh
  Tom Baugh
  Thomas Anthony Baugh is a former professional American football player. He was a center who played four seasons in the National Football League for two teams....
  
  , Former NFL Football player
• Jim Hart
  Jim Hart (football player)
  James Warren Hart is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 through 1983 and the Washington Redskins in 1984. From 1974-1976, he guided the Cardinals to three straight 10+ win seasons along with back to back division crowns in...
  
  , former NFL quarterback, 4 Time Pro Bowl
  Pro Bowl
  In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...
  
   Selection
• Kevin House
  Kevin House
  Kevin Nathaniel House is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 1980 NFL Draft. A 6'1", 175 lbs. wide receiver from Southern Illinois University, House played in eight NFL seasons from 1980-1987 for the Buccaneers...
  
  , Former NFL Football player
• Brandon Jacobs
  Brandon Jacobs
  -New York Giants:Going into the 2006 season Jacobs stated that he studied film of famed power running back Eddie George in an effort to refine his running style. George, like Jacobs, was a large, power running back. In the 2006 season, Jacobs carried the ball 96 times for 423 yards and nine...
  
  , NFL running back
• Carl Mauck
  Carl Mauck
  Carl Mauck is a former American football player who was a center who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League for four teams, and later served as an offensive line coach for several teams...
  
  , Former NFL Football player and NFL Coach
• Sam Silas
  Sam Silas
  Samuel Louis Silas is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. Drafted by the Boston Patriots in the sixth round of the 1963 AFL Draft. He went to one Pro Bowl during his eight-year career, and was selected to one All-Pro team...
  
  , Former NFL lineman
• Bart Scott
  Bart Scott
  Bartholomew Edward Scott is an American football linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2002...
  
  , NFL linebacker
• Dave Smith, Former NFL Football player
• Terry Lee Taylor, Former NFL Football player
• Deji Karim
  Deji Karim
  In July 2010, Karim signed a 4-year $1.9 million dollar deal with the Jaguars.-2010 Season:During the 2010 season Deji Karim was used primarily as a returner and was the Jaguars 3rd running back on the depth Chart. Karim had 50 kick returns and averaged 25 yards per return. On limited carries he...
  
  , Running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars

Other

• Roger Counsil
  Roger Counsil
  Roger L. Counsil was one of the most successful gymnastics coaches in the United States and headed the United States Gymnastics Federation, now known as USA Gymnastics....
  
  , NCAA champion gymnastic coach
• Randy Savage
  Randy Savage
  Randall Mario Poffo , better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling .Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career and was a...
  
  , Pro wrestler
• Dale Eggert, Best Highschool teacher in Illinois

Writers and journalists

• Jim Bittermann
  Jim Bittermann
  - Career :Bittermann graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University in 1970 and began in print journalism from 1969 to 1970 as a reporter for the Waukegan News-Sun in Waukegan, Illinois. His television career began at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee from 1970 to 1972...
  
  , CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   European correspondent based in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  
• Chris Bury
  Chris Bury
  Christopher Robert Bury is an American journalist, best known for being an Emmy Award-winning correspondent at ABC News Nightline, where he also served as substitute anchor....
  
  , ABC
  ABC News
  ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
  
   news anchor
• John Dempsey
  John Dempsey
  John Dempsey may refer to:* John Dempsey , Irish retired footballer* John Dempsey , also playwright* John Dempsey , American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient...
  
  , Morning News Anchor for ABC radio affiliate WLS Chicago
• Tom Hebel, Vice President of Creative Services and Local Programming, WLS-TV
  WLS-TV
  WLS-TV, virtual channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The station operates their full power digital operations on UHF channel 44, with their digital fill-in translator on VHF channel...
  
   ABC Affiliate in Chicago
• Jens Deju, Award-winning copy editor, The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, Illinois, snappy dresser
• Steven Alexander
  Steven Alexander
  Steven Alexander is an American filmmaker born in London, England, immigrated to New York City in the 1980s. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Legal Studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, attended City College of New York Film School before eventually getting his MFA from New...
  
  , Best selling author and clinical counselor
• Mark Miller
  Mark Miller
  Mark Miller may refer to:* Mark Miller , television actor and producer, father of Penelope Ann Miller* Mark Miller , American football quarterback...
  
  , contributing writer for High Times
• P.S. Mueller, cartoonist for The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
  
• Walter Rogers, CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   international correspondent based in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  
• Chad Simpson
  Chad Simpson (author)
  Chad Simpson is a short and flash fiction author from Monmouth, Illinois. He has written numerous stories that have appeared in multiple literary magazines. His flash story "Let x" won the second annual Micro Award in 2009. "Let x" originally appeared in Esquire.com. Simpson earned a BA from...
  
  , Micro Award winning short
  Short story
  A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
  
   and flash fiction
  Flash fiction
  Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...
  
   author
• Jackie Spinner
  Jackie Spinner
  Jackie Spinner is an American journalist who worked for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009.Spinner grew up in Illinois, the daughter of a pipe fitter and a schoolteacher...
  
  , writer at the Washington Post and author of Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq
• Joan Lovett (Lovelace) CBS Four time emmy award winner.
• Dan Katz, morning news anchor for NBC affiliate WFIE
  WFIE
  WFIE is the NBC-afifliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southwestern Indiana, Northwestern Kentucky and Southeastern Illinois that's licensed to Evansville, Indiana. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 from a transmitter in the Wolf Hills section of...
  
   in Evansville, Indiana
• Zack Quaintance, Award-winning entertainment reporter at The Monitor and creator of the popular Mitch Elada Twitter feed
• Andrea Beaty, Award-winning children's author: Iggy Peck, Architect; Dr. Ted; Cicada Summer and Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies.
• Charles Highland, Senior scoretaker, The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, high school team nickname expert

Others

• Matthew F. Hale
  Matthew F. Hale
  Matthew F. Hale , more commonly known as Matt Hale, was the third Pontifex Maximus of the white supremacist religion, Creativity, and the founder of the group formerly known as the World Church of the Creator and now known as The Creativity Movement. The organization's headquarters were based in...
  
   (Law School
  Southern Illinois University School of Law
  Southern Illinois University School of Law is a law school in Carbondale, Illinois. The college offers Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, and Master of Legal Studies programs. It also offers dual degree programs in Accounting, Medicine, Education, Business Administration, Public Administration, Social...
  
  , 1998), White Supremacist who solicited the murder of federal judge Joan Lefkow
  Joan Lefkow
  Joan Humphrey Lefkow is a United States district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 11, 2000, to a seat vacated by Judge Ann Claire Williams, and confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30, 2000...
  
  
• Joan E. Higginbotham
  Joan Higginbotham
  Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.-Early life:...
  
  , astronaut
• Michael R. Iacomini, Senior Wildlife Inspector/ National Training Coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service - Office of Law Enforcement
• Rodney P. Kelly
  Rodney P. Kelly
  Rodney P. Kelly is a retired Major General in the United States Air Force who served as assistant deputy chief of staff for plans and programs for the United States Air Force in Washington, D.C...
  
  , retired Major General, U.S. Air Force
• Thomas McClelland
  Thomas McClelland
  -Background:Captain Thomas McClelland was born in Louisville, KY. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University. He earned his Officer Commission through the Aviation Officer Candidate Program in January 1966 and was designated a Naval Aviator in April 1967...
  
  , retired Captain, U.S. Navy
• Joseph Nechvatal
  Joseph Nechvatal
  Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
  
  , digital artist and art theoretician
• Michael Swango
  Michael Swango
  Joseph Michael Swango is an American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he admitted to only causing four deaths...
  
  , Physician and Serial Murderer
• Mallica Vajrathon
  Mallica Vajrathon
  Mallica Vajrathon is a sociologist, political scientist and former United Nations Senior Staff member. Her grandfather was Joseph Caulfield James, a special tutor to His Royal Highness, Prince Vajiravudh of Thailand , as well being second Chairman of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club. Her father was T...
  
  , A United Nations Senior Staff Member
• Curt D. Jones, Creator of Dippin Dots ice cream
• Ray W. Fuller, Co-inventor of Fluoxetine Hydrochloride (Prozac)

External links

• Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Recreation Center's Distinguished Alumni Wall http://www.siu.edu/rss/tour/tour_pages/alumni_wall.html