Notable Alumni
An estimated 65,000 individuals have lived I-House from around the world. Among the more notable alumni are:
- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, author of Things Fall Apart
- Pina Bausch, German chroreographer
- Leonard Cohen, poet and songwriter
- Shelby Cullom Davis,U.S. investment banker, Ambassador to Switzerland
- Kiran Desai, Indian author and novelist
- Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
- James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
- Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist
- Burl Ives, Academy Award-winning actor
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born writer, author of Being There
- Wassily Leontief, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
- Flora Lewis, New York Times journalist
- Benjamin Mkapa, former President, Tanzania
- Mark Mathabane, South African-born writer, author of Kaffir Boy
- Ashley Montague, British anthropologist
- Vikram Pandit, Chairman & CEO, Citigroup
- Dale Peck, US writer, novelist, and literary critic
- I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
- Hans-Gert Poettering, former President, European Parliament
- Leontyne Price, opera star
- Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- David Sainsbury, British businessman, philanthropist, Labour cabinet minister
- Edward J. Sparling, Founder, Roosevelt University, Chicago
- Sydney Taurel, Chairman & CEO, Eli Lilly
- Shirley Verrett, opera star
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