Academics, Science, and Engineering
- Dankmar Adler, architect
- Mortimer Adler, educational reformer and writer
- Saul Alinsky, community organizer; writer and founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation
- Myrtle Bachelder, metals chemist and Women's Army Corps officer; worked on the Manhattan Project
- Cynthia Bathurst, mathematician and animal welfare advocate
- Allan G. Brodie, orthodontics educator
- Daniel Burnham, architect
- Marvin Camras, inventor
- Philo Carpenter, first Chicago pharmacist
- Zachary Taylor Davis, architect
- Donald J. DePorter, philanthropist
- John Dewey, educational reformer
- G. Walter Dittmar, first president of the Illinois State Dental Society
- E. Lloyd Du Brul, dental anatomist
- Helen Flanders Dunbar an important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
- Charles E. Fox, architect
- James Ingo Freed, architect
- Marjorie Grene, philosopher
- Marion Mahony Griffin, architect
- Walter Burley Griffin, architect
- George Ellery Hale, astronomer
- Max Henius, biochemist; co-founder of American Brewing Academy
- John Augur Holabird, architect
- William Holabird, architect
- Helmut Jahn, architect
- William Le Baron Jenney, architect
- Leon Kass, writer and chair of The President's Council on Bioethics
- Peter Karter, nuclear engineer and pioneer of the recycling industry
- Dr. Fazlur Khan, civil engineer
- George W. Maher, architect
- Benjamin H. Marshall, architect
- Maury Massler, dental educator
- Charles G. Maurice, dental educator
- Philip Maxwell, early Chicago physician
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
- Michele Moody-Adams, African American philosopher and academic administrator
- Frederick B. Moorehead, dental educator
- Charles Murphy, architect
- Frederick Bogue Noyes, dental educator
- Dwight H. Perkins, architect
- Theodore Regensteiner, inventor of the four-color litographic press
- Earl W. Renfroe, orthodontist and African-American activist
- Martin Roche, architect
- John Wellborn Root, architect
- John Wellborn Root, Jr., architect
- Isaac Schour, president of the International Association for Dental Research
- Leo Strauss, political philosopher
- Louis Sullivan, architect
- Stanley D. Tylman, dental educator, wrote Theory and Practice of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis
- Thorstein Veblen, economist and social critic
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
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