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== People == {{Main list|List of University of Chicago people}}Since the university's establishment in 1890, there have been 101 [[List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation|Nobel laureates]] across all six categories affiliated with the University of Chicago,<ref name="uchicago1">{{cite web |date=December 10, 2008 |title=Nobel Laureates |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/nobel/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426222348/http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/nobel/ |archive-date=April 26, 2009 |access-date=October 4, 2011 |publisher=The University of Chicago}}</ref> twenty-one of whom were pursuing research or on faculty at the university at the time of the award announcement.<ref>{{cite web |year=2008 |title=Nobel Laureates and Universities |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410035330/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html |archive-date=April 10, 2008 |access-date=March 18, 2008 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref> Of these 101 Nobel Prizes, thirty were in [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]], nineteen in [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], thirteen in [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology/Medicine]], three in [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]], one in [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]], and thirty-three in [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]]. Chicago faculty and alumni also include ten [[Fields Medal|Fields Medalists]],<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Fields Medal |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/14/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407140029/https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/14/ |archive-date=April 7, 2019 |access-date=November 16, 2020 |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref> seventeen [[National Medal of Science]] recipients,<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Medal of Science |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/national-medal-of-science |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.uchicago.edu |language=en}}</ref> four [[Turing Award]] winners, fifty-eight [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellows]],<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=MacArthur Fellows |url=http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/18/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706173343/http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/18/ |archive-date=July 6, 2016 |access-date=July 8, 2016 |website=The University of Chicago}}</ref> four [[John Bates Clark Medal|John Bates Clark Medalists]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Guibert |first1=Susan |date=April 18, 2014 |title=Chicago Booth's Gentzkow awarded 2014 Clark Medal |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/04/18/chicago-booth-s-gentzkow-awarded-2014-clark-medal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113113035/https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/04/18/chicago-booth-s-gentzkow-awarded-2014-clark-medal |archive-date=November 13, 2017 |access-date=November 13, 2017 |publisher=UChicago News}}</ref> thirty [[Marshall Scholars]],<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Statistics |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/marshall-scholars |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126211334/http://www.marshallscholarship.org/about/statistics |archive-date=January 26, 2017 |access-date=March 31, 2025 |publisher=Marshallscholarship.org}}</ref> fifty-five [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]],<ref name="Rhodes">{{cite web |title=Rhodes Scholarships |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/rhodes-scholars |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222074903/https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/rhodes-scholars |archive-date=February 22, 2022 |access-date=November 14, 2024 |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref> twenty-seven [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners,<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/24/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419120810/https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/24/ |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |access-date=April 19, 2018}}</ref> twenty [[National Humanities Medal]]ists,<ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=National Humanities Medalists |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/20/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319090912/http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/20/ |archive-date=March 19, 2016 |access-date=April 3, 2016}}</ref> and eight [[List of American universities with Olympic medals|Olympic medalists]].{{multiple image | total_width = 450 | align = right | direction = horizontal | header = Notable alumni | image1 = Milton Friedman.jpg | caption1 = [[Milton Friedman]] | image2 = Bernie Sanders (49624954238).jpg | caption2 = [[Bernie Sanders]] | image3 = Carl Sagan Planetary Society.JPG | caption3 = [[Carl Sagan]] }} [[List of University of Chicago alumni|Chicago alumni]] have gone on to become notable in several fields. In particular, the university has produced CEOs of firms such as [[Microsoft]], [[Goldman Sachs]], and [[Credit Suisse]]; six heads of state across five continents; five U.S. Cabinet Secretaries; seven U.S. Senators; four central bank Presidents or Directors, including the [[World Bank]]; one Supreme Court justice; and Presidents of [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Northwestern University|Northwestern]], and [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. [[List of University of Chicago faculty|Notable faculty]] include three Supreme Court Justices, one central bank governor, and numerous Nobel Prize laureates. Former U.S. president [[Barack Obama]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Joe |date=2008-03-28 |title=Obama a Constitutional Law Professor? |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/Obama-a-constitutional-law-professor/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=FactCheck.org |language=en-US}}</ref> poet [[T. S. Eliot|T.S. Eliot]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=TIME |date=1950-11-13 |title=Education: Find Your Own Answers |url=https://time.com/archive/6886061/education-find-your-own-answers/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=TIME |language=en}}</ref> and writer [[Ralph Ellison]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ellison, Ralph : Photographic Archive : The University of Chicago|url=http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-05960.xml|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu|archive-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901213406/http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-05960.xml|url-status=live}}</ref> have all served on the faculty.
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