Editing Northwestern University (section)

=== Alumni ===
{{Main list|List of Northwestern University alumni}}
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Northwestern's political alumni include U.S. Senator and presidential candidate [[George McGovern]] and Chicago Mayor [[Rahm Emanuel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000452|title=McGovern, George Stanley|website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=April 26, 2025}}</ref> Law school graduates include orator [[William Jennings Bryan]], U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice [[John Paul Stevens]], Supreme Court Justice and United Nations Ambassador [[Arthur Joseph Goldberg]], Chicago Mayor [[Harold L. Washington]], Governor of Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nga.org/governor/adlai-ewing-stevenson/|title=Gov. Adlai Ewing Stevenson|website=National Governors Association|date=January 12, 2015 |access-date=April 26, 2025}}</ref> and Cincinnati mayor and tabloid host [[Jerry Springer]].

The number of Northwestern alumni involved in theater, film, and television is also so large that the alumni have been dubbed the "Northwestern mafia."<ref>{{cite news |last=Russo |first=Francine |date=September 3, 2002 |title=Rallying the Troupes: Young Directors Take Charge |newspaper=Village Voice |location=New York |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-09-03/nyc-life/rallying-the-troupes |url-status=live |access-date=January 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019013042/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-09-03/nyc-life/rallying-the-troupes/ |archive-date=October 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=April 30, 2002 |title=Alum touts connections among NU grads in L.A. |work=The Daily Northwestern |url=http://media.www.dailynorthwestern.com/media/storage/paper853/news/2002/04/30/Campus/Alum-Touts.Connections.Among.Nu.Grads.In.L.a-1909784.shtml |url-status=dead |access-date=January 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110806003526/http://media.www.dailynorthwestern.com/media/storage/paper853/news/2002/04/30/Campus/Alum-Touts.Connections.Among.Nu.Grads.In.L.a-1909784.shtml |archive-date=August 6, 2011}}</ref> Actor alumni include [[Warren Beatty]], [[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]], [[Charlton Heston]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/h/ha-hn/charlton-heston/|title=Charlton Heston|publisher=The Kennedy Center|access-date=April 26, 2025}}</ref> and [[British royal family]] member [[Meghan, Duchess of Sussex]]. Other media alumni include [[Stephen Colbert]] and [[Seth Meyers]]. 

Other alumni include Nobel Prize-winning economist [[George J. Stigler]], Nobel Prize-winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]], Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist [[Ned Rorem]], ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' author  [[George R. R. Martin]], Pulitzer Prize-winning composer [[Howard Hanson]], historian and novelist [[Wilma Dykeman]], and [[National Prayer Breakfast]] founder [[Abraham Vereide]]. Among U.S. universities, Northwestern ranks eighth in the number of billionaires produced.<ref name="Forbes Billionaire">{{cite news |date=August 11, 2010 |title=In Pictures: Billionaire Universities |website=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/08/11/harvard-stanford-columbia-business-billionaires-universities_slide.html |access-date=June 18, 2018 |archive-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223095755/https://www.forbes.com/2010/08/11/harvard-stanford-columbia-business-billionaires-universities_slide.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Northwestern alumni have founded companies and organizations including the [[Mayo Clinic]], [[The Blackstone Group]], [[U.S. Steel]], [[Accenture]], [[Aon (company)|Aon Corporation]], and [[Booz Allen Hamilton]].