Notable Alumni
- Cliff Aberson was a professional football player with the NFL Green Bay Packers (1946) and a Major League Baseball outfielder (1947–49) with the Chicago Cubs.
- Buddy Bregman, musical arranger, record producer and composer
- Carlos Eire, historian, writer, professor at Yale University, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, winner 2003 National Book Award, nonfiction.
- Joseph Epstein is a writer, essayist, and editor.
- Jimmy Evert is a tennis coach whose students included Jennifer Capriati and his daughter Chris Evert.
- William Friedkin is an Academy Award–winning film director (The French Connection, The Exorcist).
- Shecky Greene, comedian
- Alan Hargesheimer was a professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Kansas City Royals.
- Barbara Harris is a former actress on stage, television, and screen (Nashville, Freaky Friday). She won a Tony Award in 1967 for Passionella.
- Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block) was a political cartoonist and 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree. In 1950, he coined the term "McCarthyism".
- Gene Honda is a media spokesman and public address announcer (Chicago White Sox, Chicago Blackhawks) and has worked for the Big 10 Conference and the NCAA.
- John Jakes, first author with 3 books on NY Times Best Seller List
- Harvey Korman was a comedic actor who won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his work on the Carol Burnett Show. He is also remembered for film roles such as in Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety.
- Lou Levy, jazz bebop artist
- Allan Katz, writer/producer M*A*S*H
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., novelist and editor
- Clayton Moore was an actor best known for his portrayal of The Lone Ranger.
- Lois Nettleton was an actress who acted in film and on television for nearly six decades.
- Mike North, Emmy winner, host of television & radio sports shows
- Anita O'Day, jazz singer
- Irna Phillips, creator of the first radio & TV soap operas
- Fritz Pollard, Jr., won a bronze medal in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1936 Olympics.
- Harold Ramis is a comedy writer, director, and actor (Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Analyze This).
- Annette Rogers won gold medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1932 Olympics and 1936 Olympics
- William Russo (musician), jazz arranger and composer
- Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award & Tony Award winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He also helped create television series such as The Patty Duke Show, Hart to Hart, and I Dream of Jeannie.
- Scott Simon is an Emmy & Peabody Award winning writer.
- Lee Stern is a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade best known as a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox and president of Chicago's former NASL soccer team, the Chicago Sting.
- Stanley Tigerman, architect & designer
- Burr Tillstrom is an Emmy & Peabody Award winning puppeteer. He created the Kukla, Fran and Ollie show.
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