Notable Alumni
- Ken Hudson Campbell is an actor (Armageddon, Herman's Head).
- Lee A. Daniels was an Illinois State Representative (1975–2006), who served as Speaker of the State House (1995–97).
- George J. Eade was a United States Air Force four-star general.
- Bob Eckert is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board for Mattel and also serves as director of McDonald's Corp.
- Mike Farina was an Olympic wrestler, competing at the 1976 Montréal Olympics.
- Robert Goldsborough (1955), murder mystery novelist.
- Ron Guenther is a former athletic director for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Sarah King is an actress and currently the top performer in Original Oratory in Illinois. She is also a boss.
- Dan Konopka of the band OK Go went to York in the 1990s.
- Garth Lagerwey, a former professional soccer player who is currently an executive with Real Salt Lake.
- Betty Okino is an actress and former gymnast. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning gymnastics team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
- Ken Paulson is the president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum, Newseum and Diversity Institute; he is the former editor and senior vice president/news of USA Today and USATODAY.com.
- Gary Rydstrom is a multi-Academy Award winning sound mixer, sound effects editor, and director. His work in sound includes films such as Backdraft, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Jurassic Park.
- Donald Sage was an All-American cross country and track runner for Stanford University.
- Tim Stratton was a tight end at Purdue University and was the inaugural winner of the John Mackey Award (2000), presented annually to Division 1A's best tight end.
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“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)