mafia." Actor alumni include Warren Beatty, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Charlton Heston, and British royal family member Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Other media alumni include Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.
Others include Nobel Prize-winning economist George J. Stigler, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, and Nobel Prize winning biochemist Robert F. Furchgott. 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 are also among its alumni. Among U.S. universities, Northwestern ranks eighth in the number of billionaires produced. Northwestern alumni have founded companies and organizations including the Mayo Clinic, The Blackstone Group, U.S. Steel, Accenture, Aon Corporation, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
=== Faculty ===
The university employs 3,781 faculty members across its eleven schools, including 18 members of the National …
