Rhodes Scholars, twenty-seven Pulitzer Prize winners, twenty National Humanities Medalists, and eight Olympic medalists.
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; eight U.S. Cabinet Secretaries; ten U.S. Senators; four central bank Presidents or Directors, including the World Bank; one U.S. Supreme Court justice; and Presidents of Princeton, Northwestern, and MIT.
Notable faculty include three Supreme Court Justices, one central bank governor, and numerous Nobel Prize laureates. Former U.S. president Barack Obama, poet T.S. Eliot, and writer Ralph Ellison all served on the faculty.
== In pop culture ==
The University of Chicago is the alma mater of fictional characters Harry Burns and Sally Albright (from When Harry Met Sally), Indiana Jones, Kitty Pryde and Mark Watney (from The Martian). It has served as filming locations for scenes …
