University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Jack Klues

Media executive

Donated $1M in 2015

Paul Koch

Chicago-based consultant

Distinguished Alumni Award

Diane Kovacs

Web teacher/librarian

Alumni Leadership Award

Art Kramer

Beckman Institute director, 2010-16

Professor/center director, Northeastern University

Ed Krol

Internet Hall of Famer

‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet’ author

Heidi Ladd

Circuit court judge

Champaign County

Chris Landreth

Award-winning animator

2004 Oscar for ‘Ryan’

Markita Landry

2020 UI Young Alumni Award winner

Assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Cal-Berkeley

Avis (Sampson) LaVelle

Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly

Executive director, Business Leadership Council

Ang Lee

Movie maker

3 Oscar wins with 3 movies

Daeyeol Lee

Professor of neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry

Yale University

Anthony Leggett

Nobel-winning physicist

On UI faculty since ’83

Jennifer Lewis

Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering

Harvard University

Qilin Li

Civil and environmental engineering professor

Rice University

Lou Liay

2023 honorary doctorate recipient

Namesake of UIAA's Lou Liay Spirit Award

Bob Liebeck

Pioneering Boeing aerodynamicist, aerospace engineer

Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Famer

Jeffrey Lieber

TV/film screenwriter/producer

‘Lost’ co-creator

Kelly Loeffler

Trump administration's Small Business Administrator

Former WNBA team owner, Bakkt CEO, U.S. senator

Sean Long

Corporate director of programming, Weigel Broadcasting

2-time Emmy-winning Illini Media Hall of Famer

Stacy Walton Long

Indianapolis law partner

Krieg DeVault LLP

Rod Lovett

Director of championships

National Junior College Athletic Assn.

Don Lowe

Earth sciences professor

Stanford University

Jerry Marcyk

Director/components research

Intel (retired)

Carol Marin

Peabody Award-winning Chicago broadcast journalist

1997 Chicago Illini of Year