University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
 University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign  (University)    | |
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| Motto | Learning and Labor |
| Formation | 1867 |
| Type | • Public • flagship • Land-grant • Sea-grant • Space-grant |
| Other name | Fighting Illini |
| Big and prestigious public university in Illinois | |
See also the University of Illinois system
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867. Enrolling over 56,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the nation.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities, and has been listed as a "Public Ivy" in The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (2001) by Howard and Matthew Greene.[1] In fiscal year 2019, research expenditures at Illinois totaled $652 million.[2]
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Andreesen | 9 July 1971 | Programmer Businessperson | American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer who co-authored Mosaic, the first widely used web browser | ||
| James Bindenagel | US | Diplomat Soldier | US Chargé d'affaires to Germany from 1996 to 1997, | ||
| Charles Bowsher | 31 May 1931 | US | Civil servant | Comptroller General of the United States from 1981 to 1996 | |
| Iris Chang | 28 March 1968 | 9 November 2004 | US | Author Journalist | Chinese-American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Suspicious "suicide". |
| Richard Clarida | 18 May 1957 | US | Economist | US economist | |
| Rafael Correa | 6 April 1963 | Ecuador | Politician | Ecuadorian politician and economist who was President of Ecuador from 2007-2017 | |
| Canan Dagdeviren | Turkey | Researcher Academic | Turkish academic who attended the 2018 Bilderberg. | ||
| Hugh Hefner | 9 April 1926 | 27 September 2017 | US | Editor | Founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. |
| Albert E. Jenner | 20 June 1907 | 18 September 1988 | US | Lawyer Boxer | |
| Max Levchin | 11 July 1975 | Programmer Businessperson | Founded Paypal with Peter Thiel in 1998. | ||
| Robert Mercer | 11 July 1946 | US | Financier Programmer Businessperson | Hedge fund millionaire | |
| Joseph Mercola | 8 July 1954 | US | Activist Doctor Dissident | Declared an enemy of the state as "Covid disinformation dozen" by US government | |
| Fidel Ramos | 18 March 1928 | 31 July 2022 | Soldier Politician | Filipino general under Ferdinand Marcos, later president | |
| Jan Schakowsky | 26 May 1944 | US | |||
| Mete Sozen | 22 May 1930 | 5 April 2018 | Academic Deep state functionary | A professor of Structural Engineering who wrote a series of official government reports after "terrorist" deep events. |
