This is a list of notable people who attended, taught at, or were otherwise affiliated with the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
| Name | Year | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Jazz trombonist, composer, bandleader, artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University | [1] | ||
| 1935 | American businessman and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. | |||
| 1990 | Stand-up comic | |||
| 2002 | Former child actor, starred in The Indian in the Cupboard; internet entrepreneur | [2] | ||
| 1946 | Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Chicago | |||
| 1962 | Jazz musician and instructor | |||
| 1999 | San Francisco district attorney | |||
| 1967 | Oregon Secretary of State | |||
| 1957 | Maryland Secretary of Natural Resources | |||
| 1960 | Blues musician and bandleader | |||
| 1971 | Law professor at Duke University; dean of the law school at University of California, Irvine; dean of UC Berkeley School of Law | |||
| 1988 | Murder victim, INS attorney | |||
| 1979 | Author, screenwriter, and cartoonist of alternative comic books | |||
| 1939 | Dance historian and dance critic for The New York Times | |||
| 1967 | Oregon Secretary of State | |||
| 1958 | Former member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |||
| 1945 | Sculptor | |||
| 1982 | Chicago Public Schools CEO, US Secretary of Education | |||
| 1981 | Children's author | |||
| 1962 | Author, contributor to The Old Farmer's Almanac | |||
| 1961 | Economist, physicist, legal scholar and libertarian theorist | |||
| 1983 | Astrophysicist, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008), Nobel Prize winner (2020) | |||
| 1936 | Professor of Theology and comparative religions, University of Chicago | |||
| 1979 | Chicago alderman | |||
| 1990 | 1990 winner of the Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search | |||
| 1947 | Writer and runner, longtime contributor to Runner's World | |||
| 1979 | Journalist | |||
| 1977 | Pathologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | |||
| (attended) | Senior advisor to United States President Barack Obama | |||
| 1947 | Dance educator, former director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | |||
| 1964 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author, former theater critic at the New York Times, professor at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | |||
| 1951 | Connecticut congresswoman (1983–2006) | |||
| 1978 | Folk singer and songwriter | |||
| 1954 | Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago | |||
| 1998 | President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy and Let's Move! Executive Director | |||
| 1974 | Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School | |||
| 1958 | Political scientist | |||
| 2006 | NBA executive | |||
| (attended) | Illustrator | |||
| 1999 | Journalist and writer | |||
| 1962 | Former chief of Paramount Studios and Academy Award winner (2007) | |||
| Judge and dean, Duke University Law School | ||||
| 1928 | President of the University of Chicago, United States Attorney General | |||
| 1965 | Chairperson of Legal Services Corporation | |||
| 1969 | Trombonist, composer, author, Columbia University professor, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2002), AACM member | |||
| 1983 | Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco | |||
| 1970 | Infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University | |||
| 1919 | Murderer of Bobby Franks (along with Nathan Leopold) | |||
| 1970 | Playwright; artistic director of McCarter Theater | |||
| 1952 | Biologist, University of Massachusetts Amherst | |||
| 1934 | Professor emeritus, University of Chicago History Department, National Humanities Medal winner | |||
| 1968 | Principal Deputy White House Counsel to the U.S. President; Professor, Harvard Law School | |||
| 1982 | Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago | |||
| 1969 | Geriatrician, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008) | |||
| 1972 | Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker | |||
| Aeronautical engineer | ||||
| 1970 | Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House Judiciary Committee; director and lawyer at People for the American Way | |||
| 1999 | Academy Award-winning screenwriter and author | [3] | ||
| 1983 | Director and artist | |||
| 1983 | Treasurer of the City of Chicago | |||
| 1923 | Public servant, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom, namesake of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University | |||
| (attended until December 2008) | Daughters of United States President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama | [4] | ||
| 1970 | Newspaper columnist and author | |||
| 1984 | Professor of Law, University of Chicago | |||
| 1982 | Illinois Attorney General | |||
| 1950 | Professor, classics and social thought, University of Chicago | |||
| 1985 | Film and television actress | |||
| 1976 | Founding chairman and chief executive officer of Ariel Investments | [5] | ||
| 1940 | Pulitzer prize-winning composer and author | |||
| 1992 | Reality TV star, Wall Street Journal contributor, historian, and author | [6] | ||
| 1983 | Non-fiction writer, academic, professor at Boston College | |||
| 1978 | Artistic director, playwright, Theater J, Washington, D.C. | |||
| 1942 | Geneticist, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom | |||
| 1977 | Businessman, journalist, three-time Emmy award winner | |||
| 1975 | Professor, history department, University of California, Berkeley | |||
| 1981 | U.S. Secretary of Labor | |||
| (attended) | Photojournalist | [7] | ||
| 1978 | Author and newspaper and magazine columnist | [8] | ||
| 1977 | UC Berkeley School of Law professor and scholar of crime and punishment | |||
| Justin Slaughter | 1998 | Member of the Illinois House of Representatives | ||
| 1937 | United States Supreme Court Justice | |||
| 1967 | Curator, critic, painter, dean of Yale School of Art | |||
| 1962 | Law professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law | |||
| 1956 | Television journalist | |||
| 1987 | Professor of phonology and morphology at University of Cambridge | |||
| 1957 | Seven-time Emmy award-winning screenwriter and author | |||
| 1973 | Professor, Harvard Law School | |||
| 1992 | Artist and architect | [9] | ||
| Andrew Hill | (attended c. 1945) | Jazz pianist and composer | [10] | |
| 1972 | Artist | |||
| 1967 | Actress |