[Weeks]

The list from my high school is pretty long...

Adam Baldwin
Rahm/Ari Emanuel
Donald Rumsfeld
Bob Dold
Christie Hefner (Hugh Hefner's daughter)
Mark Kirk
Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the office)
John Moore NHL first round pick
Charlie Tilson drafted 79th by the Cardinals
Tommy Wingels of the San Jose Sharks

those are the most notable, but there is quite a bit more less famous

EDIT:

Here's the full list (in spoilers for length) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._School_alumni

Spoiler

Business

Clayton Cohn is the President and CEO of Marketaction.com (2010–present).[1][2]
Douglas Conant is the president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company (2001–present).[3][4]
Christie Hefner (1970) is the former CEO of Playboy Enterprises (1998–2009).[4][5][6][7][8]
Charles F. Knight (1953) is a business executive, and chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co.[8]
James McNerney (1967) was the president of GE Lighting (1995–97), president of GE Aircraft Engines (1997–2000), president and CEO of 3M (2000–05), and is currently the CEO of Boeing (2005–present).[9]
[edit]Film and theater

Ann-Margret (1959) is an actress and singer (Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Tommy, Grumpy Old Men).[4][10][11][12][13]
Adam Baldwin (1980) is an actor best known for his work on television (Firefly, Chuck).[12][14][15]
Ralph Bellamy (1922) was a Tony Award and Academy Award-nominated actor (The Awful Truth, Sunrise at Campobello, Rosemary's Baby, Trading Places).[4][16]
Carlos Bernard (1980) is an actor (Tony Almeida on the television series 24).[17]
John Byrum (1965) is a film producer, director, and screenwriter (Duets).[13]
Liz Callaway (1978) is a Tony Award-nominated actress and singer (Baby, Miss Saigon).[13][18]
William Christopher is an actor (Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H).[13][19]
Lisa Darr (1981) is an actress (Laurie Manning on Ellen, ).[citation needed]
Bruce Dern is an actor (The Great Gatsby, Black Sunday, Coming Home, ).[12]
Christine Ebersole (1971) is a two time Tony Award-winning actress and singer (42nd Street, Grey Gardens).[20][21]
James Eckhouse is an actor best known for his role on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210.[13]
Charlton Heston (1941) was an Academy Award-Winning actor (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes), and president of the National Rifle Association (1998–2003).[4][12][13][22][23]
Rock Hudson (1944) was an Academy Award-nominated actor (Giant, Pillow Talk, Come September), also (according to the New York Times) "remembered as the first star of his magnitude to go public with details of his battle with AIDS."[4][12][13][24]
Mike Kelley (1985) is a television producer (Swingtown), writer (The O.C., Jericho).[25]
Virginia Madsen (1979) is an Academy Award-nominated actress (Candyman, Sideways).[12][15]
Lauren Marcus (2003), actress[citation needed]
Liesel Matthews (2002) is an actress (Air Force One) and heiress.[13][26]
Penelope Milford (1966) is an Academy Award nominated actress (Coming Home).[27]
Hugh O'Brian (did not graduate) is an actor known for his work on television (Wyatt Earp in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) and film (The Shootist). He is the founder of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation (HOBY).[15]
Jeffrey Price is a member of a screenwriting team with Peter S. Seaman (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Shrek the Third).[13]
Betsy Randle is an actress (Amy Matthews on the television series Boy Meets World).[28]
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright.
Mark Romanek (1977) is an award winning music video and film director, writer, and producer (One Hour Photo).[29]
Charlotte Ross is an actress, best known for her work on television (NYPD Blue, Days of our Lives).[30]
Mary Kate Schellhardt (1997), actress (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Apollo 13).[13]
Rusty Schwimmer (1980) is an actress (The Perfect Storm, North Country, Twister, The Guardian).[15]
Hal Sparks (1988) is an actor and comedian (the host of Talk Soup (1999–2000), Michael Novotny on Queer as Folk).[15]
David Strassman, performer and ventriloquist[citation needed]
Lili Taylor (1985) is an actress (Mystic Pizza, I Shot Andy Warhol).[13]
Jim True-Frost (aka Jim True) (1984) is an actor (Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski on The Wire).[13]
Rainn Wilson (1984) is an actor and comedian (Dwight Schrute on the television series The Office).[31][32]
Terence H. Winkless, producer, director, writer (The Howling (film), Twice As Dead)
Edward Zwick (1970) is a film and television director (The Last Samurai, Glory, Courage Under Fire, Blood Diamond) and Academy Award winning producer (Shakespeare in Love).[13]
Nico Tortorella (2006) is an actor (Scream 4)
[edit]Government

Judy Biggert (1955) is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 13th congressional district (1999–present).[33][34]
Marc Cohen (1982) is currently a City Councilman in Sugar Hill, GA serving in his 3rd - 4 yr term. He is a a former member of the City's Planning and Zoning Commission[35]
Alan R. Davis (1967) is President of Chillicothe, OH City Council. Elected in 2011, his term is for two years. He is also the founder of Project 1969, a project designed to bring to voters attention that the last year in which a budget passed by Congressional Democrats finished with a surplus was 1969. He is a strong advocate for fiscal responsibility is currently working to expose the fact that the WH OMB and CBO are using unreasonably low inflation assumptions in their projections. According to Don Graham of the Washington Post, Alan was the only person he knew who "caught" the fact that President Clinton and the Democrat's top two campaign claims in the 1996 elections were false statements.
Bob Dold (1987) is a member of the Unived States House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 10th congressional district (2010–present).
Rahm Emanuel (1977) is the Mayor of Chicago. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 5th congressional district (2003–09). He was the White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama.
David H. Hoffman (1984) is a former federal prosecutor and was Chicago's inspector general. He was also a candidate for the Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate in 2010.[citation needed]
Fred Karger (1968) is a Republican gay rights advocate, and a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2012.
Mark Kirk (1977) was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 10th congressional district (2001–2010). He is currently a member of the US Senate.[4][36]
Thomas Miller (1966) is a former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999–2001) and Greece (2001–04).[37]
Martha Minow (1972) is Dean of Harvard Law School and has been mentioned as a potential Barack Obama nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States.* Charles Percy (1937) was a U.S. Senator (1967–1985).[37][38]
Donald Rumsfeld (1950) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 13th congressional district (1963–69), briefly served as White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, and served as U.S. Secretary of Defense, (1975–1977, 2001–2006) under Gerald Ford and George W. Bush.[4][37][38]
Carol Ronen Former Illinois State Representative, State Senator and Current 9th CD Democratic State Central Committeewoman and Chicago 48th Ward Democratic Committeeman.
James D. Swan Princeton-educated vegetable farmer and two-term Wisconsin State Senator[39]
Richard S. Williamson (1967) is a former U.S. Ambassador and recent Special Envoy to the President in Sudan. Served in President Ronald Reagan’s administration as Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs.[40]
[edit]Journalism and letters

Julia Allison (1999) is a media personality, journalist, and blogger.[41]
Elizabeth Brackett (1959) is a news correspondent (Chicago Tonight, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer).[42]
Ann Compton (1965), television news reporter, spending most of her career with ABC News as their Washington or White House correspondent.[42][43]
Chet Coppock (1966), sportscaster best known for his work on radio.[42]
David Rich screenwriter, playwright, and author, Caravan of Thieves
Alan Goldsher (1984), novelist, ghostwriter[citation needed]
Walter Jacobson (1955), television news personality (1963–2006), spending most of his career at WBBM-TV and WFLD.[4][42]
Geoffrey A. Landis (1973), engineer and Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction author.[citation needed]
Archibald MacLeish (did not graduate) writer who twice won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1933 & 1953), and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1959 for his play J.B..[44]
Nell Minow (1970), film critic and author in the field of corporate governance.[44]
Stephen Moore (1978) economist and journalist, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board; Contributing Editor, National Review.
Henry H. Neff (1991) is an author and illustrator.[45]
Juliet Law Packer (1970), television writer, poet[citation needed]
Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer[citation needed]
Sarah Ruhl (1992) is a playwright (Eurydice, The Clean House). In 2006, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.[46][47][48][49]
Sheldon Siegel (1976) is an attorney and bestselling author.[44]
Thomas A. Stewart (1966) is a business journalist and editor (former editor of Harvard Business Review, member of the board of editors of Fortune, author of the books Intellectual Capital (1997) and The Wealth of Knowledge (2002), and former editor-in-chief of Atheneum Publishers.
John Stossel (1965) is an author and Emmy Award–winning investigative journalist for ABC News, long associated with the news program 20/20.[4][42]
Penelope Trunk (1985) is an author, blogger, and serial entrepreneur.
Scott Turow (1966) is a lawyer and author (Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Personal Injuries).[38][44]
[edit]Music

Mike Bloomfield (did not graduate) was a rock and blues guitarist who did solo work (It's Not Killing Me) after playing for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Electric Flag.[50][51]
Ann Hampton Callaway (1976) is a Tony Award-nominated singer and songwriter (Swing!).[13][18][52]
Marshall Chess is a music executive and producer. The son of Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess, he was an executive there before becoming the first president of Rolling Stones Records; producing several albums for The Rolling Stones.[51]
Jeff Harnar (1977) is a New York-based cabaret singer.[52][53]
Al Jourgensen (attended), musician[citation needed]
Liz Phair (1985) is a two-time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist (Why Can't I?).[4][13]
Dave Samuels (1966) is a jazz vibraphonist who formerly played with Spyro Gyra and currently plays with The Caribbean Jazz Project.[13][54][55]
William Susman (1978) is a composer of concert and film music.[56]
Joe Trohman (2002) is a guitarist for the bands The Damned Things and Fall Out Boy.[57][58]
Matt Walker (1987) is a rock musician and former drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins.[59]
Aaron Weinstein (2003) is a jazz violinist who has played with Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli for many years.[60][61]
Pete Wentz (attended), bassist for the bands Black Cards and Fall Out Boy.[57][58]
The Ying Quartet is a string quartet started by three brothers and one sister: David (1981), Daniel (1985), Phillip (1986), and Janet (1988), all of whom are alumni.[13]
[edit]Newsmakers

Jack Ryan is a former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois.[62]
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith was a white supremacist spree killer.[63][64]
Brad Will (1988) was an anarchist, activist, and documentary filmmaker who was killed in Mexico.[65]
[edit]Science and technology

Bruce Alberts (1956) is a biochemist, known for his work on chromosome replication. He was president of the National Academy of Sciences (1993–2005) and is currently editor in chief of the journal Science (2008–present).[66]
Todd Golub (1981) cancer researcher, director of the Cancer program at the Broad Institute[40]
Mary-Claire King (1963) is a geneticist. She led the team which first mapped a gene she had discovered, BRCA1, the first known gene linked to hereditary breast cancer.[67]
Michael Peskin (1969), physicist[citation needed]
Martin Rocek (1971) Physicist, State University of New York at Stony Brook[citation needed]
Rafael Sorkin (valedictorian 1963) is a physicist known for proposing the causal sets approach to quantum gravity.[68][69]
Jack Steinberger (1938) is the co-discoverer of the muon neutrino, and co-recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. He donated his Nobel medal to the New Trier science department.[4][70][71][72]
[edit]Sports

Ross Baumgarten (1973) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher (1978–82) pitching most of his career for the Chicago White Sox.[15][73][74]
Ben Braun (1971) is a men's collegiate basketball coach, coaching at Eastern Michigan University (1985–96), University of California, Berkeley (1996–2008) and Rice University (2008–present).[75][76]
Pete Burnside (1948) was a Major League Baseball pitcher (1955, 57–1963).[4][15][77]
John Castino (1973) is a former Major League Baseball infielder (1979–84), playing his entire career with the Minnesota Twins. He was the 1979 co-recipient of the American League Rookie of The Year Award.[78][79]
Al Culver was an NFL tackle (1932).[4]
Mike Huff (1981) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder (1989, 91–1996).[15][80]
Robert Jeangerard was a basketball player and member of the gold medal winning men's team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[4]
Chuck Lindstrom was a Major League Baseball catcher for one game with the Chicago White Sox in 1958, setting two all-time Major League records in the process. He later was a long time baseball coach at Lincoln College.[4]
Clay Matthews (1974) is a former NFL linebacker (1978–93), playing most of his career for the Cleveland Browns. A four time All-Pro, he was the twelfth player selected in the 1978 NFL Draft.[4][79]
Bruce Matthews (attended), pro football player (Houston Oilers-Tennessee Oilers-Tennessee Titans, 1983–2000), elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame[81]
Chuck Mercein (1961) was an NFL running back (1965–70). He was a member of the Super Bowl II champion Green Bay Packers, and was a contributor to their victory in the Ice Bowl.[4][79][82]
John Moore (2009) was a National Hockey League 1st round draft pick by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.[79]
Mike Pyle (1957) is a former All-Pro NFL center (1961–69), playing his entire career for the Chicago Bears.[4]
Jack Riley was an NFL offensive tackle (1933). An All-American at Northwestern University, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988. After winning two NCAA heavyweight wrestling titles for Northwestern, he won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[4]
Fred Schmidt is a swimmer who won a gold and a bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[4]
Tommy Wingels (2006) was a sixth-round draft pick by the San Jose Sharks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.[83]
[edit]Others

Ivan Albright is a painter associated with magic realism.[13][84]
Alex Whybrow professional wrestler and manager.
Bobbi Brown is a make-up artist, author, and founder of a line of cosmetics.[85]
Ari Emanuel is a talent agent, and founder of the Endeavor Agency. The brother of Rahm Emanuel, the character Ari Gold of HBO's Entourage is based on Emanuel.[86]{{[87]
Stieg Hedlund (1983) is a video game designer (Diablo, Diablo II, StarCraft)[citation needed]
Dewitt Jones is a photographer known for his twenty year association with the National Geographic Society. He also produced two short films which were nominated for Academy Awards in 1974 (Climb and John Muir's High Sierra).[13]
Drew Lane, (Andrew M. Aldrich) radio personality at WRIF in Detroit, Michigan[citation needed]
Sharon Percy Rockefeller was the First Lady of West Virginia (1977–85) and is currently the chief executive officer of WETA-TV.[42]
Denise Siegel photographer/visual artists & writer
Nancy Spero (1944) was an artist, best known for her works related to feminism. In 1950, New Trier was the site of her first solo art exhibition.[88][89]
Charlie Trotter (1977) is a chef, [restaurateur], and author. His eponymous restaurant in Chicago is routinely ranked among the best restaurants in the United States.[38]
Ryan Zoghlin (1985) is an artist best known for his photography.[citation needed]