Notable Chicago Arts Alumni
- Jessica Abel
- Cartoonist - AB 1991
- David Auburn
- Screenwriter and Playwright - AB 1991
- Ernest Callenbach
- Writer/Publisher - PhB 1949, AM 1953
- Paul Carroll
- Professor & Published Poet - AM 1952
- Hayden Carruth
- Poet and Professor Emeritus University of Syracuse - AM 1947
- Katharine Dunham
- Anthropologist, Choreographer, and Dancer - PhD 1936
- Tony Curtis Fox
- Writer and Producer - AB 1970
- Philip Glass
- Musician and Composer - AB 1956
- Ulu Grosbard
- Director - AB '50, AM 1952
- Marilu Henner
- Actress - 1974
- Mark Hollmann
- Composer - AB 1985
- Celeste Holm
- Actress - 1934
- Wolf Kahn
- Artist - AB 1950
- Greg Kotis
- Playwright and Actor - AB 1988
- Aaron Lipstadt
- Director - AB 1974
- Joshua Marston
- Filmmaker - AM 1994
- Elaine May
- Writer, Actress, Director - 1953
- Myron Meisel
- Producer - AB 1972
- Mike Nichols
- Film and Theatre Director - 1953
- Norman Panama
- Screenwriter - AB 1936
- Sara Paretsky
- Writer - AM 1969, MBA 1977, PhD 1977
- Sheldon Patinkin
- Co-Founder of Second City, Chair of Columbia College's Theatre Department - AB 1953
- Kimberly Anne Peirce
- Film and Theatre Director - AB 1990
- John Phillips
- Visual Artist - AB 1960, PhD 1966
- Gordon Quinn
- Filmmaker and President of Kartemquin Films - AB 1965
- Philip Roth
- Writer - AM 1955
- Bernie Sahlins
- Co-Founder Second City - AB 1943
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
- Writer - AB 1961, AM 1963, PhD 1966
- Paul Sills
- Owner of Wisconsin Theatre Game Center - AB 1951
- Susan Sontag
- Writer - AB 1951
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Writer - AM 1971
- Fritz Weaver
- Actor - 1951
