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James A. Hill (FSM71, 74, GFSM79), professor of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine and chief of staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Larry Irving (WCAS76), president of the Irving Information Group and former assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information in the Clinton administration
Donald Jackson (C65), founder, chair and CEO of Central City Productions Inc.
Daphne Maxwell Reid (WCAS70), actress and co-founder and director of New Millennium Studios
Wayne Watson (SESP69, GSESP70, G72), chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago (see "All the Presidents Men and Women")
Posthumous honors
Clinton Bristow Jr. (SESP71, L74, G77), former president of Alcorn State University (see Deaths Deaths, winter 2006)
Ron Burton Sr. (SESP60), football great and philanthropist (see "The Burton Legacy," spring 2006)
John H. Johnson (H74), founder of Johnson Publishing Co.
Harold Washington (L52), Chicago's first African American mayor
Daniel Hale Williams (FSM1883), founder of Provident Hospital and heart surgery pioneer