41.8500° N, 87.6500° W — 7,414 FAMOUS PEOPLE
CHICAGO
Most Famous People Born in Chicago, USA
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Walt Disney
1901 - 1966
Robin Williams
1951 - 2014
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Philip K. Dick
1928 - 1982
Gillian Anderson
Born 1968
Bobby Fischer
1943 - 2008
Michael Crichton
1942 - 2008
R. Kelly
Born 1967
Patti Smith
Born 1946
James Watson
Born 1928
Jennifer Hudson
Born 1971
Quincy Jones
Born 1933
Hugh Hefner
1926 - 2017
Robert Zemeckis
Born 1952
Patricia Arquette
Born 1968
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875 - 1950
Kim Novak
Born 1933
Daryl Hannah
Born 1960
Gloria Swanson
1899 - 1983
Herbie Hancock
Born 1940
John C. Reilly
Born 1965
Benny Goodman
1909 - 1985
Raymond Chandler
1888 - 1959
Jason Robards
1922 - 2000
Donald Rumsfeld
Born 1932
Michael Clarke Duncan
1957 - 2012
Bruce Dern
Born 1936
Raquel Welch
Born 1940
Jim Belushi
Born 1954
Sidney Sheldon
1917 - 2007
Garry Shandling
1949 - 2016
Terrence Howard
Born 1969
Vincente Minnelli
1903 - 1986
Mandy Patinkin
Born 1952
Karl Malden
1912 - 2009
Billy Zane
Born 1966
Jennifer Morrison
Born 1979
Mr. T
Born 1952
Bob Fosse
1927 - 1987
Common (rapper)
Born 1972
Dan Castellaneta
Born 1957
Joe Mantegna
Born 1947
Virginia Madsen
Born 1961
Anastacia
Born 1968
Harold Ramis
1944 - 2014
Michael Mann
Born 1943
Betty Ford
1918 - 2011
Michael Madsen
Born 1958
Ray Manzarek
1939 - 2013
Bernie Mac
1957 - 2008
Richard Marx
Born 1963
Jack Benny
1894 - 1974
William Friedkin
Born 1935
Eddie Vedder
Born 1964
Hilary Putnam
1926 - 2016
Tom Berenger
Born 1949
Anton LaVey
1930 - 1997
John Dos Passos
1896 - 1970
Lynn Margulis
1938 - 2011
Lupe Fiasco
Born 1982
Curtis Mayfield
1942 - 1999
Jennifer Beals
Born 1963
Michael Peña
Born 1976
Laurie Anderson
Born 1947
Dorothy Malone
1924 - 2018
John Landis
Born 1950
Shonda Rhimes
Born 1970
Daniel Ellsberg
Born 1931
Chaka Khan
Born 1953
Donald O'Connor
1925 - 2003
Kathy Griffin
Born 1960
Shel Silverstein
1930 - 1999
Robert Bloch
1917 - 1994
David Mamet
Born 1947
Gil Scott-Heron
1949 - 2011
Ralph Bellamy
1904 - 1991
Dwyane Wade
Born 1982
Soulja Boy
Born 1990
Sean Hayes (actor)
Born 1970
Robert Ryan
1909 - 1973
Bonnie Hunt
Born 1961
Aidan Quinn
Born 1959
Dennis Farina
1944 - 2013
Edward Gorey
1925 - 2000
Robin Tunney
Born 1972
Andre Braugher
Born 1962
Tom Bosley
1927 - 2010
Jack Ruby
1911 - 1967
Kiernan Shipka
Born 1999
CM Punk
Born 1978
Gene Cernan
1934 - 2017
Harry Markowitz
Born 1927
Kathy Reichs
Born 1948
Fisher Stevens
Born 1963
Saul Alinsky
1909 - 1972
Don Siegel
1912 - 1991
Maria Shriver
Born 1955
Jeff Garlin
Born 1962
Frankie Laine
1913 - 2007
Rahm Emanuel
Born 1959
Fred Savage
Born 1976
Isiah Thomas
Born 1961
Brit Marling
Born 1982
Edward Zwick
Born 1952
Robert Young (actor)
1907 - 1998
Bob Balaban
Born 1945
Fritz Leiber
1910 - 1992
Warren Zevon
1947 - 2003
Anna Chlumsky
Born 1980
Gene Krupa
1909 - 1973
Amy Madigan
Born 1950
Lou Rawls
1933 - 2006
Harvey Korman
1927 - 2008
Philip Kotler
Born 1931
Lorraine Hansberry
1930 - 1965
Wesley Clark
Born 1944
Gina Rodriguez
Born 1984
Anthony Rapp
Born 1971
Mel Tormé
1925 - 1999
Henry Darger
1892 - 1973
Minnie Riperton
1947 - 1979
Dick Butkus
Born 1942
Walter Koenig
Born 1936
David Soul
Born 1943
Leonard Bloomfield
1887 - 1949
Rod Blagojevich
Born 1956
Gary Gygax
1938 - 2008
Derrick Rose
Born 1988
Christine Ebersole
Born 1953
Jami Gertz
Born 1965
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
William L. Shirer
1904 - 1993
Michael Flatley
Born 1958
Seymour Hersh
Born 1937
Emmett Till
1941 - 1955
Robert Conrad
1935 - 2020
Peter Cetera
Born 1944
Mike Krzyzewski
Born 1947
John Agar
1921 - 2002
Freddy Rodriguez (actor)
Born 1975
James Rollins
Born 1961
Mitzi Gaynor
Born 1931
Craig Robinson (actor)
Born 1971
Lauren Tom
Born 1961
Preston Sturges
1898 - 1959
Richard Hamming
1915 - 1998
Chief Keef
Born 1908
Jean M. Auel
Born 1936
John Ashcroft
Born 1942
Hal B. Wallis
1898 - 1986
Jack Nitzsche
1937 - 2000
Andrew Bird
Born 1973
Donny Hathaway
1945 - 1979
Chance the Rapper
Born 1993
Stefanie Scott
Born 1995
Nils Lofgren
Born 1951
Wally Pfister
Born 1961
James Heckman
Born 1944
Philip Kaufman
Born 1936
Paul Butterfield
1942 - 1987
Eliot Ness
1903 - 1957
Sandra Cisneros
Born 1954
Anita O'Day
1919 - 2006
Richard Kiley
1922 - 1999
Jesse Williams (actor)
Born 1981
Jean Hagen
1923 - 1977
Roger McGuinn
Born 1942
Jeremih
Born 1987
Rickie Lee Jones
Born 1954
Marilu Henner
Born 1952
Salli Richardson
Born 1967
Sam Wanamaker
1919 - 1993
Sam J. Jones
Born 1954
Timothy Zahn
Born 1951
Paul Adelstein
Born 1969
Kiele Sanchez
Born 1977
Wood Harris
Born 1969
Edgar Bergen
1903 - 1978
Earl Sweatshirt
Born 1994
Kevin Dunn
Born 1956
Tony Williams (drummer)
1945 - 1997
Brian Doyle-Murray
Born 1945
Barbara Barrie
Born 1931
Kathleen Freeman
1919 - 2001
Victor Young
1900 - 1956
John Paul Stevens
1920 - 2019
Michael Gross (actor)
Born 1947
James Cronin
1931 - 2016
Neil Flynn
Born 1960
Mike Bloomfield
1943 - 1981
Chi McBride
Born 1961
Scott Turow
Born 1949
Jack DeJohnette
Born 1942
Kenneth Mars
1935 - 2011
George Wendt
Born 1948
Tress MacNeille
Born 1951
Daniel Clowes
Born 1961
Norman Taurog
1899 - 1981
Dolores Hart
Born 1938
Jennifer Egan
Born 1962
Paul Frees
1920 - 1986
Jill Stein
Born 1950
Danny Pudi
Born 1979
Frank Norris
1870 - 1902
Mark Romanek
Born 1959
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
1867 - 1932
Katherine Dunham
1909 - 2006
Justina Machado
Born 1972
Haskell Wexler
1922 - 2015
Hannibal Buress
Born 1983
Harry Lennix
Born 1964
Karlie Kloss
Born 1992
James Tiptree Jr.
1915 - 1987
Richard Sennett
Born 1943
Aimee Garcia
Born 1978
George Gaylord Simpson
1902 - 1984
Twista
Born 1973
Tom Paxton
Born 1937
Sherri Shepherd
Born 1967
Dorothy Hamill
Born 1956
Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)
Born 1917
D. B. Weiss
Born 1971
Jessica Harper
Born 1949
Marshall Sahlins
Born 1930
Jody Watley
Born 1959
Kevin A. Lynch
1918 - 1984
Martin Mull
Born 1943
Ike Barinholtz
Born 1977
Ted Nelson
Born 1937
George Ellery Hale
1868 - 1938
Nadine Velazquez
Born 1978
Hyman Minsky
1919 - 1996
Ethel Kennedy
Born 1928
Matt Walsh (comedian)
Born 1964
Barbara Bain
Born 1931
Abbey Lincoln
1930 - 2010
J. Allen Hynek
1910 - 1986
Kel Mitchell
Born 1978
Gail Russell
1924 - 1961
Richard M. Daley
Born 1942
Clayton Moore
1914 - 1999
Da Brat
Born 1974
Donna Mills
Born 1940
Frank Drake
Born 1930
Sam Giancana
1908 - 1975
Bobby Heenan
1944 - 2017
Lee Konitz
1927 - 2020
James Iha
Born 1968
Shani Davis
Born 1982
Kirby Puckett
1960 - 2006
Budd Boetticher
1916 - 2001
Evan Lysacek
Born 1985
Lennie Tristano
1919 - 1978
Ben Roy Mottelson
Born 1926
Charmian Carr
1942 - 2016
Jim O'Rourke (musician)
Born 1969
John Musker
Born 1953
John Podesta
Born 1949
Mavis Staples
Born 1939
Kevin J. O'Connor (actor)
Born 1963
Stuart Gordon
1947 - 2020
Andrew Davis (director)
Born 1946
Michael Anthony (musician)
Born 1954
Thomas Cech
Born 1947
Bonita Granville
1923 - 1988
Gloria Foster
1933 - 2001
Jo Jones
1911 - 1985
Leonard Mlodinow
Born 1954
George Halas
1895 - 1983
Peter Jacobson
Born 1965
Shelley Berman
1925 - 2017
Wendy Schaal
Born 1954
Roy O. Disney
1893 - 1971
Larenz Tate
Born 1975
Jock Mahoney
1919 - 1989
Joan Mitchell
1925 - 1992
Amy Landecker
Born 1969
Irving Wallace
1916 - 1990
Robert Hanssen
Born 1944
John Norman
Born 1931
Nora Dunn
Born 1952
Anthony Davis
Born 1993
Michael Stahl-David
Born 1982
Barry Dennen
1938 - 2017
Patrick Leonard
Born 1955
Bill Browder
Born 1964
Richard Long (actor)
1927 - 1974
Rickey Henderson
Born 1958
Arthur Goldberg
1908 - 1990
Robert Z'Dar
1950 - 2015
LaVern Baker
1929 - 1997
Dan Savage
Born 1964
Michael O'Hare
1952 - 2012
Danny Lloyd
Born 1973
Cassidy Freeman
Born 1982
Ryan McPartlin
Born 1975
Lou Adler
Born 1933
Kathryn Joosten
1939 - 2012
Ken Olin
Born 1954
James Burnham
1905 - 1987