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.
Quinn Wilson
1906 - 1978
Jonathan Hogan
Born 1951
Michelle Torres
Born 1967
Mary Wings
Born 1949
Bob Kennedy
1920 - 2005
Greg Shapiro
Born 1968
Robert Lees (linguist)
1922 - 1996
Lemone Lampley
Born 1964
Gary Novak
Born 1969
Sue Williams (painter)
Born 1954
Richard Buhlig
1880 - 1952
Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas
1898 - 1952
Thomas J. O'Brien (Illinois politician)
1878 - 1964
William T. Redmond
Born 1955
Arthur Maling
1923 - 2013
Mickey Rottner
1919 - 2011
Nina Burleigh
Born 1959
Paul Butler (professor)
Born 1961
Don Hanmer
1919 - 2003
Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr.
1906 - 2007
Fred Ellis (cartoonist)
1885 - 1965
Henry Channon
1897 - 1958
Michael Kenna
1857 - 1946
Thomas A. Carlin
1928 - 1991
Berle Adams
1917 - 2009
Hannah Miller
Born 1996
Stuart Geman
Born 1949
Carl Haas
1930 - 2016
Max Arciniega
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Bernard Sahlins
1922 - 2013
Robert Halperin
1908 - 1985
Bill Tuttle (swimmer)
1882 - 1930
Wes Chamberlain
Born 1966
Eric Korita
Born 1963
Kim Strauss
Born 1946
Elmer Angsman
1925 - 2002
Steve Billirakis
Born 1986
James Patterson Lyke
1939 - 1992
Ed Marlo
1913 - 1991
Consuella Moore
Born 1981
Philip J. Rock
1937 - 2016
Mark Washington (cornerback)
Born 1947
William P. Callahan
Born 1950
Laura Resnick
Born 1962
Donald Whiteside
Born 1969
Gigi Pritzker
Born 1962
Martin Obzina
1905 - 1979
Anne M. Burke
Born 1944
Jay M. Gould
1915 - 2005
Whitey Wistert
1912 - 1985
Earle Ross
1888 - 1961
Laura Margolis
Born 1973
John O. Aalberg
1897 - 1984
Francis J. Kane
Born 1942
Albert Halper
1904 - 1984
Nick Noble (singer)
1926 - 2012
Hugo Goetz
1884 - 1972
Leo Erdody
1888 - 1949
Richard Clark Barkley
1932 - 2015
Karen Kamensek
Born 1970
Richard Freed
Born 1928
Arthur Sheekman
1901 - 1978
Đàm Thanh Sơn
Born 1969
GQ (actor)
Born 1976
Edward Sternaman
1895 - 1973
Solomon Thomas
Born 1995
Phil Everly
1939 - 2014
Ray King (baseball)
Born 1974
Quinnel Brown
Born 1983
Margaret D. Foster
1895 - 1970
Ian Wallace (author)
1912 - 1998
Albert Schwartz
1907 - 1986
Dion Dixon
Born 1989
George Edward Backus
Born 1930
Reginald Veal
Born 1963
Martin Moynihan
1928 - 1996
Jim O'Toole
1937 - 2015
Curtis Clark
Born 1950
David Hollinger
Born 1941
Byron L. Johnson
1917 - 2000
Jodi Anderson
Born 1957
Paul Willis (actor)
1901 - 1960
John E. Cunningham
Born 1931
Florian ZaBach
1918 - 2006
Patty Lin
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Maxine Chernoff
Born 1952
Demetra Plakas
Born 1960
May de Sousa
1884 - 1948
Torrey Johnson
1909 - 2002
Harry Karstens
1878 - 1955
Hempstead Washburne
1852 - 1919
Shelby Steele
Born 1946
Nelson C. Nye
1907 - 1997
Jonathan Alter
Born 1957
Herman Bailey
1931 - 1981
Rome Flynn
Born 1991
Jean Doumanian
Born 1934
Virginia Brooks
1886 - 1929
Richard Steinheimer
1929 - 2011
Gemma Acheampong
Born 1993
Mike Pruitt
Born 1954
Robert Ellis (actor, born 1933)
1933 - 1973
Maud Rosenbaum
1902 - 1981
Gene Stump
Born 1923
Edgar W. Hiestand
1888 - 1970
Robert Natkin
1930 - 2010
James Yaffe
1927 - 2017
Robbie Weinhardt
Born 1985
Marvin Knopp
1933 - 2011
Scott Fields
Born 1956
Ray Linn
1920 - 1996
José Manuel Figueroa
Born 1975
Ellen Lanyon
1926 - 2013
Floyd O'Brien
1904 - 1968
Nate Jones (boxer)
Born 1972
Elmer Gainer
1918 - 1970
David Weinstein (musician)
Born 1954
P. H. Moynihan
1869 - 1946
Jay Johnston
Born 1968
Jamil Nasir
Born 1955
Amanda Simpson
Born 1961
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Born 1974
Dave Dave
1976 - 2018
Edmund Michael Dunne
1864 - 1929
Gus Greenbaum
1893 - 1958
M. Jean McLane
1878 - 1964
Clarence Vaughn
Born 1964
Al Fleming (basketball)
1954 - 2003
Vicky Psarakis
Born 1988
Malik Yusef
Born 1971
John Francis Queeny
1859 - 1933
Joseph A. Wolf
Born 1936
Byron Gay
1886 - 1945
Boris Lushniak
Born 1961
Jeff Zgonina
Born 1970
Michael Fakuade
Born 1989
William Joseph Bauer
Born 1926
Shellie McMillon
1936 - 1980
Kenny Golladay
Born 1993
Constantine John Alexopoulos
1907 - 1986
Quentin Young
1923 - 2016
Anthony Battaglia
Born 1979
Lloyd Walton
Born 1953
Irv Bemoras
1930 - 2007
Charles White (artist)
1918 - 1979
Kim Mohan
Born 1949
Harry Anderson (artist)
1906 - 1996
Ken Huszagh
1891 - 1950
Sydel Silverman
1933 - 2019
Ralph Alswang
1916 - 1979
Edward Siegler
1881 - 1942
Duke Nalon
1913 - 2001
Marshall Sklare
1921 - 1992
Edmund T. Allen
1896 - 1943
Emanuel Augustus
Born 1975
Jonathan Todd Ross
Born 1978
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Born 1971
George Bon Salle
1935 - 2015
Herbert Beattie
1926 - 2019
Ron Dean
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Celeda
Born 1970
Alexander Jablokov
Born 1956
Ray Buchanan
Born 1971
David Bailey (basketball)
Born 1981
Sean McGrath (American football)
Born 1987
Ta'Rhonda Jones
Born 1988
Henry Theophilus Howaniec
1931 - 2018
Hal Yates
1899 - 1969
Rory Dames
Born 1973
David Novak
Born 1941
Martha Randall
Born 1948
Darrell Horcher
Born 1987
Rich Rodriguez
Born 1963
Tyree Cooper
-
Ron Haydock
1940 - 1977
Alfred Mueller
Born 1939
Adonis (musician)
Born 1963
Gery Chico
Born 1956
Ray Herbert Talbot
1896 - 1955
Chris Zorich
Born 1969
Linnae Harper
Born 1995
Walt Lemon Jr.
Born 1992
David Ellis (écrivain)
Born 1967
Arthur Wirtz
1901 - 1983
Latasha Harlins
1975 - 1991
Vincent Drucci
1901 - 1927
Andre Wakefield
Born 1955
June Leaf
Born 1929
Victor Friedman
Born 1949
Geoff Vanderstock
Born 1946
Ed McNamara
1921 - 1986
George Skakel
1892 - 1955
Donald Ginsberg
1933 - 2007
Thomas L. Owens
1897 - 1948
Kayla Carrera
Born 1978
Bruce DeMars
Born 1935
George Ratkovicz
1922 - 2007
Frank Quilici
1939 - 2018
Daniel Fernández Torres
Born 1964
Carl Gilliard
Born 1958
Jessica Cambensy
Born 1988
René Plaissetty
1889 - 1955
Daniel Pesina
Born 1958
Raymond S. McKeough
1888 - 1979
Anwar Jibawi
Born 1991
Carol Brooks MacNeil
1871 - 1944
Oliver A. Unger
1914 - 1981
Kendrick Nunn
Born 1995
Samuel Hynes
1924 - 2019
Fred Wacker
1918 - 1998
Gary Fencik
Born 1954
Thomas Hamilton (basketball)
Born 1975
Edward J. Lofgren
1914 - 2016
Michael Spilotro
1944 - 1986
George Hilton (historian)
1925 - 2014
Antoine Gillespie
Born 1973
Samuel S. Arentz
1879 - 1934
Adrian Hegyvary
Born 1984
Perry Petty
Born 1988
Jamari Traylor
Born 1992
Barbara Crane
1928 - 2019
Earl Washington (musician)
1921 - 1975
Alan Wilder (actor)
Born 1953
Irun Cohen
Born 1937
Shirley Palmer (actress)
1908 - 2000
Flint Dille
Born 1955
Howard Van Doren Shaw
1869 - 1926
Renaldo Wynn
Born 1974
David Clarke (actor)
1908 - 2004
Bertram Cohler
1938 - 2012
Dorothy Roberts
Born 1956
John W. Rainey
1880 - 1923
Brian Blume
1950 - 2020
Shyla Foxxx
Born 1972
Patricia Smith (poet)
Born 1955
Jody Alderson
Born 1935
Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth
1898 - 1984
Jennifer Holden
Born 1936
George Blakley
Died 2018
Parker Palmer
Born 1939
Lisa Peattie
1924 - 2018
Vince Lawrence
Born 1964
J. Allen St. John
1872 - 1957
Howard Griffith
Born 1967
Betsy Faith Heimann
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John H. Cochrane
Born 1957
Seymour Rossel
Born 1945
Edwin Swatek
1885 - 1966
Howard Sandroff
Born 1949
Cathy Davidson
Born 1949
Dave Hollister
Born 1971
Ronald Muldrow
1949 - 2007
Mort Castle
Born 1946
Linné Ahlstrand
1936 - 1967
Reuben Reeves
1905 - 1975
Serria Tawan
Born 1978
Harry Swarth
1878 - 1935
Adrienne Kroell
1892 - 1949
Deb Mell
Born 1968
Katherine Borowitz
Born 1954
Ernest John Primeau
1909 - 1989
Katherine Richardson Christensen
Born 1954
Dave Payne
-
Tom Hodges (actor)
Born 1965
Larry Agran
Born 1945
Mac Brandt
Born 1980
Roger Joseph Foys
Born 1945
John R. Manz
Born 1945
Norm Swanson
1930 - 2016
Benjamin Aaron
1915 - 2007
Alexandra Patsavas
Born 1968
Lucy Corin
Born 1970
Jerry Nagel
1928 - 1999
Rebecca Makkai
Born 1978
Carlie Casey
Born 1990
Larry Novak
1933 - 2020
Brian Deck
-
Joey Gilbert
Born 1976
Belle Baranceanu
1902 - 1988
Marty Marsala
1909 - 1975
Bruce Norris (ice hockey)
1924 - 1986
Selma Dritz
1917 - 2008
Jake Fendley
1929 - 2002
Glenn Loury
Born 1948
Rollie Free
1900 - 1984
Nadine Barrie Smith
1962 - 2010
James Bowler
1875 - 1957
Danica Novgorodoff
Born 1980
Joel Comm
Born 1964
Judith Chafee
1932 - 1998
Leonard Carpenter
Born 1948
Elsie Paroubek
1906 - 1911
Moosie Drier
Born 1964
John Schommer
1884 - 1960
Joel Emer
Born 1954
Giriraja Swami
Born 1947
Lloyd Lonergan
1870 - 1937
James Simpson Jr.
1905 - 1960
Richard Bradford (novelist)
1932 - 2002
Louise DeKoven Bowen
1859 - 1953