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.
William Ayres Ward
1928 - 1996
Kirk Dillard
Born 1955
Sidney D'Albrook
1882 - 1948
W. Ian Lipkin
Born 1952
Jack Stephens (basketball)
1933 - 2011
Yermi Kaplan
Born 1961
Joe Buckhalter
1937 - 2013
Addison Baker
1907 - 1943
Ameya Pawar
Born 1980
Mauritz A. Hallgren
1899 - 1956
Charles Stepney
1931 - 1976
Nate Kinsella
Born 1980
Tyler Young (actor)
Born 1990
Matt Braunger
Born 1974
Kipleigh Brown
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Louise Thompson Patterson
1901 - 1999
Henry Louis Larsen
1890 - 1962
Frank Pitelka
1916 - 2003
Holly Beth Vincent
Born 1959
Malia Obama
Born 1998
James C. Murray
1917 - 1999
Vic Lockman
1927 - 2017
Nancy Swider-Peltz
Born 1956
Algis Kizys
Born 1960
Thomas Rogers (writer)
1927 - 2007
Martin F. Smith
1891 - 1954
Harvey Shapiro (poet)
1924 - 2013
Roy Winsor
1912 - 1987
David G. Mandelbaum
1911 - 1987
Brandon Grove
1929 - 2016
Harry Jackson (artist)
1924 - 2011
Vaughn Bean
Born 1974
Frederic McLaughlin
1877 - 1944
Carolyn Kawasaki
Born 1962
Joseph A. Mandarino
1929 - 2007
Richard Pildes
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Thomas Joseph Grady
1914 - 2002
Chester A. Chesney
1916 - 1986
Ben Koldyke
Born 1971
Jeannette Piccard
1895 - 1981
Eve Sonneman
Born 1946
Richard B. Vail
1895 - 1955
Reginald Robinson
Born 1972
David Caspe
Born 1978
Candace Kroslak
Born 1978
Byron MacDonald
Born 1950
Meg Bussert
Born 1949
Patti Solis Doyle
Born 1965
Dolly Jones (trumpeter)
1902 - 1975
Jason Williams (American football)
Born 1986
John Haggerty
Born 1960
Beth Dover
Born 1978
John Morton (racing driver)
Born 1942
Paul Vallas
Born 1953
Jim Schwall
Born 1942
Patrick Hopkins
Born 1987
Elmer Grey
1872 - 1963
Alice De Wolf Kellogg
1862 - 1900
Jason Avant
Born 1983
Julius B. Richmond
1916 - 2008
Mary Allen Wilkes
Born 1937
Edward Piszek
1916 - 2004
Isabelle Stone
1868 - 1944
Nicholas Bodman
1913 - 1997
Sigurd F. Olson
1899 - 1982
Marilee Stepan
Born 1935
Victor Salvi
1920 - 2015
Lois Haibt
Born 1934
Al Dvorin
1922 - 2004
Reuben Droughns
Born 1978
Carlos Pesina
Born 1968
Gene Cross
Born 1971
Martin Patrick Durkin
1894 - 1955
Edward Hirsch
Born 1950
Craig Rodwell
1940 - 1993
Idris Ackamoor
Born 1950
Eric Klinenberg
Born 1970
John Robinson (American football coach)
Born 1935
Jonathan Turley
Born 1961
Dick Evans (athlete)
1917 - 2008
Mike Kafka
Born 1987
Jason Branch
Born 1963
John Curulewski
1950 - 1988
Michael Wilbon
Born 1958
Ed Coan
Born 1963
John G. Fary
1911 - 1984
John Abt
1904 - 1991
Mark Carreon
Born 1963
Karen Lewis (labor leader)
Born 1953
Todd Stern
Born 1951
Mark Pivarunas
Born 1958
Lauren Ridloff
Born 1978
Lenard Lakofka
1944 - 2020
Victor H. Schiro
1904 - 1992
Karen Nussbaum
Born 1950
Charles Francis Curtiss
1921 - 2007
Dan Janjigian
Born 1972
Ross Mirkarimi
Born 1961
Rose Selfridge
1860 - 1918
Jeremiah Jae
Born 1989
David Ely
Born 1927
Eric Monte
Born 1943
Corporal Kirchner
1957 - 2006
George Bonanno
Born 1950
Gene Dyker
1930 - 1966
Michael Pfleger
Born 1949
George Ernest Foulkes
1878 - 1960
William J. Eaton
1930 - 2005
Ron Balicki
Born 1963
A. J. Balaban
1889 - 1961
Frederick A. Britten
1871 - 1946
Sal Fasano
Born 1971
Anthony Cordesman
Born 1939
Richard Nickel
1928 - 1972
Charles M. Thomson
1877 - 1943
Ronald B. Levinson
1896 - 1980
Eddie Russo
1925 - 2012
Richard Leibler
1914 - 2003
Ed Earle
1927 - 2009
Karl K. Darrow
1891 - 1982
Long John Nebel
1911 - 1978
Otto Stowe
Born 1949
Franklin McMahon
1921 - 2012
Curt Anderson
Born 1949
Deleon Richards
Born 1976
Andrew J. McKenna
Born 1929
Mel McCants
Born 1967
Mike Keller
Born 1949
Lee Edwards
Born 1932
Boyce Brown
1910 - 1959
Tony Rodham
1954 - 2019
Thad J. Jakubowski
1924 - 2013
Hal Block
1913 - 1981
Celeste Johnson
Born 1959
Rolla M. Tryon Jr.
1916 - 2001
William Bentsen
Born 1930
Frederic Clay Bartlett
1873 - 1953
Robert Berger (producer)
Born 1934
Raymond F. Clevenger
1926 - 2016
Leslie S. Klinger
Born 1946
Cynthia Carlson
Born 1942
Albert Berger
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Paul Soglin
Born 1945
William L. Moran
1921 - 2000
Sylvia T. Ceyer
Born 1953
Mike Nussbaum
Born 1923
Phil Henderson (basketball)
1968 - 2013
Orbert Davis
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Jack Phelan (basketball, born 1925)
Born 1925
John Tierney (journalist)
Born 1953
Dale Talde
Born 1978
Kimberly Baldwin
Born 1970
Feliksas Kriaučiūnas
1911 - 1977
Charles Czeisler
Born 1952
CeCe McDonald
Born 1989
George Lansing Raymond
1839 - 1929
Richard Macaulay
1909 - 1969
Ethel Magafan
1916 - 1993
William F. Mahoney
1856 - 1904
Jewel Plummer Cobb
1924 - 2017
Clara Peller
1902 - 1987
Greg Hollimon
Born 1956
George Kirby
1923 - 1995
Lou Collier
Born 1973
Ruth Miller (actress)
1903 - 1981
Jack Riley (American football)
1909 - 1993
Joe Birkett
Born 1955
Karl Benjamin
1925 - 2012
Edward Braxton
Born 1944
Armond Fields
1930 - 2008
Ellsworth B. Buck
1892 - 1970
Carolyn Rodgers
1940 - 2010
Margo Jefferson
Born 1947
Daniel Cohen (children's writer)
1936 - 2018
Christopher J. Schneider
Born 1979
Kip King
1952 - 2010
Bobby Wilson (defensive tackle)
Born 1968
Storm Calysta
Born 1993
Reggie Nicholson
Born 1957
Ellie Reed (actress)
Born 1988
Ernest Shields
1884 - 1944
Melody Moezzi
Born 1979
Rashid Bakr (musician)
Born 1943
Dennis Lick
Born 1954
Robert A. Sengstacke
1943 - 2017
Langdon Brown Gilkey
1919 - 2004
Emmett Tyrrell
Born 1943
Linda Womack
Born 1953
Victor Maghakian
1915 - 1977
Robert G. Bergman
Born 1942
Joseph Perry (bishop)
Born 1948
Bob Weiskopf
1914 - 2001
Jim Lanigan
1902 - 1983
Jeremy C. Stein
Born 1960
Loring Mandel
1928 - 2020
Zach Moore
Born 1990
Billy Garrett Jr.
Born 1994
Marian Shields Robinson
Born 1937
Dee Alexander
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Emmet Byrne
1896 - 1974
Tze Chun
Born 1980
Carlton Guyton
Born 1990
David Kaplan (radio)
Born 1960
Arthur H. Steinhaus
1897 - 1970
James Zetek
1886 - 1959
Art Green (artist)
Born 1941
James T. Igoe
1883 - 1971
Ty Warner
Born 1944
Aileen Stanley
1897 - 1982
David Golub
1950 - 2000
Scotty McLennan
Born 1948
Darrell Sandeen
1930 - 2009
Kobe (singer)
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Scott Cutler
-
José Rivera (volleyball)
Born 1977
Kenneth Spence
1907 - 1967
Alexander Soper
1904 - 1993
Omens (Sorrowful Angels album)
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Stanislaus Vincent Bona
1888 - 1967
Tadhg Kelly
Born 1988
Samuel Alschuler
1859 - 1939
Arielle Wilson
Born 1989
Marietta DePrima
Born 1964
James D. McGinnis
1932 - 2009
Patrick F. Kennedy
Born 1949
Marion Roper
1910 - 1991
Dave Willock
1909 - 1990
Thomas A. Doyle
1886 - 1935
Dan Kotowski
Born 1967
Norman Jaffe
1932 - 1993
Jared Spears
Born 1936
Edward A. Kelly
1892 - 1969
Edward Moskal
1924 - 2005
Lara Harris
Born 1962
Lexi Boling
Born 1993
Desmin Borges
Born 1984
Anne-Elizabeth Stone
Born 1990
Charles Healy
Born 1883
Fred Evans (defensive tackle)
Born 1983
Cecil Martin
Born 1975
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Born 1945
Melissa McClelland
Born 1979
Shea Couleé
Born 1989
Big Boy (radio host)
Born 1969
Helen M. Berman
Born 1943
Alisa Burras
Born 1975
Michael Zerang
Born 1958
John W. Rogers Jr.
Born 1958
Sam Barsh
Born 1981
Mr. Lee (rapper)
Born 1968
Laurence Leamer
Born 1941
Tony Lagouranis
Born 1969
Sam Kass
Born 1980
Barbara T. Bowman
Born 1928
Bob Zimny
1921 - 2011
Barbara Howard (actress)
Born 1956
Frank Davis
1897 - 1984
Katie Rich
Born 1964
Joel Futterman
Born 1946
Charlie Leibrandt
Born 1956
Barbara Rossi (artist)
Born 1940
Carole Simpson
Born 1941
Mike Thomas (wide receiver, born 1994)
Born 1994
Ruth Root
Born 1967
Nate Monaster
1911 - 1990
Theodore Hamm
Born 1966
George A. Whiting
1884 - 1943
Janet Maguire
Born 1927
Marianne McDonald
Born 1937
George Walbridge Perkins
1862 - 1920
Georgie Anne Geyer
1935 - 2019
Barbara Kasten
Born 1936
Marvin Yancy
1950 - 1985
Jon Boden
Born 1977
Chase Beebe
Born 1985
Regina M. Anderson
1901 - 1993
Brad Goode
Born 1963
Jeremy Hammond
Born 1985
Jerry Avenaim
Born 1961
Hal Higdon
Born 1931
Lyn Blumenthal
1949 - 1988
Harmony Hammond
Born 1944
LeAlan Jones
Born 1979
Nathan Pritikin
1915 - 1985
Stephen J. Luczo
Born 1957
Lise Mayer
Born 1957
Danny Saltz
Born 1961
Tony Fitzpatrick (artist)
Born 1958
Donald Lipski
Born 1947
Richard Portes
Born 1941
Richard I. Morimoto
Born 1952
Jimmy Murphy (cartoonist)
1891 - 1965
Clarence Ellis (computer scientist)
1943 - 2014
Professor Eddie Lusk
1948 - 1992
Eric Kumerow
Born 1965
Sheldon Patinkin
1935 - 2014
Diante Watkins
Born 1990
Donald Tuzin
1945 - 2007
Zachary Laoutides
Born 1986
Aaron Bohrod
1907 - 1992