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.
Edmund Teske
1911 - 1996
Haruka Orth
Born 1981
Minerva Parker Nichols
1863 - 1949
Bradley Moore Davis
1871 - 1957
Ann Pellegreno
Born 1937
Charles A. Moore
1901 - 1967
Eric Morris (actor)
Born 1931
Margaret Moser
1954 - 2017
John Richard Keating
1934 - 1998
Richard W. Hoffman
1893 - 1975
Oliver Crawford
1917 - 2008
Alice Gerstenberg
1885 - 1972
TooSmooth
Born 1992
Abraham Lincoln II
1873 - 1890
Corinne Jacker
1933 - 2013
Robert Friedland
Born 1950
James Emery White
Born 1961
France Winddance Twine
Born 1960
Kim Williams (basketball)
Born 1974
Aerlyn Weissman
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Tom Gray
Born 1941
Kiron Skinner
Born 1961
Chuck Bernard
1911 - 1962
Arthur Loomis Harmon
1878 - 1958
Arthur Agee
Born 1972
Bill Skowron
1930 - 2012
John Talbott Donoghue
1853 - 1903
Kelvin Atkinson
Born 1969
Mindy Baha El Din
1958 - 2013
A. Peter Dewey
1916 - 1945
Ralph Wells
1940 - 1968
Marianne Gaba
1939 - 2016
Casey Schmidt
Born 1970
Parisa Tabriz
Born 1983
Louis Wilke
1896 - 1962
Joe Mays (American football)
Born 1985
Jordan Belson
1926 - 2011
Reuben Kadish
1913 - 1992
Cheryl Porter
Born 1972
Neil J. Linehan
1895 - 1967
Philip Shahbaz
Born 1974
Peter Bartlett (actor)
Born 1942
Bob Christian (baseball)
1945 - 1974
John Strelecky
Born 1969
Jonathan Jackson (activist)
Born 1966
Antonio Munoz (politician)
Born 1964
Jesse Boykins III
Born 1985
Alex Tremulis
1914 - 1991
J. Wells
Born 1983
Elsie Baker
1883 - 1971
Michael Dempsey (bishop)
1918 - 1974
Daniel Hynes
Born 1968
Micki Grant
Born 1941
Bennie Owen
1875 - 1970
William Troy (educator)
1903 - 1961
Lee Katzman
1928 - 2013
Ray Middleton (actor)
1907 - 1984
Karen Morrow
Born 1936
Frances Simpson Stevens
1894 - 1976
William Ball (director)
1931 - 1991
Don Katz
Born 1952
Trevor Potter
Born 1955
Mary Morris (writer)
Born 1947
Greg Brown (businessman)
Born 1960
Stanley Bennett Clay
Born 1950
Henrietta H. Fore
Born 1948
Martin C. Jischke
Born 1941
John S. Reed
Born 1939
Carrie Neely
1876 - 1938
Alfred S. Regnery
Born 1942
Martha Black
1866 - 1957
Jacob Matijevic
1947 - 2012
William A. Rowan
1882 - 1961
Alex Moffat (comedian)
Born 1982
Andrew Tabiti
Born 1989
Ethel L. Payne
1911 - 1991
Roger Rose
Born 1960
Johnny Karras
1928 - 2008
Bob Miller (sportscaster)
Born 1938
Leo Kocialkowski
1882 - 1958
Nancy Davidson (artist)
Born 1943
Smokepurpp
Born 1997
Donald Spero
Born 1939
Albert S. Kobayashi
Born 1924
Jorge Torres (athlete)
Born 1980
Phillip J. Bartell
Born 1970
Ted Halstead
1968 - 2020
Ted Hearne
Born 1982
Kim Chi (drag queen)
Born 1987
Ann Nesby
Born 1952
Don "Magic" Juan
Born 1950
Richard T. Notkin
Born 1948
Susan Leeman
Born 1930
Raymond James Sontag
1897 - 1972
William T. Murphy
1899 - 1978
DJ Riddler
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Margaret A. Ryan
Born 1964
Kraig Urbik
Born 1985
Richard Divizio
Born 1968
Chuck Schaden
Born 1934
Michael Redlicki
Born 1993
Lawrence Biondi
Born 1938
William Robert Ming
1911 - 1973
Mari Maseng Will
Born 1954
Rex Allen Jr.
Born 1947
Charles H. Ramsey
Born 1950
Rosalind Marquis
1915 - 2006
Ethel Spears
1903 - 1974
Edward Vrdolyak
Born 1937
Nathan Huggins
1927 - 1989
Robert Teitel
Born 1968
Virginia Graham
1912 - 1998
Floyd MacMillan Davis
1896 - 1966
Amanda Thompson (basketball)
Born 1987
Vincent LoVerde
Born 1989
Earl Pastko
Born 1965
Joseph Ferriola
1927 - 1989
Alexander J. Resa
1887 - 1964
Mud Morganfield
Born 1954
Jimmy Nelson (ventriloquist)
1928 - 2019
Marilyn Shrude
Born 1946
Henry Duey
1908 - 1993
Hal Bruno
1928 - 2011
Timothy P. Sheehan
1909 - 2000
Ellen Christi
Born 1958
John Quinn Weitzel
Born 1928
Vicki Gunvalson
Born 1962
Rick Stelmaszek
1948 - 2017
Reggie Hayes
Born 1969
Carol Tyler
Born 1951
Debra DeLee
Born 1948
Camille Yarbrough
Born 1938
Joey Meyer (basketball)
Born 1949
Byron Stingily (American football)
Born 1988
Sebastian Rotella
Born 1950
Andrew McKenna
Born 1956
Maurice Carthon
Born 1961
Tim Hopper
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John Macy
1917 - 1986
Olaf M. Hustvedt
1886 - 1978
Dakota Rose
Born 1995
Jim Moran (businessman)
1918 - 2007
Raymond Peter Hillinger
1904 - 1971
Dan La Botz
Born 1945
James R. Buckley
1870 - 1945
Justin Hall
Born 1974
David Kaczynski
Born 1949
Allison Stanger
Born 1960
Stanley McCandless
1897 - 1967
Richard Schmid
Born 1934
Cyron Brown
Born 1975
Muriel Landers
1921 - 1977
Sidney Korshak
1907 - 1996
Al Bernstein
Born 1950
Donte Ingram
Born 1996
Deon Taylor
Born 1976
Corinne Michelle West
1908 - 1991
Baba Rampuri
Born 1950
Don Patterson (animator)
1909 - 1998
Ron Dunlap
1946 - 2019
Glenn Allan Millikan
1906 - 1947
Milt Bocek
1912 - 2007
John Hill (game designer)
1945 - 2015
John Writer
Born 1944
Everett Parker
1913 - 2015
John Loring (designer)
Born 1939
James P. Hosty
1924 - 2011
Rikki Klieman
Born 1948
Yoron Israel
Born 1963
Michael Patrick Thornton
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Rick Baker (mayor)
Born 1956
Leroy Bach
Born 1964
Henry Jacobs
1924 - 2015
Demarco Castle
Born 1981
Arnold Johnson (musician)
1893 - 1975
Steve Edwards (American football)
Born 1979
La Velle
1944 - 2016
John Giannini
Born 1962
Burton Weisbrod
Born 1931
Michael Storm
Born 1939
Shafiq Qaadri
Born 1963
S. Charles Lee
1899 - 1990
John Guleserian
Born 1976
John Daniel Wild
1902 - 1972
James Meeks
Born 1956
Jerry Markbreit
Born 1935
David Steward
Born 1951
Keith Barrow
1954 - 1983
Peter Orner
Born 1968
Steve Puidokas
1955 - 1994
Justin Whitlock Dart Jr.
1930 - 2002
Doug Rader
Born 1944
Terry Moran
Born 1959
Charles L. Bartlett (journalist)
1921 - 2017
Daniel Levin Becker
Born 1984
Takeshi Murata
Born 1974
Feliksas Vaitkus
1907 - 1956
Jeffery Renard Allen
Born 1962
James Hugh Ward
1853 - 1916
Robert Gottschalk
1918 - 1982
Peter Moskos
Born 1971
Charles Clark (musician)
1945 - 1969
Canon (rapper)
Born 1989
Al Miksis
1928 - 2009
Malcolm Stuart Boylan
1897 - 1967
Helen Heffron Roberts
1888 - 1985
Benjamin Wynn
Born 1979
Michael Baisden
Born 1963
John R. Gorman
Born 1925
Ward Wellington Ward
1875 - 1932
Angelo Pizzo
Born 1950
David Schneider (ice hockey)
Born 1979
Jonny Polonsky
Born 1973
Morton Kondracke
Born 1939
Marcus McNeill
Born 1983
Gary Buslik
Born 1946
William O. Gallery
1904 - 1981
Charles Page Bryan
1855 - 1918
David Bohnett
Born 1956
George P. Fletcher
Born 1939
Kenneth Cmiel
1954 - 2006
Romola Remus
1900 - 1987
Larry Kramer (legal scholar)
Born 1958
Daryl Thomas
1965 - 2018
Gene Allen (musician)
1928 - 2008
Robert F. Prevost
Born 1955
Osborne Theomun Olsen
1883 - 1971
Abbe Smith
Born 1956
Dick Bartell
1907 - 1995
Josephine Miles
1911 - 1985
Scott Bolzan
Born 1962
Jimmy Evert
1923 - 2015
Ken Goldstein
Born 1969
Richie Niemiera
1921 - 2003
Yaakov Katz (journalist)
Born 1979
Scott L. Fitzgerald
Born 1963
Faber Birren
1900 - 1988
Bill Roorbach
Born 1953
Tommy Defendi
Born 1989
Paul David Wilson
Born 1952
Charles Blackstone
Born 1977
Kal David
Born 1943
Sam Bass Warner
1889 - 1979
Reiko Takeda
Born 1984
Jerome Kass
1937 - 2015
Fenton Johnson (poet)
1888 - 1958
Thomas E. Crow
Born 1948
Yvonne Welbon
Born 1962
John Ulric Nef (economic historian)
1899 - 1988
William Joseph McDonough
1934 - 2018
L. Hamilton McCormick
1859 - 1934
Frances Foy
1890 - 1963
Ron Gorchov
1930 - 2020
Roy Richard Grinker
Born 1961
Kapri Bibbs
Born 1992
Darius Fleming
Born 1989
Michael Howlett
1914 - 1992
James Galvin (poet)
Born 1951
Lil Bibby
Born 1994
Pidgeon Pagonis
Born 1986
Nan C. Robertson
1926 - 2009
William Wulf
Born 1939
George Varnell
1882 - 1967
Roger Thomas (American football coach)
Born 1947
Robert Kurtz
Born 1939
Phil Masi
1916 - 1990
Andrene Kauffman
1905 - 1993
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
Born 1989
Ferdinand Peck
1848 - 1924
Ann Weiser Cornell
Born 1949
Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
1898 - 1973
Max Kozloff
Born 1933
Rishi Bhat
Born 1982
Ladell McLin
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Norman Hapgood
1868 - 1937
William McCormick Blair Jr.
1916 - 2015
Joel J. Kupperman
1936 - 2020
Anton Lada
1890 - 1944
Lloyd Rudolph
1927 - 2016
Arnold Horween
1898 - 1985
Joseph Carroll (DIA)
1910 - 1991
Roland E. Murphy
1917 - 2002
Charles Hirsch
1937 - 2016
Winter (Starbucks)
Born 1972
Amy Loftus
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Jerome Holtzman
1926 - 2008
Archibald Carey Jr.
1908 - 1981
Nicholas de Genova
Born 1968
Shirley Robin Letwin
1924 - 1993
Dan Kuenster
Born 1955
Robert Haugen
1942 - 2013
Chris LiPuma
Born 1971
Richard Thieme
Born 1944
Darryl M. Bell
Born 1963
Bob Elson
1904 - 1981
Reva Rose
Born 1940
William Gates (basketball)
Born 1971
Prashant Bhargava
1973 - 2015
Art Kassel
1896 - 1965
Eddie Schroeder
1911 - 2005