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.
Emerson Woelffer
1914 - 2003
William Garnett (photographer)
1916 - 2006
William B. Rowe
1910 - 1955
Catherine Turney
1906 - 1998
John Pozdro
1923 - 2009
Vernice Armour
Born 1973
Neil McMahon
Born 1949
Bill Leyden
1917 - 1970
Kristen Li
Born 2002
Mel Jackson
Born 1970
Eddie Bane
Born 1952
Tessa Kosta
1890 - 1981
Adda Gleason
1888 - 1971
Marcel Starks
Born 1952
Adolf Pabst
1899 - 1990
Asanti Herring
Born 1997
Asa Baber
1936 - 2003
William W. Freehling
Born 1935
Patrick J. O'Connor
Born 1955
Jennifer Pritzker
Born 1950
John W. Ryan
1929 - 2011
Brownie Mary
1922 - 1999
Ray Hanania
Born 1953
Dennis Tufano
Born 1946
Linton Freeman
1927 - 2018
Sara Feigenholtz
Born 1956
Gary "Chicken" Hirsh
Born 1940
Chantay Savage
Born 1971
Martin Ridge (historian)
1923 - 2003
Brian Cappelletto
Born 1969
Lil' Ed Williams
Born 1955
Henry Ringling North
1909 - 1993
Robert Pritzker
1926 - 2011
Perez Zagorin
1920 - 2009
Joy Postle
1896 - 1989
Tom Ranier
Born 1949
Edmund J. Stack
1874 - 1957
Corey Holcomb
Born 1968
Taka Boom
Born 1954
Joseph Neisendorfer
Born 1945
William Tabbert
1919 - 1974
Jerrold Wexler
1924 - 1992
Jacques Benedict
1879 - 1948
Ike Cole
1927 - 2001
Jeris Pendleton
Born 1983
Lee Soo-jung
Born 1993
William Augustus Hinton
1883 - 1959
Morgan Matthews
Born 1987
Bill Damaschke
Born 1963
Jack Woodford
1894 - 1971
Lee Shulman
Born 1938
Joe Landon
Born 1976
Frederick George Novy
1864 - 1957
Mabel Landry
Born 1932
Albert Goldbarth
Born 1948
Kyle T. Heffner
Born 1957
Victoria Wyndham
Born 1945
Donald Martin Carroll
1909 - 2002
Adam DeBus
1892 - 1977
Nico Segal
Born 1993
Jo Ann Beard
Born 1955
Peter Kwasniewski
Born 1971
Thomas R. Fitzgerald (judge)
1941 - 2015
Gerri Major
1894 - 1984
Jewel Lafontant
1922 - 1997
Lori Gruen
Born 1962
Brooks McCormick
1917 - 2006
Ben Burns
1913 - 2000
Dave Dombrowski
Born 1956
Dave Breese
1926 - 2002
Jane Dickson
Born 1952
John Coughlin (alderman)
1860 - 1938
Sarah Rose
Born 1974
Harry J. Tuthill
1886 - 1957
Daniel Meltzer
1951 - 2015
Ken Detzner
Born 1952
Jean E. Karl
1927 - 2000
Bill Steinmetz
1899 - 1988
Yuri Rasovsky
1944 - 2012
Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy
Born 1943
David Breskin
Born 1958
Ms. Toi
Born 1973
Robert Fioretti
Born 1953
George E. Gorman
1873 - 1935
Karl Wirsum
Born 1939
Paul Werner Gast
1930 - 1973
Randy Daniels
Born 1951
Lee Phillip Bell
1928 - 2020
John Neely (musician)
1930 - 1994
Trezelle Jenkins
Born 1973
Richard Maltby Sr.
1914 - 1991
Leon Cadore
1890 - 1958
Laura Bretan
Born 2002
Dave Pressler
Born 1964
Andrew Weiss (guitarist)
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Jacob Arvey
1895 - 1977
Louis Norberg Howard
1929 - 2015
Jonita Lattimore
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Matt Chrabot
Born 1983
Alice Provensen
1918 - 2018
Marianne Boruch
Born 1950
Frank Righeimer
1909 - 1998
Edward Francis Hoban
1878 - 1966
Frank Waldman
1919 - 1990
Garry Jestadt
Born 1947
A. K. Salim
Born 1922
Wesley Rose
1918 - 1990
Jonathan McReynolds
Born 1989
Roberto Hategan
Born 2001
Victor Skrebneski
1929 - 2020
Danny Corkill
Born 1974
David Abidor
Born 1992
James Marcello
Born 1943
William T. Hurtz
1919 - 2000
Perry Schwartz
1915 - 2001
Prince Rostislav Romanov (1938–1999)
1938 - 1999
William Aloysius O'Connor
1903 - 1983
Ethel Owen
1893 - 1997
George Hugo Boldt
1903 - 1984
Buddy Baumann (baseball)
Born 1987
John Kennedy (third baseman)
1941 - 2018
Charles Mellor
1893 - 1962
Nate Wayne
Born 1975
Frank Ray Perilli
1925 - 2018
Mark Walker (Schlagzeuger)
Born 1961
Kathleen Thompson
Born 1946
John Jughead Pierson
Born 1967
Reggie Fox
Born 1967
Sim Lake
Born 1944
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
1878 - 1967
James Brown (American football guard)
Born 1988
Buzz Capra
Born 1947
Philip Kolb
1907 - 1992
Irwin Kremen
1925 - 2020
Tracy Abrams
Born 1992
Job (Osacky)
1946 - 2009
Paul Hume
1915 - 2001
Ossie Bluege
1900 - 1985
Marcus Storey
Born 1982
Karen Alter
Born 1965
Walter J. Cummings Jr.
1916 - 1999
Gilbert V. Hartke
1907 - 1986
David Power (tennis)
Born 1944
Jane Trahey
1923 - 2000
Mike McDermott (athlete)
1893 - 1970
Eugene Linden (conductor)
1902 - 1983
Howard Wesley Johnson
1922 - 2009
Cynthia Davis
Born 1959
Robert Sherwood Dillon
Born 1929
Keith Olive
Born 1978
Kenneth S. Suslick
Born 1952
Darryl N. Johnson
1938 - 2018
Maria Pinto (fashion designer)
Born 1957
Troy Eid
Born 1963
Shaun Pruitt
Born 1985
Sharon Ambrose
1939 - 2017
Larry Marder
Born 1951
Aaron Frazier
Born 1982
May Massee
1881 - 1966
Campbell McGrath
Born 1962
Peter C. Granata
1898 - 1973
F. Henri Klickmann
1885 - 1966
Tim Pool
Born 1986
Roxana McGowan
1897 - 1976
Count Dante
1939 - 1975
Allegra Fuller Snyder
Born 1927
David Lyons (swimmer)
Born 1943
Wayne Molis
1943 - 2002
Reinhold Weege
1949 - 2012
Sharon Bridgforth
Born 1958
Tommy O'Connell
1930 - 2014
Sam Moyer
Born 1983
Terry Louise Fisher
Born 1946
Wayne Baker Brooks
Born 1970
Raphael Butler
Born 1984
Richard Purtill
1931 - 2016
George Moriarty
1885 - 1964
Cathie Linz
1954 - 2015
Greta Neimanas
Born 1988
Jake Lingle
1891 - 1930
Doris Cole
Born 1938
Dempsey Travis
1920 - 2009
Simone Leigh
Born 1968
Stewart Moss
1937 - 2017
Marshall Loeb
1929 - 2017
Maurice Eisendrath
1902 - 1973
Corey Goodman
Born 1951
Charlie Bachman
1892 - 1985
Edward Corbett (artist)
1919 - 1971
Jason Holmes
Born 1989
Carlton Gamer
Born 1929
Fred Lauer
1898 - 1960
Shorty Hamilton
1879 - 1925
Rob Bochnik
Born 1973
Robert E. Lee (FCC)
1912 - 1993
Russell Olson
1924 - 2010
Frank Coyle
1886 - 1947
Paul Luebke
1946 - 2016
Rob Pelinka
Born 1969
John A. Jane
1931 - 2015
Tim Kopinski
Born 1993
Ron Williams
Born 1949
Norman Barry
1897 - 1988
Roger O. Egeberg
1902 - 1997
Alvin Wistert
1916 - 2005
Elaine Quijano
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Thalia Mara
1911 - 2003
Amedee Chabot
Born 1945
Craig Bolotin
Born 1954
Mamie Rallins
1941 - 2016
Ronnie Singer
1928 - 1953
G. Dennis O'Brien
Born 1931
Irv Levin
1921 - 1996
Russell Malmgren
1905 - 1982
Steve Conley
Born 1972
Ephraim Salaam
Born 1976
Danny Crawford
Born 1953
Darwin Jones (soccer)
Born 1992
Turtel Onli
Born 1952
David F. Levi
Born 1951
Patrick Welch
1948 - 2020
Paul Appleby (tenor)
Born 1983
Frank Balasz
1918 - 1962
Crawford Wethington
1904 - 1994
Jim Clancy (baseball)
Born 1955
Andree Anderson
Born 1936
Micah Miller
Born 1987
Owen M. Panner
1924 - 2018
Amanda Ross-Ho
Born 1975
John L. Borling
Born 1940
Stacy Keach Sr.
1914 - 2003
Jason Saul
Born 1969
Shaquille Hines
Born 1993
Nina Wayne
Born 1943
Kerrie Holley
Born 1954
Capers Funnye
Born 1952
Jimmy D. Lane
Born 1965
Andrew Prokos
Born 1971
Julie Speed
Born 1951
Anita Miller (publisher)
1926 - 2018
Darius de Haas
Born 1968
Carol Ronen
Born 1945
Jami Miscik
Born 1958
Sandra Smith (reporter)
Born 1980
Frank Abbinanti
Born 1949
Isabel Randolph
1889 - 1973
Dillion Sneed
Born 1984
Deon Cole
Born 1972
Paul Raskin
Born 1942
Irving Kriesberg
1919 - 2009
Roger G. Ibbotson
Born 1943
Joe Oeschger
1892 - 1986
Dave Jauss
Born 1957
Albert J. Smith (actor)
1894 - 1939
Katrina Lenk
Born 1974
Johnny Drake
1916 - 1973
Paul Baccaglini
Born 1984
Mia Brownell
Born 1971
Art Folz
1903 - 1965
Bob Janecyk
Born 1957
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath
1903 - 1992
Captain Sky
Born 1957
Valerie Wellington
1959 - 1993
James Enoch Hill
1929 - 2018
Egbert Hamilton Walker
1899 - 1991
William M. Blair
1884 - 1982
Joseph Sistrom
1912 - 1966
Anselm Berrigan
Born 1972
Mike Stuart
Born 1980
Mel Pekarsky
Born 1934
Geraldine Wall
1912 - 1970
Keong Sim
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Eadie Adams
1907 - 1983
Andrea Cunningham
Born 1956
Harold van Doren
1895 - 1957
Edward A. Brennan
1934 - 2007
F. W. Dupee
1904 - 1979
Deborah Harmon
Born 1951
Kyle Andrews
Born 1982
James D. McGee
Born 1949
Phyllis Thede
Born 1954
Matthew Grosjean
Born 1970
India Edwards
1885 - 1990
Héctor Urbina
Born 1987
Susan Wagner
Born 1961
C. Denier Warren
1889 - 1971
Amos G. Throop
1811 - 1894
Red Balaban
1929 - 2013
Frederick Dana Marsh
1872 - 1961
Emory Tate
1958 - 2015
Robert Sward
Born 1933
Jac Venza
Born 1926
Larry Shay
1897 - 1988
Pranas Talzūnas
Born 1913
Renee Tajima-Peña
Born 1958
Ernest Samuels
1903 - 1996
Herb Kent
1928 - 2016
Virginia Halas McCaskey
Born 1923
Parker Molloy
Born 1986
Warren Fu
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