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.
Dan Witz
Born 1957
Jerome Sally
Born 1959
William Upski Wimsatt
Born 1972
Edmund Newell
1857 - 1915
James Yoshimura
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Cindy Tsai
Born 1985
William S. Saric
Born 1940
Benjamin Rush Rhees
1860 - 1939
Rick Wallace
Born 1948
Gayle Brandeis
Born 1968
Robin Fryday
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Christine Ko
Born 1992
Jackson Rose
1886 - 1956
Michael Shonrock
Born 1957
May Theilgaard Watts
1893 - 1975
Charles Manatt
1936 - 2011
Bill Bolender
Born 1940
Charlotte Curtis
1928 - 1987
Philip Hallie
1922 - 1994
Bill Bidwill
1931 - 2019
Garrett Wolfe
Born 1984
Thomas J. Cahill
1910 - 2002
Dick Howell
1903 - 1967
Johari Johnson
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Richard Kapp
1936 - 2006
Keith Walker
Born 1978
James Murtaugh
Born 1942
Mazin Elsadig
Born 1987
Jordan Howard Sobel
1929 - 2010
Paul Zollo
Born 1958
Wheeler Williams
1897 - 1972
Karalyn Patterson
Born 1943
Richard Atwater
1892 - 1948
Bill Flemming
1926 - 2007
Eric Rosse
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Charna Halpern
Born 1952
Ed Partyka
Born 1967
Marvin E. Aspen
Born 1934
Charles D. Palmer
1902 - 1999
Bill Keating (American football)
1944 - 2015
John Buettner-Janusch
1924 - 1992
Walter Eckersall
1886 - 1930
Maura Gale
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Bruce Kingma
Born 1961
Norbert Blei
1935 - 2013
Howard Thomas Markey
1920 - 2006
Otis Armstrong
Born 1950
David Houle (futurist)
Born 1948
Wally Burr
1924 - 2017
Carl Davis (boxer)
Born 1973
David M. Ronne
1943 - 2007
Ewart Abner
1923 - 1997
Elizabeth Fama
Born 1965
Sam Neel
1875 - 1947
Kallie Flynn Childress
Born 1988
David Prosser Jr.
Born 1942
Heather Corinna
Born 1970
Hal Bedsole
1941 - 2017
William Edward McManus
1914 - 1997
Mary Rozet Smith
1868 - 1934
Eunice Tietjens
1884 - 1944
Merryle Rukeyser
1897 - 1988
Arnold Jacob Wolf
1924 - 2008
Oscar G. Mayer Sr.
1888 - 1965
Harold W. McCauley
1913 - 1977
Ben Gage
1914 - 1978
William Targ
1907 - 1999
Conrad Dobler
Born 1950
Candy Dawson Boyd
Born 1946
Teddy Getty Gaston
1913 - 2017
Jay Lemke
Born 1946
Pearl Gonzalez
Born 1986
Tim Pyznarski
Born 1960
John Loprieno
Born 1960
M'el Dowd
1938 - 2012
Pat O'Connor (American football)
Born 1995
Tom Waldman
1922 - 1985
David R. Macdonald
1930 - 2008
Mark Crispin Miller
Born 1949
George Cohen (artist)
1919 - 1999
Shauneille Perry
Born 1929
Ken Chertow
Born 1966
George W. Crane
1901 - 1995
Andrew Patner
1959 - 2015
Leanita McClain
1951 - 1984
Catherine T. MacArthur
1908 - 1981
Eric Taylor (screenwriter)
1897 - 1952
Kenneth Dunkin
Born 1974
Miss Honey Dijon
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Philip Brownstein
1906 - 1999
Bonnie Harris
1870 - 1962
Really Doe
Born 1980
Niesa Johnson
Born 1973
Harold Dade
1923 - 1962
Harry Kalven
1914 - 1974
Billy Arnold (racing driver)
1905 - 1976
Andy Towle
Born 1967
Wellington Webb
Born 1941
James Vaughters
Born 1993
Charles P. Kocoras
Born 1938
Steve Barancik
Born 1961
Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier
1896 - 1984
Howard Mandel
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Hugh Fox
1932 - 2011
David Homel
Born 1952
Knowlton Ames
1868 - 1931
Ryō Kurusu
1919 - 1945
Joe Schultz Jr.
1918 - 1996
LaDonna Tittle
Born 1948
Scoop Jackson (writer)
Born 1963
Mike Lanigan
Born 1930
Walter A. Weber
1906 - 1979
Sammy Esposito
1931 - 2018
Joseph R. Gusfield
1923 - 2015
Dorothy Aldis
1896 - 1966
Andy Scrivani
1917 - 2015
Nevin William Hayes
1922 - 1988
Rane Arroyo
1954 - 2010
Terry Hanck
Born 1944
Mike Joy
Born 1949
James Dashow
Born 1944
Bradley Bell
Born 1964
Bert Moorhouse
1894 - 1954
Aldo Forte
1918 - 2007
Douglas Wood (writer)
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Saba (rapper)
Born 1994
Mike Sullivan (offensive lineman)
Born 1967
Snipe Hansen
1907 - 1978
Vernon Alden
1923 - 2020
Gary Charness
Born 1950
Irene Dalton
1901 - 1934
Vince McGowan
1913 - 1982
Katherine Sanford
1915 - 2005
Anthony M. Rud
1893 - 1942
Tai Streets
Born 1977
Tony Alcantar
Born 1960
Victoria de Grazia
Born 1946
Muriel Lezak
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Elspeth Eric
1907 - 1993
Bashir Salahuddin
Born 1976
Stephen Baby
Born 1980
Harold Burrage
1931 - 1966
Bob Pickens
1943 - 2018
Al Trace
1900 - 1993
Jan Terri
Born 1959
Irwin Cohen
1952 - 2012
Tim Grunhard
Born 1968
Merrell Jackson
1952 - 1991
Mitchell Altieri
Born 1972
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
1859 - 1947
Bob Ociepka
Born 1949
Robert Michael Franklin Jr.
Born 1954
Jennie Fields
Born 1953
Jeffery M. Leving
Born 1951
Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1918)
1918 - 1981
Mark Kellar
Born 1952
Bill Bradbury
Born 1949
Steven H. Kaplan
Born 1953
Damian London
Born 1931
Jill H. Larkin
Born 1943
John Lardner (sports writer)
1912 - 1960
Harold R. Harris
1895 - 1988
Eli Grba
1934 - 2019
Loren A. Smith
Born 1944
Marlbert Pradd
1944 - 2014
Katherine Sturges Dodge
1890 - 1979
Tranquility Bass
1968 - 2015
Walburga Oesterreich
1864 - 1961
Eddie Kotal
1902 - 1973
Norman Abrams
Born 1933
Rick Saucedo
Born 1955
Kyriakos Vidas
Born 1957
Lucki
Born 1996
William Grigsby McCormick
1851 - 1941
Bobby Fields
Born 1949
Jerry Slocum
Born 1931
Robert Goralski
1928 - 1988
Liam Garvey
Born 1973
Max Millikan
1913 - 1969
Frisman Jackson
Born 1979
Monique D. Davis
Born 1936
Antonio Caponigro
1912 - 1980
Karen Hines
Born 1963
Lee Stange
1936 - 2018
Dick LaPalm
1927 - 2013
Phil Weintraub
1907 - 1987
Pat Cummings (illustrator)
Born 1950
Chetan Kumar
Born 1983
Lou Lang
Born 1949
Jerry Valentine
1914 - 1983
Carl Robert Brown
1930 - 1982
Ailyn Pérez
Born 1979
George Rodney Willis
1879 - 1960
Ruben Castillo (judge)
Born 1954
Darlene Tompkins
1940 - 2019
Elizabeth Ann Roberts
Born 1941
Ernest Graves (actor)
1919 - 1983
Chick Fraser
1873 - 1940
Qwel
Born 1980
Rocky Wirtz
Born 1952
Michael Gray (actor)
Born 1951
David Gamman Frodin
1940 - 2019
Raymond Wolf
1904 - 1979
Abbott Pattison
1916 - 1999
Scipio Spinks
Born 1947
Zeron Flemister
Born 1976
Tom Gallery
1897 - 1993
Paul Olefsky
1926 - 2013
Cody Keenan
Born 1980
Lyle Reifsnider
1901 - 1980
Dean A. Pinkert
Born 1956
Bruce Campbell (baseball)
1909 - 1995
Heather McElhatton
Born 1970
Bret Morrison
1912 - 1978
Sheila Elias
Born 1945
Jack Meagher
1896 - 1968
Leona Baumgartner
1902 - 1991
Bobby Neu
1917 - 1971
Howard Platt
Born 1938
Jimmy Snyder (racing driver)
1909 - 1939
Jerome Cosentino
1932 - 1997
Mitch Markovich
Born 1944
Yashar Ali
Born 1979
Eugene Smith (singer)
1921 - 2009
Richard Elrod
1934 - 2014
Marty McManus
1900 - 1966
John E. Burch
1896 - 1969
Sherman Silber
Born 1941
Wayne Smith (defensive back)
Born 1957
Billy Pearson
1920 - 2002
Dante Ridgeway
Born 1984
Martha Williams
1934 - 2007
Sidney Riesenberg
1885 - 1971
Jonathan Daly
Born 1942
Yochi Dreazen
Born 1976
Thomas M. Durkin
Born 1953
Arthur M. Brazier
1921 - 2010
Joseph Berrios
Born 1952
Constance Berry Newman
Born 1935
George Veazey Strong
1880 - 1946
Joshua Swanson
Born 1978
George Gardner Symons
1861 - 1930
William David O'Brien
1878 - 1962
Bob Koehler
1894 - 1949
Sam Kweskin
1924 - 2005
Strings (rapper)
Born 1975
Whitney North Seymour
1901 - 1983
Ken Mayfield
Born 1948
Robert Jay Wolff
1905 - 1978
Leo Rubinfien
Born 1953
Chuck Hedges
1932 - 2010
Jim Johnson (radio)
Born 1945
Ronald F. Youngblood
1931 - 2014
Clyde Emrich
Born 1931
John J. Kelly
1898 - 1957
Paul St. Pierre
1923 - 2014
Irene Britton Smith
1907 - 1999
Ed Pawlowski
Born 1965
Ira Silverstein
Born 1960
Robert Thompson (American football)
Born 1960
Amie Siegel
Born 1974
Angelina Williams
Born 1983
Carol Roth
Born 1973
Merri Dee
Born 1936
Plastic Crimewave
Born 1973
Norman Larsen
1923 - 1970
Ned Calmer
1907 - 1986
Pamela K. Chen
Born 1961
Edward Vebell
1921 - 2018
Tim Rutili
Born 1968
William Church Osborn
1862 - 1951
Bruce Karatz
Born 1945
Darlene Koldenhoven
Born 1950
David Wiggins (jurist)
Born 1951
Martin Dewey McNamara
1896 - 1966
Diana Gibson
1915 - 1991
Howard Witt
1932 - 2017
Stepan Chapman
1951 - 2014
Ronald Clyne
1925 - 2006
James Aloysius Griffin
1883 - 1948
Johnny Dawson
1902 - 1986
Husk O'Hare
1896 - 1970
L. Harvey Gold
Born 1946
Lyle Benjamin Borst
1912 - 2002
Anita Alvarez
Born 1960
Fred Schmind
1881 - 1960
Eric Orner
Born 1965
Andrea Kelly (actress)
Born 1974
Andrew Urdiales
1964 - 2018
Ralf Stoecker
Born 1956
Tom Brennan (baseball)
Born 1952
Dave Kocourek
1937 - 2013
Caesar Giovannini
1925 - 2017
DeWitt Scott
Born 1985
Maria Antonia Berrios
Born 1977
Tony Cogan
Born 1976
Rudolph William Schroeder
1885 - 1952
Bonnie Poe
1912 - 1993
Cynthia Soto
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Jellybean Johnson
Born 1956