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.
Ash-har Quraishi
Born 1975
William Jacobs (producer)
1887 - 1953
Kenneth I. Howard
1932 - 2000
Arthur Turner (politician)
Born 1950
Ronne Hartfield
Born 1936
Michael Blair
Born 1974
Mamie Lincoln Isham
1869 - 1938
Curt Wittig
Born 1943
Floyd Theard
1944 - 1985
Chris Kneifel
Born 1961
Charles R. Moore (actor)
1893 - 1947
Frank McErlane
1894 - 1932
Robyn Gabel
Born 1953
Ralph Horween
1896 - 1997
Tom Johnson (American football)
Born 1931
Lillian Drew
1883 - 1924
Mike Connolly (columnist)
1913 - 1966
Leonard Matanky
Born 1958
Walt Linden
1924 - 2013
Bruce D. Benson
Born 1938
Arthur Ryerson
1851 - 1912
William J. Ruane
1925 - 2005
Dick Sipek
1923 - 2005
Frank Brilando
1925 - 2019
Glory Van Scott
Born 1947
Francis William Farrell
1900 - 1981
Erv Dusak
1920 - 1994
Richard Rosen
Born 1949
Ryan Mau
Born 1978
Nancy Barto
-
Andrew H. Schapiro
Born 1963
Seth Caplan
Born 1977
Ian Eastwood
Born 1993
Doris E. Saunders
1921 - 2014
Ferne Jacobs
Born 1942
Edwin Eisendrath
Born 1959
Nan Gindele
1910 - 1992
Raymond Siever
1923 - 2004
William Jackson (gangster)
1920 - 1961
Stan Smagala
Born 1968
Erwin Prasse
1917 - 2005
Damond Williams
Born 1980
Marcellas Reynolds
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Edwin Kuh
1925 - 1986
Mitch Glasser
Born 1989
William Bross Lloyd
1875 - 1946
Grace Rohrer
1924 - 2011
John N. Maclean
Born 1943
James Dunne O'Connell
1899 - 1984
James D. Norris
1906 - 1966
Michael J. Zalewski
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Don West (wrestling)
Born 1963
Charles H. Henry
1937 - 2016
Maralou Gray
Born 1931
Yvonne Marceau
-
Jose Munoz (baseball)
Born 1967
Lisa Evers
Born 1963
Clarence John Boettiger
1900 - 1950
Pete Sykaras
Born 1979
Rusty Lane
1899 - 1986
Bob Sipchen
Born 1953
Jane Webb
1925 - 2010
L. William O'Connell
1890 - 1985
Frank Dasso
1917 - 2009
Lenore Thomas Straus
1909 - 1988
Royce Parran
Born 1985
Michael Strautmanis
Born 1969
Fred Goetz
1897 - 1934
Barbara Jones-Hogu
1938 - 2017
Chauncey Samuel Boucher
1886 - 1955
John Mallee
Born 1969
Christian Hopkins
Born 1985
Bus Mertes
1921 - 2002
John Mulroe
Born 1959
Mike Byster
Born 1959
James P. Liautaud
1936 - 2015
Sigurd Roll
1893 - 1944
Marty Brill (comedian)
Born 1932
Bob Weiland
1905 - 1988
Terry Fox (baseball)
Born 1935
Josh Berman (Musiker)
Born 1972
Emerson C. Itschner
1903 - 1995
Joevan Catron
Born 1988
Mieczysław B. Biskupski
Born 1948
Jerris Leonard
1931 - 2006
Harley Gaber
1943 - 2011
Erik R. Fleming
Born 1965
Lillian Cornell
1916 - 2015
Eugene L. Grant
1897 - 1996
Shamar Bailey
Born 1982
Mitch Johnson
Born 1942
Arnie Bernstein
Born 1960
Jim Hickey (baseball)
Born 1961
Kimberly A. Lightford
Born 1968
Helga Hengge
Born 1966
Joel Chasnoff
Born 1973
Pam MacKinnon
Born 1968
Jane Skinner
Born 1967
Tom Tunney
Born 1955
Louis Taylor
Born 1979
Arthur C. Lundahl
1915 - 1992
Virginia Healey Asher
1869 - 1937
Charley O'Leary
1882 - 1941
Arthur Lawrence Hellyer Jr.
1923 - 2018
Terry J. Hatter Jr.
Born 1933
William Joseph Campbell
1905 - 1988
Robert J. Conrad
Born 1958
Lawrence Schaeffer
1947 - 2018
Richard McPartland
1905 - 1957
Marty Wendell
1926 - 2012
Robin Robinson
Born 1957
Donald Putnam Abbott
1920 - 1986
Jeff Mauro
Born 1978
John Gould Moyer
1893 - 1976
Robyne Robinson
Born 1961
Ethel Beatty
1873 - 1932
Jane Park
Born 1986
Anne Howard (actress)
1925 - 1991
Robert V. Guthrie
1930 - 2005
Ed Cherney
Died 2019
Perry Anzilotti
Born 1959
David Estrada (boxer)
Born 1978
Brad Cresswell
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Anna de Koven
1862 - 1953
Jack Karwales
1920 - 2004
Mel Henke
1915 - 1979
Patricia R. Bellock
Born 1946
Amy Webb
Born 1977
William E. Peterson
Born 1936
Rick Olczyk
Born 1970
Ronnie Knox
1935 - 1992
Lawrence Langowski
Born 1985
Chris Gustin
Born 1952
Dick Stahlman
1902 - 1970
Peter Gusenberg
1889 - 1929
Ray Loring
1943 - 2008
Clifton James (Musiker)
Born 1936
Louise Campbell (actress)
1911 - 1997
Wally Lemm
1919 - 1988
Derrick Gardner
Born 1965
George Hogan (basketball)
1915 - 1965
Laura Hall (musician)
Born 1961
Corey Ray
Born 1994
Bryan McClendon
Born 1983
Robert M. Kingdon
1927 - 2010
M.H. Hoffman
1881 - 1944
Timothy S. Hillman
Born 1948
Edwin R. Chess
1913 - 2000
Paul H. Robinson Jr.
Born 1930
Zygmont Czarobski
1922 - 1984
Sean Cattouse
Born 1988
Elise Asher
1912 - 2004
Tom Bettis
1933 - 2015
Ed Taylor (infielder)
1901 - 1992
Gordon Davis
Born 1941
Ronald Larsen
Born 1930
Gale Cincotta
1929 - 2001
Mary Yu
Born 1957
Joseph Ritz
1929 - 2016
Donald W. Banner
1924 - 2006
Brian Schmack
Born 1973
Gerald O. Young
1930 - 1990
Kaz Boyle
Born 1976
James Edward Fitzgerald (bishop)
1938 - 2003
Michael Colyar
Born 1957
Philip F. Deaver
1946 - 2018
Loni Hancock
Born 1940
Burt Prelutsky
Born 1940
Freddie Barnes
Born 1986
Jack M. Greenberg
Born 1942
John W. Darrah
1938 - 2017
James Underdown
Born 1960
Lee Weiner
Born 1939
Trenidad Hubbard
Born 1966
Otto Kerner Sr.
1884 - 1952
Howie Gordon
Born 1971
Eva Guzman
Born 1961
David Madden
Born 1955
Corey Postiglione
Born 1942
Rudolf Christian Ziesenhenne
1911 - 2005
Mick Betancourt
Born 1978
Wale Dada
Born 1983
Rick Holbrook
1948 - 2007
Nico Santucci
Born 1962
Leo Dixon
1894 - 1984
Thania St. John
-
James Henry Alesia
1934 - 2003
Al Stiller
1923 - 2004
Jon W. Finson
Born 1950
Chris Covington
Born 1996
Mickey Oliver
Born 1963
Derrick Smith (politician)
Born 2013
Eddie Riska
1919 - 1992
Billy Martin (halfback)
1938 - 1976
Frank J. Christensen
Born 1961
Robert Olesen
Born 1967
Howard Buck (poet)
1894 - 1947
Clara Lipman
1864 - 1952
Crazy Schmit
1866 - 1940
Vigalantee
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Chris Jacobs (television host)
Born 1970
Gene Wolande
Born 1956
Bob Fitzgerald
Born 1968
Tari Segal
Born 1981
Zach Norvell Jr.
Born 1997
Tim McGarigle
Born 1983
Jane Calvin
Born 1938
Albert Byrd
1915 - 1990
Donn Pall
Born 1962
Robert Hughes (American football)
Born 1989
Milan Christopher
Born 1984
Allen Shapiro
Born 1947
Jeanette Pasin Sloan
Born 1946
Andrew Palmer (racing driver)
Born 1994
Jeanne Hurley Simon
1922 - 2000
Boo Davis
Born 1982
Bill Haarlow
1913 - 2003
Caroline Lee
1932 - 2014
Cornbread Harris
Born 1927
Jeff Jur
Born 1955
Franklin Green
Born 1933
René González
Born 1956
Jack Burke (boxer)
1875 - 1942
Butch Baird
Born 1936
William P. MacCracken Jr.
1888 - 1969
Paul Sanasardo
Born 1928
Abraham Burton Cohen
1882 - 1956
Alexandriani Sikelianou
-
Margaret Horton Potter
1881 - 1911
M. Larry Lawrence
1926 - 1996
Ralph Therrio
Born 1954
Robert Nieman
Born 1947
Dorothy James
1901 - 1982
Margo Georgiadis
-
Chris Calloway
Born 1968
Einar Axel Malmstrom
1907 - 1954
Brooke Barrettsmith
Born 1982
Keith Hefner
1929 - 2016
Stuart E. McGowan
1904 - 1999
Steven Whitehurst
Born 1967
Sam Rizzetta
Born 1942
Cory Harkey
Born 1990
Jim Knapp
Born 1939
Jeffrey Saad
Born 1967
H. Gary Morse
1936 - 2014
Mike Hoban
Born 1952
John Harrington (politician)
Born 1956
Władysław Galica
1900 - 1943
Paul Kremer
Born 1971
Mattie Hunter
Born 1954
Lee Willerman
1939 - 1997
Jackie Klein
Born 1937
William Wrigley III
1933 - 1999
Joseph D. Kearney
-
Mike Ronay Evans
Born 1959
Irving Slosberg
Born 1947
Neil Bluhm
Born 1938
James DuMont
Born 1965
Bob Spoo
1937 - 2018
Glynn Watson Jr.
Born 1997
Ray Ciarrocchi
Born 1933
Avis Kimble
Born 1944
Jinx Titanic
Born 1968
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
1893 - 1967
Maurice Fleming
Born 1993
Litesa Wallace
Born 1978
Vanessa Renwick
Born 1961
Georgia Glastris
Born 1992
Lew Lipton
1897 - 1961
Al Piechota
1914 - 1996
Calla Urbanski
Born 1960
Mel Agee
1968 - 2008
James R. Stein
Born 1950
Maggi McNellis
1917 - 1989
Norm Amundsen
Born 1932
Mike Swistowicz
1927 - 1973
Mary Nolan (politician)
Born 1954
Ronald Gora
1933 - 2014
Larry Reithmaier
1921 - 2015
Angela Brown
Born 1953
Lil Mouse
Born 1999
Steve Taylor
Born 1993
John Wyatt (baseball)
1935 - 1998
Sarah Haskins (comedian)
Born 1979
Phillip Hayes Dean
1931 - 2014
Louis Fortis
Born 1947
Robert Daley (producer)
Died 2016
Waldo Hunt
1920 - 2009
Barrie Jean Borich
Born 1959
Bill Webb (second baseman)
1895 - 1943
Patricia Blagojevich
Born 1965
Mike Kerrigan
Born 1960
Caitlin Leahy
Born 1989
Marguerite Norris
1927 - 1994
Martin Quigley Jr.
1917 - 2011
Danielle Morse
Born 1972
Patricia Kara
Born 1972
Meg Wittner
Born 1950
Weedon Osborne
1892 - 1918
Jeff Austin (acteur)
Born 1954