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.
Joseph Mell
1915 - 1977
Hortense Canady
1927 - 2010
Joseph T. Hansen
Born 1943
Robert Ian Winstin
1959 - 2010
Phillip Harold Lewis
1922 - 2011
Thomas Roszak
Born 1966
Clara Villarosa
Born 1930
Ronald Kozlicki
Born 1944
Mike Mangan
Born 1975
Aaron Smith (DJ)
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Brandon Williams (tight end)
Born 1987
Dan Alexander (fullback)
Born 1978
Ellsworth Storey
1879 - 1960
Elliott P. Currie
Born 1942
Petronėlė Gerlikienė
1905 - 1979
Tim Toyama
Born 1952
Anthony Wonsey
Born 1972
Boyd Bartley
1920 - 2012
Andy Bean (actor)
Born 1984
Dorothy Dodson
1919 - 2003
Tom Torluemke
Born 1959
John Howes
1924 - 2017
Rosecrans Baldwin
Born 1977
Jimmy Baron
Born 1961
Kenny Onatolu
Born 1982
John Caponera
Born 1959
Steve Fiffer
Born 1950
Carol Huston
Born 1963
Peter DiFronzo
Born 1933
Arnold Kirkeby
1901 - 1962
Bill Thomas (writer)
Born 1943
Harry Bernsen
1925 - 2008
Gene Cichowski
Born 1934
George Meyer (soccer)
Born 1923
Paula Stern
Born 1945
Art Badenoch
1884 - 1972
Mario Tonelli
1916 - 2003
Steve Schrenk
Born 1968
Cynthia Peretti
1948 - 2009
Erin Lawless
Born 1985
Thomas Hynes
1938 - 2019
Deitra Farr
Born 1957
Clarence Applegran
1893 - 1960
Jim Garcia
Born 1944
Chelso Tamagno
1912 - 1986
Frank Gross
1905 - 1960
Lydia Stephans
Born 1960
Rojo Edwards
Born 1977
Oliver Colbentson
1927 - 2013
Alile Sharon Larkin
Born 1953
Marc May
Born 1956
Matt Siber
Born 1972
Anthony Beale
Born 1967
Stan Noskin
Born 1938
Tony Suck
1858 - 1895
Harold Luhnow
1895 - 1978
Victor Adeyanju
Born 1983
Minyon Moore
Born 1958
Louis B. Butler
Born 1952
Voros McCracken
Born 1971
Harry Ivarson
1892 - 1967
Brian Gassaway
Born 1972
Nate Turner
Born 1969
Gustav Hentschel
1896 - 1980
Marvin Freeman
Born 1963
Elbert Crawford
1966 - 2013
Robert J. Walsh
1947 - 2018
Livingston Hall
1903 - 1995
James Patrick O'Leary
1869 - 1925
James Edward Michaels
1926 - 2010
Terry K. Amthor
Born 1958
Latasha Thomas
Born 1965
Ali Ewoldt
Born 1982
Jim Crawford (baseball)
Born 1950
Frank Anger
1939 - 2004
Michael Zimmerman (jurist)
Born 1943
Steve Collier
Born 1963
B. D. Amis
1896 - 1993
Craig Wilson (third baseman, born 1970)
Born 1970
Neal Sales-Griffin
Born 1987
Sherri L. Smith
Born 1971
Nick Moss
Born 1969
Andre Brown (wide receiver)
Born 1966
Da'Ron Brown
Born 1991
Ethan HD
Born 1986
Ida Crouch-Hazlett
1870 - 1941
Willie Farley
Born 1975
Jim Crawford (footballer)
Born 1973
Robert Vehe
Born 1953
Charles Pranke
Born 1936
Julie Friedman
Born 1977
Bobby McClure
1942 - 1992
E. J. Bibbs
Born 1991
Paul Cohen (record producer)
1908 - 1970
Leonard Kelly-Young
Born 1948
Willie Fears
Born 1964
Bridget Gainer
Born 2009
Art Thieme
1941 - 2015
Esther Golar
1946 - 2015
David Oaks
Born 1955
George Hesik
1913 - 1994
Scott Paluch
Born 1966
Ed Winceniak
Born 1929
Karen Ulane
1941 - 1989
Charles Stuart Kennedy
Born 1928
Amy Kohn
Born 1972
Carol Kreeger Davidson
1929 - 2014
Bob Bercich
Born 1936
Harve Brosten
Born 1943
Edwin B. Tilton
1859 - 1926
Michael Tor
1917 - 2009
Timothy J. Tobias
1952 - 2006
William Cunningham (Illinois politician)
Born 1976
William Diver
1921 - 1995
Alf Bauman
1920 - 1980
Alicia Rodríguez (FALN)
Born 1953
Linas Vaitkus
Born 1973
Marshall Brodien
1934 - 2019
Arthur Endrèze
1893 - 1975
Dante Leonelli
Born 1931
Corwin Brown
Born 1970
Danny Downes
Born 1986
Sara Dowse
Born 1938
F.A. Reynolds
1884 - 1960
Cassidy Hubbarth
Born 1984
Morrie Brickman
1917 - 1994
Gary Stochl
Born 1947
Bram Goldsmith
1923 - 2016
Louis Trinca-Pasat
Born 1991
Barry Bearak
Born 1949
Duane Grey
1921 - 2001
James Hugh O'Neill
1892 - 1972
Milt Galatzer
1907 - 1976
Elaine Esposito
1934 - 1978
Rosanne Bailey
1950 - 2016
Tuss McLaughry
1893 - 1974
Zaina Agoro
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Jack Higgins (cartoonist)
Born 1954
Norman C. Paine
1893 - 1955
David Bennett (Maler)
Born 1941
Eileen Brady
Born 1961
Rahsaan Noor
Born 1986
Janet Ayer Fairbank
1878 - 1951
Lou Reizner
1934 - 1977
Dick Wakefield
1921 - 1985
Franklin M. Reck
1896 - 1965
Dan McConchie
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James Robb Church
1866 - 1923
Harold Ernest Goettler
1890 - 1918
Ja'Warren Hooker
Born 1978
Kurt Naebig
Born 1963
Lionel Mark Smith
1946 - 2008
Ed Mieszkowski
1925 - 2004
Thax Douglas
Born 1957
John Skibinski
Born 1955
James R. Cargill
1923 - 2006
Renato Beghe
1933 - 2012
Brian Cogan
Born 1954
Carlos Johnson (blues musician)
Born 1953
Larry Canada
Born 1954
Wyllys Andrews
1916 - 1971
Lucinda Franks
Born 1946
Halim Dhanidina
Born 1970
Eric Parker (American football)
Born 1979
Carl "Buster" Smith
1921 - 1992
Mary Servoss
1888 - 1968
Roy Harvey Pearce
1919 - 2012
Kim A. Williams
Born 1955
John Neely (tennis)
1872 - 1941
Milton S. Florsheim
1868 - 1936
Allen Morris (historian)
1909 - 2002
Mike Strahler
1947 - 2016
Quincy Black
Born 1984
Leslie Hairston
Born 1961
Ken Silvestri
1916 - 1992
Walter Mendenhall
Born 1986
Don Gerard
Born 1965
Bill Radovich
1915 - 2002
Amos Bullocks
Born 1939
Matthew Conrath
Born 1989
Joyce White
Born 2013
Bob Bain
1924 - 2018
Bill Heusner
1927 - 2002
Joanne Gilbert
Born 1932
Andrew C. Isenberg
Born 1964
Mary T. McDowell
Born 1964
Robert Therrien
1947 - 2019
Richard Cottle
Born 1934
Harvey Walden IV
Born 1966
Walter Richardson (swimmer)
Born 1943
Toronzo Cannon
Born 1968
Fred E. Miller
1868 - 1936
Yvonne Brown
1952 - 2012
Adele Givens
Born 1960
Mildred Holland
1869 - 1944
Tom Dublinski
1930 - 2015
Ed Bell
1921 - 1990
Ralf Henricksen
1907 - 1975
Catherine Eddy Beveridge
1881 - 1970
Ed Campion
1915 - 2005
Pearl de Vere
1862 - 1897
Margaret Vanderhye
Born 1948
Joe Hortua
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Ethan Farmer
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Eric Olsen (businessman)
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Tony Ippolito
1917 - 1951
Alicia Eler
Born 1984
Esmond R. Long
1890 - 1979
Ian C. Kelly
Born 1953
Henry Slack
1877 - 1928
Seymour Greenberg
1920 - 2006
Bill Callahan (American football)
Born 1956
Jasmine Kerber
Born 1996
John Schmidt
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Ty Barnett
Born 1975
Glenn Wexler
Born 1963
Mark Arnott
Born 1950
Doug Timm
1960 - 1989
Marvin Thomson
1923 - 1967
Evelyn C. White
Born 1954
Arnold Hauser
1888 - 1966
Doe Boyland
Born 1955
Arnold Doren
1935 - 2003
Ira Hutchinson
1910 - 1973
Frank Interlandi
1924 - 2010
Hank Erickson
1907 - 1964
Charles C. Bradley
1911 - 2002
William Banks (alderman)
Born 1949
Jean Baer
1923 - 1992
Henry Engelhardt
Born 1958
Anthony Napolitano
Born 2015
Kaye Kory
Born 1947
Nancy Detert
Born 1944
Tom Burkhard
Born 1990
Joe Young (American football)
1933 - 2019
Gideon Ray
Born 1973
Bernard Epton
1921 - 1987
Michael Fitzmaurice (actor)
1908 - 1967
Martin Betz
Born 1964
Robert Arthur Sprecher
1917 - 1982
Bridgetta Clark
1891 - 1980
Kristi Cirone
Born 1987
Jeff Hougland
Born 1978
Eleni Vassilika
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Demetrios (Kantzavelos)
Born 1962
Renée Kosel
Born 1943
Frank Shankwitz
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Jim Zulevic
1965 - 2006
Bob Mattick
1933 - 2018
Sharon Steckman
Born 1947
J. J. Sedelmaier
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Greg Kragen
Born 1962
Bernard B. Wolfe
1914 - 2016
Zana
Born 1974
Sean Dockery
Born 1983
Kevin Swords
Born 1960
Marv Rotblatt
1927 - 2013
Roberto Juarez (artist)
Born 1952
Jim Holvay
Born 1945
Ervine Metzl
1899 - 1963
Gene Walter
Born 1960
Marty Block
Born 1950
Ahmo Hight
Born 1973
Lynn Sweet
Born 1961
Pat Bond
1925 - 1990
John Skopec
1880 - 1912
Jerry Fleck
1947 - 2003
Mildred McMillen
1884 - 1940
Bob Zick
1927 - 2017
Polydore Beaulac
1893 - 1981
Augie Vander Meulen
1909 - 1993
Brunon Godlewski
1924 - 1989
Ava Smith
Born 1988
Adam Piatt
Born 1976
Charles Henry Conrad Wright
1869 - 1957
Chip Z'Nuff
Born 1968
Margaret Callahan
Born 1952
Ruth Weisberg
Born 1942
Horace Dean
1814 - 1887
Jim Baker (Musiker)
Born 1950
Leatitia Robinson
Born 1980
Florence Dibell Bartlett
1881 - 1953
Dan Evans (baseball)
Born 1960
Omid Walizadeh
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Julio Finn
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Charles Carpenter
1912 - 1978
Lawrence Meyer
Born 1941
Don Carlsen
1926 - 2002
Frank Hartley (American football)
Born 1967
Steven Landek
Born 1967
Deborah Senn
Born 1949
Pete Grannis
Born 1942
Roderick Wright (politician)
Born 1952
Ed Sweeney
1888 - 1947
Corbin Bryant
Born 1988
Earl Gillespie
1922 - 2003
Lou Gordon (American football)
1908 - 1976
Mike Foy
Born 1962
James Valerio
Born 1938
Henry Herx
1933 - 2012