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.
Chester Rutecki
1916 - 1976
Clare Randolph
1907 - 1972
Rayna Prohme
1894 - 1927
Jarrett Maier
Born 1998
Alfred Juergens
1866 - 1934
Carl Bonafede
Born 1940
Mary Pat Kelly
Born 1944
Robert Bacon (Iowa politician)
Born 1955
Lois Lilienstein
1934 - 2015
Virginia Richmond Reynolds
1866 - 1903
Craig Chudy
Born 1937
Ewald Backe
1897 - 1968
Ray Brown (National League pitcher)
1889 - 1955
Fred Holmes
1904 - 1986
Nicole Chevalier
-
Jim Wulff
1936 - 2000
Phillip B. Williams
Born 1986
Alexander Herman Schutz
1894 - 1964
Kimberly Teehee
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Thomas Martin Thompson
1955 - 1989
Nicole Couch
Born 1969
Paul Patterson (neuroscientist)
1943 - 2014
Ken Purdy
1913 - 1972
Robert Krimmer
Born 1953
David Allais
Born 1933
Robert Irsay
1923 - 1997
George Cisar (baseball)
1910 - 2010
Tim O'Rourke
1864 - 1938
Page Morton Black
1915 - 2013
Herbert Blitzstein
1934 - 1997
Paul Olden
Born 1953
Ron Lieber
Born 1971
Bart Macomber
1894 - 1971
Janet Zarish
Born 1954
Frank Coughlin
1896 - 1951
Greg Ward (Musiker)
Born 1982
Dominic Capone
Born 1975
Ron Smith (defensive back)
1943 - 2013
Dimitra Korri
Born 1992
Blanche M. Manning
1934 - 2020
Mary Gehr
1913 - 1997
Joseph Thornton (biologist)
Born 1965
Rob Eiter
Born 1967
Willard Warch
1909 - 2002
John Hollison
1870 - 1969
Pablo Kast
Born 1973
Tom Foran
1924 - 2000
John Bay
1928 - 1982
Walter Lundin
1892 - 1954
Dan Santucci
Born 1983
Roe Conn
Born 1964
Ruth Johnson Colvin
Born 1917
Robert Schommer
1946 - 2001
George Zack
1910 - 1952
Fred Gillies
1895 - 1974
Joe Beauchamp
1944 - 2020
Ronnie Fields
Born 1977
Ravyn Lenae
Born 1999
Aurelia E. Brazeal
Born 1943
Patrick R. Daley
Born 1975
Lucille Wallace
1898 - 1977
Susan RoAne
Born 1945
Lewis Lee Hawkins
1930 - 1973
Derek Stingley
Born 1971
William A. Redmond
1908 - 1992
Jumbo Schoeneck
1862 - 1930
William J. Small
1927 - 2020
Steve Baumgartner
Born 1951
John P. Daley
Born 1946
Elaine Shore
1929 - 2007
Florence Kirsch Du Brul
1915 - 2005
Melissa Winter
Born 1967
T. D. A. Lingo
1924 - 1993
James Deuter
1939 - 2010
Carl Olaf Bue Jr.
Born 1922
Phill Wilson
Born 1956
Ed Brown (baseball)
1771 - 1844
Scott Stearney
1960 - 2018
Michelle Kosilek
Born 1949
Dick Rusteck
Born 1941
Philip Majerus
1936 - 2016
Jim Woods (baseball)
Born 1939
Cory Miller
Born 1988
Al Hoisington
Born 1933
Art Turner
Born 1982
Maryann Krieglstein
Born 1944
Mitchell P. Kobelinski
1928 - 1997
Nancy Rutledge
1901 - 1976
William Ferris
1937 - 2000
Michael Hornburg
Born 1960
Jacob Schaefer Jr.
1894 - 1975
Adolf Franz Beck
1892 - 1949
Steven Zimmerman
Born 1957
Larry Bradford
1949 - 1998
Gary Leib
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Tom Keating (American football)
1942 - 2012
Jonathan Nesci
Born 1981
Wilbur Campbell
1926 - 1999
Frank Henderson (Idaho politician)
1922 - 2015
Herbert Taylor (swimmer)
1892 - 1965
Leslie O'Connor
1889 - 1966
Edward Warren Sawyer
1876 - 1932
Frank Roth
1878 - 1955
Tony Pape
Born 1981
Jerrold Howard Zar
Born 1941
Michael Kempner
Born 1958
Ted Watkins
1941 - 1968
Albert Richard Sendrey
1911 - 2003
Jamie Foster Brown
Born 1946
Lance Lenoir
Born 1995
Raymond Battalio
1938 - 2004
Douglas Killmer
1947 - 2005
Gary Sherman (politician)
Born 1949
Yashua Klos
Born 1977
Don Stonesifer
Born 1927
Carol Duncan
Born 1936
Joseph A. Tunzi
Born 1953
Wallace Parker
1898 - 1972
Chris Watson (American football)
Born 1977
Charlie Pechous
1896 - 1980
Tom Higgenson
Born 1979
Bruce Dobler
1939 - 2010
Jim Psaltis
Born 1927
Jean Emily Henley
1910 - 1994
Bea Barrett
1916 - 2002
Susan Murphy-Milano
Died 2012
Sam Distefano
1926 - 2015
Bill Reinhardt
1908 - 2001
Marc Wolff
Born 1947
Albert Borowitz
Born 1930
Keith Harris (record producer)
Born 1976
Dick Fencl
1910 - 1972
Marco Thomas
Born 1983
Mike Scully (American football)
Born 1965
Andrew Athens
1921 - 2013
Johnny Groth
Born 1926
Alan Howard (dancer)
1931 - 2003
Joseph S. Van Bokkelen
Born 1943
Chet Tollstam
1918 - 2003
Lou Skizas
Born 1932
Myron S. Cohen
Born 1950
Albert R. Behnke
1903 - 1992
Henry Roberts Symonds
1891 - 1968
John Davis (pitcher, born 1963)
Born 1963
Louis Munroe Dennis
1863 - 1936
John Reese Stevenson
1921 - 1997
Lee Bernet
Born 1944
The Vixen (drag queen)
Born 1990
Irene Leverton
1927 - 2017
Otto K. Eitel
1901 - 1983
Geoffrey Cowan
Born 1942
Wally Millies
1906 - 1995
Rick Kaplan
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Charlie Gauer
1921 - 1973
A. R. Morlan
1958 - 2016
John Kenerson
1938 - 1995
Reggie Gray
Born 1984
Steve Kordek
1911 - 2012
Joe Skibinski
1928 - 2015
Michael Carlson
Born 1974
Jack Sharkey (Schriftsteller)
1931 - 1992
Flukey Stokes
1937 - 1986
Holle Thee Maxwell
Born 1945
Jim Jones (offensive guard)
Born 1978
Joe Carey (American football)
1895 - 1962
Howard Smit
1911 - 2009
Nicholas John Bua
1925 - 2002
Jeffrey Jordan
Born 1988
Walter Stanley
Born 1962
Michael D. Healy
1926 - 2018
Jeffrey Rignall
1952 - 2000
John Nuckolls
Born 1930
Robert Sandifer
1983 - 1994
Clarence Janecek
1911 - 1990
Marilyn Skoglund
Born 1946
Corey Mays
Born 1983
Aaron Dixon
Born 1949
Toni Schlesinger
Born 1946
Mar Awa Royel
Born 1975
Donald J. Kutyna
Born 1933
Milan C. Miskovsky
1926 - 2009
Garrison Norton
1900 - 1995
Nicole DeBoom
Born 1972
Nick Adduci
1929 - 2005
Charles Rutherford
Born 1928
Arthur W. Bates
1883 - 1972
Bernard Brindel
1912 - 1997
Siggie Nordstrom
1893 - 1980
Rudy Kemmler
1860 - 1909
Ed Conwell
1890 - 1926
Kenneth Brown (journalist)
Born 1868
Tony Pasquesi
1933 - 2016
David Cabán
Born 1993
Larry Murray (baseball)
Born 1953
Jim Barone
Born 1941
Walt Cudzik
1932 - 2005
Peter Doroshenko
Born 1962
Bernie Halstrom
1895 - 1951
Maggie Crotty
Born 1948
June Beebe
1913 - 2003
Barbara Alby
1946 - 2012
Richard Cotovsky
Born 1954
Dorothy Schiller
1916 - 1992
Freddrenna Lyle
-
Larry Cameron
1952 - 1993
Iris Berger
Born 1941
Teddy Campbell
Born 1975
Bill Janis
Born 1962
Johnny Thompson
1934 - 2019
Joy Bale Boone
1912 - 2002
Tom Allen (Sänger)
Born 1965
Howie Shanks
1890 - 1941
Cherylin Peniston
Born 1948
Pete Rodriguez (American football)
1940 - 2014
Lynne Karen Deutsch
1956 - 2004
Super Maxx
Born 1959
Jeremiah E. Joyce
Born 1943
Austin Jones (musician)
Born 1992
Joyce Chiang
1970 - 1999
Don Johnson (American football)
Born 1920
Bill Page
1925 - 2017
Stefi Baum
Born 1958
Thelonious Martin
Born 1992
Gibby Brack
1908 - 1960
Mitch Jacobson
Born 1963
Christopher Cantwell (filmmaker)
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Lefty Atkinson
1904 - 1961
Jeffrey Feinstein
Born 1945
Arnie Morton
1922 - 2005
Lia Halloran
Born 1977
Greg Westbrooks
Born 1953
Jackie Kazarian
-
Ricky Dillard
Born 1965
Susan Kerslake
Born 1943
Robert James Dvorak
1919 - 2020
Eric Bach
-
Edward J. Moskala
1921 - 1945
Peter J. Countryman
1942 - 1992
Ralph W. Chaney
1890 - 1971
Robert Munic
Born 1968
Lance Skiiiwalker
-
Bob Gibe
1928 - 2005
Henry F. Hoit
1872 - 1951
James Tyler (bobsleigh)
Born 1960
Paul Serrano
1932 - 2015
Tom Asmussen
1878 - 1963
Paulus Skopp
1905 - 1999
Warren Winiarski
Born 1928
Chris Stack
-
Joel Iyiegbuniwe
Born 1995
Frank Bliss
1852 - 1929
Abhay Patel
Born 1976
Leonard Jones (Bassist)
Born 1943
Manson Gibson
Born 1963
Quentin Earl Darrington
Born 1977
Sean Evans (interviewer)
Born 1986
Sean (cartoonist)
1935 - 2005
Mary Bartelme
1866 - 1954
Gust Tsilis
Born 1956
Mary Agnes Moroney
Born 1928
Jaboukie Young-White
Born 1994
George Paulus
1948 - 2014
John Sullivan (shortstop)
1920 - 2007
Dennis Trammell
Born 1982
Edward C. Krzyzowski
1914 - 1951
Joel Robbin
Born 1941
Cliff Benson
Born 1961
Ida Platt
1863 - 1939
Arne Harris
1934 - 2001
Esmundo Rodriguez
Born 1977
Ashley A. Woods
Born 1986
Gertrude Bryan
1888 - 1976
Milton L. Olive III
1946 - 1965
Robert S. Rivkin
Born 1960
Clem Clemens
1886 - 1967
Richard Himmel
1920 - 2000
Joseph J. McCarthy
1911 - 1996
Rommie Amaro
-
Tara Chocol
Born 1973
Nikko Briteramos
Born 1983
Annette P. Jimerson
Born 1966
Phil Orsi
Born 1939
Frank Wilton
1905 - 1977
William S. Wallace
Born 1946
Anthony Pritzker
Born 1961
Lou Brock Jr.
Born 1964
Justus George Lawler
Born 1927
Bobby Dotter
Born 1960
Denny Doyle (politician)
Born 1949
Charlie Blackburn
1895 - 1984
Karen Hasara
Born 1940
John McDonough (sports executive)
Born 1953
Judd Parkin
Born 1952
Jimmy Tays
1899 - 1986
Irwin Rosenhouse
1924 - 2002
Rebecca Haarlow
Born 1978
Steve Richmond
Born 1959
Elaine Baxter
Born 1933
Walter Steffen
1886 - 1937
Bill White (bobsleigh)
Born 1959