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.
Lincoln Ellsworth
1880 - 1951
Robert Axelrod
Born 1943
Howard S. Becker
Born 1928
Baby Face Nelson
1908 - 1934
Carol Moseley Braun
Born 1947
Jason Gedrick
Born 1965
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Born 1974
Nina Siemaszko
Born 1970
Kinky Friedman
Born 1944
Marisol Nichols
Born 1973
Bruce Beutler
Born 1957
Carl Foreman
1914 - 1984
Ken Wahl
Born 1954
George Marshall (director)
1891 - 1975
Jessie Royce Landis
1896 - 1972
Trevor Morgan (actor)
Born 1986
Darryl Jones
Born 1961
Martin Chalfie
Born 1947
Anthony Braxton
Born 1945
Geoff Pierson
Born 1949
Louis Leon Thurstone
1887 - 1955
Barbara Alyn Woods
Born 1962
Rachel Talalay
Born 1958
Ben Savage
Born 1980
Graham Moore (writer)
Born 1981
Casey Siemaszko
Born 1961
Steve Harris (actor)
Born 1965
H. Robert Horvitz
Born 1947
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
Born 1963
Robert Keohane
Born 1941
Loleatta Holloway
1946 - 2011
Neil Strauss
Born 1973
Barbara McNair
1934 - 2007
Emily Alyn Lind
Born 2002
Johnny Griffin
1928 - 2008
James McDivitt
Born 1929
Kurt Elling
Born 1967
Mike Resnick
1942 - 2020
Edward Stettinius Jr.
1900 - 1949
Melvin Van Peebles
Born 1932
Heather Burns
Born 1975
Noah Gray-Cabey
Born 1995
Lisa Zane
Born 1961
Mercedes Lackey
Born 1950
Matt O'Leary
Born 1987
Gene Siskel
1946 - 1999
Alley Mills
Born 1951
Chloe Bennet
Born 1992
Michael Hudson (economist)
Born 1939
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Born 1930
Rosa Blasi
Born 1972
Exene Cervenka
Born 1956
Ramsey Lewis
Born 1935
Andy Tennant
Born 1955
Roy Thinnes
Born 1938
Felix da Housecat
Born 1971
Nella Larsen
1891 - 1964
Doc Rivers
Born 1961
Dan Lipinski
Born 1966
Harold Washington
1922 - 1987
Deval Patrick
Born 1956
Lynn-Holly Johnson
Born 1958
Mark Damon
Born 1933
Don Cornelius
1936 - 2012
Tim Hardaway
Born 1966
Donovan McNabb
Born 1976
Stanley Jordan
Born 1959
Gilbert Strang
Born 1934
Mimsy Farmer
Born 1945
Mark McCormack
1930 - 2003
Alison Lurie
1926 - 2020
Robert Z. Leonard
1889 - 1968
Gene Ammons
1925 - 1974
David Gerrold
Born 1944
John Stagliano
Born 1951
Jonathan Sadowski
Born 1979
Maeve Quinlan
Born 1964
Charles Beaumont
1929 - 1967
Jason Jordan
Born 1988
Kalisto (wrestler)
Born 1986
Alexa Nikolas
Born 1992
Mason Gamble
Born 1986
Michelle Stafford
Born 1965
Donald Johanson
Born 1943
Vincent du Vigneaud
1901 - 1978
Gregory Chaitin
Born 1947
Terry Callier
1945 - 2012
Jill Soloway
Born 1965
Michael Angelo Batio
Born 1956
Gene Deitch
1924 - 2020
Stan Shaw
Born 1952
Lalah Hathaway
Born 1968
Blanche Sweet
1896 - 1986
Mary Philbin
1903 - 1993
Nyomi Banxxx
Born 1972
Steve Goodman
1948 - 1984
Michael Muhney
Born 1975
Edward O. Thorp
Born 1932
Francis Parker Yockey
1917 - 1960
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Lance LeGault
1935 - 2012
Francis George
1937 - 2015
Lewis Arquette
1935 - 2001
Jan Schakowsky
Born 1944
Don Hahn
Born 1955
Dorothy Kilgallen
1913 - 1965
Liesel Pritzker Simmons
Born 1984
Kenneth Choi
Born 1971
Janet Jagan
1920 - 2009
Nicholas Metropolis
1915 - 1999
Aries Spears
Born 1975
Richard J. Daley
1902 - 1976
John Beck (actor)
Born 1943
Samm Levine
Born 1982
Fred Saberhagen
1930 - 2007
Aries Merritt
Born 1985
George Jackson (activist)
1941 - 1971
James Eckhouse
Born 1955
William A. Dembski
Born 1960
Bruce Alberts
Born 1938
Stanford Moore
1913 - 1982
Brian Kerwin
Born 1949
Frankie Darro
1917 - 1976
Dennis DeYoung
Born 1947
Larry Gelbart
1928 - 2009
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Luis Gutiérrez
Born 1953
Dolores Gray
1924 - 2002
Arne Duncan
Born 1964
Muhal Richard Abrams
1930 - 2017
Burne Hogarth
1911 - 1996
Todd Stashwick
Born 1968
Bruce Rauner
Born 1957
Jim Sensenbrenner
Born 1943
Agnes Nixon
1922 - 2016
Chris Morgan (writer)
Born 1966
Virginia Rappe
1891 - 1921
Jill Talley
Born 1962
Todd Rokita
Born 1970
Juwan Howard
Born 1973
Gary Rydstrom
Born 1959
Richard A. Knaak
Born 1961
Marion Mahony Griffin
1871 - 1961
Tommy Sands (American singer)
Born 1937
Steve Coleman
Born 1956
Larry Zbyszko
Born 1951
Tom Towles
1950 - 2015
Cashis
Born 1982
Tempestt Bledsoe
Born 1973
Jean Wallace
1923 - 1990
John McNaughton
Born 1950
Terry Kath
1946 - 1978
Allan Sherman
1924 - 1973
Alvin M. Weinberg
1915 - 2006
Richard Laymon
1947 - 2001
Albert Ammons
1907 - 1949
Otis Taylor (musician)
Born 1948
Ring Lardner Jr.
1915 - 2000
Bailey Chase
Born 1972
Rod La Rocque
1898 - 1969
Mike Douglas
1925 - 2006
Benjamin Libet
1916 - 2007
Lynd Ward
1905 - 1985
Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)
Born 1971
Arthur W. Radford
1896 - 1973
George Furth
1932 - 2008
Adam Rifkin
Born 1966
Steve Grand
Born 1990
John Jakes
Born 1932
Chris Chelios
Born 1962
Herman Goldstine
1913 - 2004
Robert Ressler
1937 - 2013
Bruce Glover
Born 1932
Lana Rhoades
Born 1996
Jay Chandrasekhar
Born 1968
Tim O'Connor (actor)
1927 - 2018
Barry Gifford
Born 1946
Charles Comiskey
1859 - 1931
Hillary Wolf
Born 1977
Ashley Crow
Born 1960
Joanna Merlin
Born 1931
Landry Bender
Born 2000
David Arkenstone
Born 1952
Clifford Jordan
1931 - 1993
Michael T. Weiss
Born 1962
Robert Ardrey
1908 - 1980
John Myung
Born 1967
Freddy Cole
1931 - 2020
John Mulaney
Born 1982
Eddie Harris
1934 - 1996
Aaron McGruder
Born 1974
Suze Orman
Born 1951
Larry Manetti
Born 1947
Patrick Beverley
Born 1988
Adrian Zmed
Born 1954
Ed Ricketts
1897 - 1948
John Ridgely
1909 - 1968
Skip Homeier
1930 - 2017
Sidney Coleman
1937 - 2007
Ken Mattingly
Born 1936
Joyce Jameson
1932 - 1987
Wilfred Jackson
1906 - 1988
Marshall Jefferson
Born 1959
Cory Hardrict
Born 1979
Sherman Howard
Born 1949
Dan Rostenkowski
1928 - 2010
Tim Walberg
Born 1951
Deborah Voigt
Born 1960
Lisa Boyle
Born 1964
Darlene Conley
1934 - 2007
Adrian Smith (architect)
Born 1944
Ray Stark
1915 - 2004
Jim McDermott
Born 1936
Lisa Darr
Born 1963
Penny Pritzker
Born 1959
Robert Lorenz
Born 1965
Frank Rosenthal
1929 - 2008
Clara Kimball Young
1890 - 1960
Rosalyn Tureck
1914 - 2003
Antoine Walker
Born 1976
Carla Laemmle
1909 - 2014
Joseph Finder
Born 1958
Robert Barron (bishop)
Born 1959
Mezz Mezzrow
1899 - 1972
Waldo Salt
1914 - 1987
Antwon Tanner
Born 1975
Tom Gries
1922 - 1977
Iceberg Slim
1918 - 1992
Ed Thigpen
1930 - 2010
Wesley Willis
1963 - 2003
Ali Cobrin
Born 1989
Frederic Raphael
Born 1931
Zim Zum
Born 1969
Hamilton Luske
1903 - 1968
Morgan Saylor
Born 1994
Jacky Rosen
Born 1957
James T. Farrell
1904 - 1979
William Pereira
1909 - 1985
Frank M. Robinson
1926 - 2014
Ned Block
Born 1942
Terrence C. Carson
Born 1958
Meade Lux Lewis
1905 - 1964
Joey Slotnick
Born 1968
Phil Karlson
1908 - 1985
Robert Townsend (actor)
Born 1957
Amy Wright
Born 1950
Adlai Stevenson III
Born 1930
Christine Korsgaard
Born 1952
Drew Sidora
Born 1985
James Goldman
1927 - 1998
Mayo Methot
1904 - 1951
William Sterling Parsons
1901 - 1953
Milton Sills
1882 - 1930
Jon Walker
Born 1985
Alan Curtis (American actor)
1909 - 1953
Verdine White
Born 1951
Clifton Davis
Born 1945
John Allen Paulos
Born 1945
Stanley Andrews
1891 - 1969
Jonathan Cain
Born 1950
Skee-Lo
Born 1973
Virginia Valli
1898 - 1968
Mike Hagerty
Born 1954
Theodore Roszak (scholar)
1933 - 2011
Steven Levitan
Born 1962
Andrew Hill (jazz musician)
1931 - 2007
Brett Halliday
1904 - 1977
Sue Carol
1906 - 1982
Kevin Hagen
1928 - 2005
Janet Hubert
Born 1956
Susan Lindquist
1949 - 2016
Fred Lynn
Born 1952
Stuart M. Kaminsky
1934 - 2009
Laura Harrier
Born 1990
Ben Sidran
Born 1943
Mike Royko
1932 - 1997
Andrea Jaeger
Born 1965
Madge Kennedy
1891 - 1987
Patricia Barber
Born 1955
Mark Lenard
1924 - 1996
Julian May
1931 - 2017
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Born 1941
Sheldon Harnick
Born 1924
Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician)
1932 - 2007
Arlene Golonka
Born 1936
Amy Hempel
Born 1951
Fritz Pollard
1894 - 1986
Carl Laemmle Jr.
1908 - 1979
Lucas Neff
Born 1985
William M. Daley
Born 1948
DeAndre Liggins
Born 1988
Deborah Pratt
Born 1951
Rondell Sheridan
Born 1958
Henry Hyde
1924 - 2007
Jimmy Yancey
1894 - 1951
Finley Peter Dunne
1867 - 1936
Vic Mensa
Born 1993
Shawnna
Born 1978
Irwin Kostal
1911 - 1994
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
1965 - 2017