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.
Austin Downes
Born 1907
Charlie Uhlir
1912 - 1984
Joe Burg
1882 - 1969
Danny Russo
1885 - 1944
Zach Richter
Born 1984
Harry Lowell
Born 1971
Marjorie Hoshelle
1918 - 1989
Antonious Bonner
Born 1972
Leonard Drake
1954 - 2010
Casey Ribicoff
1922 - 2011
Belle Wheelan
Born 1951
Thomas E. Hogan
Born 1959
George Donnelly (American football)
Born 1942
John McGrath (New South Wales politician)
1893 - 1971
Vincent Wilburn
Born 1958
William S. Bond (tennis)
1876 - 1951
Cal Lepore
1919 - 2002
Fred Truax
1868 - 1899
Dan Goich
Born 1944
Milton Polin
Died 2018
Knox Fortune
Born 1992
Tom Fischer
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LeRoy Martin
1929 - 2013
John S. Gleason Jr.
1915 - 1993
Paul Podmajersky
1916 - 1993
Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan
1897 - 1975
Vivian G. Harsh
1890 - 1960
Louis S. Kahnweiler
1919 - 2017
Florence Hull Winterburn
Born 1858
Nicholas Smith (Illinois politician)
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Harry Chaddick
1902 - 1994
Henry Szymanski
1898 - 1959
Bob Gajda
Born 1940
Boney Fields
Born 1958
Paloma Lokus
Born 1997
Steven Graff
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R. Jeffrey Smith
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Terriun Crump
Born 1989
Phyllis Adair
1919 - 1990
Sal Gliatto
1902 - 1995
Frohawk Two Feathers
Born 1976
George Meyer (baseball)
1909 - 1992
L.B. 'Kyle' Keilman
Born 1951
Bill Geiss
1858 - 1924
Larry McKinley
1927 - 2013
Bill Gaiver
Born 1898
Judd Tully
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Jeff Pardo
Born 1981
Larry Strands
1885 - 1957
Jim Bredar
1931 - 1997
William L. Murphy
1944 - 2010
Felix Weir
1884 - 1978
William Kincaid
Born 1957
R.O.E.
Born 1987
Dutch Marion
1902 - 1985
Max W. Heck
1869 - 1938
Zenon B. Lukosius
1918 - 2006
Frank Luther (Bassist)
Born 1944
Charlie Butler
1920 - 2014
Kathryn A. Oberly
Born 1950
Margaret Cobb Ailshie
1883 - 1959
Robert F. Dunn
Born 1928
Matthew J. Walsh
1882 - 1963
Celina Villanueva
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Bob Kelly (American football, born 1925)
Born 1925
Victor S. Johnson Jr.
1916 - 2008
Randy Clark (American football)
Born 1957
William Carey Cole
1868 - 1935
Evelyn Lovequist
1931 - 1996
Mike Moynahan
1856 - 1899
JaMiss
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Milt Scott
1861 - 1938
Alejandro Arias
Born 1992
Louis Theophiel Duerinck
1929 - 2008
Delvon Johnson
Born 1989
Peter Letsos
Born 1979
Margaret Vinci Heldt
1918 - 2016
Ray Adams
1912 - 1992
Alyce McCormick
1904 - 1932
Joe Smith (Schlagzeuger)
Born 1971
Lin Evola
Born 1950
Mike McCahey
Born 1954
John J. Stamos
1924 - 2017
Robert Walsh
Born 1993
David Sawyer (rower)
1951 - 2019
Edward William Carlson
1883 - 1932
Whitey Hilcher
1909 - 1962
Red Ormsby
1895 - 1962
Dorothy Gaters
Born 1946
Jade Sylvan
Born 1982
Meyer Morton
1889 - 1948
James Cuffey
1911 - 1999
Geoff Price
Born 1984
Kent Stotz
Born 1958
Gertrude Breslau Hunt
1869 - 1952
Dorothy Wind
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Mem Lovett
1912 - 1995
Moissaye Boguslawski
1887 - 1944
Paloma Carrasco
Born 1996
Tom Dougherty
1881 - 1953
George Gerken
1903 - 1977
Cheryl Lichter
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Donald P. Kelly
1922 - 2010
Harry Brunt
1918 - 1987
Pat Rooney
Born 1957
Nathaniel Mills
Born 1970
Nathan Smith Davis Jr.
1858 - 1920
Tom Huening
Born 1942
J. Glenn Schneider
1935 - 2017
Don Dufek Sr.
1929 - 2014
Ralph Amsden
1917 - 1988
Irene DeLaby
1922 - 2012
Gregory Morava
Born 1959
Margaret Rosezarian Harris
1943 - 2000
Eileen Gascon
Born 1931
Joe Cross (baseball)
1858 - 1933
Bernhard Gettelman
Born 1889
Priscilla Reining
1923 - 2007
John A. Norman
1931 - 1956
P. Scott Neville Jr.
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Sam Alex
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Mort Scanlan
1861 - 1928
Jack Smith (outfielder)
1895 - 1972
William J. Campbell (general)
1931 - 2017
Glen Tourville
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Leo Segedin
Born 1927
Raymond R. Schumacher
1924 - 1973
Pete Galligan
1860 - 1917
Rita Raines
1930 - 2014
Hiam Amani Hafizuddin
Born 1995
Burt Katz
1937 - 2016
Spencer Heath (baseball)
1893 - 1930
Wirt Dexter Walker
1860 - 1899
Ron Linden
Born 1940
Nathan Gelb
Born 1962
Reggie Johnson Jr
Born 1994
Perry Sheehan
1912 - 1998
Samuel Jones (cestista)
Born 1978
Warren F. (Pete) Miller Jr.
Born 1943
Mike Nystul
Born 1966
Oscar Randolph
1884 - 1964
Scott Anderson (athlete)
Born 1974
Joe Hara
1925 - 2017
Alan Crolius
1889 - 1936
Johnny Washington (Negro Leagues)
Born 1930
Lori Heiser
1928 - 2014
Johanna Hageman
1918 - 1984
Ed Lewinski
1918 - 1962
Wendy Lewis
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Ralph K. James
1906 - 1994
John Hennessy (American football)
Born 1955
Herb Hardt
Born 1907
Elam J. Anderson
1890 - 1944
Joseph Wallace
1990 - 1993
George Fiske (sport shooter)
1891 - 1965
Willie Knapp
1888 - 1972
John Doyne
1912 - 1997
Ed Gastfield
1865 - 1899
Albert Schaller
1857 - 1934
Bob Lustig
Born 1925
Leo J. Sheridan
1897 - 1975
Nate Smith (baseball)
Born 1935
Harlan Fengler
1903 - 1981
Emanuel M. Abrahams
1866 - 1913
Edwin Albert Robson
1905 - 1986
Loretta Dwojak
Born 1925
Edward Reed Fields
Born 1932
Al Fritz
1924 - 2013
Vesna Jovanovic
Born 1976
Fortunatus Fip Ricard
1923 - 1996
James W. Montgomery
1921 - 2019
Hal Bubser
1895 - 1959
Fred S. Robillard
1890 - 1971
David Ivar Swanson
1884 - 1950
Isadore Familian
1911 - 2002
Ken Schultz
Born 1938
Bobby Burg
Born 1977
John Powers Crowley
1936 - 1989
Kisha Lee
Born 1985
Quin Kirchner
Born 1981
Giselle Roberts
Born 1991
Alexander Revell
1858 - 1931
Eugene Lenti
Born 1957
Charles Weiss
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Tony Kelly
1919 - 1987
Barbara Lang (Broadway actress)
Born 1937
Julian Braun
1929 - 2000
Ahmad Starks
Born 1992
Gordon Robert Beyer
1930 - 2010
Swede Roos
1913 - 1979
Ruth Pryor
1906 - 2001
Ike Levin
Born 1950
Muriel Tuteur
1922 - 2016
Darryl Pandy
Died 2011
David Hedgley
Born 1937
David A. Hirsch
Born 1960
Emory Kemp
1931 - 2020
Ed Scheiwe
1918 - 1997
Mary Landon Baker
1900 - 1961
Ed Bogdanski
1921 - 1989
Peter G. Burbules
Born 1931
Matt Piet
Born 1990
Barbara Grad
Born 1950
Bill Wendt
1915 - 1966
Bill Farrow
1918 - 2003
Edmund B. Taylor
1904 - 1973
Walter D. Egan
1866 - 1913
Glen W. Martin
1916 - 1994
Grace Grung
1895 - 1988
Carl Testa
Born 1984
Juozas Žukas
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Christina Quarles
Born 1985
George Albert Carpenter
1867 - 1944
Steve Cusack
1876 - 1952
David Davidson (film director)
Born 1953
Gerald J. Higgins
1909 - 1996
Art Anderson
1916 - 1983
Richard A. Weinberg
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Red Pryor
1926 - 2005
Robert Harris (basketball)
1886 - 1964
Kyle Horch
Born 1964
Eugene C. Cashman
1921 - 2000
Francis Beidler
1845 - 1924
Frank Walsh (golfer)
Born 1902
Bill O'Brien (cestista)
1917 - 1985
Jeff Lyon
Born 1945
Mark Simanton
Born 1958
Peter Abruzzo
Born 1957
Clarence Sutton (American football)
Born 1972
Gordon Murphy
1918 - 1972
Jeff Dumas
Born 1971
Billy Goelz
1918 - 2002
Ernie T. Poulos
1926 - 1997
Chuck Pankow
Born 1969
Emil Rothe
1884 - 1966
Dick Luebke
1935 - 1974
Robert Spencer Long
1927 - 2015
Nate Carter
Born 1983
Don Frankenfeld
Born 1948
John McGarry (American football)
Born 1963
Pat Thomas (singer)
Died 1992
John J. Schmidt
Born 1928
Henry Schimberg
1933 - 2012
Marquis Hill
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Dan Henderson (sledge hockey)
Born 1965
Zaire Thompson
Born 1995
Gordon McNaughton
1910 - 1942
Harry Petersen
Born 1946
Sylvester Earl Powell
Born 1972
Joanne Aono
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Joe McNulty
Born 1949
Alexander J. Napoli
1905 - 1972
Anthony Nicholson
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Fred Whiting
Born 1938
Ted Cohen (philosopher)
1939 - 2014
Mihály Richárd Bodor
Born 1962
Grover Gilmore (baseball)
1888 - 1919
Shaw McCutcheon
1921 - 2016
Leola Brody
1922 - 1997
Jim Zeravich
1920 - 1998
Joseph M. Auman
1922 - 1942
Edward Niesen
1908 - 1974
Glenn Dawson
Born 1944
Jack McQuaid
1859 - 1895
Eleanor Searle
1926 - 1999
Gary Jonland
Born 1952
Noble Brandon Judah
1884 - 1938
Bill Mishalow
Born 1952
Linda Polach
Born 1951
Jack Beynon
1913 - 1989
Gary McDougal
Born 1936
Gregg Willin
Born 1964
Frank Meinke
1863 - 1931
Allen Breed
1927 - 1999
Mildred Lucile Crooks
1899 - 1972
Guadalupe Casasnovas
Born 1960
Leo Ahern
1886 - 1974
Paul McNulty (American football)
1902 - 1985
Larissa Fontaine
Born 1977
Edgecomb Lee Jones
1874 - 1937
Micaela Castain
Born 1992
Otto Feyder
1877 - 1961
William Giannobile
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Charles Pierce (Musiker)
Born 1890
Therese McKinley
Born 1928
Hugo P. Kortschak
1911 - 1983
Joseph P. Busch
1926 - 1975
Paul Richardson Sr.
Born 1969
Winifred M. Hausam
1883 - 1967
Barb Lockhart
Born 1941
Len Church
1942 - 1988
Jack H. Healy
Born 1929
Kristine Aono
Born 1960
Mirron (Mike) Alexandroff
1923 - 2001
Richard Wang (Trompeter)
1928 - 2016
Nick Owcharuk
Born 1955
Bill Dammann
1872 - 1948
Francis S. Lorenz
1919 - 2008
Fred Holmes
1878 - 1956
Deborah Weisz
Born 1962