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.
Alex Meneses
Born 1965
William O'Leary (actor)
Born 1957
Robert Redfield
1897 - 1958
Fred Alan Wolf
Born 1934
Beverly Todd
Born 1946
Joseph Sikora
Born 1976
Road Warrior Hawk
1957 - 2003
Eugene Wright
Born 1923
Jeremy Pargo
Born 1986
Shannon Sharpe
Born 1968
David Auburn
Born 1969
Rose Troche
Born 1964
Jannero Pargo
Born 1979
Michael Masser
1941 - 2015
Harry Manfredini
Born 1943
Johnny Hartman
1923 - 1983
Howard Zieff
1927 - 2009
Gene Chandler
Born 1937
Jonatha Brooke
Born 1964
Helen Rose
1904 - 1985
Doug Moench
Born 1948
John Gunther
1901 - 1970
Will Bynum
Born 1983
Philip Yordan
1914 - 2003
Wallace Spearmon
Born 1984
Edward H. Levi
1911 - 2000
John Flynn (director)
1932 - 2007
Timi Yuro
1940 - 2004
Frank Caliendo
Born 1974
Donell Jones
Born 1973
L. Scott Caldwell
Born 1950
Tony Accardo
1906 - 1992
Elizabeth Hawley
1923 - 2018
James Gould Cozzens
1903 - 1978
Mia Isabella
Born 1985
Lamorne Morris
Born 1980
Louis Zorich
1924 - 2018
Wallace Smith Broecker
1931 - 2019
Stuart Holmes
1884 - 1971
Meyer Levin
1905 - 1981
Slade Gorton
1928 - 2020
Charles Avery
1873 - 1926
Elizabeth Murray (artist)
1940 - 2007
Edwin Black
Born 1950
Art Linson
Born 1942
Melvin Frank
1913 - 1988
Vera Caspary
1899 - 1987
Ann Hampton Callaway
Born 1958
Berry Oakley
1948 - 1972
Ed Boon
Born 1964
Barry Goldberg
Born 1942
Chris Wallace
Born 1947
Stephen Krashen
Born 1941
Maurice Cheeks
Born 1956
Herblock
1909 - 2001
James Forman
1928 - 2005
Max Abramovitz
1908 - 2004
Kellita Smith
Born 1969
Morey Amsterdam
1908 - 1996
Arch Oboler
1909 - 1987
Bill Janklow
1939 - 2012
Bobby Dixon
Born 1983
Jabari Parker
Born 1995
Ali LeRoi
Born 1962
Harve Bennett
1930 - 2015
Chris Walas
Born 1955
Janet Lynn
Born 1953
Felton Perry
Born 1945
Sheldon Wolin
1922 - 2015
Allan Carr
1937 - 1999
Jerry Goodman
Born 1949
Aiden English
Born 1987
Bud Freeman
1906 - 1991
Carl Hovland
1912 - 1961
Bryan Foy
1896 - 1977
Vince Spadea
Born 1974
Tino Insana
1948 - 2017
Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston
1870 - 1906
Janet Carroll
1940 - 2012
Curtis Jones
Born 1967
Tricia Devereaux
Born 1975
Echo Kellum
Born 1982
Michael Ian Black
Born 1971
John F. Seitz
1892 - 1979
James R. Thompson
1936 - 2020
Cindy Morgan
Born 1954
Joseph Nechvatal
Born 1951
Maestro Harrell
Born 1991
Jeannie Pepper
Born 1958
Richard Davis (bassist)
Born 1930
Brad Thor
Born 1969
Matt Skiba
Born 1976
Giorgio Tozzi
1923 - 2011
Scott Jacoby (actor)
Born 1956
Warren DeMartini
Born 1963
Stuart Scott
1965 - 2015
Jon Glaser
Born 1968
Jay Cassidy
Born 1949
Edward Shils
1910 - 1995
Bob Zmuda
Born 1949
Polly Moran
1883 - 1952
Jacob Zachar
Born 1986
Declan Quinn
Born 1957
Dorothy Dalton
1893 - 1972
Chico Freeman
Born 1949
David Rudman
Born 1963
John Marshall Harlan (born 1899)
1899 - 1971
Brad Sullivan
1931 - 2008
Quincy Miller
Born 1992
Sidney Lanfield
1898 - 1972
Michael Wright (basketball)
1980 - 2015
Haley Hudson
Born 1986
Susanna Foster
1924 - 2009
Dick Anthony Williams
1934 - 2012
Merrick Garland
Born 1952
Chris Hansen
Born 1959
Dolla (rapper)
1987 - 2009
John H. Cox
Born 1955
Nella Walker
1886 - 1971
Carter DeHaven
1886 - 1977
Bill Veeck
1914 - 1986
Otto Kerner Jr.
1908 - 1976
Larry Bell (artist)
Born 1939
Lil Durk
Born 1992
Leon Golub
1922 - 2004
Max Mutchnick
Born 1965
Benjamin Agosto
Born 1982
George Barris (auto customizer)
1925 - 2015
Dan Seymour
1915 - 1993
Irene Fenwick
1887 - 1936
Johnni Black
Born 1968
Jim Marshall (photographer)
1936 - 2010
Bud Fisher
1885 - 1954
Henry Threadgill
Born 1944
David A. Johnston
1949 - 1980
Chic Young
1901 - 1973
Jason Weaver
Born 1979
Tim Johnson (film director)
Born 1961
Jack Dongarra
Born 1950
John Chambers (make-up artist)
1923 - 2001
Milton Ager
1893 - 1979
William Marshall (bandleader)
1917 - 1994
Julius Carry
1952 - 2008
Kevin Grevioux
Born 1973
Ruben Gallego
Born 1979
Ben Pollack
1903 - 1971
Paul Ginsparg
Born 1955
Rusty Schwimmer
Born 1962
Gene H. Golub
1932 - 2007
Ian Svenonius
Born 1968
Ray Nance
1913 - 1976
Armando Estrada
Born 1978
Richard Bennett (guitarist)
Born 1951
Steve "Silk" Hurley
Born 1962
Harriet Monroe
1860 - 1936
Albert Grossman
1926 - 1986
Crispin Freeman
Born 1972
Muggsy Spanier
1901 - 1967
Tonya Pinkins
Born 1962
Anthony Spilotro
1938 - 1986
Amy Brooke
Born 1988
Hank Stram
1923 - 2005
William Nicholas Selig
1864 - 1948
Miki Howard
Born 1962
Chali 2na
Born 1971
David M. Halperin
Born 1952
John Capodice
Born 1941
Justin McCarthy (American historian)
Born 1945
David Ives
Born 1950
Michael Ovitz
Born 1946
Emo Philips
Born 1956
William J. Bell
1927 - 2005
LisaRaye McCoy
Born 1967
Ed Gilbert
1931 - 1999
Sue Hendrickson
Born 1949
Jeff Speakman
Born 1958
Richard Roeper
Born 1959
Ron Masak
Born 1936
Mary Doria Russell
Born 1950
Avery Schreiber
1935 - 2002
Evan Turner
Born 1988
Monica Lewis
1922 - 2015
Bob Cranshaw
1932 - 2016
Pat Healy (actor)
Born 1971
Jean Beauvoir
Born 1960
Roscoe Mitchell
Born 1940
Vincent Canby
1924 - 2000
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Born 1979
Philip Caputo
Born 1941
Justin Roberts
Born 1979
Florence Stanley
1924 - 2003
Fritz Leiber (actor)
1882 - 1949
John Chancellor
1927 - 1996
John Deely
1942 - 2017
John Tobias
Born 1969
Andy Sidaris
1931 - 2007
Craig Robinson (basketball)
Born 1962
Katrina Adams
Born 1968
Julian Wright
Born 1987
Mike Conley Sr.
Born 1962
Craig Rice (author)
1908 - 1957
Charles Ray (artist)
Born 1953
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
Born 1962
Perry Miller
1905 - 1963
Billy Boy Arnold
Born 1935
Jack Costanzo
1919 - 2018
Tony Allen (basketball)
Born 1982
Sean May
Born 1984
Marv Levy
Born 1925
Phil Crane
1930 - 2014
Merry Anders
1932 - 2012
Cliff Alexander
Born 1995
Britt Lomond
1925 - 2006
Randy Barnett
Born 1952
Theodore Olson
Born 1940
Bernard Brodie (military strategist)
1910 - 1978
Donald Young (tennis)
Born 1989
James Bjorken
Born 1934
John Burgee
Born 1933
Robert R. McCormick
1880 - 1955
Erica Hubbard
Born 1979
Fred Karlin
1936 - 2004
Paul Alivisatos
Born 1959
Gilbert F. White
1911 - 2006
Viola Spolin
1906 - 1994
Helen Holmes
1893 - 1950
Ed Derwinski
1926 - 2012
Barry Kelley
1908 - 1991
Adolph Dubs
1920 - 1979
Jay Novello
1904 - 1982
Don Franklin
Born 1960
Michael Curry (bishop)
Born 1953
W. Clement Stone
1902 - 2002
June Travis
1914 - 2008
George Gobel
1919 - 1991
Mark Aguirre
Born 1959
Ellen Stewart
1919 - 2011
Buddy Bregman
1930 - 2017
Hitmaka
Born 1986
Bertrand Goldberg
1913 - 1997
Larry Heard
Born 1960
Jane Byrne
1934 - 2014
Bill Henderson (performer)
1926 - 2016
Fredo Santana
1990 - 2018
Shel Talmy
Born 1937
Frances Cress Welsing
1935 - 2016
George Lewis (trombonist)
Born 1952
Arthur Nielsen
1897 - 1980
Abraham Adrian Albert
1905 - 1972
Marilyn Yalom
1932 - 2019
Blake Nelson
Born 1965
David Logan (basketball)
Born 1982
Johnny Kerr
1932 - 2009
Nick Gravenites
Born 1938
Mariana Yampolsky
1925 - 2002
Lil Rel Howery
Born 1979
Patricia Wrede
Born 1953
Jill Trenary
Born 1968
Ella Joyce
Born 1954
Suzy Nakamura
Born 1973
Joseph M. McCormick
1877 - 1925
Thomas Mooney
1882 - 1942
Joni James
Born 1930
Barry Greenstein
Born 1954
Edward Bernds
1905 - 2000
David Kopay
Born 1942
Nick Manning
Born 1967
Carol Mendelsohn
Born 1951
Phil Upchurch
Born 1941
Elliot Handler
1916 - 2011
Leon Kass
Born 1939
Othyus Jeffers
Born 1985
Bobby Simmons
Born 1980
Rhymefest
Born 1977
Joseph Schwantner
Born 1943
Ray Anderson (musician)
Born 1952
Earle Hagen
1919 - 2008
Devon Michaels
Born 1970
Evelyn Thomas
Born 1953
Martine Rothblatt
Born 1954
Wally Pipp
1893 - 1965
Aaliyah Love
Born 1981
Henry Skillman Breckinridge
1886 - 1960
Lusia Strus
Born 1958
Wynn Bullock
1902 - 1975
Irna Phillips
1901 - 1973
Richard Lerner
Born 1938
William Challee
1904 - 1989
Rich Nugent
Born 1951
Mark Protosevich
Born 1961
James Cleveland
1931 - 1991
Natalia Nogulich
Born 1950
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1916 - 2014
Mary Gross
Born 1953
Ana Castillo
Born 1953
Eric Posner
Born 1965
James Schuyler
1923 - 1991
Charles Richard Crane
1858 - 1939
Arnold Laven
1922 - 2009
Yvor Winters
1900 - 1968