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.
Andrew Belle
Born 1984
Jon Jost
Born 1943
Emma Abbott
1850 - 1891
Christine Fernandes
Born 1968
Luther Head
Born 1982
Lawrence Weingarten
1897 - 1975
Matana Roberts
Born 1978
Samuel A. Taylor
1912 - 2000
Marc Kirschner
Born 1945
Regina George
Born 1991
Sandy Allen
1955 - 2008
Bennie Green
1923 - 1977
Bernard Weiner
Born 1935
Norman Panama
1914 - 2003
Sydney Lassick
1922 - 2003
Hal Pereira
1905 - 1983
John Erman
Born 1935
Yolanda Griffith
Born 1970
Tom Campbell (California politician)
Born 1952
Bobbi Brown
Born 1957
Samuel Bodman
1938 - 2018
DJ Rush
Born 1970
Bill Kaysing
1922 - 2005
Dreezy
Born 1994
James William Guercio
Born 1945
Lurrie Bell
Born 1958
Boots Riley
Born 1971
Alan Berg
1934 - 1984
Paul Brickman
Born 1949
Eddie Gaedel
1925 - 1961
Mary Borden
1886 - 1968
Al Montoya
Born 1985
Mark Feldman
Born 1955
Cornelia Otis Skinner
1899 - 1979
Radhanath Swami
Born 1950
Aaron Shust
Born 1975
J. R. McNeill
Born 1954
Denny McLain
Born 1944
Lorez Alexandria
1929 - 2001
Don Patinkin
1922 - 1995
Elizabeth Dilling
1894 - 1966
Moose Krause
1913 - 1992
Pablo Morales
Born 1964
Simone Elkeles
Born 1970
Harold Demsetz
1930 - 2019
Ezra Furman
Born 1986
Julian Priester
Born 1935
Bryant Washburn
1889 - 1963
Norman Bluhm
1921 - 1999
Kid Sister
Born 1980
Bill Rancic
Born 1971
Jonathan Latimer
1906 - 1983
Paul Wertico
Born 1953
Susan Fiske
Born 1952
John Muth
1930 - 2005
Michael Madigan
Born 1942
Tom O'Halleran
Born 1946
Francine Patterson
Born 1947
Jimmy McPartland
1907 - 1991
Frances Callier
Born 1969
Bernard Shaw (journalist)
Born 1940
Manton S. Eddy
1892 - 1962
C. R. Hagen
Born 1937
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Jay Pritzker
1922 - 1999
Jasen Fisher
Born 1980
Samuel K. Skinner
Born 1938
June Hutton
1920 - 1973
William Russo (musician)
1928 - 2003
John Zaremba
1908 - 1986
Martin Cooper (inventor)
Born 1928
Leslie David Baker
Born 1958
Buddy Lester
1917 - 2002
Wilbur Ware
1923 - 1979
Sam Treiman
1925 - 1999
Ginni Rometty
Born 1957
Richard T. Heffron
1930 - 2007
Marvin Leonard Goldberger
1922 - 2014
Mike Magee (soccer)
Born 1984
Von Freeman
1923 - 2012
Edith Atwater
1911 - 1986
Ernest Poole
1880 - 1950
Frankie Sullivan
Born 1955
Leah Baird
1883 - 1971
Pete Cosey
1943 - 2012
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
1864 - 1953
Daniel Aaron
1912 - 2016
Howard St. John
1905 - 1974
Robion Kirby
Born 1938
Al McKibbon
1919 - 2005
Gerald Weinberg
1933 - 2018
Lauralee Bell
Born 1968
Jerel McNeal
Born 1987
Jules Furthman
1888 - 1966
Rachel Barton Pine
Born 1974
Victor Halperin
1895 - 1983
Sybil Bauer
1903 - 1927
James Kahn
Born 1947
Taylor Townsend (tennis)
Born 1996
James Olds
1922 - 1976
Herbert Schildt
Born 1951
John Hopfield
Born 1933
Junius Matthews
1890 - 1978
Walter Sittler
Born 1952
Zoe Perry
Born 1983
Robert Roswell Palmer
1909 - 2002
Liz Callaway
Born 1961
Robert Parr
1921 - 2017
Susan Hockfield
Born 1951
Bernard Allison
Born 1965
Albert Spalding (violinist)
1888 - 1953
Brian Freeman (psychological suspense author)
Born 1963
Art Smith (actor)
1899 - 1973
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
1935 - 1967
Bill Dickens
Born 1958
Marcelo Balboa
Born 1967
Samuel King Allison
1900 - 1965
Herbert Copeland
1902 - 1968
Caroline Myss
Born 1952
Cazzie Russell
Born 1944
Open Mike Eagle
Born 1980
Murphy Dunne
Born 1942
Sam Zell
Born 1941
Mark Ptashne
Born 1940
Sid Sackson
1920 - 2002
Quentin Richardson
Born 1980
Janet Jacme
Born 1967
Edward Allen Bernero
Born 1962
Stephen Full
Born 1969
Keith Nobbs
Born 1979
Wilton Daniel Gregory
Born 1947
Jason Bernard
1938 - 1996
Stanley Mazor
Born 1941
Andrew Scheinman
Born 1948
Andy Berman
Born 1968
Harry Sukman
1912 - 1984
Michael Colgrass
1932 - 2019
Pat Sajak
Born 1946
Oscar Brown
1926 - 2005
Cliff Floyd
Born 1972
Martha Burns
Born 1957
William Irwin Thompson
Born 1938
Irene Kral
1932 - 1978
Harvey Friedman
Born 1948
Megan Cavanagh
Born 1960
Aja Evans
Born 1988
Bruce Alexander Cook
1932 - 2003
Janet Lewis
1899 - 1998
Sufe Bradshaw
Born 1986
Mellody Hobson
Born 1969
Jean-Paul Bourelly
Born 1960
Henry Horner
1878 - 1940
Jocko Conlan
1899 - 1989
Jerome Randle
Born 1987
Sterling Sharpe
Born 1965
Hollis Conway
Born 1967
Joan Marshall
1931 - 1992
Elmer L. Andersen
1909 - 2004
Darleen Carr
Born 1950
Darrell Walker
Born 1961
Michael Anthony Bilandic
1923 - 2002
Lena Waithe
Born 1984
Alfred Szklarski
1912 - 1992
Rashard Griffith
Born 1974
Edwin R. Thiele
1895 - 1986
John Dawson (musician)
1945 - 2009
Edmund Jacobson
1888 - 1983
Douglas H. Ginsburg
Born 1946
Bob Bryar
Born 1979
Alice Bunker Stockham
1833 - 1912
Jason Maxiell
Born 1983
George Loane Tucker
1880 - 1921
Cynda Williams
Born 1966
Tanya Wexler
Born 1970
Jessica Abel
Born 1969
Eddie Olczyk
Born 1966
S. Sylvan Simon
1910 - 1951
Mark Weisbrot
Born 1954
Scott Lash
Born 1945
Cynthia Kenyon
Born 1954
Archer Blood
1923 - 2004
Frank Collin
Born 1944
Alex Wurman
Born 1966
Arthur Robison
1883 - 1935
Pat Frank
1908 - 1964
Lou Levy (pianist)
1928 - 2001
Jackson Mac Low
1922 - 2004
Anita Borg
1949 - 2003
Karl Taube
Born 1957
Marita Geraghty
Born 1962
Henry Domercant
Born 1980
Hersey Hawkins
Born 1966
Cynthia Plaster Caster
Born 1947
Dave Spector
Born 1954
Lester Germer
1896 - 1971
Tony Canadeo
1919 - 2003
Milford H. Wolpoff
Born 1942
Sara Niemietz
Born 1992
Tom Kalin
Born 1962
Chic Johnson
1891 - 1962
Robert Irving III
Born 1953
Day Keene
1904 - 1969
Nicole Bobek
Born 1977
Evelyn Einstein
1941 - 2011
Famous Dex
Born 1993
William V. Skall
1897 - 1976
Doug Casey
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Kelly McCarty
Born 1975
Richard Dennis
Born 1949
Harry Stephen Keeler
1890 - 1967
Jennifer Bassey
Born 1942
Guy Oliver
1878 - 1932
Kiwane Garris
Born 1974
Charles B. Griffith
1930 - 2007
Carol Wayne
1942 - 1985
Brad Sherwood
Born 1964
James Trefil
Born 1938
Shannon Larkin
Born 1967
Paul F. Knitter
Born 1939
Joe E. Kernan
1946 - 2020
Lawrence Sperry
1892 - 1923
Nan Hayworth
Born 1959
Otis Adelbert Kline
1891 - 1946
Ricky Sinz
Born 1980
Lynn Steen
1941 - 2015
Herbert Sobel
1912 - 1987
James Singleton (basketball)
Born 1981
Armin Joseph Deutsch
1918 - 1969
Mabel Van Buren
1878 - 1947
Bob Miller (Nevada governor)
Born 1945
Daniel Shanks
1917 - 1996
Christine Maggiore
1956 - 2008
Fred Below
1926 - 1988
Nadrian Seeman
Born 1945
Paul Slovic
Born 1938
John Alvin (actor)
1917 - 2009
Andrija Puharich
1918 - 1995
Gene Ha
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Cameron Esposito
Born 1981
Alfred Wallenstein
1898 - 1983
Lil Reese
Born 1993
Lani Hall
Born 1944
William Stevenson (athlete)
1900 - 1985
Zoe Levin
Born 1993
Nora Eddington
1924 - 2001
Marc Salyers
Born 1979
Sam Altman
Born 1985
Jack Cafferty
Born 1942
Kwame Brown
Born 1982
Joan Hinton
1921 - 2010
Illenium
Born 1992
Richard L. Breen
1918 - 1967
Betsy Randle
Born 1955
Danitra Vance
1954 - 1994
Storrs L. Olson
Born 1944
Guy Boyd (actor)
Born 1943
Tom O'Horgan
1924 - 2009
William Schutz
1925 - 2002
Andre Brown (basketball)
Born 1981
Lucille Ricksen
1910 - 1925
Laura Devon
1931 - 2007
Rex Bell
1903 - 1962
Abraham H. Taub
1911 - 1999
Billy DeBeck
1890 - 1942
Gertrude Olmstead
1897 - 1975
John Powell (Jesuit)
1925 - 2009
Lisa Lipps
Born 22
Peniel Shin
Born 1993
Ari Emanuel
Born 1961
Tyrone Brazelton
Born 1986
Lil Louis
Born 1962
Ray Meyer
1913 - 2006
June Richmond
1915 - 1962
Grieves
Born 1984
Peter Francis James
Born 1956
Jack Miles
Born 1942
Alfred Lansing
1921 - 1975
Francis Boyle
Born 1950
Adolph Kiefer
1918 - 2017
Norman Luboff
1917 - 1987
Joe Sullivan
1906 - 1971
David Díaz (boxer)
Born 1976
Jim O'Heir
Born 1962
Robert Belushi
Born 1980
Donita Sparks
Born 1963
Elias Burton Holmes
1870 - 1958
David Diehl
Born 1980
Markos Moulitsas
Born 1971
Evan Ziporyn
Born 1959
Noel Black
1937 - 2014
Hayes MacArthur
Born 1977
Alfred de Grazia
1919 - 2014
Daniel V. Gallery
1901 - 1977
Danny Seraphine
Born 1948
Harry Blackstone Sr.
1885 - 1965
Richard Duffin
1909 - 1996
Randy Brown
Born 1968
Lonnie Plaxico
Born 1960
Greg Luzinski
Born 1950
Dianne Holum
Born 1951