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.
Ben Marcus
Born 1967
Steve Kmak
Born 1970
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Born 1993
Berton Roueché
1910 - 1994
Katie Finneran
Born 1971
Brian Friedman
Born 1977
Larry Taylor (basketball)
Born 1980
Jerry Ahern
1946 - 2012
Carl Ballantine
1917 - 2009
Randall Balmer
Born 1954
David Hestenes
Born 1933
Wyatt Oleff
Born 2003
Stefhon Hannah
Born 1985
Agustín Viana
Born 1983
Ben Weasel
Born 1968
Lili Chookasian
1921 - 2012
John Klemmer
Born 1946
Scott M. Matheson
1929 - 1990
Edward Joseph Kelly
1876 - 1950
Brett Chukerman
Born 1981
Carol Hughes (actress)
1910 - 1995
Mike Reilly (ice hockey)
Born 1993
Mike Hall (basketball)
Born 1984
Victor Lundin
1930 - 2013
Lee Richardson (actor)
1926 - 1999
Byron Stingily
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Paul Johnson (producer)
Born 1971
Linton Johnson
Born 1980
Mike Taylor (basketball)
Born 1986
Marla Glen
Born 1960
Jason Frasor
Born 1977
Nazr Mohammed
Born 1977
Robert Burnham Jr.
1931 - 1993
Joseph Epstein (writer)
Born 1937
Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
1926 - 2018
Marc Smith (poet)
Born 1949
Margaret Ayer Barnes
1886 - 1967
Alexander Argüelles
Born 1964
Marc Nerlove
Born 1933
Hazel Lavery
1880 - 1935
Alfred Zeisler
1892 - 1985
Michael Beschloss
Born 1955
Lexi Lamour
Born 1976
Brian Rowe
Born 1988
Billy Branch
Born 1951
Robert Drivas
1938 - 1986
David Shankle
Born 1967
James Carroll (author)
Born 1943
Sherron Collins
Born 1987
BJ the Chicago Kid
Born 1984
Walter Parazaider
Born 1945
W. Haydon Burns
1912 - 1987
Judy Biggert
Born 1937
Sidney Blumenthal
Born 1948
Myrtle Stedman
1883 - 1938
Robert Goldsborough (writer)
Born 1937
Tony Brown (basketball)
Born 1960
Bruce Pavitt
Born 1959
Art Paul
1925 - 2018
Chandler Burr
Born 1963
Helen Horton
1923 - 2009
Ron Stallworth
Born 1953
Edwin Feulner
Born 1941
Jason Shaw
Born 1973
Donald Sterling
Born 1934
Mike Bidlo
Born 1953
Jim Jacobs
Born 1942
Charles Tillman
Born 1981
Kwame Raoul
Born 1964
Miriam Nesbitt
1873 - 1954
Oliver McCall
Born 1965
Kyle Hill
Born 1979
Jennifer Runyon
Born 1960
Abe Lyman
1897 - 1957
Ezekiel Emanuel
Born 1957
Ken Henry (speed skater)
1929 - 2009
Peter De Vries
1910 - 1993
Carol Gluck
Born 1941
Gertrude Claire
1852 - 1928
Zak Spears
Born 1965
Norman Davidson (biologist)
1916 - 2002
Tim Kinsella
Born 1974
Jeni Le Gon
1916 - 2012
Ralph Staub
1899 - 1969
Gregg Edelman
Born 1958
DuShon Monique Brown
1968 - 2018
Michael Shamberg
Born 1945
Robert Muczynski
1929 - 2010
Gino Conforti
Born 1932
DJ Colette
Born 1975
Phyllis Eisenstein
Born 1946
Jack Gelber
1932 - 2003
Jewell Loyd
Born 1993
Brian Ross (journalist)
Born 1948
Farley Keith
Born 1962
Denny Zeitlin
Born 1938
Jennifer Holland
Born 1984
Stefan Matteau
Born 1994
Ricardo Lamas
Born 1982
Steven Hunter
Born 1981
Ray Charles (musician, born 1918)
1918 - 2015
Richard Hamilton (actor)
1920 - 2004
Barbara Jones (athlete)
Born 1937
Bates Battaglia
Born 1975
Gavin Muir (American actor)
1900 - 1972
Charlene Barshefsky
Born 1950
Steven Schiff
1947 - 1998
Leslie Waller
1923 - 2007
Russell Maryland
Born 1969
Morris Hirsch
Born 1933
Nels Anderson
1889 - 1986
Nick Anderson
Born 1968
Margaret Hamburg
Born 1955
Tom Rosenberg
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Kevin Porter (basketball)
Born 1950
Billy Evans
1884 - 1956
Ron Lewis (basketball)
Born 1984
Paloma Bloyd
Born 1988
Jim McNeely
Born 1949
Seymour Slive
1920 - 2014
Roy Radner
Born 1927
Jim Fuchs
1927 - 2010
Jeffrey Satinover
Born 1947
Terry Cummings
Born 1961
Joan Peters
1938 - 2015
Melissa Bean
Born 1962
Harry Antrim
1884 - 1967
Philip Rieff
1922 - 2006
Ron Miller (songwriter)
1932 - 2007
Franklin P. Adams
1881 - 1960
Carleton Washburne
1889 - 1968
Adam Simon
Born 1962
Milton Doyle
Born 1993
Alex Agase
1922 - 2007
Alfonzo McKinnie
Born 1992
Eddra Gale
1921 - 2001
Ed Krupp
Born 1944
Ajamu Baraka
Born 1954
Charles Richman (actor)
1865 - 1940
Thom Andersen
Born 1943
Joe Marsala
1907 - 1978
John Reilly (actor)
Born 1936
Eric Anderson (basketball)
1970 - 2018
Martin Neil Baily
Born 1945
Alexandria Anderson
Born 1987
Lessing J. Rosenwald
1891 - 1979
Neal Katyal
Born 1970
Dan Forden
Born 1963
Robert Lord (screenwriter)
1900 - 1976
Dolores Dorn
Born 1934
Bill Morrison (director)
Born 1965
Robbie Earl
Born 1985
Chris Medina
Born 1983
Carol Sobieski
1939 - 1990
Burton Greene
Born 1937
Jon Burge
1947 - 2018
Diane Nash
Born 1938
Sherman Kent
1903 - 1986
Francis Lane
1874 - 1927
Mike Wengren
Born 1971
Young Chop
Born 1993
Dieter Lüst
Born 1956
Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1959)
Born 1959
Theaster Gates
Born 1973
Robert Plomin
Born 1948
Jaime Hammer
Born 1982
Lucy Kaplansky
Born 1960
Mark DeCarlo
Born 1962
Buck Ram
1907 - 1991
Arthur Porges
1915 - 2006
Ralph Pearson
Born 1919
Jerome Lettvin
1920 - 2011
Al Wistert
1920 - 2016
Sol Stein
1926 - 2019
Walter Perkins (musician)
1932 - 2004
DeRay Davis
Born 1968
Heather Goldenhersh
Born 1973
Robert St. John
1902 - 2003
Harry W. Gerstad
1909 - 2002
Rose Abdoo
Born 1962
Sidney R. Yates
1909 - 2000
June Wayne
1918 - 2011
Harry Segall
1892 - 1975
Willard Motley
1909 - 1965
Roshumba Williams
Born 1968
Byron Morrow
1911 - 2006
Sherwin Rosen
1938 - 2001
Deon Thomas
Born 1971
Harold Ockenga
1905 - 1985
Scott R. Dunlap
1892 - 1970
Randa Jarrar
Born 1978
Belding Hibbard Scribner
1921 - 2003
Michael Dunigan
Born 1989
William H. Hinton
1919 - 2004
Frank Foss (athlete)
1895 - 1989
Karyn Kupcinet
1941 - 1963
Marvin Camras
1916 - 1995
Tim Griffin (actor)
Born 1969
David Sackett
1934 - 2015
John Seymour (California politician)
Born 1937
Ed Cassidy
1923 - 2012
Robert I. Sutton
Born 1954
Ted Field
Born 1953
Douglas A. Melton
Born 1953
Alexi Giannoulias
Born 1976
Randy Holcomb
Born 1979
Ray Ozzie
Born 1955
Edward Sheldon
1886 - 1946
Burr Tillstrom
1917 - 1985
Caroline Kava
Born 1949
Donald C. Peattie
1898 - 1964
Henry Blake Fuller
1857 - 1929
Gilbert Ames Bliss
1876 - 1951
Gayne Whitman
1890 - 1958
Don McGuire (actor)
1919 - 1999
David Shambaugh
Born 1953
Gordon Griffith
1907 - 1958
Micole Mercurio
1938 - 2016
Will Harridge
1883 - 1971
Walter Berns
1919 - 2015
Mike McCormack (American football)
1930 - 2013
Bryan Bracey
Born 1978
Nat Hiken
1914 - 1968
Norman Johnson (mathematician)
1930 - 2017
Cathie Black
Born 1944
Ruth Mack Brunswick
1897 - 1946
Larry Rothschild
Born 1954
Ernst Bacon
1898 - 1990
JoAnne Akalaitis
Born 1937
Hannah G. Solomon
1858 - 1942
Scott Warren
Born 1962
Charles Dvorak
1878 - 1969
Audrey Christie
1912 - 1989
Robert Owens (musician)
Born 1961
Bruno VeSota
1922 - 1976
Darnell Valentine
Born 1959
Johnny Lattner
1932 - 2016
Isabella Hofmann
Born 1958
James Serrin
1926 - 2012
Larry Clemmons
1906 - 1988
Bill Granger (author)
1941 - 2012
Hurley Haywood
Born 1948
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Born 1943
Jerry Krause
1939 - 2017
Carter Harrison Jr.
1860 - 1953
Scarlet Rivera
Born 1950
Edward Ullman
1912 - 1976
Betty Freeman
1921 - 2009
Shabba Doo
Born 1955
Ullrich Haupt (actor, born 1915)
1915 - 1991
Mike Kinsella
Born 1977
Harvey S. Rosen
Born 1949
Guerilla Black
Born 1977
Chuck Missler
1934 - 2018
Delilah DiCrescenzo
Born 1983
Robin Harris
1960 - 1990
Rosina Lippi
Born 1956
George Periolat
1874 - 1940
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Born 1938
Tom Hawkins (basketball)
1936 - 2017
Steve Bannos
Born 1960
Jason Faunt
Born 1974
Muriel Gardiner
1901 - 1985
Thubten Chodron
Born 1950
Ron Yary
Born 1946
Evarts Ambrose Graham
1883 - 1957
Gary Sherman (director)
Born 1945
Don Myrick
1940 - 1993
Christopher Scotese
Born 1953
Dan Greenburg
Born 1936
Edward Larrabee Barnes
1915 - 2004
Pierce Brodkorb
1908 - 1992
Marion Aye
1903 - 1951
Allan Loeb
Born 1969
Montell Griffin
Born 1970
Fred Stoller
Born 1958
Samuel Berger (boxer)
1884 - 1925
Ralph Helfer
Born 1931
Myrtle Reed
1874 - 1911
Ed Paschke
1939 - 2004
Mark Farina
Born 1969
Doris Merrick
1920 - 2019
Bonnie Greer
Born 1948
Jamarr Sanders
Born 1988
Reid Miles
1927 - 1993
Lester Cuneo
1888 - 1925
Steve Atwater
Born 1966
How to Dress Well
Born 1984
Paul Dinello
Born 1962
Brian Oliver (basketball, born 1968)
Born 1968
David Bodanis
Born 1950
Norman D. Newell
1909 - 2005
Joseph C. Wright
1892 - 1985
Frances Glessner Lee
1878 - 1962
Laura Granville
Born 1981
Francis J. Grandon
1879 - 1929
Frank Annunzio
1915 - 2001
Cynthia Kadohata
Born 1956
Freddie Lindstrom
1905 - 1981
Eric Forsberg
Born 1959