40.3596° N, 82.2875° W
SPRINGFIELD
Most Famous People Born in Springfield, United States
- Notable people
- 936
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1933
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 9.5×
There are several Springfields in this dataset and they blur together statistically, which is the point - the 9.5× Baseball over-index is small-town America's pre-television obsession crystallized, the era when every Midwestern Springfield fielded a semi-pro team and a few of those kids made the Cardinals or Reds. The 2.6× Lawyer ratio is the Lincoln-era Springfield, IL signal still echoing through the data.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Springfield during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 90 notable births.
What Springfield Is Known For
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Politician is Springfield's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (124).
Springfield over-indexes on baseball — 9.5× the global rate.
Springfield under-produces football — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Springfield's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
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- Other
Eric Weaver
Born 1973
Victor Heflin
Born 1960
Rami M. Shapiro
Born 1951
Tippe Emmott
Born 1990
Jim Keet
Born 1949
Arthur Barret
1836 - 1875
Dennis Frederickson
Born 1939
James Anderson (filmmaker)
1902 - 1960
James Garfield Stewart
1880 - 1959
Joe Scibelli
1939 - 1991
P. J. Alexander
Born 1978
Bill Spanswick
Born 1938
Jon G. Burns
Born 1952
Gary Dahms
Born 1947
Pat Carroll (soccer)
Born 1985
Asahel Lynde Powers
1813 - 1843
Tyler Green (baseball)
Born 1970
Larry Phillips (racing driver)
1942 - 2004
Isaac F. Redfield
1804 - 1876
L. C. Cole
Born 1956
C. Chapin Cutler
1914 - 2002
Thomas Reilly
Born 1942
Sam Crane (second baseman)
1854 - 1925
Dwinell Grant
1912 - 1991
Ryan O'Malley
Born 1980
Jonathan Bydlak
Born 1983
Pat Donahue
1884 - 1966
Roger Erickson (baseball)
Born 1956
Roger LeClerc (American football)
Born 1936
Allan Simpson
Born 1977
Tim Hulett
Born 1960
Jack Gordon (entertainment manager)
1939 - 2005
Rich Brauer
Born 1954
Bob Gebhard
Born 1943
Claudius C. Wilson
1831 - 1863
Nate Miller (basketball)
Born 1987
Herb Scheffler
1917 - 2001
Tyler Bashlor
Born 1993
Edward Jackson (American football)
Born 1907
Porky Cohen
1924 - 2004
Ruth Handforth
1882 - 1965
Keith Drumright
1954 - 2010
Ángel Manuel Rodríguez
Born 1945
Jerry L. Atwood
Born 1942
Ron Ferrari
Born 1959
James R. Ward
1921 - 1941
Thomas Petrolati
Born 1957
Donald W. Davis
1921 - 2010
Mike Mitchell (baseball)
1879 - 1961
Jack Atchason
Born 1936
Rick Chamberlin
Born 1952
Laura Bynum
Born 1968
Fran O'Brien (American football)
1936 - 1999
Dick Teed
1926 - 2014
Phil Page
1905 - 1958
Robert Crichton Foster
1904 - 1986
Steven Schoenberg
Born 1952
Sheila Williams
Born 1956
Mike Thompson (2000s pitcher)
Born 1980
Dave Patterson
Born 1956
John A. Chapman
1965 - 2002
Jason Whittle
Born 1975
Tom Dowling (American football)
1940 - 2018
Obi Enechionyia
Born 1995
Carolyn Wilson Harris
1849 - 1910
Daniel Hitchcock
1739 - 1777
Larry Bomke
Born 1950
Charlotte Baker (historian)
1833 - 1909
T. T. McConnell
1888 - 1970
Otis B. Duncan
1873 - 1937
Bill Mettler
Born 1946
William C. Heiss
Born 1923
Allan R. Wagner
1934 - 2018
Talbert W. Swan II
Born 1965
Lincoln Hough
Born 1982
Henry A. Melvin
1865 - 1920
Rob Keefe
Born 1980
Linda McCulloch
Born 1954
Frederick H. Wagman
1912 - 1994
Margaret Burnett
Born 1949
Ben Kieckhefer
Born 1977
Maria Pearson
1932 - 2003
James T. Welch
Born 1975
Michael Lamoureux
Born 1976
Byron Trott
Born 1958
Robert C. Henry
1921 - 1981
John Forslund
Born 1962
Asa Smith Bushnell III
1900 - 1975
Bill Carpenter
Born 1937
John A. Quinn
1932 - 2016
Frank Peters Jr.
1930 - 2007
Johnny Ellis
Born 1960
James Beauregard Beam
1864 - 1947
Linda Melconian
-
Kevin M. Gilbride
Born 1980
Sunny Golloway
-
Bob Hegman
Born 1958
John W. Rosa
Born 1951
William Warder Norton
1891 - 1945
Jay Wasson
Born 1956
Jeff Korytoski
Born 1977
Theodore Foley
1913 - 1974
William Doppmann
1934 - 2013
Skip Roderick
Born 1966
Reed Waddell
1860 - 1895
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir
Born 1990
Randy Erskine
Born 1948
Lián Amaris
Born 1980
George W. Picknell
1864 - 1943
Elke Reva Sudin
Born 1987
Charles B. Thomsen
Born 1932
Freddy Leach
1897 - 1981
Tom Phillips (Kansas politician)
-
Daniel L. Ritchie
-
Jay Spoonhour
Born 1970
Fuzz White
1916 - 2003
Ross McGregor
Born 1965
Charles Gardner Shaw
1917 - 1998
Wallace H. Kuralt. Sr.
1908 - 1994
Floyd Reese
Born 1948
Timothy Woodbridge
1709 - 1774
Don Erickson
1931 - 2012
Mary McNally
Born 1955
Snooks Dowd
1897 - 1962
Chappie Snodgrass
1870 - 1951
Michael Prout
Born 1986
Dennis Luxion
Born 1952
Anthony Cioffi
Born 1994
William F. Cellini
Born 1934
Jim Langfelder
Born 1960
William Rice (librarian)
1821 - 1897
John Sack (Schriftsteller, 1938)
Born 1938
John Wesley Warrington
1844 - 1921
Don Williams (animator)
-
Kristina Joder
Born 1978
Jordan Milbrath
Born 1991
Dan Mahoney (baseball)
1864 - 1904
Jack Henderson (author)
Born 1958
Don Frye (Pianist)
1903 - 1981
Arthur McFarland
1874 - 1959
Ben Cregor
-
James G. Johnson
1855 - 1936
Ken Maiuri
Born 1971
Bob Barnwell
1916 - 1985
Abel Nazario
Born 1970
Kathleen Kerrigan
-
George Mason Lovering
1832 - 1919
Luke Day
1743 - 1801
Mark A. Ediger
-
Max Bacon (politician)
Born 1941
Drew Adams
Born 1986
Frank E. Maestrone
1922 - 2007
Eric Peterman
Born 1986
Al Arndt
1911 - 1969
Ron Bradley
Born 1951
Frank Harlan Freedman
1924 - 2003
Bob Detherage
Born 1954
Jeanne E. Scott
Born 1948
Roy Wise (baseball)
1923 - 2008
Deborah Loewer
-
Jack Ford (politician)
1947 - 2015
Joe Dunn (baseball)
1885 - 1944
Jewel Freeman Graham
1925 - 2015
Dan Daniel (sportswriter)
1890 - 1981
Alice Hohlmayer
1925 - 2017
Walter Trumbull
1846 - 1891
Arthur H. Wilson
1881 - 1953
Jeri Sitzes
Born 1979
Paul Henderson (photojournalist)
1899 - 1988
Lyndall Fraker
Born 1959
Dick Harley (pitcher)
1874 - 1961
Chuck Gatschenberger
Born 1956
Ozzie Osborn
Born 1946
Everett Peabody
1830 - 1862
John Morris (businessman)
Born 1948
Marguerite Young Alexander
1889 - 1954
Henry C. Courtney
1856 - 1887
Homer B. Roberts
1888 - 1952
E. J. Nemeth
Born 1983
Carolyn Conn Moore
1904 - 1986
Paul Busiek
1923 - 2016
William Hercules Hays
1820 - 1880
Matthew V. Storin
Born 1942
Jeffrey Justus
Born 1954
Pete Wilson (baseball)
1885 - 1957
Tim Wilkerson
Born 1960
Warren Staley
-
Boots Faye
1923 - 1999
Emily Thater
Born 1995
Jeanie Descombes
Born 1935
Dave Winters
Born 1952
Marcus McLaurin
-
Glen Carroll
Born 1960
Hannah Werth
Born 1990
Tre Manchester
Born 1992
Arthur R. Nichols
1881 - 1970
Peter Christofilakos
Born 1981
Justin Torrey
Born 1983
Otto Neu
1894 - 1932
John C. Holstein
Born 1945
Robert Harold Davidson
1919 - 1982
Paul Kelly (soccer)
Born 1974
Hazen A. Brattain
1864 - 1930
Malcolm Metcalf
1910 - 1993
Hugh Montgomery (diplomat)
1923 - 2017
William H. Miles
1828 - 1892
Frances Gulick
1891 - 1936
William Barret Ridgely
1858 - 1920
Nancy Warren (baseball)
1921 - 2001
William W. Gullett
1922 - 2015
George Paul Harrison Sr.
1813 - 1888
Bennett Katz
1918 - 2007
Ted Gray (politician)
Born 1927
Phil Christofanelli
Born 1989
Steve Peek
1914 - 1991
Ann Cook (soccer)
Born 1974
Alice Langtry
1932 - 2017
Candy Ruff
1951 - 2016
Martin J. Oberman
Born 1945
Jeff Cook (soccer coach)
-
James F. Sloan
1947 - 2009
Lewis J. Powers
1837 - 1915
John Malarkey
1872 - 1949
Joe Peters
Born 1983
Harold Doyal
Born 1973
Bud Ross
1868 - 1932
Lou Sylvester
1855 - 1936
William Ludwig Ullmann
1908 - 1993
Margaret Hastings
1910 - 1979
Chip Rives
Born 1964
Rand Chappell
Born 1963
Helen Westerman
1926 - 2006
George Kerasotes
1911 - 2001
Charles Ryan (mayor)
-
Richard Williams Bell
1811 - 1857
Eliza Pickrell Routt
1839 - 1907
Peter A. Velis
Born 1942
Mark Carron
Born 1962
James Ince
Born 1969
Philip I. Marcus
1927 - 2013
Jay Turner
1914 - 1960
Rose Folder
1926 - 2014
Tony Semple
Born 1970
L.J. Jenkins
Born 1987
Betty Ann Keegan
1920 - 1974
Bob Kinsella
1899 - 1951
Edward Saunders Cheatham
1818 - 1878
Oliver S. Kelly
1824 - 1904
Coye Dunn
1916 - 2000
Anna Langford
1917 - 2008
Joseph Parsons Jr.
1647 - 1729
Maynard Street
1898 - 1993
John Batdorf
Born 1952
William Wright Harts
1866 - 1961
Stanley Battle
Born 1951
Rosemary Sandlin
Born 1946
Gilbert H. Jertberg
1897 - 1973
Harry R. Ramey Jr.
Born 1962
Amzi Chapin
1768 - 1835
Milt Piepul
1918 - 1994
John Mahoney (Ohio politician)
1949 - 2011
Richard Boone Cheatham
1824 - 1877
Jimmy Journell
Born 1977
Jon Denning
Born 1987
Betty Wanless
1928 - 1995
David R. Wright
1935 - 2016
Les Rock
1912 - 1991
Johnny Schaive
1934 - 2009
Eugene W. Ferris
1841 - 1907
Jeff Deren
Born 1981
Frank Thompson (third baseman)
1895 - 1940
Art Sunday
1862 - 1926
Agnes Scanlon
1923 - 2018
P. S. Terry
1876 - 1936
Nicholas Dinkel
1874 - 1919
Frank S. Messersmith
Born 1942
Bob Ricketts
1885 - 1936
Bob Speake
Born 1930
Mary Lynde Craig
1834 - 1921
Dave Tough (record producer)
-
Benjamin K. Miller (judge)
Born 1938
Bert Grimm
1900 - 1985
Orvis Sigler
1922 - 2016
James T. Londrigan
1925 - 2019
Charles Caldwell McChord
1859 - 1937
Frank Quinn (pitcher)
1927 - 1993
Kerry Mazzoni
-
Alex Charlton
Born 1980
Woody Pitzer
1910 - 2001
Ellen M. Bozman
1925 - 2009
Jo Garsò
1938 - 2018
Jose Tosado
Born 1953
Albert Okwuegbunam
Born 1998
John Hugh Catherwood
1888 - 1930
James Howard Holmes
Born 1943
Leonard Dodson
1912 - 1997
Thomas T. Crittenden Jr.
1863 - 1938
Toy Dorgan
Born 1946
Andrew S. Bryant
1841 - 1931
Bart Evans
Born 1970