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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Chicago or from the surrounding suburbs.
[edit] Politicians and statesmen
- Benjamin Adamowski, mentor turned rival of Richard J. Daley
- John Ashcroft, former Attorney General
- Rod Blagojevich, former congressman and current governor of Illinois
- James Borow, former State Senator and close friend of President Lincoln
- James Bowler, former Alderman and Congressman
- Jane Byrne, former Mayor
- Anton Cermak, former Mayor
- Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and presidential candidate in 2004
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator & former First Lady
- "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, former alderman
- Richard J. Daley, former mayor
- Richard M. Daley, current mayor
- Paul Douglas, University of Chicago economist, alderman and U.S. senator
- Stephen A. Douglas, early U.S. senator and presidential candidate who debated Abraham Lincoln
- Edward F. Dunne former governor
- John M. Harlan, former Supreme Court justice
- Carter Harrison, Sr., former mayor
- Carter Harrison, Jr., former mayor
- Michael "Hinky-Dink" Kenna, former alderman
- Joe Kernan, 48th Governor of Indiana
- Lisa Madigan, current Attorney General of Illinois
- Joseph Medill, newspaper editor and former mayor
- Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois
- William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago, entrepreneur
- Roman Pucinski, former congressman and alderman and onetime mayoral candidate
- Deval Patrick, governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Prince Peter of Yugoslavia (born in Chicago)
- John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton, 1998-2001
- Donald Rumsfeld, former congressman, former United States Secretary of Defense
- Amos G. Throop, former city treasurer, temperance advocate in 19th century
- William Hale Thompson, last Republican mayor of Chicago
- Elihu B. Washburne, former secretary of state and former minister to France
- Harold Washington, first and only black mayor of Chicago
- John Wentworth, former mayor and congressman
[edit] Athletes, coaches, and related figures
- Flozell Adams, NFL football player
- kalab Abdullah,NFL football player
- Pete Arbogast, TV & Radio sportscaster (born in Chicago, raised in Los Angeles)
- Dusty Baker, former manager of the Cubs
- Ernie Banks, MLB Hall of Famer and Mr. Cub
- Steve Bartman, Infamous Cubs Fan
- Chris Chellios, NHL Star
- Frank Lenti, Winningest High School Football Coach
- D'Lo Brown, Professional Wrestler
- Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- CM Punk, Professional Wrestler
- Colt Cabana, Professional Wrestler
- Harry Caray, TV & Radio Broadcaster
- Charles Comiskey, major league baseball player Comiskey Park is named for[1]
- Bart Conner -- Olympic gymnast, who won two gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Shani Davis, Olympic Speedskater
- Grant DePorter, destroyer of the "Bartman ball"
- Mike Ditka, former Bears coach and television analyst
- Bobby Dotter, former NASCAR driver turned owner
- Frederick Evans, defensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins
- Michael Finley, NBA player
- Ozzie Guillen, Venezuelan manager of the Chicago White Sox;
- George Halas, former coach of the Chicago Bears
- Dorothy Hamill, figure skater
- Tim Hardaway
- James "Chico" Hernandez, Sombo Wrestling champion and featured on the box of Wheaties
- Mac Hanslip basketball
- Hal Higdon, distance runner, running writer
- Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, college basketball coach
- Marv Levy, former coach of the Buffalo Bills
- Herman Long, baseball player and manager[1]
- Jim McMahon, NFL quarterback of 1985 Super Bowl Champion Bears
- Donovan McNabb, NFL quarterback
- Walter Payton, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Scottie Pippen, former Chicago Bulls forward
- Cappie Pondexter, WNBA All-Star and guard for the Phoenix Mercury
- Justin Roberts, a pro wrestling ring announcer working for WWE
- Russ Rose, hall of fame women's volleyball coach at Penn State
- Ryne Sandberg, former Cubs second baseman
- Ron Santo, former Cubs third baseman and current WGN broadcaster
- Billy Sianis, bringer of the Curse and founder of the Billy Goat Tavern
- Tim Foley, National Football League 1972 Miami Dolphins, Pro-Bowl player. Also Quixtar Crown Ambassador IBO.
- Mike Singletary, former Bears linebacker and NFL Hall of Famer
- Sammy Sosa, former Cubs player
- Amos Alonzo Stagg, football coach
- Isiah Thomas, Basketball Hall of Famer
- Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears linebacker
- Dwyane Wade, NBA star
- Antoine Walker, Forward for the Miami Heat (NBA)
- Bill Callahan, Head Coach for Nebraska Cornhuskers Football
- Mike Joy, announcer for NASCAR on FOX
- Napoleon Harris Kansas City Chiefs linebacker
[edit] Musicians
- Emma Abbott, (1850-1891), born in Chicago, noted soprano[2]
- Emilie Autumn, pioneer of "violindustrial"
- Avant, singer
- William Beckett, lead singer of The Academy Is...
- Rachel Barton Pine, violinist
- Bob Bryar drummer of My Chemical Romance
- Paul Butterfield, blues musician
- Marty Casey, frontman of the rock band Lovehammers
- Peter Cetera, singer
- Jimmy Chamberlin, Smashing Pumpkins drummer
- Gene Chandler, singer
- Steve Cole, jazz saxophonist
- Sam Cooke, singer
- Common, rapper
- Billy Corgan, singer and Smashing Pumpkins frontman
- James Cotton, blues musician
- Da Brat, rapper
- Jack DeJohnette, drummer, pianist
- Bo Diddley, rock & roll guitarist, singer, songwriter
- Disturbed, rock group
- Willie Dixon, blues songwriter and record producer
- Do or Die or D.O.D., rappers
- Florence Kirsch Du Brul, classical pianist
- Phil Everly, singer
- Lupe Fiasco, rapper
- Harvey Fuqua, singer, songwriter, producer
- Benny Goodman, band leader
- Steve Goodman, singer
- Gene Greene, singer
- Buddy Guy, blues guitarist
- Herbie Hancock, musician
- Andy Hurley, drummer for Fall Out Boy
- Howlin' Wolf, musician
- James Iha, former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist
- Benn Jordan, electronic musician
- Brendan Kelly, bassist and vocalist of punk band The Lawrence Arms
- R. Kelly, singer
- Chaka Khan, singer
- William Kimball, founder of Kimball Piano Company
- Gene Krupa, band leader
- No I.D., hip hop and R&B record producer
- Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist, composer
- Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of The Doors
- Curtis Mayfield, songwriter, guitarist
- Tom Morello, guitarist
- Muddy Waters, blues musician
- Wayne Nelson, lead singer of classic rock's Little River Band
- Jim O'Rourke, experimental musician
- OK Go, power-pop band
- Tom Paxton, folk singer, songwriter, born in Chicago, October 31, 1937
- James Petrillo, musicians' union head
- Liz Phair, folk singer
- Lou Rawls, singer
- Rhymefest, rapper
- Matt Skiba, lead singer of Alkaline Trio
- Patti Smith, singer-songwriter and poet
- Horatio Spafford, penned the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul"
- Mavis Staples, singer
- Patrick Stump, lead singer and guitarist for Fall Out Boy
- Hound Dog Taylor, guitarist
- Koko Taylor, blues singer
- Giorgio Tozzi, basso
- Joe Trohman, guitarist for Fall Out Boy
- Jeff Tweedy, singer, songwriter
- Twista, rapper
- Jon Walker, bassist for Panic at the Disco
- Peter Wentz, bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy
- Paul Wertico, jazz drummer
- Kanye West, rapper
- Wesley Willis, outsider artist punk singer
- D'arcy Wretzky, former Smashing Pumpkins bassist
- Yung Berg, rapper
- Zim Zum, guitarist, songwriter for The Pop Culture Suicides
- MTKilla, Rapper
- Drill-a-matic,Rapper,lyricist
[edit] Entertainment figures
- Gillian Anderson, actress
- Dominic Armato, voice actor
- Reiko Aylesworth, actress
- Barney Balaban, mogul, head of Paramount Pictures
- Bob Balaban, actor, director, producer
- Adam Baldwin, actor
- Ike Barinholtz, comedian
- Ralph Bellamy, actor
- James Belushi, actor, comedian
- John Belushi, actor, comedian
- Jack Benny, actor, comedian
- Tom Berenger, actor
- Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
- Shelley Berman, comedian
- Carlos Bernard, actor
- Michael Ian Black, comedian
- Budd Boetticher, film director
- Tom Bosley, actor
- Andre Braugher, actor
- Buddy Bregman, composer, arranger
- Pat Byrnes, New Yorker cartoonist
- Colt Cabana, professional wrestler
- Monique Calhoun, model
- Steve Carell, actor, comedian
- Allan Carr, producer
- Dan Castellaneta, comedian and voice of Homer Simpson
- Kyle Chavarria, actress
- Steven Colbert, comedian
- Joan Cusack, actress, comedian
- John Cusack, actor
- Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company
- Mike Douglas, talk show host
- Katie Doyle, castmember of MTV's Road Rules
- Michael Clarke Duncan, actor
- Kevin Dunn, actor
- Dennis Farina, actor
- Chris Farley, actor/comedian
- Jon Favreau, actor/writer/director
- Tina Fey, actress/writer
- Michael Flatley, dancer
- Harrison Ford, actor
- Bob Fosse, director/choreographer
- Dennis Franz, actor
- Stuart Gordon, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer
- Michael Gross, actor, Steven Keaton on Family Ties
- Daryl Hannah, actress
- Wood Harris, actor
- Hugh Hefner, publisher
- Mark Hollmann, Urinetown composer, lyricist
- Terrance Howard, actor
- Jennifer Hudson, actress
- John Hughes, film director, writer
- Jim Kaiser talk show host
- Maria Kanellis, professional wrestler
- Philip Kaufman, film director
- Harvey Korman, actor
- Greg Kotis, Urinetown playwright
- Ron Livingston, actor
- Richard Long, actor
- Lar Lubovitch, choreographer
- Bernie Mac, actor, comedian
- Justina Machado, actress, best known for Six Feet Under
- William H. Macy, actor, producer
- John Mahoney, actor
- John Malkovich, actor
- David Mamet, playwright, poet, screenwriter, director
- Michael Mann, film director, writer, producer
- Joe Mantegna, actor
- Jenny McCarthy, actress, model
- Frances McDormand, actress
- Rick Moranis, actor
- Jennifer Morrison, actress, producer
- Brian Doyle-Murray, actor
- Bill Murray, actor, comedian
- Bob Newhart, actor, comedian
- Ken Nordine, voiceover and Word Jazz recording artist
- Donald O'Connor, actor
- Mandy Patinkin, actor, tenor
- Melvin Van Peebles, director
- Jeff Perry, actor
- William L. Petersen, actor
- Jeremy Piven, actor
- CM Punk, professional wrestler
- Harold Ramis, actor, director, comedian
- Bill Rancic, winner of The Apprentice
- John C. Reilly, actor
- Lucille Ricksen, actress
- John Ridgely, actor
- Justin Roberts, current WWE Smackdown! ring announcer
- Pat Sajak, game show host of Wheel of Fortune
- Horatio Sanz, actor, comedian
- Amy Sedaris, actress
- David Sedaris, radio broadcaster & author
- Gary Sinise, actor
- Michael Stahl David, actor
- Gloria Swanson, actress
- Mr. T, actor
- Rea Tajiri, filmmaker
- Jessica Taylor, actress [Forest Park]
- Giorgio Tozzi, singer, actor, and ghost singer for Rossano Brazzi in South Pacific
- Vince Vaughn, actor
- Raquel Welch, actress
- Robin Williams, actor, comedian
- Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess, actress, philanthropist
- Billy Zane, actor
- Robert Zemeckis, director, producer, writer
- Florenz Ziegfeld, empresario
- Edward Zwick, director, producer, writer
- Ira Glass, NPR broadcaster
[edit] Writers, thinkers, scientists, and cultural figures
- Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist
- Jack Canfield, writer, Chicken Soup for The Soul
- Jane Addams, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- Dankmar Adler, architect
- Mortimer Adler, writer and educational reformer
- Nelson Algren, writer
- K. A. Applegate, author
- Saul Bellow, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
- Allan Bloom, writer and translator
- Harold Bosley, theologian
- Ray Bradbury, author
- Allan G. Brodie, orthodontics educator
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
- Algis Budrys, author
- Daniel Burnham, architect
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer
- Chris Bury, journalist
- Mother Cabrini, saint
- Marvin Camras, inventor
- Raymond Chandler, writer
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Daniel Cohen, children's writer
- Michael Crichton, writer
- James Cronin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- James Gould Cozzens, novelist
- Zachary Taylor Davis, architect
- Donald J. DePorter, philanthropist
- John Dewey, educational reformer
- Philip K. Dick, writer
- Charles Dickinson, writer
- G. Walter Dittmar, first president of the Illinois State Dental Society
- Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal
- E. Lloyd Du Brul, dental anatomist
- Helen Flanders Dunbar an important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine.
- Finley Peter Dunne, writer, humorist (Mr. Dooley)
- Stuart Dybek, author
- Dave Eggers, writer, editor, publisher
- Mircea Eliade, Romanian-born religious scholar and philosopher
- James T. Farrell, writer
- Kenneth Fearing, poet, writer
- Edna Ferber, author, playwright
- Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Leon Forrest, writer
- Charles E. Fox, architect
- James Ingo Freed, architect
- Milton Friedman, winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
- Henry Blake Fuller, writer
- Larry Gelbart, comedy writer
- Edward Gorey, artist
- Marjorie Grene, philosopher
- Marion Mahony Griffin, architect
- Walter Burley Griffin, architect
- John Gunther, writer
- E. Gary Gygax, author
- George Ellery Hale, astronomer
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright
- Ben Hecht, author, journalist
- Larry Heinemann, novelist
- Ernest Hemingway, writer
- Robert Herrick, novelist
- John Augur Holabird, architect
- William Holabird, architect
- Helmut Jahn, architect
- William Le Baron Jenney, architect
- John Kass, journalist
- Leon Kass, writer and chair of The President's Council on Bioethics
- Dr. Fazlur Khan, civil engineer
- Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey, Writer of the Satanic Bible, Founder of The Church of Satan
- Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), columnist
- Adam Langer, novelist
- Leo Lerner, newspaper publisher, founder of Lerner Newspapers
- James Patterson Lyke, Franciscan friar & Roman Catholic bishop
- Catherine T. MacArthur, philanthropist
- George W. Maher, architect
- Tom Mandel, poet
- Benjamin H. Marshall, architect
- Maury Massler, dental educator
- Charles G. Maurice, dental educator
- Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
- Frederick B. Moorehead, dental educator
- Charles Murphy, architect
- Richard Nickel, photographer
- Charles Gilman Norris, author
- Frank Norris, novelist
- Frederick Bogue Noyes, dental educator
- Clarence Page, columnist
- Ruth Page, ballet dancer
- Sara Paretsky, novelist
- Ed Paschke, artist
- John Dos Passos, novelist and painter
- Cissy Patterson, journalist, newspaper editor
- Dwight H. Perkins, architect
- Frederik Pohl, author, futurist
- Henry Rago,[1] poet and editor of Poetry Magazine from 1955 to 1969
- Juliet Rago,[2] artist
- Rena Rago, artist
- Theodore Regensteiner, inventor of the four-color litographic press
- Earl W. Renfroe, orthodontist and African-American activist
- Mike Resnick, author
- Shonda Rhimes, screnwriter, director, producer (creator and executive producer of Grey's Anatomy
- Martin Roche, architect
- John Wellborn Root, architect
- John Wellborn Root, Jr., architect
- Mike Royko, columnist
- Ernest Samuels, biographer, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
- Carl Sandburg, poet
- Dan Savage, columnist
- Isaac Schour, president of the International Association for Dental Research
- Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, novelist
- William L. Shirer, journalist and historian
- Shel Silverstein, poet, songwriter, and children's writer
- Leo Strauss, political philosopher
- Louis Sullivan, architect
- Stanislav Szukalski, artist and provocateur, friend of Ben Hecht, part of the Chicago Renaissance
- Lorado Taft, sculptor
- Maria Tallchief, ballet dancer, founder of the Chicago City Ballet
- Studs Terkel, broadcaster, author
- James Tiptree, Jr., author
- Stanley D. Tylman, dental educator, wrote Theory and Practice of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis
- Thorstein Veblen, economist and social critic
- Irving Wallace, writer
- Robert Woodrow Wilson, founder and first director of Fermilab
- Gene Wolfe, author
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
[edit] Criminals
- Tony Accardo, mobster
- Al Capone, mobster
- John Dillinger, bank robber
- John Wayne Gacy, serial killer
- H.H. Holmes, early serial killer
- Theodore Kaczynski, the unabomber
- Bugs Moran, mobster
- Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir, alleged terrorist
- Jack Ruby, killed Lee Harvey Oswald
- Richard Speck, mass murderer
- Robert Hannsen, spy
- Larry Hoover, Gangster
[edit] Historical Figures
- Leonard Baldy Police Officer, Traffic Reporter.
- Bob Bernard, entrepreneur
- W. Clement Stone, entrepreneur. Founder of what is known today as AON Corporation
- Mother Cabrini, first American saint
- Philo Carpenter, first Chicago pharmacist
- John Chancellor, journalist
- Bernard J. Cigrand, father of Flag Day in the United States
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, early Chicago settler
- Marshall Field, entrepreneur
- Betty Ford, former First Lady
- Ada Sawyer Garrett, 19th Century socialite
- Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, early Chicago developer
- Louis Joliet, French explorer
- John Kinzie, early Chicago settler
- Matthew Laflin, early Chicago gunpowder manufacturer and philanthropist
- Horatio G. Loomis, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade
- Philip Maxwell, early Chicago physician
- Jacques Marquette, missionary
- William S. Paley, CBS executive
- Potter Palmer, entrepreneur
- George Pullman, entrepreneur, inventor
- Captain George Streeter, riverboat captain and squatter
- Paulina Tayler, early Chicago settler
- Charles Yerkes, entrepreneur
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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- ^ a b [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
- ^ (1967) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who.
