List of people from Highland Park, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Highland Park, Illinois.

Arts and entertainment

• Dean Bernardini, bassist for the band Chevelle.
• Alex Borstein, actress.
• Paul Brickman, film director.
• Jacqueline Carey, fantasy fiction novelist.
• Billy Corgan, guitarist and lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins.
• Blag Dahlia, singer in The Dwarves.
• Dot and Zach Duenow, husband-wife duo of the band, "Duenow".
• Jennie Fields, writer, author of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Lily Beach, and The Middle Ages.
• Stephen Glass, broadcast journalist.
• James Goldman, screenwriter and playwright, author of The Lion in Winter.
• William Goldman, Academy Award winning screenwriter, author of The Princess Bride.
• F. Gary Gray, film director.
• Brian Levant, film director.
• Donald Lipski, artist
• Peter Orner, author.
• Jeff Perry, actor.
• Robert Reed, actor.
• Josh Server, actor.
• Robert Seyfarth, architect.
• Gary Sinise, actor.
• Harold Ramis, actor and director.
• Brandon Ratcliff, actor.
• Brian Ross, broadcast Journalist.
• Lauren Tom actress
• David Seltzer, screenwriter, producer, and director.
• Gene Siskel, film critic, deceased.
• Orson Welles, actor.
• Dean Zelinsky, founder of Dean Guitars.

Education and sciences

• Elisha Gray, invented and demonstrated a telephone in 1874, his Hazel Avenue house still stands.
• Dr. John Grunsfeld, astronaut.
• Eric Isaacs, director of Argonne National Laboratory and a professor at University of Chicago.
• Dr. John Preskill, professor at the California Institute of Technology.
• Dr. Graham Spanier, president of Penn State University.
• Dr. Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sports

• Ross Baumgarten, MLB pitcher
• Tony Cogan, former MLB relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. HPHS class of 1995
• Tunch Ilkin Former NFL football player and sports broadcaster
• Michael Jordan, professional and Olympic Games basketball superstar.
• Jeffrey Jordan, Michael Jordan's son and college basketball player for the Illinois Fighting Illini.
• Jerry Krause, former general manager of the Chicago Bulls.
• Toni Kukoč, former professional basketball player
• David Meckler, ice hockey player
• Vinny Del Negro, former head coach of the Chicago Bulls.
• Kyle Orton, former Chicago Bears starting quarterback.
• Julius Peppers, current Pro Bowl defensive end for the Chicago Bears.
• Scott Skiles, current head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, former head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Phoenix Suns.
• Jerry Wainwright, former head basketball coach of DePaul University.
• Robert Wrenn, former professional tennis player, won the U.S. Championship Men's Singles title four times, deceased.

Other

• Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., World War II army officer, featured on the cover of Time magazine.
• Bill Cassidy, congressman from Louisiana, Sixth District, Baton Rouge.
• General Mark W. Clark, general during World War II and the Korean War.
• Mark Kirk, current U.S. Senator from Illinois (Republican).
• Admiral Stansfield Turner, director of the CIA.
• General Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan.

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