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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
Stephen A. Douglas, early U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate who debated Abraham Lincoln
John M. Harlan, former Supreme Court Justice
Carter Harrison, Sr., former Mayor
Carter Harrison, Jr., former Mayor
Michael "Hinky-Dink" Kenna, former Alderman
Joseph Medill, newspaper editor & 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-elect of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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, former Mayor
John Wentworth, former mayor and Congressman
HRH Prince Peter of Yugoslavia (was born here)
Athletes, coaches, and related figures
Michael Jordan, former NBA player
Dusty Baker, former manager of the Cubs
Ernie Banks, MLB Hall of Famer and Mr. Cub
Steve Bartman, Infamous Cubs Fan
Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer
CM Punk, Professional Wrestler
Harry Caray, TV & Radio Broadcaster
Charles Comiskey, major league baseball player Comiskey Park is named for
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
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
James "Chico" Hernandez, Sombo Wrestling Champion and featured on the box of Wheaties
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
Common, rapper born in Chicago, Illinois
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
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
Dwayne Wade, NBA star
Jon Walker, bassist of the band Panic! At The Disco
Musicians
Emma Abbott, (1850-1891), born in Chicago, noted soprano
Emilie Autumn, musician. Pioneer of "victoriandustrial"
Avant, singer
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
Miles Davis, musician
Jack DeJohnette, drummer/pianist
Disturbed, rock group
Willie Dixon, Blues songwriter and record producer
Do Or Die or D.O.D.
Florence Kirsch Du Brul, classical pianist
Phil Everly, singer
Lupe Fiasco, rapper
Harvey Fuqua, singer/songwriter/producer
Benny Goodman, musician/bandleader
Steve Goodman, singer
Gene Greene, singer
Buddy Guy, Blues guitarist
Herbie Hancock, musician
James Iha, former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist
Quincy Jones, musician/songwriter/producer
Brendan Kelly, musician
R. Kelly, singer
William Kimball, founder of Kimball Piano Company
Gene Krupa, musician
L.O.R.E.N., rapper
Ramsey Lewis, musician
Curtis Mayfield, musician/songwriter/guitarist
Tom Morello, guitarist
OK Go Power-pop Band
James Petrillo, musician's union head
Liz Phair, musician
Rhymefest, rapper
Lou Rawls, singer
Matt Skiba Lead singer of Alkaline Trio
Horatio Spafford, penned the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul"
Mavis Staples, singer
Patrick Stump, lead singer/guitarist for Fall Out Boy
Hound Dog Taylor, guitarist
Giorgio Tozzi, basso
Jeff Tweedy, musician
Twista, rapper
Jon Walker, bassist for Panic! at the Disco
Muddy Waters, Blues musician
Peter Wentz, bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy
Kanye West, rapper
Tony Williams, jazz drummer
Wesley Willis, musician
Howlin' Wolf, musician
D'arcy Wretzky, former Smashing Pumpkins bassist
Zim Zum, guitarist/musician, songwriter for The Pop Culture Suicides
Chaka Khan, singer
Entertainment figures
Maria Kanellis, wrestler
CM Punk, wrestler
Gillian Anderson, actress
Dominic Armato, voice actor
Barney Balaban, mogul, head of Paramount Pictures
Adam Baldwin, actor
Ike Barinholtz, comedian
Ralph Bellamy, actor
James Belushi, actor/comedian
John Belushi, actor/comedian
Jack Benny, actor/comedian
Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
Shelley Berman, comedian
Michael Ian Black, comedian
Budd Boetticher, film director
Tom Bosley, actor
Buddy Bregman, composer/arranger
Allan Carr, producer
Dan Castellaneta, comedian
Kyle Chavarria, actress
Joan Cusack, actress/comedienne
John Cusack, actor
Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company/mogul
Mike Douglas, talk show host
Michael Clarke Duncan, 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
Hugh Hefner, publisher/mogul
Jennifer Hudson, actress
John Hughes, film director/writer
Philip Kaufman, film director
Ron Livingston, actor
Lar Lubovitch, choreographer
Bernie Mac, actor/comedian
William H. Macy, actor/producer
John Malkovich, actor
David Mamet, playwright/poet/screenwriter/director
Michael Mann, film director/writer/producer
Jenny McCarthy, actress/model
Frances McDormand, actress
Rick Moranis, actor
Brian Doyle-Murray, actor
Bill Murray, actor/comedian
Bob Newhart, actor/comedian
Melvin Van Peebles, director
Jeff Perry, actor
William L. Petersen, actor
Jeremy Piven, actor
Harold Ramis, actor/director/comedian
Bill Rancic, winner of The Apprentice
John C. Reilly, actor
Lucille Ricksen, actress
Pat Sajak, game show host
Horatio Sanz, actor/comedian
Amy Sedaris, actress
David Sedaris, radio broadcaster & author
Gary Sinise, actor
Gloria Swanson, actress
Mr. T., actor
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
Billy Zane, actor
Florenz Ziegfeld, empresario
Katie Doyle, castmember of MTV's Road Rules
Monique Calhoun, model
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
Saul Bellow, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
Allan Bloom, writer and translator
Ray Bradbury, author
Allan G. Brodie, orthodontics educator
Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
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 W. 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
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
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
Larry Heinemann, novelist
Ernest Hemingway, writer
Robert Herrick, novelist
John Augur Holabird, architect
William Holabird, architect
Helmut Jahn, architect
William Le Baron Jenney, architect
Leon Kass, writer and chair of The President's Council on Bioethics
Dr. Fazlur Khan, civil engineer
Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), columnist
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
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
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
K. A. Applegate, author
Rose Wolf, writer
Criminals
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
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
Ira Glass, NPR broadcaster
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
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