Biographical Records
Notable People from Illinois
6,022 notable figures born in Illinois, showing page 26 of 121, ranked by historical prominence.
Fountain L. Thompson
1854 – 1942
politicianjudge
William Langson Lathrop
1859 – 1938
painter
John Henry Tilden
1851 – 1940
physician
Edmund J. James
1855 – 1925
economistjurist
Carter Harrison IV
1860 – 1953
civil servantpoliticianlawyer
George R. Lawrence
1868 – 1938
photographer
Roy Owen West
1868 – 1958
politicianlawyer
Wesley Livsey Jones
1863 – 1932
politicianlawyer
Charles Willis Lane
1869 – 1945
silent film actorfilm actorstage actor
Charles Williams Nash
1864 – 1948
entrepreneur
Richard Yates
1860 – 1936
journalisteditorjurist
Wilson Irvine
1869 – 1936
painter
Frederic Bancroft
1860 – 1945
historian of Modern Agephilanthropistbiographer
John Bevins Moisant
1868 – 1910
aircraft pilot
William Sherman Jennings
1863 – 1920
diplomatjuristgovernor
Virginia Richmond Reynolds
1866 – 1903
painterartist
Kate Austin
1864 – 1902
journalist
George Grantham Bain
1865 – 1944
collectorartistauthor
Sol Bloom
1870 – 1949
superintendentimpresariojournalist
William McCall
1870 – 1938
actor
Grace Hall Hemingway
1872 – 1951
novelistopera singerpainter
Edgar Howard Sturtevant
1875 – 1952
classical philologistlinguistHittitologist
Melbourne Armstrong Carriker
1879 – 1965
entomologistscientific collectorzoologist
William Linn Westermann
1873 – 1954
papyrologistuniversity teacherhistorian
Garet Garrett
1878 – 1954
journalistwriter
Myrtle Reed
1874 – 1911
novelistjournalistauthor
Henry Horner
1878 – 1940
juristgovernorpolitician
Ben W. Olcott
1872 – 1952
governorpolitician
Leona Roberts
1879 – 1954
film actorstage actor
Henry Andrews Bumstead
1870 – 1920
physicist
Caroline Cooke
1875 – 1962
film actorscreenwriteractor
Edward Murray East
1879 – 1938
eugenicistgeneticistbotanist
Ida Crouch-Hazlett
1870 – 1941
editorjournalistsuffragette
Edward Sheldon
1886 – 1946
playwrightwriterscreenwriter
Eve Unsell
1887 – 1937
writerscreenwriter
Raymond B. West
1886 – 1923
film directoractor
Robert Rutherford McCormick
1880 – 1955
newspaper proprietornewspaper editorpeace activist
Dolores Cassinelli
1888 – 1984
singeractor
Margaret Illington
1881 – 1934
stage actoractor
Olin Downes
1886 – 1955
musicologistjournalistmusic critic
Neysa McMein
1888 – 1949
painterillustrator
Virgil Miller
1886 – 1974
cinematographer
Clarence E. Mulford
1883 – 1956
writer
Evarts Ambrose Graham
1883 – 1957
military physiciansurgeon
Forrest Taylor
1883 – 1965
television actorfilm actorstage actor
Frank Urson
1887 – 1928
directorfilm directorcinematographer
Paul Stanton
1884 – 1955
actor
Johnny Gruelle
1880 – 1938
children's book illustratorchildren's writercartoonist
Laura Gardin Fraser
1889 – 1966
sculptorartist
Junius Matthews
1890 – 1978
television actorvoice actoractor