Biographical Records
Notable People from Illinois
6,022 notable figures born in Illinois, showing page 30 of 121, ranked by historical prominence.
Henry C. Hansbrough
1848 – 1933
politician
James Keane
1857 – 1929
Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Julia Lathrop
1858 – 1932
politician
James Wickersham
1857 – 1939
politicianlawyerjudge
E. W. Scripps
1854 – 1926
publisherbusinessperson
Elbridge Ayer Burbank
1858 – 1949
portrait painterpainterphotographer
Daniel William Coquillett
1856 – 1911
scientific collectorbotanical collectorentomologist
Enella Benedict
1858 – 1942
painterartist
Frank White
1856 – 1940
finance ministerMajorgovernor
Arthur Lloyd Thomas
1851 – 1924
governorbusinesspersonpolitician
Hannah G. Solomon
1858 – 1942
activist
Simon Patten
1852 – 1922
sociologisteconomistuniversity teacher
Annie Malone
1869 – 1957
philanthropistinventorbusinessperson
Charles Atwood Kofoid
1865 – 1947
scientific collectormarine biologistbotanist
Richard Hovey
1864 – 1900
playwrighttranslatorpoet
Cormic Cosgrove
1869 – 1930
association football player
Kid Lavigne
1869 – 1928
boxer
Edward Bruce
1861 – 1919
archer
Fred A. Busse
1866 – 1914
politician
Francis Townsend
1866 – 1960
economistpoliticianphysician
John Adelbert Parkhurst
1861 – 1925
university teacherastronomer
Samuel Jackson Holmes
1868 – 1964
university teacherzoologist
Henry Thomas Rainey
1860 – 1934
juristpoliticianlawyer
Alice De Wolf Kellogg
1862 – 1900
painter
Ann Elizabeth Isham
1862 – 1912
Walter Dill Scott
1869 – 1955
academic administratoruniversity teacherpsychologist
Roger Imhof
1875 – 1958
circus performersongwriteractor
Theodore Lorch
1873 – 1947
actor
Katherine D. Tillman
1870 – 1922
journalistpoetwriter
Miriam Nesbitt
1873 – 1954
film actorstage actoractor
Samuel Merwin
1874 – 1936
novelistjournalistwriter
Robert P. Bass
1873 – 1960
governorpolitician
Sidney Smith
1877 – 1935
film directoranimatorcomics artist
J. Allen St. John
1872 – 1957
designerillustrator
Albert H. Taylor
1879 – 1961
electrical engineerphysicist
Arthur Scott King
1876 – 1957
astrophysicistphysicistastronomer
George K. Spoor
1871 – 1953
film producerinventorfilm director
Harry Schumm
1877 – 1953
actor
Henry Gale
1874 – 1942
astrophysicistphysicistwriter
Joe McGinnity
1871 – 1929
baseball player
Frederick M. Smith
1874 – 1946
writer
Edwin Stanley
1880 – 1944
actor
Elsie Baker
1883 – 1958
television actorsingeractor
William Henry Wills
1882 – 1946
politicianbusinessperson
William Anthony McGuire
1881 – 1940
film screenwriterproducerlibrettist
Milo Winter
1888 – 1956
illustrator
Charles Le Moyne
1880 – 1956
actor
Miles J. Breuer
1889 – 1945
science fiction writernovelistmilitary physician
Egbert Van Alstyne
1882 – 1951
music arrangerorganistsongwriter
Martin H. Kennelly
1887 – 1961
politicianbusinessperson