Biographical Records
Notable People from Illinois
6,022 notable figures born in Illinois, showing page 35 of 121, ranked by historical prominence.
Lenard Lakofka
1944 – 2020
role-playing game designergame designerauthor
Philip Caputo
1941 – 2026
novelistjournalistveteran
Brian Augustyn
1954 – 2022
comics writereditorwriter
Brenda C. Barnes
1953 – 2017
chief operating officerbusinessperson
Brad Branson
1958 – 2026
basketball player
Jesse Anderson
1957 – 1994
Jawann Oldham
1957 – 2026
basketball player
Essex Hemphill
1957 – 1995
poet
Ron Carroll
1968 – 2025
musiciansingerdisc jockey
Mark Venturini
1961 – 1996
film actortelevision actoractor
Jeff Ward
1962 – 1993
drummer
Pierre Kezdy
1962 – 2020
bassistmusician
Eugie Foster
1971 – 2014
science fiction writernovelistchildren's writer
Kevin Alexander Clark
1988 – 2021
film actoractor
Patrick Gasienica
1998 – 2023
ski jumper
Andrew J. Kuykendall
1815 – 1891
politicianjudgelawyer
James Carroll Robinson
1823 – 1886
politicianlawyer
John Willis Menard
1838 – 1893
journalistpoliticianjudge
Charles Eugene Fuller
1849 – 1926
politicianlawyerjudge
A. A. Ames
1842 – 1911
military physicianpolitician
Albinus Nance
1848 – 1911
governorpoliticianlawyer
Mary L. Page
1849 – 1921
architectteacher
William F. L. Hadley
1847 – 1901
politicianlawyer
Katharine Bushnell
1856 – 1946
missionary
Charles F. Curry
1858 – 1930
businesspersonpoliticianlawyer
Dave Rudabaugh
1854 – 1886
criminalgunfightercowboy
William Cowper Brann
1855 – 1898
journalisteditorwriter
Henry Blake Fuller
1857 – 1929
novelistwriter
C. W. Post
1854 – 1914
nutritionist
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
1859 – 1947
botanical collectorbotanist
Ellen Rankin Copp
1853 – 1901
sculptor
Sarah E. Farro
1859
novelistwriter
Cora Agnes Benneson
1851 – 1919
lawyerwriter
Frank Arthur Vanderlip
1864 – 1937
financierjournalistbanker
Morton D. Hull
1867 – 1937
politicianlawyer
Charles R. Evans
1866 – 1954
politician
Thomas Ray Hamer
1864 – 1950
politicianlawyerjudge
William Kent
1864 – 1928
politician
Frank Rinehart
1861 – 1928
painterphotographer
Fred Sterling
1869 – 1934
journalisteditorpolitician
James Harbord
1866 – 1947
military officerentrepreneurbusinessperson
H. C. Baldridge
1868 – 1947
governorpolitician
Charles W. Woodworth
1865 – 1940
entomologistuniversity teacherzoologist
Lena Morrow Lewis
1868 – 1950
newspaper editoreditorsuffragette
Samuel Wesley Stratton
1861 – 1931
academicphysicist
Gertrude Foster Brown
1867 – 1956
suffragistpianistteacher
Edward Hebern
1869 – 1952
cryptographerinventormathematician
Edward Thomas Noonan
1861 – 1923
politicianlawyer
Frank H. Funk
1869 – 1940
politician
Frederick Richardson
1862 – 1937
illustrator