Notable People from Illinois

Adolph Alexander Noser

American Roman Catholic archbishop

Arnold Marshall Rose

American sociologist and politician (1918-1968)

Sebastian de Grazia

American writer (1917–2000)

David G. Mandelbaum

American anthropologist (1911–1987)

Franz Jackson

American musician (1912-2008)

Jean Emily Henley

anesthesiologist

Roy Winsor

American writer (1912-1987)

Harold H. Velde

U.S. congressman from Illinois (1910-1985)

Harry Hoogstraal

American parasitologist (1917–1986)

Herb Peterson

American businessman (1919–2008)

Herman S. Bloch

American inventor (1912–1990)

Ian Wallace

American writer

Irving J. Moore

television director

James Thomas Aubrey, Jr.

American film and TV executive (1918–1994)

Janet Fox

American actress (1912-2002)

Edward William O'Rourke

Roman Catholic Bishop of Peoria (1917–1999)

Philip Drucker

American anthropologist (1911-1982)

Elmer Gainer

American basketball player (1918–1970)

Harry Weese

American architect (1915–1998)

Claire E. Hutchin, Jr.

U.S. Army general

Daniel J. Ronan

American politician

Jay M. Gould

American epidemiologist and economist (1915–2005)

Charles Nicoletti

American mobster (1916-1977)

Nathan Lerner

American photographer (1913-1997)

Ernani Bernardi

American musician

F. L. Wallace

American writer (1915-2004)

Frances Lasker Brody

American philanthropist

Mickey Rottner

American basketball player (1919–2011)

Walter J. Cummings, Jr.

American judge (1916-1999)

Wendell P. Kay

American lawyer and politician (1913-1986)

Wesley Rose

American music executive (1918–1990)

Charles Billingslea

United States Army major general (1914-1989)

Al Barlick

American Hall of Fame baseball umpire (1915-1995)

Jack E. Leonard

American comedian (1910–1973)

Mary S. Sherman

orthopedic surgeon

Josephine Miles

American poet and literary scholar (1911-1985)

Langdon Brown Gilkey

American theologian (1919-2004)

Malcolm Ross

United States Naval Reserve captain, atmospheric scientist and balloonist

Ryō Kurusu

Imperial Japanese Army Officer

A. Peter Dewey

United States Army officer and journalist

Sally Payne

American actress (1912-1999)

Slade Cutter

American football player and Naval commander (1911–2005)

Warren Ambrose

American mathematician (1914-1995)

Victor Maghakian

Armenian American member of the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Considered one of the most decorated American soldiers of the war. (1915–1977)

William Edward McManus

Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend

William McCormick Blair, Jr.

American diplomat (1916–2015)

Louise Stanley

American actress

Stephen Gilman

American philologist (1917–1986)

John Exter

American economist who founded the Central Bank of Sri Lanka

Donald Kalish

American activist (1919-2000)