Notable People from Illinois

Clyde Howard Tavenner

American politician (1882-1942)

Oscar Lawton Wilkerson

Tuskegee Airman

James Alfred Keating

American flying ace (1897–1976)

James Dunne O'Connell

United States Army general (1899-1984)

Bob Mattick

American basketball player (1933-2018)

Aaron H. Grout

American politician

Donald Martin Carroll

American catholic priest (1909-2002)

Frederic Clay Bartlett

painter and art collector (1873–1953)

Robert O. Ragland

American film score composer (1931–2012)

Robert Emery

American athlete

Georgia Mabel DeBaptiste

African-American journalist, teacher, social worker (1867-1951)

George Ernest Foulkes

American politician (1878-1960)

Benjamin H. Marshall

American architect (1874–1944)

Kitty Doner

American vaudeville performer and male impersonator (1895-1988)

Edward T. Taylor

American politician (1858-1941)

Irene Bayer Hecht

American photographer (1898–1991)

Bertha Menzler-Peyton

American painter

Otto Vogel

American baseball player (1899–1969)

Dorothy Price

American endocrinologist

Henry Holt

politician from the U. S. state of North Dakota

Edith Stockton

American actress

James Arthur Baird

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball player and coach, track athletes, lawyer, judge (1877-1964)

John Lee Mahin

American screenwriter and producer (1902-1984)

Dwight Smith Young

American physicist

Richard Nickel

American photographer and architectural preservationist (1928–1972)

Edward Vebell

fencer and artist (1921–2018)

Vaughn Shoemaker

American editorial cartoonist (1902–1991)

Frank G. Abell

American photographer (1844–1910)

Columbia Eneutseak

Inuit actress

Jordan Howard Sobel

Canadian-American philosopher

Ronnie Boykins

American musician (1935–1980)

William G. Kline

American college football player, college football coach, college baseball coach, college basketball coach, university professor, author

Ida Platt

lawyer - first African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States

Ken Menke

American professional basketball player

Maynard W. Glitman

American diplomat (1933–2010)

Ray Ramsey

American football and basketball player (1921-2009)

Robert Carter

American activist (1927–2010)

Ethel Magafan

American painter (1916–1993)

Glenn Foster

American football player

Mary Hegeler Carus

American engineer, editor and entrepreneur

Thomas A. Pope

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1894-1989)

William Bushnell Stout

American businessman (1880-1956)

Frank Coburn

American artist, 1862-1938

Robert H. Mounce

American biblical scholar (1921–2019)

Cliff Aberson

Major League Baseball outfielder and American football player (1921-1973)

Sinclair Smith

American astronomer

Bonnie Harris

American painter (1870–1962)

Anton Lada

American drummer

Billy Klaus

American baseball player

Reynold C. Fuson

American chemist