List of people from Lake Forest, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Lake Forest, Illinois.

Arts

Sarah Brackett, actress^[1]
Peach Carr, fashion designer; contestant on season 8 of Project Runway
Wallace Leroy DeWolf, etcher, painter, art collector, and businessman
Sylvia Shaw Judson, sculptor and teacher; winner of the Logan Prize in 1929 for her sculpture Little Gardener
Lisel Mueller, poet; winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Rene Romero Schuler, fine arts painter

David Adler, architect^{[citation needed]}
Edward H. Bennett, architect and city planner
Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect; lived in Ragdale
Adrian Smith, architect; led the design of three of the world's ten tallest buildings (Burj Khalifa (tallest in the world), Trump Tower Chicago, Jin Mao Building); resident of Lake Forest^{[citation needed]}

Andrew Watson Armour III, meatpacking magnate
J. Ogden Armour, meatpacking magnate (Armour and Company)
Albert Blake Dick, founder of A.B. Dick Company; licensed autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison; mayor of Lake Forest (1928–1931)^{[citation needed]}
Grace Durand, businesswoman and owner of Crab Tree Dairy Farm^[2]
W. James Farrell, chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works^{[citation needed]}
Marshall Field, owner of Marshall Field's (now Macy's)^{[citation needed]}
Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor; founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became International Harvester^{[citation needed]}
Peter W. Smith, investment banker^[3]
Charles "Cork" R. Walgreen III, third president of Walgreens^{[citation needed]}
Miles D. White, CEO of Abbott Laboratories^{[citation needed]}

Marcus a. Lemonis - the profit CNBC, Chairman Camping World

Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player and pianist
Andrew Bird, musician and songwriter^{[citation needed]}
Mat Devine, lead singer of Chicago-based alternative rock band Kill Hannah^{[citation needed]}

David N. Barkhausen, Illinois state legislator and politician
Edward J. Brundage, Illinois Attorney General
Fredrik Herman Gade, mayor of Lake Forest; diplomat from Norway
Susan Garrett, Illinois Senate state senator representing the 29th District
Noble Brandon Judah, United States Ambassador to Cuba (1927–1929)
Robert P. Lamont, United States Secretary of Commerce (1929–1932)
William Mather Lewis, mayor of Lake Forest (1915-1917); president of George Washington and Lafayette Universities
Thomas J. Moran, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
Judy Baar Topinka, Illinois Comptroller and Illinois State Treasurer
Pete Wilson, 36th Governor of California (1991-1999); United States Senator (1983-1991); 29th Mayor of San Diego (1971-1983)
Corrine Wood, 44th lieutenant governor of Illinois

v t e Lake Forest, Illinois
Schools	Lake Forest School District 67 Lake Forest High School East Lake Academy Lake Forest Academy Lake Forest Country Day School Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart
Colleges and universities	Lake Forest College Lake Forest Graduate School of Management Barat College (closed)
Landmarks	Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital
Society	List of people
This list is incomplete.