List of people from Chicago

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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in or near Chicago.

Politicians and Statesmen

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Richard M. Daley

Donald Rumsfeld

• Benjamin Adamowski, mentor turned rival of Richard J. Daley
• John Ashcroft, former Attorney General
• Jane Byrne, former Mayor
• Anton Cermak, former Mayor
• Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander & retired four-star general in the U.S. Army
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator & former First Lady
• "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, former Alderman
• Richard J. Daley, former Mayor
• Richard M. Daley, current Mayor
• Stephen A. Douglas, early U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate who debated Abraham Lincoln
• John M. Harlan, former Supreme Court Justice
• Carter Harrison, Sr., former Mayor
• Carter Harrison, Jr., former Mayor
• Michael "Hinky-Dink" Kenna, former Alderman
• Joseph Medill, newspaper editor & former Mayor
• Barack Obama, Junior Senator from Illinois
• William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago, entrepreneur
• Roman Pucinski, former Congressman and Alderman and onetime mayoral candidate
• Donald Rumsfeld, former Congressman, current United States Secretary of Defense
• William Hale Thompson, last Republican mayor of Chicago
• Harold Washington, former Mayor
• John Wentworth, former mayor and Congressman

Athletes, Coaches, and Related Figures

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Michael Jordan

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Harry Caray

• Dusty Baker, manager of the Cubs
• Steve Bartman, still hated
• Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer
• Harry Caray, TV & Radio Broadcaster
• Grant DePorter, destroyer of the "Bartman ball"
• Mike Ditka, former Bears coach and television analyst
• Michael Finley, NBA player
• George Halas, former coach of the Chicago Bears
• Dorothy Hamill, figure skater
• Michael Jordan, former NBA player
• Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, college basketball coach
• Marv Levy, former coach of the Buffalo Bills
• Donovan McNabb, NFL quarterback
• Walter Payton, Pro Football Hall of Famer
• Ryne Sandberg, former Cubs second baseman
• Billy Sianis, bringer of the Curse and founder of the Billy Goat Tavern
• Sammy Sosa, who sneezed and couldn't get up
• Isiah Thomas, Basketball Hall of Famer
• Dwayne Wade, NBA star

Musicians

Billy Corgan: the killer in him is the killer in you

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Muddy Waters

• Marty Casey, frontman of The Lovehammers
• Jimmy Chamberlin, former Smashing Pumpkins drummer
• The rock group Chicago
• Nat King Cole, musician
• Natalie Cole, singer
• Steve Cole, Jazz saxophonist
• Common, rapper
• Billy Corgan, singer and former Smashing Pumpkins frontman
• Miles Davis, Jazz great
• Jack DeJohnette, Jazz drummer and pianist
• Willie Dixon, Blues songwriter and record producer
• Do Or Die or D.O.D.
• Phil Everly, singer
• Jay Farrar, musician
• Benny Goodman, musician
• Benny Goodman, musician
• Steve Goodman, singer
• Gene Greene, singer
• Herbie Hancock, musician
• James Iha, former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist
• Quincy Jones, songwriter and producer
• R. Kelly, singer
• William Kimball, founder of Kimball Piano Company
• B.B. King, Blues great
• Gene Krupa, musician
• Ramsey Lewis, Jazz musician and radio host
• James Petrillo, musician's union head
• Koko Taylor, Blues singer
• Hound Dog Taylor, Blues guitarist
• Jeff Tweedy, musican
• Twista, rapper
• Muddy Waters, Blues great
• Kanye West, rapper
• Wesley Willis, musician
• Howlin' Wolf, Blues great
• D'arcy Wretzky, former Smashing Pumpkins bassist

Entertainment Figures

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Gillian Anderson

Bill Murray

• Gillian Anderson, actress
• James Belushi, actor
• John Belushi, actor
• Jack Benny, comedian and actor
• Steve Carell, actor
• Cedric the Entertainer, comedian and actor
• Kyle Chavarria, actress
• Joan Cusack, actress
• John Cusack, actor
• Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company
• Chris Farley, actor
• Jon Favreau, actor/writer/director
• Tina Fey, actress/writer
• Harrison Ford, actor
• Bob Fosse, director
• John Goodman, actor
• Hugh Hefner, pornographer
• John Hughes, film director/writer
• Philip Kaufman, film director
• Ron Livingston, actor
• Bernie Mac, comedian and actor
• William H. Macy, actor/producer
• John Malkovich, actor
• David Mamet, playwright, poet, screenwriter, director
• Michael Mann film director/writer/producer
• Bill Murray, actor
• Bob Newhart, actor
• Melvin Van Peebles, director
• Jeff Perry, actor
• William L. Petersen, actor
• Jeremy Piven, actor
• Harold Ramis, actor, director
• Bill Rancic, winner of The Apprentice
• John C. Reilly, actor
• Pat Sajak, host of Wheel of Fortune
• Horatio Sanz, actor
• Amy Sedaris, actress
• David Sedaris, radio broadcaster & author
• Gary Sinise, actor
• Gloria Swanson, actress
• Vince Vaughn, actor, comedian
• Raquel Welch, actress
• Robin Williams, actor
• Oprah Winfrey, talk show host/mogul
• Billy Zane, actor
• Florenz Ziegfeld empresario

Writers, Thinkers, Scientists, and Cultural Figures

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Enrico Fermi

• Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist
• Jane Addams, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• Mortimer Adler, writer and educational reformer
• Nelson Algren, writer
• Saul Bellow, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
• Allan Bloom, writer and translator
• Ray Bradbury, author
• Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
• Daniel Burnham, architect
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer
• Mother Cabrini, saint
• Marvin Camras, inventor
• Raymond Chandler, writer
• James Gould Cozzens, novelist
• Donald J. DePorter, philanthropist
• Stuart Dybek, author
• James T. Farrell, writer
• Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Milton Friedman, winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
• Edward Gorey, artist
• John Gunther, writer
• George Ellery Hale, astronomer
• Ernest Hemingway, writer
• Leon Kass, writer and chair of The President's Council on Bioethics
• Dr. Fazlur Khan, civil engineer
• Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), columnist
• Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher
• Charles Gilman Norris, author
• Frank Norris, novelist
• Ruth Page, ballet dancer
• Ed Paschke, artist
• John Dos Passos, novelist and painter
• Mike Royko, columnist
• Carl Sandburg, poet
• Dan Savage, columnist
• William L. Shirer, journalist and historian
• Shel Silverstein, poet, songwriter, and children's writer
• Leo Strauss, political philosopher
• Louis Sullivan, architect
• Stanislav Szukalski, artist and provocateur, friend of Ben Hecht, part of the Chicago Renaissance
• Lorado Taft, sculptor
• Maria Tallchief, ballet dancer, founder of the Chicago City Ballet
• Studs Terkel, broadcaster, author
• James Tiptree, Jr., author
• Thorstein Veblen, economist and social critic
• Irving Wallace, writer
• Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

Criminals

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Al Capone, pioneering alternative businessman

• More than one of these people
• Al Capone, mobster
• John Dillinger, bank robber
• John Wayne Gacy, serial killer
• H.H. Holmes, early serial killer
• Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir, alleged terrorist
• Jack Ruby, killed Lee Harvey Oswald
• Richard Speck, mass murderer

Others

George Pullman

• Bob Bernard, entrepreneur
• John Chancellor, journalist
• Ira Glass, NPR broadcaster
• Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, early Chicago settler
• Marshall Field, entrepreneur
• Betty Ford, former First Lady
• Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, early Chicago developer
• Louis Joliet, French explorer
• John Kinzie, early Chicago settler
• Jacques Marquette, missionary
• William S. Paley, CBS executive
• Potter Palmer, entrepreneur
• George Pullman, entrepreneur, inventor
• Captain George Streeter, riverboat captain and squatter
• Charles Yerkes, entrepreneur