Notable citizens of Chicago
The following list includes important people who were born or have lived in or near Chicago. - Franklin Pierce Adams
- Jane Addams, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- Gillian Anderson, Actress
- Nelson Algren, Writer
- John Ashcroft
- Saul Bellow, Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
- James Belushi, Actor
- John Belushi, Actor
- Bob Bernard, Entrepreneur
- Ray Bradbury, Author
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet
- Daniel Burnham, Architect
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Writer
- Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Jane Byrne, Former Mayor
- Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
- Marvin Camras
- Harry Caray, TV & Radio Broadcaster
- Al Capone, Mobster
- Cedric the Entertainer, comedian and actor
- Anton Cermak, Former Mayor
- The rock group Chicago
- 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
- Nat King Cole, Musician
- Natalie Cole, Singer
- Steve Cole, jazz saxophonist
- Billy Corgan, singer
- "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, Former Alderman
- Joan Cusack, Actress
- John Cusack, Actor
- Richard J. Daley, Former Mayor
- Richard M. Daley, Current Mayor
- Miles Davis, musician
- John Dillinger, criminal
- Walt Disney, Founder of The Walt Disney Company
- Mike Ditka, former Bears coach and television analyst
- Stephen Douglas, politician
- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, early Chicago settler
- Phil Everly, singer
- Chris Farley, actor
- Marshall Field, entrepreneur
- Betty Ford, former First Lady
- Harrison Ford, actor
- Bob Fosse, director
- Ira Glass, NPR broadcaster
- Benny Goodman, musician
- John Goodman, actor
- Steve Goodman, Singer
- George Halas
- Carter Harrison, Sr, former Mayor
- Carter Harrison, Jr, former Mayor
- Ernest Hemingway, writer
- Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, early Chicago developer
- Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer
- Michael Jordan, former NBA player
- R. Kelly, Singer
- Michael "Hinky-Dink" Kenna, former Alderman
- B.B. King, blues musician
- John Kinzie, early Chicago settler
- Gene Krupa, Musician
- Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, college basketball coach
- Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), columnist
- Marv Levy
- Ramsey Lewis, jazz musician and radio host
- Bernie Mac, comedian and actor
- David Mamet, playwright, poet, screenwriter, director
- Jacques Marquette, missionary
- Joseph Medill, newspaper editor & former Mayor
- Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher
- Bill Murray, actor
- Bob Newhart, actor
- Charles Gilman Norris, author
- Barack Obama, U.S. Senator
- William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago, entrepreneur
- Ruth Page, Ballet dancer
- Potter Palmer, entrepreneur
- Ed Paschke, Artist
- Walter Payton, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- James Petrillo, musician's union head
- George Pullman, entrepreneur, inventor
- Harold Ramis, actor, director
- Mike Royko, columnist
- Jack Ruby, killed Lee Harvey Oswald
- Donald Rumsfeld, current United States Secretary of Defense
- Pat Sajak, host of Wheel of Fortune
- Ryne Sandberg, former Cubs second baseman
- Carl Sandburg, poet
- Horatio Sanz, actor
- Dan Savage, columnist
- Amy Sedaris, actress
- David Sedaris, radio broadcaster & author
- Captain George Streeter
- Louis Sullivan, architect
- Lorado Taft
- Maria Tallchief, Ballet dancer, founder of the Chicago City Ballet
- Studs Terkel, broadcaster, author
- Isiah Thomas, Basketball Hall of Famer
- William Hale Thompson, last Republican mayor of Chicago
- James Tiptree, Jr, author
- Irving Wallace
- Harold Washington, former Mayor
- Muddy Waters, blues musician
- John Wentworth, former mayor and Congressman
- Kanye West, rapper
- Robin Williams, actor
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
- Charles Yerkes, entrepreneur
- Billy Zane, actor
- Florenz Ziegfeld empresario
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