List of Famous people born in Illinois, United States of America

James Joseph Marshall was an American photographer, often of rock stars. He had extended access to numerous musicians through the 1960s and 1970s, including being backstage at The Beatles' final paid live concert in San Francisco's Candlestick Park, and was chief photographer at Woodstock.

John Edward Musker is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements.

John Phillips Naber is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in multiple events.

Elaine Loretta Madsen is an American author and filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award in 1983 for producing the documentary Better Than It Has To Be.

Kevin Gerard Quinn is an American actor and singer. He is known for his starring role as Xander in the Disney Channel original series Bunk'd (2015–2017), and his supporting role in the 2016 Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures in Babysitting (2016).

Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder of The Promise Fund and Susan G. Komen, an organization named after her only sister, Susan, who died from breast cancer in 1980 at age 36. Brinker was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. Brinker, a breast cancer survivor, uses her experience to heighten understanding of the disease. She speaks publicly on the importance of patient's rights and medical advancements in breast cancer research and treatment. She is currently serving as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control. Brinker is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Promise Me - How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer, released on September 14, 2010.

Dorothy Dalton was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago; Terre Haute, Indiana; and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was working in Hollywood.

John Stagliano, also known as Buttman, is an American entrepreneur, former pornographic film actor, producer and director who founded and owns the Evil Angel pornographic film studio.