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

June Walker was an American stage and film actress.

Morris Ankrum was an American radio, television, and film character actor.

Robert S. "Sonny" Parker is a retired American professional basketball player who played small forward and shooting guard for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted in the first round of the NBA draft after attending and playing basketball at Texas A&M University. After retiring from basketball, Parker created the Sonny Parker Youth Foundation in Chicago to help inner-city students.

Lawrence Burst Sperry was an aviation pioneer.

Desmond Steven McAnuff is the American-Canadian former artistic director of Canada's Stratford Festival and director of such Broadway musical theatre productions as Big River, The Who's Tommy and Jersey Boys.

Daryl Gregory is an American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author. Gregory is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction workshop, and won the 2009 Crawford Award for his novel Pandemonium.

Dianne Mary Holum is a retired American speed skater.

David Hammons is an American artist especially known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s.

Nan Martin was an American actress who starred in movies and on television.

Edward Willis Scripps, was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service. It became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958. The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him.