List of Famous people born in Illinois, United States of America
Woody Omens
Omens is the second album of the band Sorrowful Angels. It was recorded between October and December 2012. All music and lyrics are credited to Dion Christodoulatos.
William V. Skall
William V. Skall was an American cinematographer who specialized in Technicolor.
Neil Bluhm
Neil Gary Bluhm is an American billionaire real estate and casino magnate. He is a partner of Midwest Gaming & Entertainment, which owns several casinos.
Ryan Carnes
Ryan Gregg Carnes is an American actor. He is most known for playing the adult Lucas Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
Robert Burnham, Jr.
Robert Burnham Jr. was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook. He is the discoverer of numerous asteroids including the Mars crossing asteroid 3397 Leyla, as well as six comets.
Dan Graham
Daniel Graham is an American artist, writer, and curator.
Arnold Orville Beckman
Arnold Orville Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience". Beckman funded the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the first silicon transistor company in California, thus giving rise to Silicon Valley. After retirement, he and his wife Mabel (1900–1989) were numbered among the top philanthropists in the United States.
Michael R. Quinlan
Michael Robert Quinlan is a graduate, and currently the chairman, of Loyola University Chicago, where he was initiated into the Alpha Delta Gamma National Fraternity. Quinlan served as a director of McDonald's Corporation, from 1979 until his retirement in 2002. He was the chairman of the board of directors of McDonald's from March 1990 to May 1999 and chief executive officer from March 1987 through July 1998. Quinlan started with McDonald's in 1963 in the mailroom and worked his way up to senior management.
Milton Johnson
For the chairman and CEO of Hospital Corporation of America, see R. Milton Johnson.
Ralph Lewis
Ralph Percy Lewis was an American actor of the silent film era.