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

Stanley R. Greenberg (1927-2002) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was an important pioneer in the format of docudrama.

Scott Waara is an American actor. He made his Broadway debut as a member of the ensemble for the musical Wind in the Willows, and performed in Welcome to the Club and City of Angels. He won the Best Featured Actor Tony Award for his performance of Herman in The Most Happy Fella in 1992.

Chad Gray is an American singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist and co-founder of heavy metal band Hellyeah, as well as the lead vocalist for heavy metal band Mudvayne.

Kyle Lehning is an American record producer whose work is mainly in the field of country music. He has produced virtually every album released by Randy Travis, who described their partnership "an interesting relationship." The only exceptions are Travis' 1993 album Wind in the Wire, which was produced by Steve Gibson, 1998's You and You Alone and 1999's A Man Ain't Made of Stone, both of which Travis co-produced with Byron Gallimore and James Stroud.

Frank Collison is an American actor known to television audiences as the hapless telegrapher Horace Bing in the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

George Vincent Homeier, known professionally as Skip Homeier, was an American actor who started his career at the age of eleven and became a child star.

James Richard Gammon was an American actor, known for playing grizzled "good ol' boy" types in numerous films and television series. Gammon is best known as Lou Brown, the manager in the movies Major League and Major League II, which portrayed a fictitious version of the Cleveland Indians. He was also known for his role as the retired longshoreman Nick Bridges on the CBS television crime drama Nash Bridges.

Sheldon Allman was an American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter.

Colonel Gary Eugene Payton, USAF, is an American astronaut and USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer.