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

Dennis "Duke" Nalon was an American midget car, sprint car, and Indy 500 driver from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

S. Sylvan Simon was an American stage/film director and producer. He directed numerous Hollywood films in the late 1930s to 1940s, and was the producer of Born Yesterday (1950).

Elizabeth "Liz" Callaway is an American singer, actress, and recording artist, who is best known for having provided the singing voices of many female characters in animated films, such as Anya/Anastasia in Anastasia, Odette in The Swan Princess, Jasmine in the Aladdin sequels The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, adult Kiara in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and a dancing napkin ring in Beauty and the Beast. She was also the original Ellen in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon.

David Tom is an American actor. He has portrayed Billy Abbott on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1999 to 2002 and again in 2014.

Lisa Zane is an American actress and singer.

Paul Thomas is an American pornographic film actor and director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.

Mary Loretta Philbin was an American film actress of the silent film era, who is best known for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite Lon Chaney, and as Dea in The Man Who Laughs with Conrad Veidt. Both roles cast her as the beauty in Beauty and the Beast-type stories.

Nicholas Ulrich Mayall was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II.

Charles Remington Goldman is an American limnologist and ecologist.

Larry Clemmons was an American animator, screenwriter and voice actor who was a writer for Bing Crosby on his various radio programs and one of the original animators for The Walt Disney Company.