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

John Guleserian is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his collaboration with Drake Doremus on Like Crazy and Breathe In, and for the 2013 film About Time.

Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez was an American Catholic bishop who served in Puerto Rico.

Diana Oughton was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society's Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. After graduation, Oughton went to Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee program to teach the young and older indigenous Indians.

Carol Mendelsohn is a TV writer, notable for her work on the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Nancy Elizabeth Lee Johnson is an American lobbyist and politician from the state of Connecticut. Johnson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the 6th district and later the 5th District after reapportionment.

John Capodice is an American character actor.

Diane Johnson, is an American novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living abroad in contemporary France. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Persian Nights in 1988.

John Robert Gorman is an American retired prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois from 1988 to 2003.

John Edward Taylor, OMI was an American Roman Catholic bishop. The first American-born bishop to head a European diocese, he was Bishop of Stockholm in Sweden from 1962 to 1976.

Edward Andrew Yoon Beom Shin is a Korean-American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the sitcom Alexa & Katie (2018).