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

Joel Murray is an American actor. He has had prominent roles in the television series Mad Men, Grand, Love & War, Dharma and Greg, and Shameless. He has also appeared in films including God Bless America and Monsters University.

Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen is an American politician and computer programmer serving as the junior United States Senator from Nevada since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously was the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2019.

Matthew Mooney is an American professional basketball player for the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and South Dakota having transferred after his freshman year at Air Force.

Terrence Frederick Malick is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Agnes Nixon was an American television writer and producer, and the creator of the ABC soap operas One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving.

Frances Luella Welsing was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist and black supremacist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism , offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture.

Leon Konitz was an American composer and alto saxophonist.

Solomon Christopher Thomas is an American football defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford University, and was drafted by the 49ers with the third overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.

William Foster Hayes III is an American actor and a Billboard #1 recording artist, as his song “The Ballad of Davy Crockett“ hit the top of the charts in the spring of 1955.

Ken Wahl is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effectively ended his acting career. He is divorced from Corinne Alphen, and after a brief second marriage, he married Shane Barbi, in 1997. The two later became advocates against animal abuse and for veterans' rights.