List of Sons and Daughters of the City of Oak Park, Illinois
This is a list of public figures that American US in the town of Oak Park ( Illinois ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.
1850-1900
- William Vosburgh (1890-1953), water polo player
- Lloyd Wright (1890–1978), architect and landscape architect
- Harry Goelitz (1894–1971), track and field athlete
- Doris Humphrey (1895–1958), dancer and choreographer
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), writer
- John C. Slater (1900–1976), theoretical physicist and chemist
1901-1930
- Agnes Newton Keith (1901-1982), writer
- Ray Kroc (1902-1984), founder of McDonald's Corporation
- Carl Rogers (1902–1987), psychologist and psychotherapist
- Dave Tough (1907–1948), hot jazz and swing drummer
- Julie Haydon (1910–1994), actress
- John Sturges (1910–1992), director and producer
- Edith Nash (1913–2003), writer
- Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), writer
- Jack Kasley (1916-1989), swimmer
- William Bishop (1918–1959), actor
- Michael Shurtleff (1920–2007), author and casting director
- Bill Parks (1921-2008), sailor
- Betty White (born 1922), actress and presenter
- Kermit Edward Krantz (1923-2007), gynecologist
- Don Alden Adams (* 1925), President of the Watchtower Society, a legal entity of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Raymond Emil Goedert (* 1927), emeritus Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Chicago
- Lois Nettleton (1927–2008), actress
- Andrew Greeley (1928–2013), writer, sociologist and priest of the Roman Catholic Church
- Thomas E. Kurtz (* 1928), mathematician and computer scientist
- Richard C. Atkinson (* 1929), psychologist
- Bob Newhart (born 1929), actor and stand-up comedian
- John Bertrand Conlan (* 1930), politician
1931-1960
- Forrest Mars, Jr. (1931-2016), entrepreneur and owner of the " Mars Incorporated "
- John Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019), physicist; 1972 Nobel Prize Winner
- Edward Michael Egan (1932–2015), Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York
- Joseph P. Kerwin (* 1932), astronaut
- Bruce Davidson (born 1933), photographer
- John G. Avildsen (1935–2017), film director, film editor and film producer
- Carol Shields (1935–2003), Canadian writer and poet
- Richard Bach (* 1936), writer and pilot
- Deanna Lund (born 1937), actress
- Robert Siegel (1939–2012), writer, poet and English scholar
- William Stowe (1940-2016), rower
- Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz (* 1942), author and student activist; Widow of Rudi Dutschke, who died in 1979
- Beverly Archer (born 1948), actress and screenwriter
- John Kinsella (born 1952), swimmer
- Mike Shanahan (born 1952), American football coach
- Keith Szarabajka (* 1952), actor and voice actor
- Carol Brown (born 1953), rower
- James Luhr (1953-2007), volcanologist
- Daniel Pyne (* 1955), screenwriter
- Judy Tenuta (born 1956), actress
- David Santee (born 1957), figure skater
- Amy Morton (* 1958), stage actress and director
- James Thomson (* 1958), cell biologist
- Elizabeth Esty (* 1959), politician
- Lee Archambault (* 1960), astronaut
- Kathy Griffin (born 1960), actress, voice actress, TV producer and stand-up comedian
1961-2000
- Hannah Storm (* 1962), sports journalist
- Carol Feeney (born 1964), rower
- Linda French (born 1964), badminton player
- Marjorie Vincent (* 1964), Miss America 1991
- Jessica Bendinger (* 1966), screenwriter
- Thomas Lennon (* 1970), actor, screenwriter and producer
- Tony Fiore (born 1971), baseball player
- Chad Trujillo (* 1973), astronomer
- Kate Norby (born 1976), actress
- Joe Corvo (born 1977), ice hockey player
- Busy Philipps (* 1979), actress and screenwriter
- Nikos Tselios (* 1979), American-Greek ice hockey player
- Cathy Kelley (* 1988), television presenter and sports journalist
- Iman Shumpert (* 1990), basketball player and rapper
- Emery Lehman (* 1996), speed skater
Web links
Commons : People of Oak Park, Illinois - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Vosburgh in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Harry Goelitz in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ^ Keith, Agnes Newton , portal.dnb.de
- ↑ Julie Haydon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Edith Nash , poetrydispatch.wordpress.com
- ↑ Jack Kasley in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Bill Parks in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Deanna Lund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Carol Brown in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Judy Tenuta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Carol Feeney in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Marjorie Vincent , missamerica.org
- ↑ Tony Fiore in the database of Baseball-Reference (English)
- ↑ Kate Norby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Cathy Kelley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Emery Lehman in the database of Sports-Reference (English)