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

Ray Kroc
(1902-1984)

Betty White
(born 1922)

Bob Newhart
(born 1929)

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

Carol Brown
(born 1953)

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

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