List of people from Lake Forest, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Lake Forest, Illinois.

Arts

• Peach Carr, fashion designer; contestant on season 8 of Project Runway
• Wallace Leroy DeWolf, etcher, painter, art collector, and businessman
• Sylvia Shaw Judson, sculptor and teacher; winner of the Logan Prize in 1929 for her sculpture Little Gardener
• Lisel Mueller, poet; winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
• Rene Romero Schuler, fine arts painter

Architecture

• David Adler, architect
• Edward H. Bennett, architect and city planner
• Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect; lived in Ragdale
• Adrian Smith, architect; led the design of three of the world's ten tallest buildings (Burj Khalifa (tallest in the world), Trump Tower Chicago, Jin Mao Building); resident of Lake Forest

Business

• Andrew Watson Armour III, meatpacking magnate
• J. Ogden Armour, meatpacking magnate (Armour and Company)
• Albert Blake Dick, founder of A.B. Dick Company; licensed autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison; mayor of Lake Forest (1928–1931)
• W. James Farrell, chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works
• Marshall Field, owner of Marshall Field's (now Macy's)
• Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor; founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became International Harvester
• Charles "Cork" R. Walgreen III, third president of Walgreens
• Miles D. White, CEO of Abbott Laboratories

Media and writing

Acting

• Kipleigh Brown, actress
• Kyle Chandler, actor
• Jay Chandrasekhar, actor, director
• Charlie Finn, actor
• Jean Harlow, actress
• Lauren Holly, actress
• John Mahoney, actor
• Mr. T, actor, wrestler
• Vince Vaughn, actor
• Richard Widmark, actor

Directing and production

• James T. Aubrey, Jr., television and film executive
• John Hughes, writer, director, producer

Journalism

• Bill Schulz, journalist (Fox News)
• Sam Weller, author and journalist

Music

• Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player and pianist
• Andrew Bird, musician and songwriter
• Mat Devine, lead singer of Chicago-based alternative rock band Kill Hannah

Writing

• Dave Eggers, writer

Politics and law

• Edward J. Brundage, Illinois Attorney General
• Fredrik Herman Gade, mayor of Lake Forest; diplomat from Norway
• Susan Garrett, Illinois Senate state senator representing the 29th District
• Noble Brandon Judah, United States Ambassador to Cuba (1927–1929)
• Robert P. Lamont, United States Secretary of Commerce (1929–1932)
• William Mather Lewis, mayor of Lake Forest (1915-1917); president of George Washington and Lafayette Universities
• Thomas J. Moran, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
• William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
• Judy Baar Topinka, Illinois Comptroller and Illinois State Treasurer
• Pete Wilson, 36th Governor of California (1991-1999); United States Senator (1983-1991); 29th Mayor of San Diego (1971-1983)
• Corrine Wood, 44th lieutenant governor of Illinois

Sciences

• Pamela Darling, library preservation specialist
• Jim Lovell, astronaut on Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13; author of Lost Moon; owner of Lovell's of Lake Forest
• Karl Patterson Schmidt, herpetologist

Socialites and modeling

• Margaret "Peg" Carry, socialite; daughter of Pullman Company president Edward F. Carry; friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Ginevra King, socialite; inspiration for many female characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's work, including Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby
• Edith Rockefeller McCormick, socialite
• Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich, descendant of the Russian Imperial dynasty the House of Romanov
• McKey Sullivan, fashion model and winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 11
• Catherine Warren, 2006 Miss Illinois USA

Sports

Baseball

• Mickey Cochrane, catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers
• Joe Girardi, catcher for the Chicago Cubs; manager of the New York Yankees
• Mabel Holle (1920-2011), third basewoman and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Scott Sanderson, All-Star pitcher for eight MLB teams
• Steve Stanicek, designated hitter for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies

Basketball

• Steve Kerr, point guard for the Chicago Bulls
• Scottie Pippen, forward for the Chicago Bulls

Driving

• Carl Haas, auto racing impresario
• Steve Seligman, stock car racer

Football

• Jim Covert, offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears
• Jay Cutler, quarterback for the Chicago Bears
• Bobby Douglass, quarterback for the Chicago Bears
• John Fox, head coach for the Chicago Bears
• Rex Grossman, quarterback for the Chicago Bears
• George Halas, head coach of the Chicago Bears
• Cade McNown, quarterback for the Chicago Bears
• Lovie Smith, head coach for the Chicago Bears

Golf

• Chip Beck, PGA Tour golfer
• Edith Cummings, golfer; US Women's Amateur Champion (1924)

Hockey

• Keith Magnuson, defenseman for the Chicago Blackhawks, team captain

Swimming

• Matt Grevers, Olympic swimmer; silver medalist (2008), gold medalist (2012)

Sports journalism

• Tim Weigel, sports anchor and reporter