- Ray Kroc: Founder of McDonalds
- Edgar Rice Burroughs: Creator of Tarzan
- Earnest Hemingway: Fiction Writer
- Harriet Robinet: Civil Rights Activist & Children’s Author
- Robert Satcher: Astronaut – First Orthopedic Surgeon to go into space
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect, Interior Designer, Writer, Educator
- John Mahoney: Actor-TV’s Frasier
- Dan Castellaneta: Actor-Voice of Homer Simpson
- Joseph Kerwin: Astronaut
- Betty White: Actress-Golden Girls
- Richard W. Sears: Co-founder of Sears Roebuck
- Bob Newhart: Comedian, Actor-Bob Newhart Show
- Kathy Griffin: Comedian, Actress-Suddenly Susan
- Thomas Griffin: Actor, Writer; Wrote Screenplay ‘Night at the Museum’
- Judy Tenuta: Comedian
- Percy Lavon Julian: Chemist; Inventor (Synthetic Cortisone), Drugs to treat Glaucoma, Fire Extinguishing Aero-Foam & numerous other items
- Donald Duncan: Known best for the Parking Meter, Founded Good Humor mobile frozen treats franchise
- Jim Ameche: Popular Radio Personality, Announcer
- Richard Bach: Writer of Jonathan Living Seagull
- Father Andrew Greeley Priest, Sociologist, Writer
- Walter Burley Griffin: Landscape Architect, designed plan for City of Canberra, Australia’s Capital
- Paul Harvey: Radio Commentator – ABC Radio Networks
- George Halas: Chicago Bears Coach 1920–1929
- John MacArthur: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Tom Kirk: Actor-Downhill Racer
- George W. Maher: Architect-Prairie School-style of architecture
- Luther Replogle: Replogle Globes
- Majorie Judith Vincent: Miss America 1991
- John Lloyd Wright: Architect, Toy Inventor; Co-inventor of Lincoln Logs
- Doris Humphrey: Co-founder of Modern Dance
- Anna Chlumsky: Actress-My Girl (movie)
- Charles Guiteau: Assassinated President James Garfield