Ernest Hemingway
1899–1961 American author and journalist
Betty White
1922–2021 American actress and comedian
Carl Rogers
1902–1987 American psychologist
Richard Bach
born 1936 American spiritual writer
John Robert Schrieffer
1931–2019 American physicist
Bob Newhart
1929–2024 American stand-up comedian and actor
Ray Kroc
1902–1984 American businessman
John G. Avildsen
1935–2017 American film director
John Sturges
1910–1992 American film director
Kathy Griffin
born 1960 American actress and comedian
Chadwick Trujillo
born 1973 American astronomer
Carol Shields
1935–2003 American/Canadian author
Busy Philipps
born 1979 American actress
Lee Archambault
born 1960 Astronaut, test pilot
Iman Shumpert
born 1990 American basketball player
Joseph P. Kerwin
born 1932 American astronaut
John C. Slater
1900–1976 American physicist
Edward Egan
1932–2015 American Catholic cardinal
Thomas Lennon
born 1970 American actor and screenwriter
Don Alden Adams
1925–2019 American Watch Tower Society president
Thomas E. Kurtz
1928–2024 American computer scientist and educator
Carol Feeney
born 1964 American rower
Cathy Kelley
born 1988 American actor and journalist
Ashraf Amaya
born 1971 American basketball player
Andrew Greeley
1928–2013 Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist, 1928-2013
Michelle McNamara
1970–2016 American writer
Jimmy Rodgers
born 1943 American basketball player and coach
Lloyd Wright
1890–1978 American architect
Jane Hamilton
born 1957 American novelist
Jeannette Howard Foster
1895–1981 American writer
Richard C. Atkinson
born 1929 American educational psychologist and academic
Timothy Good
born 1974 British researcher and author on the subject of UFOs
Tom Bianchi
born 1945 American photographer
William Parks
1921–2008 Sailor
Brent Carter
1948–2026 American poker player
John La Montaine
1920–2013 American musician
Marci Bowers
born 1958 American gynecologist
Raymond E. Goedert
1927–2023 Catholic bishop
Alice Kimball Smith
1907–2001 American historian of the Manhattan Project
Dale Wilson
1942–2025 Canadian voice actor
Dick Murphy
born 1942 American mayor and judge
Jim Cantalupo
1943–2004 American businessman
John Lloyd Wright
1892–1972 American architect and toy inventor
Kate Norby
born 1976 American actress
Lois Kelso Hunt
1926–2018 American actor, theatre director and arts advocate
Richard Oruche
born 1987 Nigerian basketball player
Robert M. Edsel
born 1956 American art historian
Sandra Lynch
born 1946 American judge
Tony Fiore
born 1971 American baseball player
Bill Ebben
born 1935 American basketball player
David Loughery
1953–2024 American screenwriter
Kermit E. Krantz
1923–2007 American physician
Peggy Anderson
1938–2016 American author and journalist
Randy Pfund
born 1951 American basketball player, coach, executive
Also called Oak Park home
CW Chris Ware
born 1967 American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and several graphic novels
Andrew Harvey
born 1952 Religious writer
Geraldine McCullough
1917–2008 American sculptor, painter
Maggie Anderson
born 1971 American activist
Jessica Milagros
born 1981 American reality television participant
Anjali Chaudhry
Professor and Department Chair
Donna M. Carroll
President Emeritus of Dominican University
Elmer Bostwick
1894–1958 U.S. food scientist
George D. Elderkin
1845–1928 Music publisher
Gyan Chand Agarwal
born 1940 Ph.D. Purdue University 1965
John J. Gearen
American lawyer
Kathleen Mullaney
Adjunct faculty
Larry Harris
1957–2020 Retired police officer from the United States who died in the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020
Mary Duggan Philbin
1922–2020 Victim of the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘The people she loved were the light of her life’
Patrick Geoghegan
American runner
Patrick Homan
American Professor and Political Scientist
Phil Langley
1937–2020 Member of Harness Racing Hall of Fame
Shane Phillip Pederson
born 1958 American statistician
Trina Michelle Robinson
American installation artist, printmaker, filmmaker