List of founders from Illinois
Name | Description | Birthdate | Birthplace | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
American physicist | March 7, 1937 | ||||
American screenwriter, director, producer and wig snatcher. | January 13, 1970 | ||||
American politician, senator, and u.s. secretary of state | October 26, 1947 | ||||
Sam Altman is an investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder of companies OpenAI, Hydrazine Capital, Loopt, Tools for Humanity, AltC Acquisition Corp., and Apollo. Altman served as the president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. | April 22, 1985 | ||||
Founder of Disneyland & Disney Brothers Studio | December 5, 1901 | ||||
American film director and screenwriter | December 5, 1901 | ||||
Sam Zell was an American billionaire investor and the founder of Equity Group Investments, Equity Residential, Equity International, Equity LifeStyle Properties, and Equity Office Properties Trust. | September 28, 1941 | ||||
American-british film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer | August 9, 1968 | ||||
American politician, 40th president of the united states (in office from 1981 to 1989) | February 6, 1911 | ||||
American writer | September 1, 1875 | ||||
Max Arciniega is an American actor known for his roles in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. | April 28, 1978 | ||||
Founding Partner at Rivet Ventures, entrepreneur, and angel investor. | |||||
Charles Alton "Chuck" Forsberg (May 6, 1944 – September 24, 2015) developed two data transmission protocols popular in the 1990s, for uploading and downloading files from dial-up bulletin board systems. | May 6, 1944 | ||||
American Singer/Songwriter | January 8, 1967 | ||||
American businessman and engineer | January 3, 1914 | ||||
Mark Pincus is an entrepreneur who founded Zynga. | February 13, 1966 | ||||
American filmmaker | August 11, 1947 | ||||
American writer, screenwriter & film producer, creator of Death Becomes Her, born in Illinois | May 14, 1952 | ||||
American magazine publisher | April 9, 1926 | ||||
Jake Udell is an American talent agent, born in Illinois | February 21, 1989 | ||||
American ice hockey player | January 25, 1962 | ||||
Randy John Suess (January 27, 1945 – December 10, 2019) was the co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online. | January 25, 1945 | ||||
American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, television producer, and trumpeter | March 14, 1933 | ||||
Pioneer settlement social worker | September 6, 1860 | ||||
American talent agent | December 14, 1946 |
