Freeport, Illinois

==Notable people==
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* [[Joseph M. Bailey]], jurist and legislator
* [[Dan Balz]], award-winning political reporter for the Washington Post
* [[Ken Behring]], owned the NFL's [[Seattle Seahawks]]
* [[Harry Boeke]], Illinois state senator and businessman
* [[Carl Cain]], 1956 Olympic basketball gold medalist, University of Iowa basketball player
* [[John Callahan (pitcher)|John Callahan]], [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[Janet H. Clark]], Minnesota state legislator
* [[Alfred A. Cohn]], author, journalist and newspaper editor, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s
* [[A.D. Condo]], cartoonist
* [[Richard Wayne Dirksen]], organist and choirmaster
* [[William Eckert]], Air Force general, Major League Baseball commissioner
* [[Calista Flockhart]], actress
* [[James B. Goetz]], Minnesota Lieutenant Governor
* [[Tuffy Gosewisch]], Major League Baseball player
* [[Charles J. Guiteau|Charles Guiteau]], assassin of US President [[James A. Garfield]]
* [[Corky Hale]], jazz musician
* [[Clare Winger Harris]], science fiction author
* [[Oscar E. Heard]], Illinois jurist
* [[Edmund Heller]] (1875–1939) zoologist
* [[Homer Hillebrand]], Major League Baseball player
* [[Donna Jogerst]], All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
* [[Robert L. Johnson]], founder of [[Black Entertainment Television]] (BET)
* [[Francis Lamb]], Wisconsin State Assemblyman<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1933,' Biographical Sketch of Francis Lamb, pg. 231</ref>
* [[Edward E. Laughlin]], Illinois State Senator and lawyer<ref>'Illinois Blue Book 1951-1952, Biographical Sketch of Edward E. Laughlin, pg. 170</ref>
* [[Gerald McClellan]], middleweight boxing champion
* [[John Meyer (Illinois politician)|John Meyer]], Illinois State Representative, lawyer
* [[Ravi Patel (actor)|Ravi Patel]], film and TV actor
* [[Jason Pearson (baseball)|Jason Pearson]], Major League Baseball player
* [[Preston Pearson]], [[National Football League]] player 
* [[Trisha Paytas]], YouTube personality
* [[William Buckley Peck]], physician, surgeon, and founder of the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Association of North America
* [[Julia Phillips (physicist)| Julia Phillips]], physicist and science policy leader
* [[William Thomas Rawleigh]], industrialist, Illinois State Representative
* [[Harlan Rigney]], Illinois State Representative<ref>'Illinois Blue Book 1991-1992,' Biographical Sketch of Harlan Rigney, pg. 102</ref>
* [[Stephen A. Rigney]], Illinois state representative<ref>[Illinois Blue Book 1909-1910, Biographical Sketch of Stephen Rigney, pg. 206-207</ref>
* [[William Avery Rockefeller]], father of [[John D. Rockefeller]]
* [[Adolph Rupp]], head basketball coach Freeport HS 1926-30 and Univ. of Kentucky 1930–72, for whom [[Rupp Arena]] is named.
* [[Manuel Seal]] - Grammy-award-winning producer
* [[Ted Snyder]], songwriter
* [[Charles J. Stine]], silent film actor<ref name=Essanay>{{cite web|title=Staff Directory|url=http://essanaystudios.org/about-us/employees/|website=Essanay Studios|access-date=7 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211065016/http://essanaystudios.org/about-us/employees/|archive-date=11 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[Tiffany Thayer]], author, actor, ''[[Thirteen Women]]''
* [[Alice Bradford Wiles]], Chicago clubwoman, lived in Freeport
*[[Steve Luecke]], [[List of mayors of South Bend, Indiana|mayor of South Bend, Indiana]], 1997-2012
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