Arts and entertainment[edit]
Craig Bolotin, screenwriter, film director
Alex Borstein, actress
Paul Brickman, film director[citation needed]
Rachel Brosnahan, actress
Patrick Burns, reality TV star (Haunting Evidence)
Jacqueline Carey, fantasy fiction novelist
Mickie Caspi, artist
Billy Corgan, lead singer and founder of the band Smashing Pumpkins
Blag Dahlia, singer in The Dwarves
Eric Engberg, broadcast journalist
Brenda Ferber, author
Jennie Fields, writer, author of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Lily Beach, and The Middle Ages
Brett Gelman, actor
Michael Gelman, producer, Live With Regis and Kelly
Stephen Glass, discredited magazine journalist[2]
James Goldman, screenwriter and playwright, author of The Lion in Winter
William Goldman, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, author of The Princess Bride
F. Gary Gray, film director
Chief Keef, rapper and producer
Brian Levant, film director
Donald Lipski, artist
Sebastian Maniscalco, comedian[citation needed]
Richard Marx, singer-songwriter, producer
Jeff Melvin, television writer and producer
Ken Olin, actor, director, producer
Peter Orner, author[citation needed]
Jeff Perry, actor
Cory Provus, baseball broadcaster
Robert Reed, actor
Ben Savage, actor
Fred Savage, actor and director
Kala Savage, actress and singer
Josh Server, actor
Robert Seyfarth, architect
Gary Sinise, actor
Grace Slick, of the band Jefferson Airplane, born in Highland Park
Harold Ramis, actor and director[citation needed]
Brandon Ratcliff, actor
Brian Ross, broadcast journalist[citation needed]
David Seltzer, screenwriter, producer, and director
Gene Siskel, film critic[citation needed]
George Kirke Spoor, film pioneer
Lauren Tom, actress
D.B. Weiss, co-creator of Game of Thrones TV series[3]
Orson Welles, actor and director
Edward Weston, photographer[4]
Dan Witz, artist
Dean Zelinsky, founder of Dean Guitars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Highland_Park,_Illinois