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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Urbana, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Urbana, Illinois.

Academics and writing

Philip W. Anderson, earned the Nobel Prize in Physics (1977)

John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor; awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1956 & 1972); winner of IEEE Medal of Honor (1971)

Iris Chang, author (The Rape of Nanking)

David Forsyth, computer scientist; co-author of Computer Vision: A Modern Approach

Eugie Foster, science-fiction writer

Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research and winner of the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002){{Citation needed|date=March 2010}}

José Graziano, Brazilian agronomist; secretary general of the FAO

Robert W. Holley, earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1968); graduate of Urbana High School (1939)

Braj Kachru, linguist; created the "circle model" of world English varieties

Edwin G. Krebs, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1994); graduate of Urbana High School (1937)

Paul Christian Lauterbur, earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003)

Sir Anthony James Leggett, earned the Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)

Hamilton O. Smith, earned the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1978)

Thelma Strabel, novelist, grew up in Urbana

James Tobin, earned the Nobel Prize in Economics (1981)

David Foster Wallace, author (Infinite Jest); graduate of Urbana High School

Brian Wansink, author (Why We Eat More Than We Think); professor at Cornell University

Carl Woese, microbiologist; identified Archaea as a domain of life

Media and music

Ken Baumann, actor (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)

Jay Bennett, founding member of Wilco; solo musician; died in May 2009

Deborah Blum, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of The Poisoner's Handbook

Roger Ebert, movie critic; Pulitzer Prize winner

Jennie Garth, actress (What I Like About You, Beverly Hills, 90210 and 90210)

Erika Harold, 2002 Miss Illinois and 2003 Miss America; graduate of Urbana High School

Michael S. Hart,^[1] author, inventor of the electronic book; founder of Project Gutenberg, first project to make ebooks freely available via the Internet

William Slavens McNutt, screenwriter (Huckleberry Finn)

Patrick Norton, technology host (The Screen Savers)

Nina Paley, cartoonist, animator, and free culture activist

Chic Sale, author, actor, and vaudevillian

Virginia Sale, actress

Gil Shaham, violinist

David Ogden Stiers, actor (Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on MASH)

Sasha Velour, drag queen, artist, fashion forward winner of Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race

Fictional

HAL 9000, character in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey; upon "dying" claims he was made operational in Urbana

Military

Charles Carpenter (Lt. Col.), U.S. Army officer and army observation pilot (Second World War); taught history at Urbana High School^[4]^[5] ^[6]

Reginald C. Harmon, first US Air Force Judge Advocate General; Mayor of Urbana

Larry Allen Abshier, US soldier who defected to North Korea after the Korean War in 1962.

References

1. ^{{citation | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart | title = Michael S. Hart | publisher = Project Gutenberg}}
2. ^Christine Harper and David Clarke,"American Dougan Emulates Gruebel at Credit Suisse," Bloomberg.comhttps://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=akg3Dpvfufoc
3. ^"Illinois businessman Shahid Khan buying Jacksonville Jaguars," bizjournals.comhttp://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2011/11/29/illinois-businessman-shahid-kahn.html
4. ^What's New in Aviation: Piper Cub Tank Buster, Popular Science, Vol. 146 No. 2 (February 1945) p. 84
5. ^Carpenter, Leland F., Piper L-4J Grasshopper {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904052344/http://www.aero-web.org/specs/piper/l-4j.htm |date=2011-09-04 }}, Aviation Enthusiast Corner, retrieved 21 October 2011
6. ^In Memoriam, Urbana High School Class of 1962, retrieved 23 October 2011
7. ^'Illinois Blue Book 2001-2002,' Biographical Sketch of Stanley B. Weaver, pg. 53

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