Daniel Burnham

Daniel Burnham

male, deceased (1912)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

male, deceased (1969)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born "Maria Ludwig Michael Mies") (March 27, 1886 in Aachen; August 17, 1969 in Chicago) was a German architect. Ludwig...
Fazlur Khan

Fazlur Khan

male, deceased (1982)
Fazlur Rahman Khan (April 3, 1929 - March 27, 1982), born in Dhaka, Bengal (now in Bangladesh), was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer....
Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson

male, deceased (1946)
John Arthur Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of...
Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus McCormick

male, deceased (1884)
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15 1809 - May 13 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which...
George Pullman

George Pullman

male, deceased (1897)
George Mortimer Pullman was an American inventor and industrialist. He is remembered as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently...
Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton

male, deceased (1894)
Allan Pinkerton (August 25 1819 - July 1 1884) was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency.
Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

male, deceased (1924)
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924) was an American architect, called the "father of modernism". He is considered by many as...
Marshall Field

Marshall Field

male, deceased (1906)
Marshall Field (August 18, 1834 - January 16, 1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. He was born on...
Potter Palmer

Potter Palmer

male, deceased (1902)
Potter Palmer (1826 - 1902) was a Chicago businessman who was responsible for much of the development of State Street. Potter Palmer founded a dry...