The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Quincy, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Quincy, Illinois. Acting and comedy Crime Fine arts Journalism and writing Harriet Bates (1856-1886), poet and novelist Ernest Hemmings, founder of the popular Hemmings Motor News magazine Rick Hummel, Hall of Fame baseball writer Thomas A. Oakley, CEO and chairman of Quincy Newspapers Arthur Pitney, inventor of the postage meter Jean Rabe, author James B. Stewart, author Military Thomas Scott Baldwin, US Army major during World War I; aviation pioneer and balloonist Albert Cashier, Union Army soldier during the Civil War James Dada Morgan, Union Army general during the Civil War Benjamin Prentiss, Union Army general during the Civil War Scott L. Thoele, US Army National Guard brigadier general Paul Tibbets, World War II pilot, Enola Gay Music Ray Burke clarinetist Ralph Carmichael, composer Micki Free, professional musician Tom Goss, musician, born in Quincy The Graduate (members Corey Warning and Jared Wuestenberg) Bob Havens, jazz musician Charlie "Specks" McFadden, country blues singer and songwriter Tony Peck, member of the rock band The Forecast Politics A. Otis Arnold, Illinois state legislator and businessman Thomas Awerkamp, Illinois State Senator and businessman Horace S. Cooley, Illinois Secretary of State Laura Kent Donahue, Illinois State Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas, youngest supreme court justice in Illinois history (27 years old); ran as a Democrat against Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election Mary Lou Kent, Illinois state legislator Frederick Kreismann, mayor of St.Louis Charles E. Lippincott, California State Senator and Illinois Auditor Benjamin M. Mitchell, state representative, born in Quincy Charles E. Morris, state assemblyman for Wisconsin Isaac N. Morris, state representative Brian Munzlinger, state representative for Missouri Mark A. Penick, Illinois state senators William Alexander Richardson, U.S. Senator Lillian E. Schlagenhauf, Illinois state senator and lawyer Onias C. Skinner, Illinois jurist and legislator William Rudolph Smith, attorney general of Wisconsin Max C. Starkloff (1858-1942), St. Louis Health Commissioner who introduced social distancing during the 1918 flu pandemic Art Tenhouse, Illinois state legislator William D. Turner, state assemblyman for Wisconsin John Wood, city founder and the 12th governor of Illinois Religion Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, theologian and scholar Etta Semple, atheist activist Father Augustus Tolton, first African-American priest Sports References Quincy–Hannibal area Quincy Quincy