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==Notable people== * [[John Virginius Bennes]], architect * [[William P. Bettendorf]] and [[Joseph W. Bettendorf]], industrialists * [[Zez Confrey]], composer and pianist * [[Franklin Corwin]], US congressman * [[Gary G. Dahl]], politician * [[Grenville M. Dodge|Grenville Dodge]], Civil War general and transcontinental railroad constructor * [[Mike Goff (American football)|Mike Goff]], offensive lineman for the [[Kansas City Chiefs]] * [[Ken Gorgal]], halfback for the [[Green Bay Packers]] * [[Charles F. Gunther]], inventor of the caramel * [[J. A. Happ]], baseball pitcher for the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] * [[Wilhelmina Kott]], oldest person ever from Illinois; born in Peru * [[Donold Lourie]], businessman, government official, and college football player * [[Thomas Lynch (pitcher)|Thomas Lynch]], pitcher for the 19th-century [[Chicago White Stockings (1870β89)|Chicago White Stockings]]; born in Peru * [[Russ Meyer (baseball)|Russ Meyer]], pitcher for six [[Major League Baseball]] teams * [[Esther Hobart Morris]], first woman justice of the peace in United States; served in [[Wyoming]] * [[Maud Powell]], born in Peru, violinist and recipient of a [[Grammy Award|Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] * [[Thomas E. G. Ransom]], Civil War general, lived in Peru * [[Howard C. Ryan]], Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court * [[William Donald Scherzer]], inventor of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridges * [[Joseph P. Stremlau]], farmer and Illinois state legislator * [[Stuart Struever|Stuart Streuver]], archaeologist and anthropologist * [[Frank Vlastnik]], theater and television actor
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