List of people from Wisconsin
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This is a list of some famous people born in Wisconsin. Place of birth is in parenthesis.
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[edit] Military
- Richard Bong, World War II pilot
- John Bradley, Iwo Jima flag-raiser
- Art Fiala, World War I
- Billy Mitchell, U.S. general, aviation
- Marc Mitscher, World War II admiral
- Mitchell Redcloud, Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
- Nathan Farragut Twining, U.S. Air Force general
- Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general
- Charles White Whittlesey, World War I Medal of Honor recipient, leader of the Lost Battalion (Florence}
- Lance Sijan, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
[edit] Politicians and activists
- Les Aspin, Congressman and Secretary of Defense (Milwaukee)
- Thomas M. Barrett, Congressman and Mayor of Milwaukee (Milwaukee)
- John J. Blaine, Governor and U.S. Senator
- James Budd, California Governor
- Carrie Chapman Catt, feminist
- Bernardine Dohrn, activist
- F. Ryan Duffy, U.S. Senator
- Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State (Milwaukee)
- Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator and co-author of McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act (Janesville)
- Lorena Hickok, friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, helped Harry Hopkins with fact finding missions during the New Deal (East Troy)
- Paul O. Husting, U.S. Senator
- Bob Kasten, U.S. Senator
- George F. Kennan, diplomat (Milwaukee)
- Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator and sports-franchise owner (Milwaukee)
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Congressman, Governor and U.S. Senator (Primrose)
- Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. Senator (Madison)
- Mel Laird, Congressman and Secretary of Defense (Marshfield)
- Irvine Lenroot, U.S. Senator
- Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (Grand Chute)
- John L. Mitchell, Congressman and U.S. Senator
- Gaylord Nelson, Governor and U.S. Senator (Clear Lake)
- Steve Preston, SBA administrator
- William Proxmire, U.S. Senator
- Joseph V. Quarles, U.S. Senator
- William Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (Shorewood)
- William A. Richards, Wyoming Governor
- Bart Stupak, Michigan Congressman (Milwaukee)
- Ed Thompson, 2002 Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, (Elroy)
- Tommy Thompson, Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services (Elroy)
- Thomas J. Walsh, main prosecutor in the Teapot Dome Scandal hearings (Two Rivers)
- Frances Willard, suffragist and temperance activist
- Paul Weyrich, commentator
- Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Film and theatre
- Jim Abrahams, director
- Marc Alaimo, actor
- Don Ameche, actor
- Mark Borchardt, director
- Ellen Corby, actress
- Willem Dafoe, actor
- Chris Farley, actor
- Heather Graham, actress
- Tom Hulce, actor
- Carole Landis, actor
- Joseph Losey, director
- Alfred Lunt, actor
- Fredric March, actor
- John Matuszak, actor and football player
- Pat O'Brien, actor
- Nicholas Ray, director
- Gena Rowlands, actor
- Mark Ruffalo, actor
- Richard Schickel, critic
- Eric Szmanda, actor
- Spencer Tracy, actor
- Judy Tyler, actress
- Bob Uecker, actor and sports commentator
- Hanz Wasserburger, screenwriter
- Orson Welles, director
- Shannon Whirry, actress
- Gene Wilder, actor
- David Zucker, director
- Jerry Zucker, director
[edit] Television
- Lamont Bentley, actor
- Ellen Corby, actress
- Tyne Daly, actress
- John Fiedler,actor, voice of Piglet
- Deidre Hall, actress
- Jane Kaczmarek, actress
- Kathy Kinney, actress
- Allen Ludden, gameshow host
- Chris Noth, actor
- Amy Pietz, actor
- Charlotte Rae, actress
- Tony Shalhoub, actor (Green Bay)
- Tom Snyder, talkshow host
- Melinda Stolp, The Real World: Austin cast member
- Eric Szmanda, actor
- Greta Van Susteren, commentator (Appleton)
- Bradley Whitford, actor
- Tom Wopat, actor
[edit] Comedians
- Frank Caliendo, comedian
- Chris Farley, comedian
- Jackie Mason, comedian
- Nick Mortensen, comedian (Green Bay)
[edit] Music
- Carl Allen, drummer
- Eric Benét, singer
- Bunny Berigan, musician
- Holly Brook, singer-songwriter
- Felice Bryant, songwriter
- Coo Coo Cal, rapper
- Howie Epstein, bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Greg Graffin, singer
- Woody Herman, musician
- Hildegarde, cabaret singer
- Al Jarreau, singer
- Pee Wee King, musician
- Liberace, musician
- Rico Love, rapper
- Steve Miller, musician
- Les Paul, musician, inventor
- Jeff Pilson, musician
- Tay Gutta, rapper
- Frank Pooler, songwriter
- Art Paul Schlosser, musician, songwriter, busker (Madison)
- Clyde Stubblefield, drummer
- Daryl Stuermer, guitarist
- Butch Vig, musician and producer
- Jane Wiedlin, musician
- Andy Hurley, drummer for Fall Out Boy
- Pickles, drummer for Dethklok, singer/guitar for Snakes N' Barrels; cartoon
- Gordon Gano, musician, singer for Violent Femmes
- Victor DeLorenzo, musician, drummer for Violent Femmes (1981-1993, 2002-2006)
- Guy Hoffman, musician, drummer for Violent Femmes (1993-2002, 2006)
[edit] Sports
- Ken Kennedy, professional wrestler (Two Rivers)
- Ken Behring, former Seattle Seahawks owner
- Michael Bennett, football player
- Tyrone Braxton, football player
- Caron Butler, basketball player
- Larry Dahlberg, professional fisherman
- Jay DeMerit, soccer player
- Travis Diener, basketball player
- Jim Fitzgerald, basketball team owner
- Stan Fox, Indycar driver
- Reece Gaines, basketball player
- Nick Greisen, football player
- Mark Grudzielanek, baseball player
- Tim Gullikson, tennis player
- Tom Gullikson,tennis player
- Devin Harris, basketball player
- Beth Heiden, speedskater and cyclist
- Eric Heiden, athlete
- Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player
- Arnie Herber, football player
- Elroy Hirsch, athlete
- Dan Jansen, speedskater
- Bill Kazmaier, powerlifter
- Todd Kluever, NASCAR driver
- Dave Kreig, football player
- Matt Kenseth, NASCAR driver
- Harvey Kuenn, baseball player and manager
- Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver
- Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver
- Curly Lambeau, football player and coach
- John Matuszak, football player
- Damian Miller, baseball player
- Jim Otto, football player
- George Poage, athlete
- Casey Rabach, football player
- Brad Radke, baseball player
- Andrew Rock, track
- Tony Romo, football player
- Pants Rowland, baseball manager
- Terry Ryan, baseball manager
- Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
- Latrell Sprewell, basketball player
- Aaron Stecker, football player(Ashwaubenon)
- Mark Tauscher, football player
- Bob Uecker, actor and sports commentator
- Nick Van Exel, basketball player
- Jerrod Washburn, baseball player
- Mike Webster, football player
- Bob Wickman, baseball player
- Nick Neumann, pit-bull coach
[edit] Business
- John Cudahy, industrialist
- Michael Cudahy, entrepreneur
- King C. Gillette, industrialist
- Ken Hendricks, billionaire
- Phil Katz, computer programmer
- Herbert Kohler, business executive
- George Stafford Parker, pen inventor
- Herbert Simon, economist and computer scientist
[edit] Art and literature
- Stephen Ambrose, writer
- Esther Bubley, photojournalist (Phillips)
- Chester Commodore, cartoonist
- August Derleth, writer
- Zona Gale, writer
- Hamlin Garland novelist, biographer, short-story writer and poet
- E. Gary Gygax novelist and co-creator of "Dungeons & Dragons"
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter
- Jim Knipfel, writer
- Ron Kovic, writer, Born on the Fourth of July
- Jessica Nelson North, writer
- Sterling North, writer
- Georgia O'Keeffe, artist
- George Wilbur Peck, writer, newspaper editor, and politician
- Ellen Raskin, writer and illustrator
- Clifford D. Simak, writer
- John Toland, writer
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, writer and poet
- John Wilde, artist
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer
- Thornton Wilder, writer
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
[edit] Science and medicine
- Roy Chapman Andrews, naturalist
- John Bardeen, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- John Henry Comstock, entomologist
- Seymour Cray, computer designer
- John Muir, Enviromentalist
- Thorstein Veblen, sociologist and economist
- Daniel Hale Williams, surgeon
[edit] Space exploration
- Leroy Chiao, astronaut
- Mark C. Lee, astronaut
- Jim Lovell, astronaut
- Deke Slayton, astronaut
[edit] Notorious & infamous Wisconsinites
- Aldrich Ames, convicted spy
- Steven Avery, trial pending rape/murder
- Lawrencia Bembenek, convicted murderer
- Arthur Bremer, would-be assassin of George Wallace
- Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer
- Jeane Dixon, psychic
- Ed Gein, serial killer
- Eugene Hasenfus, CIA cargo handler
- Kato Kaelin, person of interest, O.J. Simpson criminal trial
- Bridey Murphy, alleged previous life
- Brandon Wilson, murderer
