List of people from Kenosha, Wisconsin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of Kenoshans, notable citizens of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

• Angela Alvarez, actress and director (Cake)
• Alan Ameche, football player
• Don Ameche, actor, Academy Award-winner (Cocoon)
• Jim Ameche, actor (Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy)
• Nick Angotti, actor

• Eric Benson (r/n Philip Jerome Stumpf), radio actor ("The Shadow", "Let's Pretend", more)
• Gail Berenson, author, lecturer, professor of piano at Ohio State University
• Nancy Berg, actress (Fail Safe, more)
• Peter V. Bianchi, staff artist, National Geographic Magazine
• Thom Bierdz, actor (Murder, She Wrote, more)
• Chester Biscardi, composer, director of musical arts at Yale University
• Daniel Bisno MD, ophthalmologist on faculty at Washington University
• Richard W. Blake, actor
• Joe Bonadio, jazz drummer
• Dick Bosman, major league baseball pitcher and coach (Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox)
• Mary D. Bradford, educator, 1st female Superintendent of a major school system in Wisconsin
• Kenneth C. Brugger naturalist, chemical engineer
• Claude Cailliet, jazz musician, bandleader (MadiSalsa)
• Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, film orchestrator (The Ten Commandments)
• Katie Camosy, filmmaker (not famous)
• Jeff Cesario, comedian, TV writer
• Nick Cibrario, author (The Pomelo Tree)
• Dr. Thomas C. Cesario, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and College of Health Sciences
• Barbara E. Chernik, librarian, author
• Buddy Clark, jazz bassist and recording artist [1]
• Donald Clarke, author of several books on musical subjects
• Edward F. Cline, film director
• Virginia Croskery, soprano
• James A. Crossin MD, F.A.C.S., noted bariatric surgeon
• Sarah Deakins, actress (Smallville)
• Jo Ann Deering, comedienne
• Harlan Draeger, Chicago Journalism Hall of Famer
• N. Max Dunning, architect (Chicago Furniture Mart)
• Debbie Ellis, actress (Everwood, more)
• Dr. John Ficcadenti, chief researcher, the Shroud of Turin project
• Danielle Franke, actress (Green River)
• William Gagliani, horror-fiction author (Wolf's Trap)
• Pam Kray Galligan, champion fencer, founder of NYC graphic-arts studio Nil Hubris
• Judith Heide Gilliland, author (Strange Birds)
• Christina Gillmore, Miss Wheelchair America, 1999
• Scott Glenn, actor
• Jerry Golden, ABC reporter who was first with the John F. Kennedy assassination news
• John Goray (1912-1990), artist and Walt Disney creative cartoonist (Thumper)
• Ben Greenebaum, emeritus physics professor and president of the Bioelectromagnetic Society
• Bert I. Gordon, film director (The Food of the Gods)
• Linda Ham, manager of the Johnson Space Center
• John Hambrock, syndicated comic strip artist ("The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee")
• Barbara Hammond, off-Broadway playwright (Norman & Beatrice)
• Michael P. Hammond, chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
• Linda Haugen, composer and songwriter
• Florence Parry Heide, author (The Shrinking of Treehorn)
• Milt Herth, songwriter and keyboard artist (Russ Morgan Orchestra, The Milt Herth Trio)
• Jim Iaquinta, actor (Rana)
• Tim Iaquinta, actor, film producer
• George Elmer Inman, developer of fluorescent lighting
• Jim Isermann, artist
• Nick James, writer and director
• Jim Jensen, CBS news anchor and reporter
• Horace Greely Johnson, inventor, referred to as 'The Edison of Underwear'
• Raymond Edward Johnson, radio actor, host of Inner Sanctum
• Samuel C. Johnson, founder, Johnson Wax
• Robert Joling, past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Edward S. "Ned" Jordan, automaker, Jordan Motor Car Company (Jordan Playboy, Jordan Ace), columnist ("Ned Jordan Speaks" AutoWeek) and ad writer ("Somewhere west of Laramie")
• James W. Jorgenson, chair, chemistry department, University of North Carolina
• Eugene Karlin, magazine artist and illustrator (Fortune, Look, Esquire)
• Margaret McElwain Kemper, lecturer, president of the American League of Organists
• Floyd Kishline, engineer and inventor (Nash-Kelvinator, Graham-Paige)
• Bob Kiss, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
• Richard Klevickis, screenwriter (Wild Kingdom)
• Jennefa Krupinski, model, exhibitionist, actress ([[King For a Day]])
• Kenjamin Lafayette, actor, comedian and graphic designer
• Tony Landa, dancer
• Margaret Landon, author (Anna and the King of Siam (The King and I )
• Gregg Lawrence, vocalist (The Frankie Carle Orchestra)
• James Lesniak, pianist and opera coach (Metropolitan Opera Company)
• Sean Lewis, television journalist (NBC News)
• Drue Leyton, actress
• Sam Locante, actor (The Stone Killer)
• Freddie Mann, musician (The Freddie Mann Orchestra)
• Tony Mantuano, chef (Spiaggio)
• Major General Robert Bruce McCoy commander of the 32nd Infantry Division, for whom Fort McCoy is named [2]
• John McEvoy, columnist and author ("Riders Down", "Blind Switch", more)
• Mike Mertz, graphic designer
• Frank L. Mitchell, automaker (Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company)
• Lois J. Mogensen, Artist, Printmaker (not famous)
• Al Molinaro, actor Happy Days
• Wayne Morton, actor
• Charles W. Nash, automaker Nash Motors, Nash-Kelvinator
• Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie, United States Senate Chaplain
• Michael Oldani, anthropologist, pharmaceutical researcher, Fulbright Scholar (Princeton University)
• Oliver "Ollie" O'Mara, shortstop/third baseman for the Detroit Tigers and Brooklyn Dodgers
• Megan Oster, figure skater
• Milton K. Ozaki, author and detective novelist
• Peter Palmer, saxophonist, bandleader, songwriter (Mercury Records)
• Mario Petrelli, commander of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point
• Michael Phillips, theater critic, Pulitzer Prize jurist
• Roxanne Heide Pierce, author
• Peter Pirsch, builder of fire equipment
• Nan Pollard, illustrator of children's books
• George Pollard, portrait artist to the presidents and stars
• Joseph V. Quarles, U.S. Senator and former Kenosha mayor
• Thom Racina, author and screenwriter (General Hospital)
• Dr. Thomas C. Reeves, professor and author (A Question of Character - A Life of John F. Kennedy)
• Dora Remington, actress (Ma Perkins, NBC)
• Spike Robinson, jazz saxophonist
• Dr. Gary Roemer, biologist, lecturer
• Gerald J. Ruben, twelve-time Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning television news producer (KTLA-TV, Associated Press, Radio and Television News Association)
• Mark Ruffalo, actor
• Tony Russel, film and stage actor (Hearts Are Wild)
• Jim Rygiel, triple Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings) IMDB Biography Page
• Mary Sauer, principal pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1959, and on the piano faculty of DePaul University for 33 years, where she was coordinator of the keyboard program. http://www.cso.org/main.taf?erube_fh=cso&cso.submit.CSOPerfBio=1&cso.artistid=msauer
• Will Schaefer, film composer (Walt Disney Productions) arranger (The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson), songwriter (Spongebob Squarepants) and Emmy Award-nominee
• S. D. Schindler, artist, illustrator of children's books
• Stephen Schmelling, chemical-physics author and director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center
• Rebecca Scott, model and actress, Miss August 1999 for Playboy Productions
• Chester Sheard, photojournalist
• Christopher Latham Sholes, publisher, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard
• Charles Siebert, actor (Trapper John, MD)
• Zalman Simmons, industrialist (Simmons Company) and Kenosha mayor
• Paul Sorenson, actor (Dallas)
• Aaron J. Stampfli, pianist
• Kathie Sullivan, vocalist (The Lawrence Welk Show)
• John Stephenson, voice actor (Flintstones)
• Charlie Talbert, actor (Angus)
• Stan Thorn, singer ("Shenandoah-Sunday in the South", more)
• Maria Tirabassi, actress (Crime Story)
• Concetta Tomei, actress (China Beach)
• Jason W. Tower, cinematographer, editor
• Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill Street Blues)
• George Nelson Tremper, Educator
• Caroline Solfronk Vacha, Juilliard-trained flutist, called "The Grand Dame of the Chicago Lyric Opera and the Chicago Ballet"
• Nick Van Exel, point guard for the San Antonio Spurs
• Irving Wallace, author (The Chapman Report)
• Roberta Dowse Walker (1924-2006), Illinois' First Lady (1973-1977)
• Sylvia Wallace, editor of Photoplay, writer Modern Screen Magazine, and author ("Empress", "The Fountains")
• Orson Welles, producer, actor, writer, director (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, F is for Fake)
• Paul Weyrich, founder and CEO of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation and member of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.
• William J. White, industrial engineer, professor and former chairman, CEO and president of Bell & Howell Company, chairman and president of Whitestar Graphics and executive vice-president of USG Corporation Corporation, and author ("From Day One")
• Anthony Winther and Martin Winther, inventors (eddy currents), automakers (Winther Motors), and radio manufacturers (Oriole Radio)
• Tony Wons, actor, author, radio host (Tony Wons' Radio Scrapbook)
• Oscar U. Zerk, engineer and inventor (Zerk fittings)
• Joseph Zimmerman, invented the first Answering machine
• Léon Leblanc and Vito Pascucci, founders of Leblanc, Inc., makers of musical instruments