List of people from Kenosha, Wisconsin
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This is a list of Kenoshans, notable citizens of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
- Alan Ameche, football player
- Don Ameche, actor, Academy Award-winner (Cocoon)
- Jim Ameche, actor (Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy)
- Edward E. Ayer (1841–1927), railway supplies magnate, manuscript collector and benefactor to Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History
- Thom Bierdz, actor (Murder, She Wrote, more)
- Chester Biscardi, composer, director of musical arts at Yale University
- 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
- Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, film orchestrator (The Ten Commandments)
- Jeff Cesario, comedian, TV writer
- Donald Clarke, author of several books on musical subjects
- Edward F. Cline, film director
- Jeff Cohen, All-American basketball player at The College of William & Mary in 1960-61
- Brian Cullen, Founding member of national paintball team M.O.D.
- Thomas Dryer, Lead singer in the Thomas Dryer Band
- 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)
- Bert I. Gordon, film director (The Food of the Gods)
- Linda Ham, manager of the Johnson Space Center
- Michael P. Hammond, chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
- Ashley Hinshaw, New York based fashion model
- Florence Parry Heide, author (The Shrinking of Treehorn)
- Jim Jensen, CBS news anchor and reporter
- Raymond Edward Johnson, radio actor, host of Inner Sanctum
- Samuel C. Johnson, founder, Johnson Wax
- 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")
- Bob Kiss, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
- Margaret Landon, author (Anna and the King of Siam (The King and I )
- Al Molinaro, actor Happy Days
- Michael Morgan, was the first person to claim having a third nipple as a disability in order to compete in the special olympics
- Charles W. Nash, automaker Nash Motors, Nash-Kelvinator
- Megan Oster, figure skater
- Milton K. Ozaki, author and detective novelist
- Peter Palmer, saxophonist, bandleader, songwriter (Mercury Records)
- Michael Phillips, theater critic, Pulitzer Prize jurist
- Peter Pirsch, builder of fire equipment
- George Pollard, portrait painter
- Joseph V. Quarles, U.S. Senator and former Kenosha mayor
- Thom Racina, author and screenwriter (General Hospital)
- Spike Robinson, jazz saxophonist
- 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. [1]
- Will Schaefer, composer
- Rebecca Scott, model and actress, Miss August 1999 for Playboy Productions
- Christopher Latham Sholes, publisher, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard
- Charles Siebert, actor (Trapper John, M.D.), director (Xena, Warrior Princess)
- Kathie Sullivan, vocalist (The Lawrence Welk Show)
- John Stephenson, voice actor (Flintstones)
- Charlie Talbert, actor (Angus)
- Concetta Tomei, actress (China Beach)
- Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill Street Blues)
- George Nelson Tremper, Educator
- Nick Van Exel, point guard for the San Antonio Spurs
- Irving Wallace, author (The Chapman Report)
- Orson Welles, producer, actor, writer, director (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, F 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")
- Joseph Zimmerman, invented the first answering machine
