List of people from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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This is a List of Milwaukeeans, notable citizens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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[edit] Born and raised in Milwaukee
The following people were born and spent a significant amount of their growing-up years in Milwaukee.
- David Adler — A prolific architect who designed over 200 estates during a stylistic period known as the "Great American House."
- Marc Alaimo — Actor who played many Star Trek characters, including Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Tommy Bartlett — Entertainment mogel and showman best known for creating Tommy Bartlett's Thrill Show a popular attraction in Wisconsin Dells, WI that has also performed around the world.
- Eric Benet R&B singer; was married to Halle Berry
- Lamont Bentley — Television and film actor. Best known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on the television series Moesha, starring Brandy.
- Mark Borchardt — Independent filmmaker. Best known as the subject of the film American Movie.
- Fabian Bruskewitz — Roman Catholic bishop.
- James Chance (James Siegfried, a/k/a James White) — Saxophonist, songwriter and singer, key figure in No Wave movement.
- Lave Cross, major league baseball player for 21 years[1]
- Anthony Crivello — Tony Award-winning actor and television star.
- David Draiman — Noted rock musician, singer in Heavy Metal band Disturbed.
- Howie Epstein — Noted rock musician, producer, and bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
- Jack Finney — Science fiction and thriller writer. Finney's novel The Body Snatchers was the basis for the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.
- Reginald Foster — A Latinist.
- Gordon Gano — lead singer and guitarist for the punk-rock group the Violent Femmes.
- Chris Gardner — Self-made millionaire who's bout with homelessness is portrayed in the 2006 major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.
- Carlos Glidden — Co-inventor of the first practical typewriter with Christopher Sholes and Samuel W. Soule.
- James Groppi — Prominent Roman Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist.
- Jerry Harrison — Keyboardist of the influential new-wave music group Talking Heads.
- James Michael Harvey — Roman Catholic bishop.
- Marguerite Henry — Award winning children's author, known for her books about animals.
- Woody Herman — Professional jazz singer, instrumentalist, and big band leader.
- Guy Hoffman — drummer of Oil Tasters, BoDeans, Violent Femmes, Radio Romeo.
- Al Jarreau — Award winning jazz singer
- Salome Jens — Actress, best-known for portraying the Female Shapeshifter on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Jane Kaczmarek — Actress; Best known as Lois in Malcolm in the Middle, married to West Wing actor (and Madison native) Bradley Whitford.
- Donald Knuth — Renowned computer scientist and author of The Art of Computer Programming.
- Matt Koehl — Leader of the American Nazi Party.
- Otto Luening (1900 – 1996) – Composer, early pioneer of electronic music.
- Alfred Lunt — Famous Tony Award and Emmy Award winning Broadway actor, who appeared in over 24 plays with his wife Lynn Fontanne.
- Bob Mann — Professional golfer, former PGA Tour player
- Candice Michelle — World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler/ model & Actress, best known for television ads for Go Daddy
- Aloisius Joseph Muench — Roman Catholic Cardinal
- Pat O'Brien — Movie actor with over 100 screen credits (seven with James Cagney), including Angels with Dirty Faces and Some Like It Hot.
- Nik Pace — first runner-up of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5, signed with Fusion Model Management.
- Frank Parker — International Tennis Hall of Fame member who was one of the few Americans to win both the French and U.S. Championships.
- Jim Peck — Game show host, famous for The Big Showdown and Three's a Crowd, hosts the local history show I Remember Milwaukee on WMVS.
- Amy Pietz — Actress, known for her role as Annie Spadaro in the sitcom Caroline in the City.
- Terry Porter — former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and former head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.
- Gene Puerling - singer
- Charlotte Rae (Lubotsky), TV/stage actress and singer; Best known to fans as Mrs. Edna Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. She is connected to the Lubotsky family that ran a tire store chain in the Milwaukee area.
- William Rehnquist - former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Augustine Francis Schinner — the first Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Superior.
- Bud Selig — Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner and former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers.
- Steve de Shazer — A psychotherapist who developed the use of solution focused brief therapy.
- Lance Sijan — The first USAFA graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his selflessness and courage in the face of lethal danger.
- Al Simmons — Major League Baseball player who is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Herbert Simon — Nobel laureate and Turing Award winner for his works in artificial intelligence (AI), the psychology of human cognition, and decision-making processes.
- Tom Snyder — Former host of the award winning television programs The Tomorrow Show and The Late Late Show.
- Samuel W. Soule — Co-inventor of the first practical typewriter with Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden.
- Speech — Musician, lead singer of the group Arrested Development
- Latrell Sprewell — Four-time All-Star professional basketball player.
- Brooks Stevens — Prominent automotive and industrial designer who developed the concept of planned obsolescence, or the practice of artificially shortening product lifecycles in order to influence consumer buying patterns.
- Peter Straub — Fiction writer and poet. Best known as a horror-genre author.
- Todd Temkin contemporary poet and cultural activist
- Spencer Tracy — Notable film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 through the 1960s, and is considered by many to be the most skillful actor of his time.
- Judy Tyler (Judith Mae Hess) — Film actress starred opposite Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock.
- Bob Uecker — Major League Baseball (MLB) player, actor, and award-winning Hall of Fame sportscaster.
- Hoyt Vandenberg — U.S. Air Force general.
- Neale Donald Walsch — Best selling author of Conversations With God and several other books. Considered a leader and visionary of new-age thought.
- Gene Wilder — Native born actor known for his collaborations with writer, producer, director Mel Brooks.
- Frank P. Zeidler— ex-mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist Party USA
- David Zucker — Famed Hollywood film director known for his collaborations with brother Jerry Zucker on the movies Airplane! and Top Secret!.
- Jerry Zucker — Famed Hollywood film director known for his collaborations with brother David Zucker on the movies Airplane! and Top Secret!.
- Greg Lutzka Professional skateboarder.
- Jon Allie Professional skateboarder.
- Daryl Stuermer— Lead guitarist for Phil Collins, guitar and bass for Genesis during live shows.
[edit] Born elsewhere, raised in Milwaukee
The following people were not born in Milwaukee, but spent a significant amount of their growing-up years in the city.
- Jacob Best — Founder of what became the Pabst Brewing Company.
- Shauna Singh Baldwin — Canadian-born author currently living in Milwaukee.
- Colleen Dewhurst — Canadian-born actress who was raised in Milwaukee. Best known for her role as Marilla Cuthbert in various Anne of Green Gables productions.
- Victor DeLorenzo — Drummer for the punk-rock group the Violent Femmes.
- Warren S. Johnson — founder of Johnson Controls
- Rico Love - rapper and songwriter signed to Usher's US Records, a subsidiary of J Records
- Jim Lovell — Former NASA astronaut and commander of the infamous Apollo 13 mission. North/South 7th Street through the downtown area was named James Lovell Street in his honor.
- Mark Rylance — Award winning film and theatre actor, also theatre director. Best known for being the first Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London from 1995-2005. Playing in theatre and movies since 1976.
- Stanley G. Weinbaum, innovative science fiction writer
- Oprah Winfrey - Talk Show host and media mogul.
[edit] Born in Milwaukee, raised elsewhere
The following people were born in Milwaukee, but spent most (if not all) of their growing-up years away from the city.
- Walter Annenberg — Billionaire publisher, philanthropist, and creator of the Annenberg Foundation.
- Austin Aries — professional wrestler, former World Champion.
- James Kelsey Cogswell Rear Admiral in the US Navy. USS Cogswell named in his honor.
- Jeffrey Dahmer — Infamous American serial killer who was born in Milwaukee and raised in Ohio. He moved back to Milwaukee where he committed necrophilia and cannibalism on his victims.
- Leroy Chiao — Astronaut. Commander and Science Officer of the 10th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
- Heather Graham — Film actress. Best known for her breakthrough role as Roller Girl in the movie Boogie Nights.
- Andrea Hall — Twin sister of fellow soap actress Deidre Hall. Best known for her role as Samantha Evans on Days of Our Lives.
- Deidre Hall — Actress on the NBC Soap opera Days of our Lives.
- Andy Hurley — Drummer for the band Fall Out Boy
- Brian "Kato" Kaelin — Actor and famed former house guest of O.J. Simpson during the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
- George F. Kennan — architect of the U.S. cold war policy of containment of the Soviet Union.
- Pee Wee King — Songwriter, recording artist, and television entertainer who was inducted in to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
- Steve Miller — Musician, Steve Miller Band.
- Peter Palmer — Broadway/film actor, most notably as Lil' Abner
- Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger) — Science fiction writer, noted East Asian scholar and expert in psychological warfare.
- Eric Szmanda — Television actor who played Greg Sanders on the popular crime drama series CSI.
- Bruce Weber — Head Coach of the University of Illinois men's basketball team.
- Chip Zien — Stage, screen and television actor. Known for his recurring role in the TV series Now and Again as Gerald Misenbach.
- Tank (Singer) — American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer.
[edit] Born and raised elsewhere
The following people were not born or raised in Milwaukee, but have a significant connection(s) to the city.
- Michael Redd — National Basketball Association, Milwaukee Bucks shooting guard, holds the Bucks franchise record for points in a single game with 57.
- Ray Allen — National Basketball Association, Famous Milwaukee Bucks player from 1996 to 2003.
- Hank Aaron — Major League Baseball hall-of-famer and holder of the career home run record. Spent most of his MLB career in Milwaukee.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — Pro Basketball hall-of-famer and first ever draft choice of the Milwaukee Bucks.
- John M Barth — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Controls
- Robert Bloch science fiction, fantasy and horror writer
- Solomon Juneau — Early fur trader, land speculator, and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee.
- Byron Kilbourn — Wisconsin railroad executive, politician, and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee.
- Jack Kilby — Nobel laureate and co-inventor of the integrated circuit (IC).
- Reginald Lisowski — Professional Wrestler better known as "The Crusher."
- Arthur MacArthur, Jr. — Prominent General and father of famed General Douglas MacArthur.
- Theodore Mack — Former owner of People's Brewery in Oshkosh, the world's first African-American owned brewery. [1]
- Al McGuire — College basketball coach and network commentator.
- Golda Meir — A founder of the State of Israel, also served as Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister. Graduated from the University of Wisconin-Milwaukee.
- Frederick Miller — Brewing magnate and founder of the Miller Brewing Company.
- Paul Molitor — Pro Baseball hall-of-famer and long time player for the Milwaukee Brewers
- Frederick Pabst — Brewing magnate of Pabst Brewing Company fame.
- Jo Anne Paul — Former Emmy Winning Award News Reporter for WTMJ-TV 4 from 1995 to 1999, and current news anchor for WJIM-AM in Lansing, MI, (Married to former Emmy Award Winning News Anchor Terry Stanton).
- Jane and Lloyd Pettit — Well known philanthropists of Bradley family fortune, who gifted the Bradley Center and Pettit National Ice Center.
- Joseph Schlitz — Brewing magnate of the now defunct Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.
- Paul Robeson — Pro football player, actor, singer and social activist.
- Doug Russell — Nationally syndicated sports-talk radio host. Currently heard on Sporting News Radio, formerly of WTMJ-AM.
- Christopher Sholes — Printer, politician, and newspaper editor. Best known for inventing the modern day typewriter with its QWERTY key layout, while living in Milwaukee.
- Terry Stanton — Former Emmy Winning Award News Anchor for WTMJ-TV 4 from 1995-1999 and spouse of former Emmy Winning Award News Reporter for WTMJ-TV 4.
- Dwyane Wade — Professional basketball player for the NBA's Miami Heat who played collegiately at Marquette University
- George H. Walker — Trader, politician, and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee.
- Robin Yount — Major League Baseball hall-of-famer, former player and bench coach of the Milwaukee Brewers.
[edit] References
- ^ [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
