List of people from Duluth, Minnesota
The following list includes notable people, past and present, who were born or have lived in Duluth, Minnesota, the second-largest city (and first-largest U.S. city) on the shores of Lake Superior.
Business and industry
- W. T. Bailey (1842 - 1914), 19th and 20th-century lumber tycoon who kept his headquarters in Duluth
- Bob Chinn, owner of Bob Chinn's Crab House, highest grossing restaurant in America
- Walter D. Clute, Sr., businessman, owner of Clute Memorials
- Alan and Dale Klapmeier, founders of Cirrus Aircraft; pioneered the use of composites, glass cockpits and ballistic parachutes for production aircraft; inducted into National Aviation Hall of Fame (2014)
- The Seven Iron Brothers, the Merritt brothers of Duluth, discovered iron ore in 1890 in the Mesabi Iron Range
- David Oreck, entrepreneur and businessman
- Jeno Paulucci, businessman
Entertainment
- Dorothy Arnold, actress and the first wife of baseball player Joe DiMaggio
- Maria Bamford, comedian and actor, has appeared in several television shows
- Mitch Clem, cartoonist
- Carol Dempster, silent movie actress
- Jane Frazee, actress
- Peggy Knudsen, actress, appeared in Roses Are Red, The Big Sleep and A Stolen Life
- Don LaFontaine (1940-2008), voice-over artist famous for recording thousands of film and video-game trailers, television advertisements and network promotions; popularized the phrase "In a world..."
- Verne Lundquist, CBS sportscaster, born in Duluth
- Chris Monroe, cartoonist and children's book illustrator
- Lorenzo Music, voice actor, born in Brooklyn, New York, raised and educated in Duluth
- Gena Lee Nolin, actress
- Telly Savalas, actor, owned a home in Duluth
Music
- Bill Berry, drummer for the band R.E.M.
- Haley Bonar, country music singer and songwriter
- David Dondero, indie-folk musician
- Bob Dylan, iconic Grammy and Academy Award-winning folk singer and song-writer; spearheaded the American folk music revival during the mid-1960s; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988)
- Sadik Hakim, jazz pianist, played on Charlie Parker's famous "Ko-Ko" session
- Dan Murphy, Soul Asylum band member and founder
- Mimi Parker, founding member of the alternative rock group Low
- Charlie Parr, folk musician
- Rivulets, slowcore band, founder Nathan Amundson originates from Duluth
- Phil Solem, musician
- Alan Sparhawk, founding member of the alternative rock group Low
- Trampled by Turtles, a bluegrass band, hails from Duluth and refers to the city in several songs
Politics and law
- Melvin Baldwin, U.S. Representative
- Chester Adgate Congdon, lawyer and capitalist
- Albert J. Connors, Wisconsin state senator
- Alfred E. France, Minnesota state representative and businessman
- James Gustafson, Minnesota State Senator and businessman
- Charles Lundy Lewis, Minnesota Supreme Court justice
- Samuel F. Snively, Mayor of Duluth from 1921 to 1937, pushed for the creation of numerous parks and boulevards throughout the city
Sports
- Mason Aguirre, professional snowboarder, competed in 2006 Winter Olympics
- Jim Ahern, professional golfer, played on PGA Tour and Champions Tour
- Greg Anderson, drag racer, Pro Stock NHRA champion
- Herbert Clow, National Football League, 1920s
- Jack Connolly, hockey player, 2012 Hobey Baker Award winner, captain of 2011 Minnesota-Duluth men's NCAA championship team
- Dan Devine, captain of UMD football team, later coached the Missouri Tigers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Green Bay Packers
- Ethan Finlay, soccer player
- Kara Goucher, distance runner, 2008 and 2012 Olympian
- Phil Hoene, hockey player, native Duluthian, played for UMD and Los Angeles Kings
- Bill Irwin, professional wrestler, known in WWF as "The Goon"
- Lenny Lane, professional wrestler
- Drew LeBlanc, hockey player, Hobey Baker Award winner in 2013
- Jim McNally, Olympic sport shooter
- Russ Method, football player
- Bill O'Toole, football player
- Chris Plys, curler, 2010 Winter Olympic team
- Joe Polo, curler, 2006 Winter Olympic team
- Rick Rickert, basketball player for New Zealand Breakers
- Barbara Rotvig, AAGPBL player
- John Shuster, Olympic curling medalist
- Gordy Soltau, NFL player for San Francisco 49ers
- Darren Ward, Olympic swimmer
- Butch Williams, NHL player
- Tom Williams (1940–1992), NHL player, 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist
Writers and journalists
- Margaret Culkin Banning, best-selling author of 36 novels; early women's rights advocate
- Carol Bly, author
- Irving Copi, philosopher, logician and textbook author
- Roger Grimsby, journalist, television news anchor and actor
- David Hagberg, author of international thrillers
- Steve Hagen, Zen author and priest
- Louis Jenkins, author and poet
- Sinclair Lewis, author and Nobel laureate, wrote the novel Cass Timberlane while a resident in Duluth
- John L. Morrison, newspaper publisher
- Trevor Scott, author of international thrillers
Others
- Scott D. Anderson (1965-1999), author and pilot; successfully flew all inflight test-deployments of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System; inducted into Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame (2010)
- John H. Darling, engineer and astronomer
- Robert R. Gilruth, first director of manned spaceflight, Mercury through Apollo
- Robert Isabell (1952–2009), event planner
- Kay Kurt, painter
- William P. Levine, United States Army major general and Holocaust speaker
- Ellen Pence, scholar and social activist, created Duluth Model of intervention in domestic violence
- Erik Sommer, artist
- Gloria Tew, abstract sculptor
- Albert Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956), last Union civil war soldier to die
See also
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