List of people from Wisconsin

This is a list of prominent people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Place of birth is in parenthesis.

Military

* Richard Bong (1920–1945), World War II pilot (born in Superior)
* John Bradley (1923–1994), Iwo Jima flag-raiser (born in Antigo)
* Art Fiala (1899–2005), World War I (born in Kewaunee)
* Russell Klika, combat photographer
* Arthur MacArthur, Jr. (1845–1912), Medal of Honor Civil War, "On Wisconsin", father of General Douglas MacArthur (born in Milwaukee)
* Billy Mitchell (1879-1936), U.S. general, aviation (raised in West Allis)
* Marc Mitscher (1887–1947), World War II admiral (born in Hillsboro)
* Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. (1924-1950), Korean War Medal of Honor recipient (born in Hatfield)
*Lance Sijan (1942-1968), Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient (born in Milwaukee)
* Nathan Farragut Twining (1897-1982), U.S. Air Force general (born in Monroe)
*Hoyt Vandenberg (1899–1954), U.S. Air Force general (born in Milwaukee)
*Charles White Whittlesey (1884–1921), World War I Medal of Honor recipient, leader of the Lost Battalion (born in Florence}

Politicians and activists

*Les Aspin (1938—1995), Congressman and Secretary of Defense (born in Milwaukee)
*Thomas M. Barrett (b. 1953), Congressman and Mayor of Milwaukee (born in Milwaukee)
*John J. Blaine (1875–1934), Governor and U.S. Senator (born in Wingville)
*James Budd (1851–1908), California Governor (born in Janesville)
*Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), feminist (born in Ripon)
*Ada Deer (b. 1935), Native American/Menominee activist, former BIA official (born in Keshena).
*Bernardine Dohrn (b. 1942), activist (born in Milwaukee)
*Michael Dombeck, former Chief of the US Forest Service
*Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State (Milwaukee)
*Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator and co-author of McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act (Janesville)
*Selena Fox, Wiccan priestess, religious-rights activist, and founder of Circle Sanctuary and Pagan Spirit Gathering
*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
*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)
*Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister
*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)
*Tommy Thompson, Governor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and 2008 candidate for President (Elroy)
*Thomas J. Walsh,U.S. Senator and main prosecutor in the Teapot Dome Scandal hearings (Two Rivers)
*Frances Willard, suffragist and temperance activist
*Paul Weyrich, commentator
*Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator
*Frank Zeidler, mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist Party candidate for president in 1976

Entertainment

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
*Harry Houdini, magician
*Tom Hulce, actor
*David Koepp, writer/director
*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
*Peter Weller, actor
*Orson Welles, director
*Shannon Whirry, actress
*Gene Wilder, actor
*David Zucker, director
*Jerry Zucker, director

Television

*Lamont Bentley, actor
*Ellen Corby, actress
*Tyne Daly, actress
*John Fiedler, actor, voice of Piglet
*Deidre Hall, actress
*Joel Hodgson, actor, comedian, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000
*Gregory Itzin, actor, best known for his role of President Charles Logan on 24
*Jane Kaczmarek, actress
*Kathy Kinney, actress
*Allen Ludden, game show host
*Chris Noth, actor
*Amy Pietz, actor
*Charlotte Rae, actress
*Tony Shalhoub, actor (Green Bay)
*Tom Snyder, talkshow host
*, "The Real World: Austin" cast member
*Eric Szmanda, actor
*Greta Van Susteren, commentator (Appleton)
*Bradley Whitford, actor
*Tom Wopat, actor

Comedians

*Frank Caliendo, comedian
*Chris Farley, comedian (Madison)
*Jackie Mason, comedian (Sheboygan)
*Nick Mortensen, comedian (Green Bay)
*John McGivern, comedian (Milwaukee)

Music

*Carl Allen, drummer
*Eric Benét, singer
*Bunny Berigan, musician
*Holly Brook, singer-songwriter
*Felice Bryant, songwriter
*Victor DeLorenzo, musician, drummer for Violent Femmes (1981-1993, 2002-2006)
*Howie Epstein, bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
*Gordon Gano, musician, singer for Violent Femmes
*Greg Graffin, singer
*Jerry Harrison, keyboardist and guitarist for Talking Heads
*Woody Herman, musician
*Hildegarde, cabaret singer
*Guy Hoffman, musician, drummer for Violent Femmes (1993-2002, 2006)
*Andy Hurley, drummer for Fall Out Boy
*Al Jarreau, singer
*Pee Wee King, musician
*Liberace, musician
*Jeff Loomis, guitarist for Nevermore (Appleton)
*Rico Love, rapper
*Steve Miller, musician
*Les Paul, musician, inventor
*Jim Pekol, musician
*Jeff Pilson, musician
*Stevie Rachelle, singer for Tuff (Oshkosh)
*Bruce Robb, music producer for film/television, former member of 1960's folk rock group The Robbs
*Art Paul Schlosser, musician, songwriter, busker (Madison)
*Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
*Clyde Stubblefield, drummer
*Daryl Stuermer, guitarist
*Butch Vig, drummer for Garbage, musician and producer for Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage
*Jane Wiedlin, rhythm guitarist of The Go-Go's

ports

*Alan Ameche, football player
*Ken Behring, former Seattle Seahawks owner
*Michael Bennett, football player
*Gene Brabender, baseball player
*Tyrone Braxton, football player
*Caron Butler, basketball player
*Craig Counsell, baseball player for the Milwaukee Brewers
*Jay DeMerit, soccer player
*Travis Diener, basketball player
*Jim Fitzgerald, basketball team owner
*Stan Fox, Indycar driver
*Reece Gaines, basketball player
*Bud Grant, football player & coach (Superior, WI)
*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, Olympic champion
*Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player
*Arnie Herber, football player
*Elroy Hirsch, athlete
*Dan Jansen, speedskater
*Whip Jones, founder Aspen Highlands Skiing
*Bill Kazmaier, powerlifter
*Ken Kennedy, professional wrestler (Two Rivers)
*Matt Kenseth, NASCAR driver
*Todd Kluever, NASCAR driver
*Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic champion
*Dave Kreig, football player
*Tony Kubek, baseball player
*Harvey Kuenn, baseball player and manager
*Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver
*Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver
*Curly Lambeau, football player and coach
*Little Bastard, midget professional wrestler (Oshkosh)
*D. Wayne Lukas, horse trainer (Antigo)
*John Matuszak, football player
*Chris McIntosh, football player
*Paul Menard, NASCAR driver
*Chris Mihm, basketball player
*Candice Michelle, professional wrestler (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
*Damian Miller, baseball player
*Andy North professional golfer
*Jim Otto, football player
*Andy Pafko, baseball player
*Danica Patrick, Indycar driver
*Joe Pavelski, ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks (Stevens Point, Wisconsin)
*George Poage, athlete
*Dylan Postl, professional wrestler (Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
*Casey Rabach, football player
*Brad Radke, baseball player
*Joel Rechlicz, hockey player
*Andrew Rock, track
*Ryan Rohlinger, Third baseman for the (San Francisco Giants) (West Bend, Wisconsin)
*Tony Romo, football player
*Pants Rowland, baseball manager
*Terry Ryan, baseball manager
*Jay Sauter, NASCAR Driver
*Jim Sauter, Former NASCAR driver
*Johnny Sauter, NASCAR driver
*Tim Sauter, NASCAR driver
*Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
*Latrell Sprewell, basketball player
*Aaron Stecker, football player (Ashwaubenon)
*Steve Stricker, golfer
*Mark Tauscher, football player
*Dick Trickle, racecar driver
*Bob Uecker, actor and sports commentator
*Nick Van Exel, basketball player
*Jarrod Washburn, baseball player
*Mike Webster, football player
*Bob Wickman, baseball player
*Scott Wimmer, NASCAR driver (Wausau}

Business

*Leo Crowley, banker & FDIC director
*John Cudahy, industrialist
*Michael Cudahy, entrepreneur
*Chris Gardner, (entrepreneur)| subject of movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"
*Ole Evinrude, inventor and entrepreneur
*King C. Gillette, industrialist
*Ken Hendricks, billionaire
*Phil Katz, computer programmer
*Herbert Kohler, business executive
*George Safford Parker, pen inventor
*Herbert Simon, economist and computer scientist
*John Menard, business executiveJack Link, Beef Jerky entrepreneur [http://www.jacklinks.com/]

Art and literature

*Stephen Ambrose, writer
*Antler, poet
*Carrie Jacobs Bond, songwriter
*Esther Bubley, photojournalist (Phillips)
*Chester Commodore, cartoonist
*August Derleth, writer
*Edna Ferber, writer
*Jack Finney, writer
*Zona Gale, writer
*Hamlin Garland, novelist, biographer, short-story writer and poet
*E. Gary Gygax, novelist and co-creator of "Dungeons & Dragons"
*Jane Hamilton, writer
*Gerda Lerner, Women's Studies, founder of women's history
*Jim Knipfel, writer
*Ron Kovic, writer, "Born on the Fourth of July"
*Jacquelyn Mitchard, writer
*Jessica Nelson North, writer
*Sterling North, writer
*Georgia O'Keeffe, artist
*George Wilbur Peck, writer, newspaper editor, and politician
*George Pollard, artist
*Ellen Raskin, writer and illustrator
*Carl Rogers, psychologist and originator of "Client-Centered Therapy"
*Clifford D. Simak, writer
*Peter Straub, writer
*John Toland, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
*Thorstein Veblen, writer, scholar, social theorist
*Ella Wheeler Wilcox, writer and poet
*John Wilde, artist
*Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer
*Thornton Wilder, writer
*Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

cience and medicine

*Roy Chapman Andrews, naturalist
*John Bardeen, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
*John Henry Comstock, entomologist
*Seymour Cray, computer designer
*Farrington Daniels, pioneer researcher in Solar energy
*Richard Davidson, psychologist, pioneer of affective neuroscience
*Hector DeLuca, Vitamin D metabolism
*Milton Erickson,MD, founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, NLP
*Albert Lehninger, biochemist
*Karl Paul Link, discovered warfarin (named it for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation)
*John Muir, environmentalist
*Harry Steenbock, Vitamin D catalyzed by sunlight, D-fortified milk; rickets cured
*James Thomson, first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells
*Thorstein Veblen, sociologist and economist
*Daniel Hale Williams, surgeon

Nobel laureates

*Joseph Erlanger, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944
*Herbert Spencer Gasser, B.S. 1910, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944
*John Bardeen, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
*Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958
*Joshua Lederberg, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958
*Stanford Moore, Ph.D 1938, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972
*John H. van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977
*Theodore Schultz, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979
*Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991
*Paul D. Boyer, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997
*Günter Blobel, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999
*Jack Kilby, M.S. 1950, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Integrated Circuit in 2000
*Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000

pace exploration

*Daniel Brandenstein, astronaut
*Leroy Chiao, astronaut
*Laurel Clark, astronaut (died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
*Mark C. Lee, astronaut
*Jim Lovell, astronaut
*Deke Slayton, astronaut

Notorious and infamous Wisconsinites

*Aldrich Ames, convicted spy
*Steven Avery, convicted of murder after DNA exoneration from rape conviction
*Lawrencia Bembenek, convicted murderer
*Arthur Bremer, would-be assassin of George Wallace
*Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer
*Jeane Dixon, psychic
*Ed Gein, serial killer
*Charles J. Guiteau, Assassin of 20th President James A. Garfield, lived in Ulao, Wisconsin from 1850-1855
*Eugene Hasenfus, CIA cargo handler
*Kato Kaelin, person of interest, O. J. Simpson criminal trial
*Bridey Murphy, alleged previous life
*Brandon Wilson, murderer

ee also

* List of Milwaukeeans
* List of Kenoshans