List of people from Wisconsin
This is a list of some famous people born in Wisconsin.
Founders and pioneers
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer
Military
- Richard Bong, World War II pilot
- John Bradley, Iwo Jima flag-raiser
- Mitchell Redcloud, Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
Politicians and activists
- Les Aspin, Congressman and Secretary of Defense (Milwaukee)
- Thomas M. Barrett, Congressman and Mayor of Milwaukee (Milwaukee)
- Carrie Chapman Catt, feminist
- Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State (Milwaukee)
- Bernardine Dohrn, activist
- Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator and co-author of McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act (Janesville)
- George F. Kennan, diplomat (Milwaukee)
- Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator and sports-franchise owner (Milwaukee)
- Orland Steen Loomis,Governor-elect of Wisconsin,
he died before his inaugural in 1942.(Mauston)
- 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 (Stevens Point)
- Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (Grand Chute)
- Gaylord Nelson, Governor and U.S. Senator (Clear Lake)
- William Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (Whitefish Bay)
- Carl Schurz, Civil War statesman
- Bart Stupak, Michigan Congressman (Milwaukee)
- Tommy Thompson, Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services (Elroy)
- Paul Weyrich, commentator
Entertainment
Film and theatre
- Jim Abrahams, director
- Marc Alaimo, actor
- Don Ameche, actor
- Ellen Corby, actress
- Willem Dafoe, actor
- Heather Graham, actress
- Tom Hulce, actor
- Carole Landis, actor
- Joseph Losey, director
- Alfred Lunt, actor
- Fredric March, actor
- Pat O'Brien, actor
- Nicholas Ray, director
- Gena Rowlands, actor
- Richard Schickel, critic
- Spencer Tracy, actor
- Judy Tyler, actress
- Bob Uecker, actor and sports commentator
- Orson Welles, director
- Shannon Whirry, actress
- Gene Wilder, actor
- David Zucker, director
- Jerry Zucker, director
- Eric Szmanda, actor
Television
- Lamont Bentley, actor
- Ellen Corby, actress
- Tyne Daly, actress
- Deidre Hall, acress
- Jane Kaczmarek, actress
- Allen Ludden, gameshow host
- Chris Noth, actor
- Amy Pietz, actor
- Charlotte Rae, actress
- Tony Shalhoub, actor
- Tom Snyder, talkshow host
- Greta Van Susteren, commentator (Appleton)
- Bradley Whitford, actor
- Tom Wopat, actor
- Eric Szmanda, actor
Comedians
- Chris Farley, comedian
- Jackie Mason, comedian
- Frank Caliendo, comedian
Music
- Carl Allen, drummer
- Eric Benét, singer
- Bunny Berigan, musician
- Greg Graffin, singer
- Woody Herman, musician
- Hildegarde, cabaret singer
- Al Jarreau, singer
- Pee Wee King, musician
- Liberace, musician
- Steve Miller, musician
- Les Paul, musician
- Jeff Pilson, musician
- Clyde Stubblefield, drummer
- Daryl Stuermer, guitarist
Sports
- Eric Heiden, athlete
- Elroy Hirsch, athlete
- Matt Kenseth, NASCAR driver
- Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver
- George Poage, athlete
- Pants Rowland, baseball manager
- Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
- Latrell Sprewell, basketball player
- Bob Uecker, actor and sports commentator
- Nick Van Exel, basketball player
- Mike Webster, football player
Business
- John Cudahy, industrialist
- Michael Cudahy (electronics), entrepreneur
- King C. Gillette, industrialist
- Herbert Kohler
- Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, head of Pixar
- Phil Katz, computer programmer
- Herbert Simon, economist and computer scientist
Art and literature
- Chester Commodore, cartoonist
- August Derleth, writer
- Zona Gale, writer
- Ron Kovic, writer
- Jessica Nelson North, writer
- Sterling North, writer
- Georgia O'Keeffe, artist
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer
- Thornton Wilder, writer
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Science and medicine
- Roy Chapman Andrews, naturalist
- John Bardeen, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Seymour Cray, computer designer
- Thorstein Veblen, sociologist and economist
Space exploration
- Leroy Chiao, astronaut
- Deke Slayton, astronaut
- James Lovell [1], astronaut Apollo 8, Apollo 11, Apollo 13 (Famous movie made of that journey.)
- Laurel Clark [2], astronaut, Lists Racine, Wisconsin as her official home on her NASA bio. Died in space shuttle Columbia disaster in Feb 2003.
Notorious & infamous Wisconsinites
- Aldrich Ames, traitor
- Lawrencia Bembenek, convicted murderer
- Arthur Bremer, would-be assassin of George Wallace
- Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer
- Jeane Dixon, psychic
- Ed Gein, serial killer
- Eugene Hasenfus, CIA cargo handler
- Kato Kaelin, houseguest
- Bridey Murphy, alleged previous life