Notable People from Minnesota

Charles Bartlett

American film director (b. 1888)

William Anthony Granville

American mathematician (1863–1943)

Barton Hepburn

American actor (1906-1955)

Sid Smith

American actor

Doug Bolstorff

American basketball player

Stuart Timmons

American historian

John Ernest Dahlquist

United States general (1896–1975)

John Paul Goode

American cartographer (1862-1932)

Didi Contractor

German-American architect

Mark Craney

American musician (1952–2005)

Sandy Keith

American politician (1928-2020)

Stuart J. Byrne

American writer (1913-2011)

David Tomassoni

American politician (1952–2022)

Stephen O. Murray

American anthropologist (1950–2019)

Harry Williams

American composer, lyricist, and film director/producer (1879-1922)

Midge Decter

American journalist and author (1927–2022)

Marion McClinton

American theatre director (1954-2019)

Frederic Eugene Basil Foley

American urologist (1891–1966)

Philo Hall

American politician (1865-1938)

Frank A. Briggs

American politician and 5th governor of North Dakota (1858–1898)

Tyka Nelson

American singer (1960–2024)

Ken Nelson

American record producer (1911-2008)

Ben Lewis Reitman

(1879-1943) American physician

Richard Simmons

American actor (1913-2003)

Jeff Parker

American ice hockey player (1964–2017)

James Russell Wiggins

American newspaper editor and diplomat (1903–2000)

Daniel Fry

American ufologist, poet, writer (1908–1992)

Horace Mitchell Miner

American anthropologist (1912-1993)

Rube Bjorkman

American ice hockey player

Robert E. Cushman Jr.

25th Commandant of the Marine Corps

Deno Geanakoplos

Greek-American historian, scholar of Byzantine cultural and religious history, Professor Emiterus at Yale University (1916-2007)

David T. Lykken

American behavioral geneticist (1928–2006)

Sid Hartman

American sports journalist

John Werket

American speed skater (1924-2010)

Bruce Vento

American politician (1940-2000)

Joan Alexander

American actress (1915-2009)

Patty Andrews

American singer

F. Keogh Gleason

American set director (1906-1982)

Hilda Simms

actress (1918-1994)

Neal Amundson

American chemical engineer

Paul Michael Stephani

American serial killer (1944–1998)

Aaron Brown

American journalist

Elmer Ryan

American politician (1907-1958)

Ernie Nevers

American football player and coach (1902–1976)

Mary H. O'Connor

American screenwriter (1872-1959)

Joan Kroc

American philanthropist (1928–2003)

Calvin Mooers

American computer scientist (1919–1994)

Usher L. Burdick

American politician (1879–1960)

Billy House

American actor (1889–1961)

Edna Tichenor

American actress