Notable People from Minnesota

Clyde Bellecourt

White Earth Ojibwe activist

Don Bielke

American basketball player

Sid Smith

American actor

Richard F. Kneip

American politician (1933-1987)

John Paul Goode

American cartographer (1862-1932)

Doug Bolstorff

American basketball player

Michael Jensen

American economist

Marion Carpenter

photographer

Barton Hepburn

American actor (1906-1955)

Daniel Fry

American ufologist, poet, writer (1908–1992)

Harry Williams

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

Frank A. Briggs

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

Philo Hall

American politician (1865-1938)

Frederic Eugene Basil Foley

American urologist (1891–1966)

Ben Lewis Reitman

(1879-1943) American physician

Deno Geanakoplos

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

Didi Contractor

German-American architect

Sandy Keith

American politician (1928-2020)

Adolph Herseth

American musician (1921–2013)

Sid Hartman

American sports journalist

Stuart Timmons

American historian

David Tomassoni

American politician (1952–2022)

James Russell Wiggins

American newspaper editor and diplomat (1903–2000)

Stuart J. Byrne

American writer (1913-2011)

John Werket

American speed skater (1924-2010)

Mark Craney

American musician (1952–2005)

Robert E. Cushman Jr.

25th Commandant of the Marine Corps

Rube Bjorkman

American ice hockey player

Ken Nelson

American record producer (1911-2008)

Allen Van

American ice hockey player (1915–1995)

Horace Mitchell Miner

American anthropologist (1912-1993)

David T. Lykken

American behavioral geneticist (1928–2006)

Neal Amundson

American chemical engineer

F. Keogh Gleason

American set director (1906-1982)

Midge Decter

American journalist and author (1927–2022)

Ernie Nevers

American football player and coach (1902–1976)

Tyka Nelson

American singer (1960–2024)

Marion McClinton

American theatre director (1954-2019)

David Brink

cyclist (1947-2019)

Mary H. O'Connor

American screenwriter (1872-1959)

Hilda Simms

actress (1918-1994)

Calvin Mooers

American computer scientist (1919–1994)

Patty Andrews

American singer

Aaron Brown

American journalist

Edna Tichenor

American actress

Usher L. Burdick

American politician (1879–1960)

Joan Alexander

American actress (1915-2009)

Bruce Vento

American politician (1940-2000)

Billy House

American actor (1889–1961)

Thomas Anthony Welch

Catholic bishop