Notable People from Montana

Ethan Laidlaw

American actor (1899–1963)

Clarence Bull

American photographer (1896-1979)

Al Ullman

American politician (1914-1986)

Joe Rickson

actor (1880-1958)

Robert de Beaugrande

Austrian linguist (1946–2008)

Emil Petaja

American writer (1915–2000)

Lloyd Meeds

American politician (1927-2005)

Jerry J. O'Connell

American politician (1909-1956)

Robert Lee Gilbertson

American mycologist (1925-2011)

Looking Glass

Nez Percé War leader (1832–1877)

Walter Coy

American actor (1909-1974)

Robbie Knievel

American stunt performer (1962–2023)

George Burton

American actor (1898-1955)

Bob Enevoldsen

American musician (1920–2005)

James F. Lloyd

American politician (1922-2012)

Chan Romero

American singer, songwriter (1941–2024)

Arnold Olsen

American politician (1916-1990)

Jane Lawrence

American opera singer and actor (1915-2005)

Elouise P. Cobell

tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit Cobell v. Salazar (2009)

Don Koehler

American 'giant' (1925–1981)

Sidney Spence Culbert

American psychologist

David Duncan

American screenwriter (1913–1999)

Margaret Craven

American novelist (1901–1980)

Dorothy Baker

American novelist (1907-1968)

Earl Old Person

Blackfeet leader

Bernard Joseph Topel

Catholic bishop (1903-1986)

Jack A. Marta

American cinematographer (1903–1991)

Albert Henry Ottenweller

Catholic bishop (1916-2012)

Joseph P. Monaghan

United States Congressman (1906-1985)

David Meirhofer

American serial killer (1949-1974)

James Henry Rowe, Jr.

American lawyer, politician, and government official under several American Presidents; New Deal administrator

Joel Daly

American journalist

Michael Smuin

American dancer

Thomas C. Wasson

American diplomat (1896–1948)

Ed Kalafat

American basketball player (1932–2019)

George Horse-Capture

Museum curator, anthropologist, Native American activist, A'aninin tribe

Travis Atkins

American Army soldier (1975-2007)

Harold Hersey

1893–1964 American pulp magazine editor and publisher

Chick Bullock

American singer (1898-1981)

Chief Thunderbird

Native American actor (1866-1946)

Montie Montana

American actor (1910-1998)

Tim Everett

American actor and dancer (1939-1977)

Donald McCaig

American writer and sheepdog handler

Burt L. Talcott

American politician (1920-2016)

Jack Williams

American actor (1921-2007)

William M. Mann

American entomologist and zoo director (1886-1960)

White Man Runs Him

Crow scout (1858–1929)

Bill Holm

American art historian (1925–2020)

Joseph Otis Fletcher

meteorologist

Audree Norton

American actress (1927-2015)