Notable People from Montana

Dave McNally

American baseball player (1942-2002)

Joe Rickson

actor (1880-1958)

Al Ullman

American politician (1914-1986)

Elouise P. Cobell

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

Emil Petaja

American writer (1915–2000)

Clarence Bull

American photographer (1896-1979)

Robert de Beaugrande

Austrian linguist (1946–2008)

Lloyd Meeds

American politician (1927-2005)

Jerry J. O'Connell

American politician (1909-1956)

Looking Glass

Nez Percé War leader (1832–1877)

Robert Lee Gilbertson

American mycologist (1925-2011)

Walter Coy

American actor (1909-1974)

George Burton

American actor (1898-1955)

James F. Lloyd

American politician (1922-2012)

Robbie Knievel

American stunt performer (1962–2023)

Arnold Olsen

American politician (1916-1990)

Chan Romero

American singer, songwriter (1941–2024)

Jane Lawrence

American opera singer and actor (1915-2005)

Bob Enevoldsen

American musician (1920–2005)

David Meirhofer

American serial killer (1949-1974)

Margaret Craven

American novelist (1901–1980)

Earl Old Person

Blackfeet leader

Sidney Spence Culbert

American psychologist

Chick Bullock

American singer (1898-1981)

David Duncan

American screenwriter (1913–1999)

Dorothy Baker

American novelist (1907-1968)

Bernard Joseph Topel

Catholic bishop (1903-1986)

Jack A. Marta

American cinematographer (1903–1991)

Don Koehler

American 'giant' (1925–1981)

Albert Henry Ottenweller

Catholic bishop (1916-2012)

Joseph P. Monaghan

United States Congressman (1906-1985)

James Henry Rowe, Jr.

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

Burt L. Talcott

American politician (1920-2016)

Thomas C. Wasson

American diplomat (1896–1948)

Joel Daly

American journalist

Michael Smuin

American dancer

Harold Hersey

1893–1964 American pulp magazine editor and publisher

Ed Kalafat

American basketball player (1932–2019)

Bill Holm

American art historian (1925–2020)

White Man Runs Him

Crow scout (1858–1929)

Donald McCaig

American writer and sheepdog handler

Montie Montana

American actor (1910-1998)

Chief Thunderbird

Native American actor (1866-1946)

Jack Williams

American actor (1921-2007)

Joseph Otis Fletcher

meteorologist

George Horse-Capture

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

William M. Mann

American entomologist and zoo director (1886-1960)

Tim Everett

American actor and dancer (1939-1977)

Travis Atkins

American Army soldier (1975-2007)

Dennis Cross

American actor (1924-1991)