Notable People from Montana

Robert Tryon

behavioral psychologist (1901–1967)

Montana Taylor

American musician

Greg Rice

American long-distance runner

Thomas Yellowtail

Chief of the Crow tribe

James R. Browning

American judge (1918–2012)

John W. Cunningham

American writer

Wayne S. Vucinich

American historian (1913-2005)

Frank G. Higgins

American politician (1864-1905)

Ken Niles

Radio announcer

Vivien Spitz

American court reporter; author

Ethel Hays

American cartoonist (1892-1989)

Robert P. Mills

American magazine editor and literary agent (1920–1986)

Ray Kuka

American basketball player (1922–1990)

Audree Norton

American actress (1927-2015)

Dennis Cross

American actor (1924-1991)

Elliott Blackstone

American activist (1924-2006)

Minnie Spotted-Wolf

Native American marine

Daniel D. McCracken

American computer scientist, academic, educator and writer (1930-2011)

Ivan Doig

American author and novelist known for his seventeen fiction and nonfiction books celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West.

Wayne Hawkins

American football player (1938–2022)

Harry Franklin Vickers

American inventor and Industrialist (1898–1977)

Dolly Akers

American politician (1901–1986)

Jack Silver

American logician (1942–2016)

Kurt Markus

American photographer and cinematographer

Bern Herbolsheimer

American composer

Hank Adams

Native American activist (1943–2020)

Daniel Lewis Williams

American operatic bass

Minnie Two Shoes

Assiniboine activist and journalist

Jim Rotondi

American musician (1962–2024)

Frank Cope

American football player (1915-1990)

Sam Hunt

American politician (1942-2026)

Ed Barker

American football player (1931-2012)

Charles C. Lovell

United States federal judge

Bill Bowman

American politician

Jim B. Baker

American actor (1941-2014)

Roy Carrington Kirtland

American Army officer

Roger Grimsby

American journalist (1928-1995)

Bob Burns

American actor (1884-1957)

Rudy Autio

American artist (1926-2007)

Ted Nichols

American composer, conductor, arranger, educator, and minister of music (born 1928)

Wellington D. Rankin

American politician

David Askevold

Canadian artist (1940-2008)

M.R. Montgomery

American writer

Michael Theodore Vickery

historian and author

John Morse Haydon

Governor of American Samoa (1920–1991)

George Theodore Boileau

American priest

Claude Gordon

American trumpeter, band director, educator, lecturer, and author.

Elizabeth Lochrie

American artist (1890–1981)

Jack Cotton

Professional basketball player

Ralph Emerson

American actor