Notable People from Montana

Ethel Hays

American cartoonist (1892-1989)

Montana Taylor

American musician

Greg Rice

American long-distance runner

Ken Niles

Radio announcer

Frank Cope

American football player (1915-1990)

Jim Rotondi

American musician (1962–2024)

Thomas Yellowtail

Chief of the Crow tribe

Minnie Spotted-Wolf

Native American marine

Robert P. Mills

American magazine editor and literary agent (1920–1986)

Elliott Blackstone

American activist (1924-2006)

Dennis Cross

American actor (1924-1991)

Audree Norton

American actress (1927-2015)

Ray Kuka

American basketball player (1922–1990)

Wayne S. Vucinich

American historian (1913-2005)

Minnie Two Shoes

Assiniboine activist and journalist

Daniel Lewis Williams

American operatic bass

Hank Adams

Native American activist (1943–2020)

Dolly Akers

American politician (1901–1986)

Bern Herbolsheimer

American composer

Harry Franklin Vickers

American inventor and Industrialist (1898–1977)

Kurt Markus

American photographer and cinematographer

Jack Silver

American logician (1942–2016)

James R. Browning

American judge (1918–2012)

Raymond P. Ahlquist

American pharmacist and pharmacologist

Wayne Hawkins

American football player (1938–2022)

Vivien Spitz

American court reporter; author

John W. Cunningham

American writer

Frank G. Higgins

American politician (1864-1905)

Robert Tryon

behavioral psychologist (1901–1967)

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.

Claude Gordon

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

Walter C. Brown

U.S. herpetologist (1913–2002)

Haila Stoddard

American actress, director, playwright (1913-2011)

Hubert Zemke

American World War II officer (1914–1994)

George Theodore Boileau

American priest

George Lynch

American racing driver (1918–1997)

John Louis Clarke

American artist

William Cumming

American artist (1917-2010)

Jennifer Servo

American journalist (1979-2002)

Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr.

American numismatist (1929–2018)

Bill Ray

American politician

Fred F. Willson

American architect (1877–1956)

Eugene K. Bird

American prison warden (1926–2005)

Mary Bard

American writer

John Morse Haydon

Governor of American Samoa (1920–1991)

Jack Cotton

Professional basketball player

Charles C. Lovell

United States federal judge

Bob Burns

American actor (1884-1957)

Jack Vaughn

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1920-2012)

William R. Allen

American politician (1871-1953)