Notable People from North Dakota

Nelle Peters

American architect (1884-1974)

David Andahl

American politician (1964–2020)

John Flannagan

American sculptor (1895–1942)

Olger B. Burtness

American politician (1884-1960)

R. G. Ferguson

Canadian physician

Lee Hills

American journalist

John Sutherland

American film producer

Frederic Knudtson

American film editor (1906-1964)

C. Clayton Hoff

zoologist, ostracodologist, arachnologist

Fern Headley

American ice hockey player

Hazel Miner

North Dakota country school student who died saving her brother and sister during a March 1920 blizzard. (1904–1920)

Peter Horn Werner

Chilean German religious sculptor (1908-1969)

Iris Westman

American supercentenarian

Elinore Denniston

American author (1900–1978)

Victor Steinbrueck

American architect (1911–1985)

Harald Bredesen

American pastor (1918–2006)

Eric Brown

golfer (1925–1986)

Beverly Hanson

professional golfer

Charles W. Lindberg

United States Marine

Bruce Peterson

American test pilot

John H. Moore

American anthropologist and academic (1939–2016)

John Berkey

American artist (1932-2008)

Jack Patera

American football player and coach (1933-2018)

Neil Levang

American musician (1932-2015)

Wayne Stenehjem

American politician (1953–2022)

Ronnie Cramer

filmmaker (1957–2021)

David Anthony Kraft

American comic book writer, publisher and critic (1952–2021)

Arthur Peterson, Jr.

American actor (1912-1996)

Ralph Maxwell

Masters Athlete

Howard Brandt

American physicist (1939-2014)

Verne Booth

American athletics competitor

William Theodore Mulloy

Catholic bishop (1892-1959)

Hjalmar Carl Nygaard

American politician (1906-1963)

Gilmore Schjeldahl

American inventor (1912-2002)

Judith Beckmann

American singer and opera singer (1935–2022)

Robert Hall

an officer in the United States North Dakota Army National Guard

Francis Clyde Duffy

American politician

Frank L. Anders

U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (1875–1966)

Marilyn Jorgenson Reece

American Civil Engineer

Jud Heathcote

American basketball player and coach (1927–2017)

James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor

American judge (1886-1949)

Kermit Edward Bye

United States federal judge

Rosemarie Myrdal

American politician

Cindy Duehring

American activist (1962-1999)

Salvador Ramos

perpetrator of the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre (2004–2022)

Lyle Hanson

American politician (1935-2020)

William Jennings Gardner

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator, law-enforcement agent (1884-1965)

Corwin Hansch

American pharmacologist (1918-2011)

Pete Retzlaff

American football player (1931-2020)

Paul Johnsgard

ornithologist (1931–2021)