Biographical Records
Notable People from North Dakota
233 notable figures born in North Dakota, showing page 4 of 5, ranked by historical prominence.
Frank L. Anders
1875 - 1966
engineer
Francis Clyde Duffy
1890 - 1977
politicianlawyer
Howard Brandt
1939 - 2014
physicist
Cindy Duehring
1962 - 1999
activist
Salvador Ramos
2004 - 2022
mass murdererhigh school student
Marilyn Jorgenson Reece
1926 - 2004
civil engineerengineer
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor
1886 - 1949
lawyerjudge
Fred Hultstrand
1888 - 1968
photographer
William Jennings Gardner
1884 - 1965
American football playerbasketball coach
Kermit Edward Bye
1937 - 2021
judge
Lila Morris O'Neale
1886 - 1948
cultural anthropologistanthropologistuniversity teacher
Red Hardy
1923 - 2003
baseball player
Bob Stenehjem
1952 - 2011
politician
Doug Larsen
1976 - 2023
politicianmilitary personnelbusinessperson
Josh Christy
1981 - 2025
politician
Oscar W. Hagen
1884 - 1945
politician
Karl J. Lawrence
1901 - 1992
American football coachbaseball playerbasketball coach
John O. Simonds
1913 - 2005
landscape architect
Morgan Ford
1911 - 1992
judge
Paul Benson
1918 - 2004
military officerlawyerjudge
Ralph M. Rich
1916 - 1942
military officer
Sid Peterson
1918 - 2001
baseball player
John Kenneth Hilliard
1901 - 1989
civil engineermilitary flight engineerengineer
Herm Witasek
1913 - 1963
basketball player
Bill Christiansen
1914 - 2000
politician
Bud Marquardt
1913 - 1989
Canadian football playerAmerican football player
Agnes C. Higgins
1911 - 1985
nutritionist
Douglas H. Sillers
1915 - 2011
politicianmilitary personnelteacher
James Harvey Brown
1906 - 1995
disc jockeypoliticianjudge
Hilaire du Berrier
1906 - 2002
aircraft pilot
Einar Maynard Gunderson
1900 - 1980
bankerpolitician
Edward Kramer Thompson
1907 - 1996
publisherjournalistwriter
Leon Orris Jacobson
1911 - 1992
radiologistprimary school teacherbiochemist
Fido Purpur
1914 - 2001
ice hockey player
Doc West
1915 - 1951
jazz musicianmusiciandrummer
John Holmes Dingle
1908 - 1973
university teacher
William James Lindberg
1904 - 1981
lawyerjudge
Verne J. McCaul
1903 - 1968
military officer
Merrill Pye
1902 - 1975
production designerfilm directorart director
Mary Shaw Shorb
1907 - 1990
biochemistresearcherteacher
Tom Amberry
1922 - 2017
basketball playerpodiatrist
Lynn Nelson
1905 - 1955
baseball player
Henry Gurke
1922 - 1943
military personnel
Charles Tighe
1927 - 2004
politicianlawyer
John L. Brown
1921 - 2004
politician
Byron Langley
1926 - 2018
rancherpolitician
Harvey Sand
1927 - 2019
politician
Elwood Thorpe
1929 - 2021
politician
Jim Brandt
1929 - 2020
American football player
Joe Holland
1916 - 1992
basketball coach















