Notable People from Wisconsin

David Sturtevant Ruder

American lawyer

Bob Carpenter

American basketball player (1917–1997)

Cy Howard

American screenwriter and film producer (1915-1993)

Helen Boatwright

American soprano singer (1916–2010)

Juan Conway McNabb

First bishop of the Diocese of Chulucanas in the Piura Region of Peru (1925-2016)

Raphael Michael Fliss

Catholic bishop (1930–2015)

John E. Murdoch

American philosopher of science (1927–2010)

Frank Zeidler

American politician (1912-2006)

Glen Selbo

American basketball player (1926–1995)

John Friend Mahoney

American physician

William M. Treloar

American politician (1850-1935)

Eugene Loring

American dancer and choreographer (1911-1982)

Freddie Slack

American musician

Ted Kirkpatrick

American musician (1960–2022)

Eugene W. Chafin

American politician (1852–1920)

John Hammill

American politician (1875-1936)

Lyman E. Barnes

American politician (1855-1904)

Stan Fox

American racing driver (1952–2000)

Howie Epstein

American musician (1955–2003)

Gilbert Morgan Smith

American botanist (1885-1959)

Ethel Wright

American actress (1884-1958)

Michael Burks

American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (1957–2012)

Scott Thorson

American showman (1959–2024)

Marvin Panch

American racing driver (1926–2015)

Doris Deane

American actress (1900–1974)

Newton N. Minow

United States attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

Lynne Cohen

Canadian and American photographer (1944-2014)

Clifford E. Randall

American politician (1876-1934)

William Whipple Warren

historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory

Ward Christensen

computer pioneer, invented Xmodem and co-invented BBS

Elizabeth Peckham

American teacher, taxonomist, ethologist, arachnologist, and entomologist

Ned R. Healy

American politician (1905-1977)

Charles Gunn

American actor (1883-1918)

Charles N. Herreid

American politician (1857–1928)

John Myhers

actor (1921-1992)

Ed Garvey

American lawyer, labor leader, NFLPA executive director

Anthony Cekada

American priest (1951-2020)

Hildegarde

American singer (1906–2005)

Rita Gross

American theologian (1943–2015)

Theodore L. Brown

American scientist known for research, teaching, and writing in the field of physical inorganic chemistry, a university administrator, and a philosopher of science

Lionel Dahmer

American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer

James J. Lindsay

United States general (1932–2023)

J. A. O. Preus I

American politician (1883-1961)

Isadore Perlman

American nuclear chemist (1915–1991)

George Washington Blanchard

American politician (1884-1964)

Robert J. Havighurst

American chemist, physicist, and expert on human development and aging (1900–1991)

William Tubbs

American actor (1907-1953)

Oscar Rennebohm

American politician (1889–1968)

Red Dunn

American football player (1901-1957)

Castello Newton Holford

American novelist