Notable People from Wisconsin

Helen Boatwright

American soprano singer (1916–2010)

Earl F. Ziemke

American historian

David Adler

American architect (1882-1949)

Donald Hornig

American chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor (1920-2013)

David Sturtevant Ruder

American lawyer

Cy Howard

American screenwriter and film producer (1915-1993)

Connie Clausen

American actress, author, literacy agent and spokesperson (1923-1997)

Raphael Michael Fliss

Catholic bishop (1930–2015)

William Whipple Warren

historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory

Eugene Loring

American dancer and choreographer (1911-1982)

Frank Zeidler

American politician (1912-2006)

William M. Treloar

American politician (1850-1935)

Glen Selbo

American basketball player (1926–1995)

Kenneth Goff

American minister

John E. Murdoch

American philosopher of science (1927–2010)

Peter Palmer

American actor (1931–2021)

Eugene W. Chafin

American politician (1852–1920)

John Friend Mahoney

American physician

Juan Conway McNabb

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

Lyman E. Barnes

American politician (1855-1904)

Ted Kirkpatrick

American musician (1960–2022)

John Hammill

American politician (1875-1936)

Anthony Cekada

American priest (1951-2020)

Ethel Wright

American actress (1884-1958)

Howie Epstein

American musician (1955–2003)

Stan Fox

American racing driver (1952–2000)

Marvin Panch

American racing driver (1926–2015)

Doris Deane

American actress (1900–1974)

Donald Edgar Tewes

American politician (1916-2012)

Gilbert Morgan Smith

American botanist (1885-1959)

Scott Thorson

American showman (1959–2024)

Clifford E. Randall

American politician (1876-1934)

Ned R. Healy

American politician (1905-1977)

John Myhers

actor (1921-1992)

Newton N. Minow

United States attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

Lynne Cohen

Canadian and American photographer (1944-2014)

Charles N. Herreid

American politician (1857–1928)

Charles Gunn

American actor (1883-1918)

Ed Garvey

American lawyer, labor leader, NFLPA executive director

Michael Burks

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

Elizabeth Peckham

American teacher, taxonomist, ethologist, arachnologist, and entomologist

Ward Christensen

computer pioneer, invented Xmodem and co-invented BBS

Paul Weyrich

American political activist (1942–2008)

Castello Newton Holford

American novelist

Red Dunn

American football player (1901-1957)

J. A. O. Preus I

American politician (1883-1961)

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

Robert J. Havighurst

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

Alonzo Cushing

Union Army soldier (1841-1863)