List of people from Wisconsin

This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The person's hometown is in parentheses.

State flag of Wisconsin
Location of Wisconsin on the U.S. map

Art and literature

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A–G
 
Alter Esselin
 
E. Gary Gygax
H–O
 
Ron Kovic
 
Georgia O'Keeffe
P–Z
 
Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
Frank Lloyd Wright

Business

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Carol Bartz
 
Edward L. Doheny
 
King C. Gillette
 
William S. Harley

Brewing

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Education

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A. Starker Leopold
 
Luna Leopold
 
Margarethe Schurz

Entertainment

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Film and theatre

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Don Ameche
 
Willem Dafoe
 
Heather Graham
 
Harry Houdini
 
Fredric March
 
Pat O'Brien
 
Mark Ruffalo
 
Spencer Tracy
 
Orson Welles
A–M
N–Z

Television

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Kristin Bauer van Straten
 
Gary Burghoff
 
Tyne Daly
 
Kurtwood Smith
 
Bradley Whitford
A–M
  • Agnes Moorehead (1900–1974), actress, radio, stage, film, television (Reedsburg)
N–Z

Comedy

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Music

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History

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George Mosse

Military

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Fred Ascani
 
Richard Bong
A–B
C–E
F–I
 
James H. Flatley
 
Amos Fries
 
Albert W. Grant
J–L
 
Jay L. Johnson
 
James Benjamin Lampert
 
William D. Leahy
M–O
 
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
 
Douglas MacArthur
 
Charles C. McDonald
 
Billy Mitchell
 
Marc Mitscher
P–S
T–Z
 
Nathan Farragut Twining
 
Hoyt Vandenberg
 
Elmo Zumwalt

Nobel laureates

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John Bardeen

Politics and activism

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Les Aspin
A–B
C–E
 
Paul Clement
 
Wilbur J. Cohen
 
Charles G. Dawes
 
Lawrence Eagleburger
F–I
 
Russ Feingold
 
Timothy O. Howe
J–L
 
Herb Kohl
 
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
 
Mel Laird
 
Richard D. Lamm
M–O
 
Joseph McCarthy
 
Golda Meir
 
Gaylord Nelson
P–S
 
Steve Preston
 
Reince Priebus
 
William Rehnquist
 
Jeremiah McLain Rusk
 
Carl Schurz
T–Z
 
Tommy Thompson
 
William Freeman Vilas

Religion

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Stuart E. Barstad
 
Raymond Leo Burke
 
Franz Pieper

Science, including medicine

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Roy Chapman Andrews
 
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
 
John Benjamin Murphy

Space exploration

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Jim Lovell

Sports

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Ken Behring
 
Pat Bowlen
 
Caron Butler
 
Eddie Cochems
 
Sandy Cohen
 
Abner Dalrymple
 
Doug Free
 
Garrett Weber-Gale
 
Eric Heiden
 
Eric Hinske
 
Elroy Hirsch
 
Ed Hochuli
 
Mark Johnson
 
Addie Joss
 
Matt Kenseth
 
Phil Kessel
 
Curly Lambeau
 
Carl Landry
 
Alphonse Leemans
 
Craig Ludwig
 
Rick Neuheisel
 
Kid Nichols
 
Danica Patrick
 
Ben Peterson
 
Terry Porter
 
Tony Romo
 
Pants Rowland
 
Lindsay Tarpley
 
Joe Thomas
 
J. J. Watt
 
T. J. Watt
 
Bob Wickman
 
Jamil Wilson
A–B
C–E
F–G
H–J
K–L
M–O
P–R
S–T
U–Z

Notorious and infamous Wisconsinites

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Bernadine Dohrn
 
Charles J. Guiteau

Fictional characters

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Paul Bunyan

See also

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By educational institution affiliation
By location

References

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  1. ^ Walter B. Wriston Archives, Biography
  2. ^ US Department of State (1950). Register.