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List of people from Wisconsin

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

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.