Aaron, Hank - Baseball hall-of-famer (Milwaukee Braves, Eau Claire Bears)
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem - Basketball hall-of-famer, Milwaukee Bucks.
Abrahams, Jim - Director
Alaimo, Marc - Actor
Allen, Carl - Drummer
Ambrose, Stephen - Historian, earned his Ph.D. from UW-Madison.
Ameche, Don - Actor
Ames, Aldrich - Traitor
Anderson, ken - Professional wrestler
Andrews, Roy Chapman - Naturalist
Aspin, Les - Congressman and Secretary of Defense
Bardeen, John - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Barrett, Thomas - Congressman and Mayor of Milwaukee
Behring, Ken - Former Seattle Seahawks owner
Bembenek, Lawrencia - Convicted murderer
Benet, Eric - R&B singer; was married to Halle Berry
Bennett, Michael - Football player
Bentley, Lamont - Actor
Berigan, Bunny - Musician
Blaine, John J. - Governor and U.S. Senator
BoDeans - Rock Group
Bon Iver - Rock Group
Bong, Richard - World War II pilot
Bradley, John - Iwo Jima flag-raiser. Born in Antigo, raised in Appleton.
Bremer, Arthur - Would-be assassin of George Wallace
Bryant, Felice - Songwriter
Butler, Caron - Basketball player
Butler, Leroy - Football player (Green Bay Packers)
Caliendo, Frank - Comedian
Catt, Carrie Chapman - Feminist
Cheney, Dick - The 46th U.S. Vice President studied at UW Madison.
Chiao, Leroy - Astronaut
Clark, Laurel - Astronaut from Racine. Dr. Clark died in the space shuttle Columbia disaster February 2003.
Commodore, Chester - Cartoonist
Corby, Ellen - Actress
Cray, Seymour - Computer designer
Cudahy, John - Industrialist
Cudahy, Michael - Entrepreneur
Cudahy, Patrick - Philanthropist
Dafoe, Willem - Actor
Dahmer, Jeffrey - Serial killer
Daly, Tyne - Actress
Derleth, August - Writer
Dixon, Jeane - Psychic
Dohrn, Bernardine - Activist
Duffy, Ryan F. - U.S. Senator
Eagleburger, Lawrence - Secretary of State
Farley, Chris - Comedian, actor
Favre, Brett - Former Green Bay Packer Quarterback (4)
Feingold, Russ - U.S. Senator from Middleton
Fiala, Art - World War I
Gale, Zona - Writer
Garbage - Rock Group
Garland, Hamlin - Novelist, biographer, writer and poet
Gein, Ed - Killer and body snatcher whose crime influenced characters in
Psycho and
The Silence of the Lambs.
Gillette, King C. - Industrialist
Graffin, Greg - Singer
Graham, Heather - Actress
Gullikson, Tim - Tennis player
Hall, Deidre - Actress
Harris, Devin - Basketball player
Hasenfus, Eugene - CIA cargo handler
Heiden, Beth - Speedskater and cyclist
Heiden, Eric - Athlete
Herber, Arnie - Football player
Herman, Woody - Musician
Hildegarde - Cabaret singer
Hirsch, Elroy - Athlete
Hulce, Tom - Actor
Husting, Paul O. - U.S. Senator
Jansen, Dan - Speedskater
Jarreau, Al - Award winning jazz singer
Kaczmarek, Jane - Actress; Malcolm in the Middle.
Kaelin, Kato - O.J.'s houseguest
Kasten, Bob - U.S. Senator
Katz, Phil - Computer programmer
Kazmaier, Bill - Powerlifter
Kennan, George F. - Diplomat
Kenseth, Matt - NASCAR driver
King, Pee Wee - Musician
Kinney, Kathy - Actress
Knipfel, Jim - Writer
Kohl, Herb - U.S. Senator and sports-franchise owner
Kohler, Herbert - Business executive
Kovic, Ron - Writer
Kuenn, Harvey - Baseball player and manager
Kulwicki, Alan - NASCAR driver
La Follette, Robert M. Sr. - Congressman, Governor and U.S. Senator
La Follette, Robert M. Jr. - U.S. Senator
Laird, Melvin - Congressman and Secretary of Defense
Lambeau, Curly - Football player and coach
Landis, Carole - Actor
Lee, Mark C. - Astronaut
Lenroot, Irvine - U.S. Senator
Liberace - Musician
Loomis, Orland Steen - Governor-elect of Wisconsin
Losey, Joseph - Director
Lovell, Jim - Astronaut Apollo 8, Apollo 11, Apollo 13
Ludden, Allen - Gameshow host
Lunt, Alfred - Actor
March, Fredric - Actor
Mason, Jackie - Comedian
McCarthy, Joseph - U.S. Senator
Menard, John - Business Executive
Miller, Steve - Musician
Mitchell, Billy - U.S. general, aviation
Mitchell, John - Congressman, U.S. Senator
Mitscher, Marc - World War II admiral
Muir, John - Environmentalist
Murphy, Bridey - Alleged previous life
Nelson, Gaylord - Governor, U.S. Senator, Earth Day founder. Born in Clear Lake.
North, Jessica Nelson - writer
North, Sterling - Writer
Noth, Chris - Actor
O'Brien, Pat - Actor
O'Keeffe, Georgia - Artist
Pabst, Frederick - Brewing magnate of Pabst Brewing Company.
Paul, Les - Musician, guitar inventor
Pietz, Amy - Actress
Pilson, Jeff - Musician
Poage, George - Athlete
Quarles, Joseph V. - U.S. Senator
Rae, Charlotte - Actress
Raskin, Ellen - Writer and illustrator
Ray, Nicholas - Director
Redcloud, Mitchell - Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
Rehnquist, William - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (Shorewood)
Richards, William A. - Wyoming Governor
Rowland, Pants - Baseball manager
Rowlands, Gena - Actor
Ruffalo, Mark - Actor
Rock, Andrew - Track
Schickel, Richard - Critic
Selig, Bud - Baseball Commissioner
Shalhoub, Tony - Actor TV's "Monk"
Simak, Clifford D. - Writer
Simon, Herbert - Economist and computer scientist
Slayton, Deke - Astronaut
Smith, Kurtwood - Red Forman on "That '70s Show"
Snyder, Tom - Talkshow host
Sprewell, Latrell - Basketball player
Stecker, Aaron - Football player
Stubblefield, Clyde - Drummer
Stuermer, Daryl - Guitarist
Stupak, Bart - Michigan Congressman
Szmanda, Eric - Actor
Tauscher, Mark - Football player
Thompson, Tommy - Governor and U.S. Health Secretary
Toland, John - Writer
Tracy, Spencer - Actor
Trickle, Dick - Racecar Driver
Twining, Nathan Farragut - U.S. Air Force general
Tyler, Judy - Actress
Uecker, Bob - Actor and sports commentator
Vandenberg, Hoyt - U.S. Air Force general
Van Exel, Nick - Basketball player
Van Susteren, Greta - FOX News Commentator
Veblen, Thorstein - Sociologist and economist
Vig, Butch - Musician and producer
Violent Femmes - Rock Group
Webster, Mike - Football player
Welles, Orson - Director
Weyrich, Paul - Commentator
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - Writer and poet
Whitford, Bradley - Actor
Wickman, Bob - Baseball player
Wiedlin, Jane - Musician
Wilder, Gene - Actor
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - Writer
Wilder, Thornton - Writer
Wiley, Alexander - U.S. Senator
Williams, Jeffrey - Astronaut from Winter, Wisconsin.
Winfrey, Oprah - Talk show host
Wopat, Tom - Actor
Wright, Frank Lloyd - Architect
Zucker, David - Director
Zucker, Jerry - Director
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