• Source: List of people from Minneapolis

The following list mentions notable people who were born in or lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States, and gained recognition.




Academia


Sumner McKnight Crosby - art historian and professor of art history at Yale University




Activists



Dennis Banks - Native American leader
Clyde Bellecourt - Native American leader
Sharon Sayles Belton - politician
Brian Coyle - gay rights activist
W. Harry Davis - civil rights activist
Paulette Fink - French-born Jewish activist
Catharine MacKinnon - lawyer and teacher
Cecil Newman - publisher, Urban League president
Sean Sherman - indigenous foods activist
Amy Robbins Ware - peace activist
Theodore Wirth - planned the city's park system




Artists



Mary Abbott - artist
Barkhad Abdi - actor
Corey Adam - stand-up comedian
Faysal Ahmed - actor
Eddie Albert - actor
Ernest Dewey Albinson - artist
Richard Dean Anderson - actor
The Andrews Sisters - singers
Siah Armajani - sculptor and architect
James Arness - actor
Leslie Barlow - visual artist, painting, drawing, mixed media
Jason Behr - actor
Beatrice Gjertsen Bessesen - operatic soprano
Robert Bly - poet
Steven Brust - novelist
Hazel Buckham - actress
Mo Collins - actress and comedian
Louise Erdrich - novelist
Craig Finn - singer/songwriter
Suzanne Finstad, author
Alice Frost - actress, radio star
Larry Gates - actor
Terry Gilliam - director and member of Monty Python
Peter Graves - actor
Daniel Grodnik - writer/movie producer
Molly Hagan - actress
Carol M. Highsmith - photographer
George Roy Hill - director
James Hong - actor
Dakota Dave Hull - musician
Mason Jennings - musician
Dory Kahalé - electronic musician and DJ
Linda Kelsey - actress
Ward Kimball - Walt Disney animator
T. R. Knight - actor
June Lang - actress
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - musicians
Maud Hart Lovelace - author
Carl Lumbly - actor
Dorothy Lyman - actress, director, producer
Cornell MacNeil - of the Metropolitan Opera
Ralph Meeker - actor
Michael J. Nelson - comedian
Ade Olufeko - digital artist
George Morrison - artist
Alex Pareene, editor-in-chief of Gawker
Westbrook Pegler - journalist
Prince - musician
Art Resnick - jazz pianist
Randy Resnick - musician
Prof - musician
Charles M. Schulz - creator of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang
Lili St. Cyr - stripper
Brian Setzer - Stray Cats
Clifford D. Simak - author
Alfred Skrenda - illustrator
Jack Smight - filmmaker
Alec Soth - photographer
Norman Spencer - musician
Curt Swan - cartoonist, pencil artist of Superman for D.C. Comics from 1940s to 1980s
Nick Swardson - actor, comedian
Bruce Swedien - Grammy Award-winning audio engineer and music producer; known for his work with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson
John Szarkowski - photographer, curator, critic
Maria Cristina Tavera - artist
Tiny Tim - TV personality
Michael Todd - producer
The Jets, band
Anne Tyler - novelist
Gerald Vizenor - author
Paul Westerberg - musician
Dan Wilson - musician
Lizz Winstead - comedian, co-creator of The Daily Show




Business




Curt Carlson - founder of Carlson Companies
George Dayton - founder of Target Corporation
William Hood Dunwoody - businessman and co-founder General Mills and Wells Fargo
J. Paul Getty - founder of Getty Oil
Doron Jensen - co-founder of Timber Lodge Steakhouse and Old Country Buffet
Franklin and Forrest Mars - founders of Mars, Incorporated
Steve McClellan - general manager of First Avenue
Peter Najarian - options trader and television personality
John S. Pillsbury - co-founder of Pillsbury Company
Elizabeth Augusta Russell - philanthropist, reformer, restaurateur
Richard Sears - co-founder of Sears
Rose Totino - co-founder of Totino's frozen pizza




Government


Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman - politician and judge, former Minister of Defence of Somalia (1989–1990)
George Edwin Anderson - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Marvin Harold Anderson - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
John R. Arlandson - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
Samuel H. Bellman, Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
Thomas K. Berg - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
Alfred L. Bergerud - Minnesota state legislator, businessman, and lawyer
LeRoy Earl Brophey Sr. - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
Margaret Mary Byrne - Minnesota state legislator
Walter H. Campbell - Minnesota state legislator, businessman, and lawyer
James R. Casserly - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
George C. Dahlvang - Minnesota state representative
John Cheatham - firefighter
Mark Dayton - Governor of Minnesota
Calvin Deming - Minnesota state representative
Philip S. Duff - Minnesota state senator and newspaper editor
Keith Ellison - Minnesota Attorney General, former member of the United States House of Representatives (2003-2019)
William S. Ervin - former Minnesota Attorney General
Douglas Ewald - consultant and Minnesota state representative
George A. French - lawyer and Minnesota state representative
Paul Willis Guilford - Minnesota state legislator, lawyer, and judge
Carl G. Hagland - labor activist and Minnesota state representative
Harold Harrison - businessman and Minnesota state legislator
Andrew Osborne Hayfield - businessman and Minnesota state representative
Hubert Humphrey - U.S. Vice President
Robert C. Jensen - Minnesota state legislator and farmer
Raymond J. Julkowski - Minnesota state representative and lawyer
Harold Kalina - Minnesota state senator and judge
Stephen Keefe - Minnesota state senator and chemist
Burton L. Kingsley - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Herman J. Kording- Minnesota state legislator and farmer
Adolph Kvam - Minnesota state representative and businessman
Bob Latz - Minnesota state representative and lawyer
Ron Latz - Minnesota state senator and lawyer
John George Lennon - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Leonard E. Lindquist - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
Carl L. Lyse - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Robert George Marshall - Minnesota state senator and businessman
Eugene McCarthy - U.S. Senator
Walter Mondale - U.S. Vice President
Gerald T. Mullin - Minnesota state legislator, businessman, and lawyer
George E. Murk - Minnesota state representative
Dennis Newinski - Minnesota state representative and machinist
Lauris Norstad - Supreme Commander Europe NATO (The 2nd highest rank by prominence in NATO)
Harmon T. Ogdahl - Minnesota state senator and businessman
Alan Page - Minnesota Supreme Court justice; former NFL defensive lineman and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
Wilber L. Paulson - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Donna C. Peterson - Minnesota state legislator and educator
Eric D. Petty - Minnesota state senator and businessman
Bradley G. Pieper - Minnesota state representative
Jim Rice - Minnesota state representative
Charles W. Root - lawyer and politician
Herman W. Sachtjen - member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and jurist
Donald Savelkoul - lawyer and politician
David D. Schaaf - Minnesota state senator and florist
John Day Smith - Minnesota state legislator, judge, and lawyer
Clifford C. Sommer - Minnesota state senator and businessman
James C. Swanson - Minnesota state legislator and educator
Samuel R. Thayer - ambassador to the Netherlands in the Benjamin Harrison administration
Jesse Ventura - former professional wrestler, actor, and Governor of Minnesota
Carl O. Wegner - lawyer and politician
Vernon S. Welch - Minnesota state representative and lawyer
Frank E. Wheelock - a founder and first mayor of Lubbock, Texas, reared in Minneapolis
Bruce D. Williamson - Minnesota state representative
Edwin M. Wold - Minnesota state representative
Kenneth W. Wolfe - Minnesota state senator

























Military


Pete Hegseth, television presenter, author, Minnesota National Guard officer, and nominee for United States Secretary of Defense
Harold Palmer Howard, U.S. Army brigadier general




Science



Peter Agre - physician, biologist, Nobel Laureate
Cynthia Ahearn (1952-2008) - echinodermologist and museum specialist
Earl Bakken - engineer, philanthropist
Norman Borlaug - agronomist
Paul D. Boyer - chemist, Nobel Laureate
Ian Coldwater - computer security specialist
David E. Garfin - biophysicist
Robert R. Gilruth - directed the U.S. Moon landing
Leonid Hurwicz - economist, academician
Finn E. Kydland - economist
Edward B. Lewis - geneticist, Nobel Prize Winner
C. Walton Lillehei - surgeon, open-heart pioneer, Recipient of Bronze Star Medal and Order of Health Merit Jose Fernandez Madrid
Marcia McNutt - president National Academy of Sciences
Bradford Parkinson - father of the Global Positioning System
Jeannette Piccard - pioneer of balloonists
Edward C. Prescott - economist, Nobel Prize
John Tate - mathematician




Sports


Andrew Alberts - National Hockey League player
Russ Anderson - National Hockey League player
Sacar Anim (born 1997) - basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Nate Augspurger - rugby player
David Backes - National Hockey League player
Rachel Banham - professional basketball player
Garrett Bender - rugby union player
Casey Borer - National Hockey League player
Rebekkah Brunson - basketball player and coach
Dustin Byfuglien - National Hockey League player
Dominique Byrd - professional football player
Geno Crandall - basketball player with Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Cully Dahlstrom - National Hockey League player
Birdie Draper - parachutist and stunt performer
Joe Dziedzic - National Hockey League player
Chad Erickson - National Hockey League player
Larry Fitzgerald - professional football player
Rusty Fitzgerald - National Hockey League player
Jake Gardiner - National Hockey League player
Gabriele Grunewald - professional runner
Brad Hand - Major League Baseball pitcher
Joe Hennig - professional wrestler
Kent Hrbek - Major League Baseball player
Janet Jamieson - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Tom Kurvers - National Hockey League player
Reed Larson - National Hockey League player
Brock Lesnar - professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Ryan Lindgren - National Hockey League player
Dave Menne - mixed martial artist
Brock Nelson - National Hockey League player
Zach Parise - National Hockey League player
Nick Perbix - National Hockey League player
Paul Sather - college men's basketball coach
Kyle Shanahan - football coach
Jalen Suggs - Orlando Magic PG / SG
Terrell Suggs - Kansas City Chiefs defensive end / linebacker
Matt Tennyson - National Hockey League player
John Thomas (born 1975) - basketball player
Hal Trumble - ice hockey administrator and referee
Lyle Wright - businessman, events promoter, United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductee




See also



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