List of people from Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Artists
- William Bast, screenwriter
- Chester Biscardi, composer, director of musical arts at Yale University
- Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, film orchestrator (The Ten Commandments)
- Jeff Cesario, comedian, TV writer
- Donald Clarke, author of books on musical subjects
- Korey Cooper, backup vocalist, keyboardist, rhythm guitarist for Skillet
- John Fumo, musician with Neil Young
- Tom Goss, musician
- Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist and bandleader
- Florence Parry Heide, author
- Milt Herth, organist
- Margaret Landon, author of Anna and the King of Siam (The King and I)
- Milton K. Ozaki, author and detective novelist
- Peter Palmer, saxophonist, bandleader, songwriter (Mercury Records)
- George Pollard, portrait painter
- Thom Racina, author and screenwriter (General Hospital)
- Spike Robinson, jazz saxophonist
- Jim Rygiel, triple Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings) [1]
- Mary Sauer, principal pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1959; on the piano faculty of DePaul University for 33 years, where she was coordinator of the keyboard program[2]
- Will Schaefer, composer
- Edwin Stringham, composer, educator
- Kathie Sullivan, vocalist (The Lawrence Welk Show)
- Irving Wallace, author (The Chapman Report)
Actors/actresses and directors
- Don Ameche, actor, Academy Award-winner (Cocoon, Trading Places)
- Jim Ameche, actor (Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy)
- Thom Bierdz, actor (Murder, She Wrote
- Edward F. Cline, film director (The Bank Dick, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man)
- Scott Glenn, actor (The Silence of the Lambs, The Right Stuff, The Hunt for Red October)
- Bert I. Gordon, film director (The Food of the Gods)
- Al Molinaro, actor (Happy Days, The Odd Couple)
- Mark Ruffalo, actor (The Avengers, Now You See Me, Shutter Island, Zodiac)
- Tony Russel, film and stage actor (Hearts Are Wild)
- Rebecca Scott, model and actress, Miss August 1999 for Playboy
- Charles Siebert, actor (Trapper John, M.D.), director (Xena: Warrior Princess)
- Paul Sorensen, actor (Dance With Me, Henry)
- John Stephenson, voice actor (Flintstones)
- Concetta Tomei, actress (China Beach)
- Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill Street Blues)
- Orson Welles, producer, actor, writer, director (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, F for Fake)
Sports
- Milo Allison, MLB player
- Alan Ameche, Wisconsin and NFL football player, 1954 Heisman Trophy winner
- Ray Berres, MLB player, longtime White Sox pitching coach
- Tom Bienemann, NFL player
- Fred Borak, NFL player
- Dick Bosman, major league baseball pitcher and coach (Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox)
- Tom Braatz, NFL player and general manager
- Jeff Cohen, All-American basketball player at The College of William & Mary in 1960-61
- Frankie Conley, boxing
- Ed Corey, MLB player
- Fritz Cronin, NFL player[3]
- Press Cruthers, MLB player
- Ben Dyer, MLB player
- Gene Englund, NBL, NBA basketball player, captain of University of Wisconsin's 1941 national championship team
- Melvin Gordon, San Diego Chargers runningback
- Harvey Green, MLB player
- Jack Hammond, MLB player
- Bob Hartman, MLB player for the Milwaukee Braves and Cleveland Indians
- Ken Huxhold, NFL player
- Chuck Jaskwhich, head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team
- Chet Kozel, professional football player
- Walter Maurer, Olympic wrestling medalist
- Darlene Mickelsen, AAGPBL player for the Kenosha Comets
- Ollie O'Mara, MLB player
- Megan Oster, figure skater
- Charlie Pechous, MLB player
- Phil Pettey, NFL player
- Tom Regner, Notre Dame All-American with 1966 national championship team, NFL Houston Oilers
- Elmer Rhenstrom, NFL player[4]
- Ben Rothwell, professional mixed martial artist
- Ralph Thomas, NFL player
- Nick Van Exel, NBA player, 1998 NBA All-Star
- James Hippo Vaughn, Chicago Cubs pitcher
- Trae Waynes, Minnesota Vikings cornerback
Politicians
- Joseph F. Andrea, Wisconsin legislator
- John Martin Antaramian, Wisconsin legislator and former Kenosha mayor
- Peter W. Barca, U.S. Representative and Wisconsin legislator
- Chauncey Davis, Michigan State Representative
- C. Ernest Dewey, Wisconsin legislator
- Eugene Dorff, Wisconsin legislator and former Kenosha mayor
- Charles Durkee, U.S. Senator
- Margaret Farrow, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- Michael Frank, former Kenosha mayor
- Myron L. Gordon, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Levi Grant, Wisconsin legislator
- Orson S. Head, Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
- Daniel Hugunin, Jr., U.S. Representative from New York
- Bob Kiss, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
- Joseph Lourigan, Wisconsin legislator
- Silas Matteson, Wisconsin legislator
- John J. Maurer, Wisconsin legislator
- John G. McMynn, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction
- George Molinaro, Wisconsin legislator
- Earl D. Morton, Wisconsin legislator and jurist
- Charles H. Pfennig, Wisconsin legislator
- Lewis W. Powell, Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
- Reince Priebus, current chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Michael Pucci, Australian politician
- Joseph V. Quarles, U.S. Senator and former Kenosha mayor
- Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative
- Mathias J. Scholey, former Kenosha mayor
- Conrad Shearer, Wisconsin legislator
- Charles Sholes, former Kenosha mayor
- Rouse Simmons, Wisconsin legislator and businessman
- Zalmon G. Simmons, Wisconsin legislator, former Kenosha mayor, and businessman
- William H. Stevenson, U.S. Representative
Other
- Edward E. Ayer (1841–1927), railway supplies magnate; manuscript collector; benefactor to Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History
- Mary D. Bradford, educator, first female superintendent of a major school system in Wisconsin
- Jerry Golden, ABC reporter who was first with the John F. Kennedy assassination news
- Linda Ham, manager of the Johnson Space Center
- Michael P. Hammond, chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
- Jim Jensen, CBS news anchor and reporter
- Raymond Edward Johnson, radio actor, host of Inner Sanctum
- Samuel C. Johnson, Sr., founder, Johnson Wax
- Edward S. "Ned" Jordan, automaker (Jordan Motor Car Company), columnist ("Ned Jordan Speaks," AutoWeek) and ad writer ("Somewhere west of Laramie")
- Laura Kaeppeler, Miss Wisconsin 2011 and Miss America 2012
- Theodore H. Laban, highly decorated U.S. Army Air Forces soldier
- Frederick S. Lovell, Union Army general
- Lola J. May, mathematics educator
- Robert Bruce McCoy, United States National Guard officer
- Charles Francis McGivern, highly decorated U.S. Navy officer
- Joseph E. Meyer, herbologist and founder of the Indiana Botanic Gardens
- Charles W. Nash, automaker, Nash Motors, Nash-Kelvinator
- Michael Phillips, theater critic, Pulitzer Prize jurist
- Peter Pirsch, builder of fire equipment
- Kendra Scott, jeweler[5]
- Christopher Latham Sholes, publisher, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard
- Zalmon Gilbert Simmons II, businessman
- Charles Symmonds, U.S. Army general
- George Nelson Tremper, educator
- Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation and Free Congress Foundation; member of National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
- William J. White, industrial engineer; president of Bell & Howell Company; executive vice-president of USG Corporation Corporation
- Joseph Zimmerman, inventor of the answering machine
References
- ↑ IMDB biography
- ↑ http://www.cso.org/main.taf?erube_fh=cso&cso.submit.CSOPerfBio=1&cso.artistid=msauer
- ↑ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CronFr20.htm
- ↑ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RhenEl20.htm
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