List of people from Rochester, Minnesota
Wikimedia list article
This is a list of people who were born or lived in Rochester, Minnesota.
Arts, media and music
José Argüelles, author, artist
Dan Bakkedahl, actor, comedian
Michele Carey, actress
SungWon Cho, voice actor and YouTuber
Darius Danesh, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, film producer
Amanda Hocking, author
Judy Onofrio, artist
Johnny Pemberton, actor
Emily Sandberg, model and actress
Warren Skaaren, screenplay writer, producer
Lea Thompson, actress
John Towey, actor
Sheree J. Wilson, actress
Michael York, actor
Yung Gravy (Matt Hauri), rapper
Science and medicine
Luis Walter Alvarez, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1968
Harry Bisel, physician
Sara C. Bisel, physical anthropologist
Philip Showalter Hench, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
Edward Calvin Kendall, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
Charles Horace Mayo, physician
William James Mayo, physician
William Worrall Mayo, physician
Henry Stanley Plummer, physician
Augustus Stinchfield, physician
Michael Stuart, physician and orthopedic surgeon
Albert Szent-Györgyi, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937
Law and politics
Adolph Biermann, Minnesota state suditor
Harry Blackmun, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Walter Burdick, Minnesota farmer and legislator
Michael C. Burgess, congressman
Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years
Barbara Cegavske, secretary of state of Nevada, former Nevada legislator
Kerry Conley, Minnesota legislator and businessman
Robert Rankin Dunlap, Minnesota lawyer and legislator
John Moonan Fitzgerald, Minnesota jurist and legislator
Donald T. Franke, Minnesota jurist and legislator
Don Frerichs, Minnesota legislator and businessman
Allen John Furlow, Minnesota congressman, lawyer, and World War I veteran
Julie Anne Genter, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Gil Gutknecht, member of Congress
Stiles P. Jones, Minnesota state senator and lawyer
John R. Kaley, Minnesota state representative and businessman
Sandy Keith, lt. governor and state supreme court chief justice
Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. secretary of state and winner of Nobel Peace Prize 1929
Harold G. Krieger.
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