List of Famous people born in La Crosse, United States of America
Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American convicted murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.
Scott Thorson
Scott Thorson is an American known for his relationship with and lawsuit against the entertainer Liberace. Since 2008, he has had multiple criminal convictions and has been an inmate in the Nevada Department of Corrections system since January 2014.
James Cameron
James Cameron was an American civil rights activist. In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Indiana. He also served as Indiana's State Director of the Office of Civil Liberties from 1942 to 1950.
Bronson Koenig
Bronson Koenig is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Erie BayHawks of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers. Koenig attended Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Scott Servais
Scott Daniel Servais is a manager for the Seattle Mariners.
Ford Sterling
Ford Sterling was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.
Tom Gullikson
Tom Gullikson is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and raised in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.
Robert Moevs
Robert Walter Moevs was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music.
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause.
Edwin W. Rice
Edwin Wilbur Rice, Jr. was a president and considered one of the three fathers of General Electric.