List of Famous people born in Minnesota, United States of America
Joseph Votel
Joseph Leonard Votel is a retired four-star general in the United States Army who was commander of United States Central Command from March 2016 to March 2019. Before that, he served as commander of the United States Special Operations Command.
Gale Hansen
Gale Hansen is an American film and television actor best known for playing Charlie Dalton in Dead Poets Society. He now works as a film executive.
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe.
Billy Turner
William Mason Turner is an American football offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Dakota State.
Mark Webber
Mark Allen Webber is an American actor, screenwriter, and director known for his roles in the films Snow Day, Weapons, The Laramie Project, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Breckin Meyer
Breckin Erin Meyer is an American actor, voice actor, writer, producer, and drummer, known for his roles in films such as Clueless, Road Trip, Rat Race, and Garfield: The Movie, for providing voices for the television series Robot Chicken and for playing Joseph Gribble in King of The Hill (2000–2010).
Robert Brant
Robert Brant is an American professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of November 2020, he is ranked as the world's sixth best active middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, eleventh by BoxRec and eighth by The Ring magazine.
Jacob Appelbaum
Jacob Appelbaum is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. He studies at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and was formerly a core member of the Tor project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity. Appelbaum is also known for representing WikiLeaks. He has displayed his art in a number of institutions across the world and has collaborated with artists such as Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Ai Weiwei. His journalistic work has been published in Der Spiegel and elsewhere. Appelbaum has repeatedly been targeted by U.S. law enforcement agencies, who obtained a court order for his Twitter account data, detained him at the U.S. border after trips abroad, and seized his laptop and several mobile phones.
Bill Gullickson
William Lee Gullickson is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played professionally in Canada, the U.S. and Japan, during an 18-year professional career, of which 14 seasons were spent in MLB.
Charlie Lindgren
Charlie Lindgren is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).