List of Famous people born in Minnesota, United States of America

Michael Cole "Mike" Jensen is an American economist who works in the area of financial economics. Between 2000 and 2009 he worked for the Monitor Company Group, a strategy-consulting firm which became "Monitor Deloitte" in 2013. He holds the position of Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Nick Schenk is an American screenwriter, known for writing Gran Torino in 2008 for which he won Best Original Screenplay from the National Board of Review.

Jessica Livingston is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She also organizes Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University. She is a 1989 graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover.

Marguerite De La Motte was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.

Thomas Michael O'Neil is an American physicist who specializes in plasma physics.

Anthony Richard Denman is an American actor.

Dorothy Lyman is an American television actress, director and producer. She is most known for her work as Gwen Frame on Another World and on All My Children as Opal Sue Gardner, as Rebecca Whitmore on Generations, and on the sitcom Mama's Family as Naomi Harper.

John Monk Saunders was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.

Duane Gene "Digger" Carey is a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut.