List of Famous people born in Minnesota, United States of America
Scott Steindorff
Robert Scott Steindorff is an American film and television producer who specializes in adapting literary bestsellers into movies.
Paul Willson
Paul Lee Willson is an American actor, most notable for his television work. He was born in Fairmont, Minnesota, the son of Doris Geraldine and Lee Wilford Willson.
Phil Johnston
Philip Johnston is an American screenwriter, director, film producer, and voice actor best known for writing the screenplay for Walt Disney Animation Studios' Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and Zootopia (2016). He returned as the writer for the Wreck-It Ralph sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) and as co-director of the film alongside Rich Moore.
John Zdechlik
John Zdechlik was an American composer, music teacher, and conductor. Zdechlik was elected to the American Bandmasters Association and many of his compositions became standard concert band repertoire, including Chorale and Shaker Dance.
John Farquhar Fulton
John Farquhar Fulton was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. His main contributions were in primate neurophysiology and history of science.
Maria Lamb
Maria Lamb is an Olympic speed skater from River Falls, Wisconsin, who competed in 1500 m and the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She was also selected to compete in the 5000 m for the US at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
Lisa Cohen
Stephen E. Rivkin
Stephen Elliott Rivkin is an American film editor best known for his editing work on the Pirates of the Caribbean film series as well as his work with director James Cameron as an editor on Avatar, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Rivkin has edited three films for director Norman Jewison as well as has worked extensively with director Gore Verbinski. Stephen Rivkin is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors and currently serves as the President of the organization. He was also associate producer on two films.
Nathan Anderson
Matt Leacock
Matt Leacock is an American board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert.