List of Famous people born in Wisconsin, United States of America
Tyne Daly
Ellen Tyne Daly is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
Mike Winkelmann
Michael Joseph Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple, is an American digital artist, graphic designer, and animator. He is known for using various mediums in creating comical, phantasmagoric works that make political and social commentary while using pop culture figures as references. British auction house Christie's has called him "A visionary digital artist at the forefront of NFTs". Everydays: the First 5000 Days, a collage of images from his "Everydays" series, sold for $69,400,000 on March 12, 2021, making it the fourth most expensive artwork by a living artist. It is the first purely non-fungible token to be sold by Christie's. The auction house had previously sold Block 21, an NFT with accompanying physical painting for approximately $130,000 in October 2020.
Kris Kobach
Kris William Kobach is an American politician who served as the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas. A former Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, Kobach came to national prominence over his hardline anti-immigration views, including involvement in the implementation of high-profile anti-immigration ordinances in various American cities. Kobach is also known for his calls for stronger voter ID laws in the United States, a national registry of Muslims in the United States, and his advocacy for anti-abortion legislation. He has made claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States that studies and fact-checkers have concluded are false or unsubstantiated.
Nate Oats
Nathanael J. Oats is an American basketball coach, currently the head basketball coach at the University of Alabama. Prior to Alabama he was the head coach at the University at Buffalo.
Mary Brunner
Mary Theresa Brunner was a member of the "Manson Family" who was present during the 1969 murder of Gary Allen Hinman, a California musician and Ph.D. candidate. She was arrested for numerous offenses, including credit card theft and armed robbery, and she served a prison sentence at the California Institution for Women.
Cole Caufield
Cole Caufield is an American collegiate ice hockey forward for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Big Ten Conference (B1G). Caufield was drafted 15th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
Kevon Looney
Kevon Grant Looney is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a freshman playing college basketball with the UCLA Bruins, he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 in 2014–15. After the season, he decided to forgo his college eligibility and enter the 2015 NBA draft, and was subsequently selected in the first round by Golden State with the 30th overall pick. He won consecutive NBA championships with the Warriors in 2017 and 2018.
Otis Dozovic "El Chotis"
Nikola "Niko" Bogojevic is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Otis.
Mitzi Shore
Mitzi Shore was an American comedy club owner. Her husband, Sammy Shore, co-founded The Comedy Store in Los Angeles in 1972 and Mitzi became owner two years later. Through the club, she had a huge influence on the careers of up-and-coming comedians for decades.
Sam Alvey
Sam Alvey is an American professional mixed martial artist, currently competing in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Alvey has also formerly competed for Bellator, King of the Cage, the MFC, and was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson.