List of Famous people born in Wisconsin, United States of America
Jeana Keough
Jeana Keough is an American television personality. Keough graduated from Whitnall High School located in Greenfield, Wisconsin in 1972. When she was younger, she worked as a model and actress, including as one of the three beautiful muses in the ZZ Top music videos "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Gimme All Your Lovin" . She was also the Playboy Magazine Playmate of the Month in November 1980.
Caron Butler
James Caron Butler is an American retired professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). During a 14-year career he played for the Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Detroit Pistons, and Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Butler is a two-time NBA All-Star and was the 2002 Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, while playing for the Connecticut Huskies.
Joseph E. Schmitz
Joseph Edward Schmitz is an American lawyer, former inspector general of the United States Department of Defense and a former executive with Blackwater Worldwide. After working as a watchdog at the Pentagon for three and a half years, Schmitz resigned to return to the private sector. Although allegations questioning his stewardship of the inspector general's office surfaced nine months after his resignation, a high-level review board, the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, cleared him of all wrongdoing in 2006. He was named one of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisors for his 2016 presidential campaign.
Ruth Shalit
Ruth Shalit, also known as Ruth S. Barrett, is an American freelance writer and journalist. In 1999 she was dismissed from The New Republic following claims of plagiarism and inaccuracy.
Jared Abbrederis
Jared Ryan Abbrederis is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Wisconsin and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He was also a member of the Detroit Lions.
Tom Mullica
Thomas Blaine Mullica was an American comedy magician and impressionist who performed on television specials and appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, The World's Greatest Magic, Viva Variety and Penn & Teller's Sin City.
Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel is the drag persona of Brian Michael Firkus, an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, comedian, author, actor, and television personality from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mattel is best known for being the winner of the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars and for placing sixth on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed her fourth on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former Drag Race contestants.
Sarayu Rao
Sarayu Rao, also known as Sarayu R. Blue, is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Angela on the Fox sitcom Sons of Tucson, as well as Dr. Sydney Napur on David E. Kelley's Monday Mornings on TNT. She has also guest starred in a number of television series.
Erin Boheme
Erin Boheme is an American jazz singer.
Chellsie Memmel
Chellsie Marie Memmel is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2005 world all-around champion and the 2003 world champion on the uneven bars. She was a member of the United States women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. She is currently training in hopes of making the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.