List of Famous people born in Wisconsin, United States of America
Carol Merrill
Carol Merrill is a former television game show model best known for her appearance in Let's Make a Deal during the show's original run between 1963–77.
Vince Biegel
Vincent James Biegel is an American football linebacker for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wisconsin.
Bill Foster
George William Foster is an American businessman, physicist, and U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district, winning the seat in 2012. He was previously the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Leah Vukmir
Leah Vukmir is an American politician and nurse who served as a member of the Wisconsin Senate. A Republican, she represented Wisconsin's 5th District. She previously served in the Wisconsin Assembly. Vukmir was the Republican nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in Wisconsin, running unsuccessfully against incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin. In March 2019, Vukmir became vice president of state affairs at the National Taxpayers Union.
Lydia Clarke
Lydia Marie Clarke Heston was an American actress and photographer.
Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey III was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Among the most critically and commercially successful were three films with screenplays by Harold Pinter: The Servant (1963), Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1971).
Edward S. Curtis
Edward Sheriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people.
Kurtwood Smith
Kurtwood Larson Smith is an American television and film actor. He is known for playing Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987) and Red Forman in That '70s Show, as well as for his many appearances in science fiction films and television programs. He also starred in the seventh season of 24.
George L. Kelling
George Lee Kelling was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously taught at Northeastern University.
Nancy Olson
Nancy Ann Olson is an American actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1950). She co-starred with William Holden in four films, and also later appeared in Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel, Son of Flubber (1963), as well as the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974).