List of Famous people born in Wisconsin, United States of America
Ron Kovic
Ronald Lawrence Kovic is an American anti-war activist, writer, and former United States Marine Corps sergeant, who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the Academy Award–winning 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone.
Chi Coltrane
Chi Coltrane is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
Brigid Bazlen
Brigid Mary Bazlen was an American film, television and stage actress. Although she made only three Hollywood films, The Honeymoon Machine, King of Kings, and How the West Was Won, she is still remembered for the latter two. Bazlen retired from acting while she was in her late 20s (1972), and she died from cancer at the age of 44.
Amy Pietz
Amy Pietz is an American actress, known for her roles on television. She received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for her role as Annie Spadaro in the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City (1995-1999). She later had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms Cursed, Rodney, and Aliens in America.
Jacob Latimore
Jacob O'Neal Latimore is an American actor and singer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2016, Latimore released his debut album Connection. As an actor, he is best known for his roles in Black Nativity, The Maze Runner, Collateral Beauty and Detroit. He also starred in the Netflix Original movie Candy Jar alongside Sami Gayle.
Richard Riehle
Richard Riehle is an American character actor who portrayed Walt Finnerty on Grounded For Life (2001-2005) and The Warden on The Young and the Restless (2007). He also appeared in Glory (1989), The Fugitive (1993), Casino (1995) and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
May Wright Sewall
May Wright Sewall was an American reformer, who was known for her service to the causes of education, women's rights, and world peace. She was born in Greenfield, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Sewall served as chairman of the National Woman Suffrage Association's executive committee from 1882 to 1890, and was the organization's first recording secretary. She also served as president of the National Council of Women of the United States from 1897 to 1899, and president of the International Council of Women from 1899 to 1904. In addition, she helped organize the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and served as its first vice-president. Sewall was also an organizer of the World's Congress of Representative Women, which was held in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. U.S. President William McKinley appointed her as a U.S. representative of women to the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris.
Marc Alaimo
Marc Alaimo is an American actor, known for his villainous roles. He is best known for his role as recurring villain Gul Dukat in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Eric Szmanda
Eric Kyle Szmanda is an American actor. He is best known for having played Greg Sanders in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a role he held from the show's beginning in 2000 until it ended in 2015.
Pete Fromm
Pete Fromm is an American novelist, short story writer, and memoir writer.