List of Famous people born in Wisconsin, United States of America
Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider is an American film executive, film producer and theatrical producer. He is best known for being, from 1985 to 1999, the president of Disney's feature animation department, which became known as Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1986, and was responsible for helping to turn the feature animation department around and creating some of the most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features that Disney released in a period that became known as the "Disney Renaissance".
Edward Peil
Edward J. Peil Sr. was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 370 films between 1913 and 1951.
Alice D. G. Miller
Alice D. G. Miller was an early American screenwriter. She was sometimes erroneously credited as Alice Duer Miller, another writer of no relation.
Harold P. Brown
Harold Pitney Brown was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country.
Oscar Rennebohm
Oscar Rennebohm was an American politician, a pharmacist, and the 32nd Governor of Wisconsin. He previously served as Lieutenant Governor and ascended to the office of Governor in 1947 on the death of Governor Walter S. Goodland.
Alice Washburn
Alice Washburn (1860-1929) was an American stage and film actress. She worked at the Edison, Vitagraph and Kalem studios. Her final film Snow White was her only known feature film. She died of heart attack in November 1929.
Arnold Gesell
Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell was an American clinical psychologist, pediatrician and professor at Yale University known for his research and contributions to the field of child development.
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach was a United States Senator from Washington, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington and the 5th United States Secretary of Labor.
John Litel
John Beach Litel was an American film and television actor.
Joseph V. Quarles
Joseph Very Quarles Jr. was a United States Senator from Wisconsin and a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Earlier, he was the 20th Mayor of Kenosha, Wisconsin.