List of Famous people born in Wisconsin, United States of America

Ken Kratz

First Name Ken
Last Name Kratz
Born on January 1, 1960 (age 66)

Kenneth "Ken" R. Kratz is an American former lawyer who served as district attorney of Calumet County, Wisconsin. He gained attention for trying a highly publicized homicide case, State of Wisconsin v. Steven Avery (2007), in which Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both convicted. The trial served as the subject of Making a Murderer (2015), a 10-episode documentary series produced by Netflix.

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Tony Bennett

First Name Tony
Last Name Bennett
Born on June 1, 1969 (age 56)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Anthony Guy Bennett is an American former NBA basketball player and the head men's basketball coach at the University of Virginia since March 31, 2009. Bennett is one of just three former NBA players to have won the NCAA Championship as a head coach and, as of 2020, the only one who is an active NCAA coach. Bennett is also the only active coach to have won the Henry Iba Award for national coach of the year three times, and is a four-time ACC Coach of the Year. Known for coaching defensive intensity, Bennett has been ranked the top defensive coach in college basketball by ESPN Insider and a CBS Sports poll of head coaches. The style of basketball he teaches has often been compared to a boa constrictor choking out opponents, and his teams are known for their unselfish play, defense-first philosophy, and tempo control.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

First Name Georgia
Last Name O'Keeffe
Died on March 6, 1986 (aged 16)

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".

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William Rehnquist

First Name William
Last Name Rehnquist
Born on October 1, 1924
Died on September 3, 2005 (aged 80)

William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, as an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and as Chief Justice from 1986 until his death in 2005. Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states. Under this view of federalism, the court, for the first time since the 1930s, struck down an act of Congress as exceeding its power under the Commerce Clause.

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William S. Harley

First Name William
Last Name Harley
Born on December 29, 1880
Died on September 18, 1943 (aged 62)

William Sylvester Harley was an American mechanical engineer and businessman. He was one of the co-founders of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company.

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Dan Haggerty

First Name Dan
Last Name Haggerty
Born on November 19, 1942
Died on January 15, 2016 (aged 73)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Daniel Francis Haggerty was an American actor who is best known for playing the title role in the film and television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.

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Bradley Whitford

First Name Bradley
Last Name Whitford
Born on October 10, 1959 (age 66)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Bradley Whitford is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in the NBC television political drama The West Wing (1999–2006), for which he was nominated for three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from 2001 to 2003, winning in 2001. This role also earned him three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Heather Graham

Heather Joan Graham
First Name Heather
Last Name Graham
Born on January 29, 1970 (age 56)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Heather Joan Graham is an American actress, director, and writer. After appearing in television commercials, her first starring role in a feature film came with the teen comedy License to Drive (1988), followed by the critically acclaimed film Drugstore Cowboy (1989), which gained her initial industry notice. She then played supporting roles in films such as Shout (1991), Diggstown (1992), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Swingers (1996) and on the television series Twin Peaks (1991) and its prequel film Fire Walk with Me (1992), before gaining critical praise for the film Boogie Nights (1997). In 1999, she co-starred in Bowfinger and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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Ed Hochuli

First Name Ed
Last Name Hochuli
Born on December 25, 1950 (age 75)

Edward G. Hochuli is an American attorney and retired American football official. He has served as an attorney at Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C. since 1983, and was an official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1990 to 2017; his uniform number was 85. Prior to his officiating career, he played college football for four seasons at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

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Skylar Grey

Holly Brook Hafermann
First Name Skylar
Born on February 23, 1986 (age 40)
Height 164 cm | 5'5

Holly Brook Hafermann, known professionally as Skylar Grey, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer from Mazomanie, Wisconsin. In 2004, at the age of 17, Grey signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group and a recording contract with Machine Shop Recordings under the name Holly Brook. In 2006, she released her debut studio album, Like Blood Like Honey, under the aforementioned labels.

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