# List of people from Janesville, Wisconsin

The following notable people were born in or are associated with Janesville, Wisconsin.

## Artists and performers

* Pete Lee, comedian
* Tim Davis, co-founder of The Steve Miller Band
* Gloria Foster, actress
* Karron Graves, actress
* Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter
* Tad Kubler, guitarist for The Hold Steady
* Kerwin Mathews, actor
* Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
* Manilla Powers, singer, Vaudeville performer, musical theater comedian
* Leoni W. Robinson, architect
* Tom Welling, actor (lived in Janesville briefly during childhood)
* Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet

## Athletes

* Mistie Bass (Mistie Williams), WNBA player
* Frank Bliss, MLB player
* Tommy Cronin, NFL player
* Moxie Dalton, NFL player
* Stan Fox, race car driver, eight-time starter at the Indianapolis 500
* Tucker Fredricks, Olympic speedskater
* Fred Hayner. baseball player
* Larry Hough, Olympic rower
* Paul Janus, NFL player
* Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver
* John Morrissey, professional baseball player
* Tom Morrissey, professional baseball player
* Joe Riggert, MLB player
* Terry Ryan, MLB manager
* Peter Shorts, NFL player
* Bob Strampe, MLB player
* Keeanu Benton, NFL player

## Military personnel

* Leslie Allen Bellrichard, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam
* James Bintliff, Union Army general
* Victor Bleasdale, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross recipient
* Frank Matteson Bostwick, U.S. Navy Commodore
* James E. Croft, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
* Gerald L. Endl, Medal of Honor recipient, World War II
* Theodore W. Goldin, Medal of Honor recipient, American Indian Wars
* John Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
* John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard general
* Henry Palmer, Union Army general
* James Pond, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
* Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War general and military governor of Georgia under occupation
* Claron A. Windus, Medal of Honor recipient

## Politicians

* C. S. Amsden, South Dakota State Representative and Senator
* William A. Barstow, Governor of Wisconsin, Union Army general
* Harry W. Bolens, Wisconsin State Senator
* Stephen Bolles, U.S. Representative
* William B. Britton, Wisconsin State Representative
* James H. Budd, Governor of California
* Zebulon P. Burdick, Wisconsin State Senator
* Bob Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
* Peter P. Carr, Wisconsin State Senator
* John B. Cassoday, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Harmon Sweatland Conger, U.S. Representative from New York
* Dave Considine, educator and Wisconsin State Representative
* Tim Cullen, Wisconsin State Senator
* Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
* Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
* Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin State Representative
* Alexander Graham, New York and Wisconsin State Representative
* Gilbert N. Haugen, U.S. Representative from Iowa
* Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin State Representative
* James H. Knowlton, Wisconsin State Representative
* Debra Kolste, Wisconsin State Representative
* Don L. Love, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
* Allen P. Lovejoy, Wisconsin State Senator
* William A. Lawrence, Wisconsin State Representative and Senator
* David W. Márquez, Alaska Attorney General
* Alexander E. Matheson, Wisconsin State Representative and jurist
* Max Maxfield, Wyoming Secretary of State
* Hiram Merrill, Wisconsin State Representative
* Cyrus Miner, Wisconsin State Representative
* David Noggle, Wisconsin State Representative, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Idaho Territory
* Thomas S. Nolan, Wisconsin State Representative
* Pliny Norcross, Mayor of Janesville and Wisconsin State Representative
* Andrew Palmer, Wisconsin State Senator
* Henry A. Patterson, Wisconsin State Representative
* Anson W. Pope, Wisconsin State Representative
* Steve Preston, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
* Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Michael J. Sheridan, former speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Ithamar C. Sloan, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
* A. Hyatt Smith, politician and businessman
* E. Ray Stevens, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* James Sutherland, Wisconsin State Senator
* George Tarrant Sr., Wisconsin State Representative
* Henry Tarrant, Wisconsin State Representative
* Howard Teasdale, Wisconsin State Senator
* Alexander McDonald Thomson, former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Charles L. Valentine, Wisconsin State Representative
* William G. Wheeler, Wisconsin State Representative and U.S. Attorney
* John Meek Whitehead, Wisconsin State Senate
* Edward V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Charles G. Williams, U.S. Representative
* George H. Williston, Wisconsin territorial and state legislator
* Agesilaus Wilson, Wisconsin State Representative
* Wayne W. Wood, Wisconsin State Representative
* Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator

## Other

* David Adamany, president of Temple University
* Sanford Soverhill Atwood, sixteenth president of Emory University
* John Henry Comstock, entomologist
* Joseph Dutton, Civil War veteran and later missionary to the lepers of Molokai
* Jim Fitzgerald, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors
* Lavinia Goodell, first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin
* William Goodell, abolitionist
* Ken Hendricks, Forbes 400 businessman
* Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and magazine editor
* Walter Lees, early aviator
* Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948), American educator and college president
* George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company
* Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist and speleogist
* Frances Willard, educator and activist (raised and first taught here)
* Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon and heart surgery pioneer, raised and first employed here
* Allene Tew, an American socialite during the Gilded Age who became a European aristocrat by marriage.