# List of people from La Crosse

The following list includes notable people who were born in or have lived in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

## Academics

* Donald J. Berthrong, historian
* Ruth Boynton, physician and educator
* Robert M. Dammon, professor and academic administrator
* David Garbers, scientist
* Adolph Gundersen, physician
* Edward R. Hauser, animal scientist
* William Duncan MacMillan, mathematician and astronomer
* Curt Michel, NASA astronaut, professor
* Louis Hermann Pammel, botanist
* Walter Ristow, librarian
* John O. Schwenn, psychologist and academic administrator
* William A. Thompson, engineer
* Blanche Wilkins Williams, educator of deaf students

## Activists and journalists

* Brynild Anundsen, Norwegian-American journalist
* Harriet Bossnot, social and civic worker
* Chris Bury, Nightline correspondent
* James Cameron, civil rights activist
* Tom Hanneman, sports broadcaster
* Mark Kellogg, reporter (killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn)
* Frieda S. Miller, labor and women's rights activist
* William Mullen, journalist
* Charles M. Palmer, organizer of the Associated Press
* Marcus M. Pomeroy, editor of the La Crosse Democrat newspaper during the Civil War
* George Edwin Taylor, activist and journalist
* Dave Umhoefer, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

## Artists and performers

* Erik Call, cinematographer
* Bernard Joseph Dockendorff, architect
* Chip Dunham, cartoonist
* Mattie Gunterman, photographer
* Frederick Heath, architect
* Joseph Losey, film and theater director
* Christy Oates, woodworker and furniture designer
* Elmer Petersen, sculptor
* Nicholas Ray, film and theater director
* John W. Ross, architect

### Actors

* Lottie Alter, actor
* Val Bettin, actor
* Charles Dierkop, actor
* Brandon Ratcliff, actor
* Ford Sterling, actor

### Authors

* Ole Amundsen Buslett, author
* Sylvester John Hemleben, poet, writer, and academic
* Karla Huston, poet
* Peg Kehret, author
* E. E. Knight, author
* Helen Adelia Manville, poet and litterateur
* Marion Manville Pope, poet and author
* William Stobb, poet
* John Toland, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian
* Danielle Trussoni, author

### Musicians

* Wallace Berry, composer and music theorist
* Hugo Jan Huss, orchestra conductor
* Stephen Jerzak, singer-songwriter, musician
* Arthur Kreutz, composer
* Robert E. Kreutz, composer
* Larry Lelli, musician
* Robert Moevs, composer
* Robert Schulz, jazz cornetist
* Freddie Slack, musician and bandleader

## Athletes
### American football

* Gordon Bahr, college football coach
* George Dahlgren, NFL player
* John Fay, NFL player
* Kevin Fitzgerald, NFL player
* Bob Fitzke, NFL player
* Hal Hanson, NFL player and head coach
* Parker Hesse, NFL player
* Matt Joyce, NFL player
* Karl Klug, NFL player
* Richard D. Martin, college football coach
* Klinks Meyers, APFA player
* Tom Newberry, NFL all-pro offensive guard
* Jim Temp, NFL player
* Clarence Tommerson, NFL player
* Bill Vickroy, college football coach
* John Wilce, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
* Brian Wrobel, NFL player

### Baseball

* John Ake, MLB player
* Paul Fitzke, MLB and NFL player
* Tony Ghelfi, MLB player
* Chuck Hockenbery, MLB player
* Tom Klawitter, MLB player
* Ed Konetchy, MLB player
* Damian Miller, MLB player
* Ed Servais, college baseball coach
* Scott Servais, MLB player and manager
* Frank Skaff, MLB player and manager
* Dolly Vanderlip, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
* Jarrod Washburn, MLB player
* George Williams, MLB player

### Basketball

* Scott Christopherson, basketball player
* Johnny Davis, NBA player, Washington Wizards
* Jordan Davis, Wisconsin Men’s Basketball
* Bronson Koenig, basketball player
* Doug Martin, college basketball coach
* John Mengelt, NBA player
* Flip Saunders, NBA coach
* Glen Selbo, NBA player, selected second overall in 1947 NBA draft

### Other

* Orville Buckner, professional boxer
* Tim Gullikson, tennis player and coach
* Tom Gullikson, tennis player and coach
* Barbara Harwerth, Olympic volleyball player
* Don Iverson, professional golfer
* Ty Loomis, volleyball player
* Eddie Murphy, Olympic medalist
* Mike Peplinski, curler
* George Poage, first African American to win an Olympic medal
* Ryan Quinn, curler

## Businesspeople

* George Addes, founder of United Auto Workers
* Austen Cargill, president of Cargill
* William Wallace Cargill, founder of Cargill
* Fay Marvin Clark, real estate developer
* Russell G. Cleary, president of the G. Heileman Brewing Company
* Charles Gelatt, businessman and philanthropist
* George Gund II, banker and real estate investor
* Gottlieb Heileman, founder of G. Heileman Brewing Company
* John H. MacMillan Sr, President of Cargill
* Edwin W. Rice, President of General Electric
* James Trane, co-founder of Trane
* Reuben Trane, co-founder of Trane

## Military personnel

* Stuart P. Baker, U.S. Navy rear admiral
* Robert J. Flynn, U.S. Navy commander
* John Shuman, Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient
* Woodrow Swancutt, U.S. Air Force major general

## Politicians

* Malvin R. Anderson, Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* Wendell Abraham Anderson, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
* Elmer E. Barlow, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
* Reginald Bicha
* Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
* Erasmus D. Campbell, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and Mayor of La Crosse
* Ebenezer Childs, territorial legislator
* Barbara Flynn Currie, Illinois State Representative
* Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States
* George Gale, Wisconsin circuit court judge
* George A. Garrett, U.S. diplomat
* Wayne J. Hood, Executive Director of the Republican National Committee
* John Azor Kellogg, U.S. military leader and state senator
* Charles E. Knoblauch, Iowa State Representative
* Minnie C. T. Love, Colorado State Representative and member of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
* Patrick Joseph Lucey, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. diplomat
* Paul Lundsten, Wisconsin court of appeals judge
* Jane Magnus-Stinson, federal judge
* Paul Marcotte, businessman and Kentucky State Representative
* Thomas Morris, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
* Gary K. Nelson, Attorney General of Arizona
* Mike O'Callaghan, Governor of Nevada
* Jim Omerberg, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
* Theodore D. Parsons, New Jersey Attorney General
* George Wilbur Peck, newspaper publisher, humorist, mayor of Milwaukee, and Governor of Wisconsin
* John Rusche, Idaho State Representative
* Ellis Baker Usher, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
* James M. Wahl, member of the Dakota Territorial Legislature
* Julia Wallace, New Zealand politician
* Cadwallader C. Washburn, Civil War general, Wisconsin governor, and U.S. Representative
* Michael A. Wolff, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri

### United States legislators

* Charles S. Benton, U.S. Representative from New York
* Fred Biermann, U.S. Representative from Iowa
* Angus Cameron, U.S. Senator
* Frank P. Coburn, U.S. Representative
* John J. Esch, U.S. Representative
* Merlin Hull, U.S. Representative
* Ron Kind, U.S. Representative
* James T. McCleary, U.S. Representative from Minnesota
* Augustus Herman Pettibone, U.S. Representative from Tennessee
* William H. Stevenson, U.S. Representative
* Clark W. Thompson, U.S. Representative from Texas
* Gardner R. Withrow, U.S. Representative
* Gilbert Motier Woodward, U.S. Representative

### Wisconsin state legislators

* Raymond Bice, Sr., businessman, State Representative and senator
* Jill Billings, State Representative
* Otto Bosshard, State Representative
* John Brindley, State Representative and La Crosse County judge
* Sylvester G. Clements, State Representative and businessman
* Elijah Fox Cook, Michigan and Wisconsin State Senator
* James Devitt, State Representative and Senator
* Steve Doyle, State Representative
* John S. Durland, State Representative
* Thomas A. Dyson, State Senator and county judge
* Edwin Flint, State Senator and circuit court judge
* Lawrence R. Gibson, State Representative
* Levi Withee Gibson, State Representative
* Gerald Greider, State Representative
* Thomas Harnisch, State Senator
* Gideon Hixon, Wisconsin State Representative and senator
* James J. Hogan, Wisconsin State Representative and Mayor of La Crosse
* Clark L. Hood, State Representative
* William Hull, State Representative
* Thomas Johnson, State Representative
* Dan Kapanke, State Senator
* Milo Knutson, mayor of La Crosse and state senator
* Edward C. Krause, State Representative
* Carl Kurtenecker, State Representative
* Donald A. McDonald, State Representative
* John Medinger, Mayor of La Crosse and State Representative
* Isaac E. Messmore, State Representative and Civil War Colonel
* Mark Meyer, State Representative and Senator
* Lewis T. Mittness, State Representative
* John Mulder, State Representative
* Leland E. Mulder, State Representative
* Henry Nein, State Representative
* Lee Nerison, State Representative
* John Oestreicher, State Representative
* Paul Offner, State Representative and Senator
* Oscar S. Paulson, State Senator
* James D. H. Peterson, State Representative
* Brad Pfaff, State Senator
* George H. Ray, State Representative
* Arnt O. Rhea, State Representative
* Theodore Rodolf, State Representative
* Rudolph Schlabach, State Representative and Senator
* Marlin Schneider, State Representative
* Jennifer Shilling, State Senator
* Albert O. Sorge, State Representative
* Gysbert Van Steenwyk, Sr., Mayor of La Crosse, State Representative and Senator
* Thomas Benton Stoddard, first mayor of La Crosse and State Representative
* Gregg Underheim, State Representative
* D. Russell Wartinbee, State Representative
* Guilford M. Wiley, State Representative
* Merrick Wing, State Senator
* Levi Withee, State Senator
* Niran Withee, State Representative

## Religious leaders

* Patrick Augustine, Anglican assistant bishop
* Thea Bowman, Roman Catholic religious sister and educator
* Raymond Burke, Cardinal Prefect of the Vatican's Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
* William P. Callahan, Roman Catholic bishop
* Kilian Caspar Flasch, Roman Catholic bishop
* Frederick William Freking, Roman Catholic bishop
* William Richard Griffin, Roman Catholic bishop
* Michael Heiss, first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse
* Alexander Joseph McGavick, Roman Catholic bishop
* John Joseph Paul, Roman Catholic bishop
* James Schwebach, Roman Catholic bishop
* John Patrick Treacy, Roman Catholic bishop

## Others

* Ed Gein, murderer and grave robber
* Evelyn Hartley, teenager missing since 1953
* Ken Kratz
* Nathan "Nate the Hoof Guy" Ranallo
* Scott Thorson