# List of people from Minneapolis

The following list mentions notable people who were born in or lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States, and gained recognition.

## Academia

* Sumner McKnight Crosby - art historian and professor of art history at Yale University

## Activists

* Dennis Banks - Native American leader
* Clyde Bellecourt - Native American leader
* Sharon Sayles Belton - politician
* Brian Coyle - gay rights activist
* W. Harry Davis - civil rights activist
* Paulette Fink - French-born Jewish activist
* Catharine MacKinnon - lawyer and teacher
* Cecil Newman - publisher, Urban League president
* Sean Sherman - indigenous foods activist
* Amy Robbins Ware - peace activist
* Theodore Wirth - planned the city's park system

## Artists

* Mary Abbott - artist
* Barkhad Abdi - actor
* Corey Adam - stand-up comedian
* Faysal Ahmed - actor
* Eddie Albert - actor
* Ernest Dewey Albinson - artist
* Richard Dean Anderson - actor
* The Andrews Sisters - singers
* Siah Armajani - sculptor and architect
* James Arness - actor
* Leslie Barlow - visual artist, painting, drawing, mixed media
* Jason Behr - actor
* John Berryman - Poet
* Beatrice Gjertsen Bessesen - operatic soprano
* Robert Bly - poet
* Steven Brust - novelist
* Hazel Buckham - actress
* Mo Collins - actress and comedian
* Louise Erdrich - novelist
* Craig Finn - singer/songwriter
* Suzanne Finstad, author
* Alice Frost - actress, radio star
* Larry Gates - actor
* Terry Gilliam - director and member of Monty Python
* Peter Graves - actor
* Daniel Grodnik - writer/movie producer
* Molly Hagan - actress
* Carol M. Highsmith - photographer
* George Roy Hill - director
* James Hong - actor
* Dakota Dave Hull - musician
* Mason Jennings - musician
* Dory Kahalé - electronic musician and DJ
* Linda Kelsey - actress
* Ward Kimball - Walt Disney animator
* T. R. Knight - actor
* June Lang - actress
* Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - musicians
* Maud Hart Lovelace - author
* Carl Lumbly - actor
* Dorothy Lyman - actress, director, producer
* Cornell MacNeil - of the Metropolitan Opera
* Ralph Meeker - actor
* Michael J. Nelson - comedian
* Ade Olufeko - digital artist
* George Morrison - artist
* Alex Pareene, editor-in-chief of Gawker
* Westbrook Pegler - journalist
* Prince - musician
* Art Resnick - jazz pianist
* Randy Resnick - musician
* Prof - musician
* Charles M. Schulz - creator of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang
* Lili St. Cyr - stripper
* Brian Setzer - Stray Cats
* Clifford D. Simak - author
* Alfred Skrenda - illustrator
* Jack Smight - filmmaker
* Alec Soth - photographer
* Norman Spencer - musician
* Curt Swan - cartoonist, pencil artist of Superman for D.C. Comics from 1940s to 1980s
* Nick Swardson - actor, comedian
* Bruce Swedien - Grammy Award-winning audio engineer and music producer; known for his work with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson
* John Szarkowski - photographer, curator, critic
* Maria Cristina Tavera - artist
* Tiny Tim - TV personality
* Michael Todd - producer
* The Jets, band
* Anne Tyler - novelist
* Gerald Vizenor - author
* Paul Westerberg - musician
* Dan Wilson - musician
* Lizz Winstead - comedian, co-creator of The Daily Show

## Business

* Curt Carlson - founder of Carlson Companies
* George Dayton - founder of Target Corporation
* William Hood Dunwoody - businessman and co-founder General Mills and Wells Fargo
* J. Paul Getty - founder of Getty Oil
* Doron Jensen - co-founder of Timber Lodge Steakhouse and Old Country Buffet
* Franklin and Forrest Mars - founders of Mars, Incorporated
* Steve McClellan - general manager of First Avenue
* Peter Najarian - options trader and television personality
* John S. Pillsbury - co-founder of Pillsbury Company
* Elizabeth Augusta Russell - philanthropist, reformer, restaurateur
* Richard Sears - co-founder of Sears
* Rose Totino - co-founder of Totino's frozen pizza

## Government

* Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman - politician and judge, former Minister of Defence of Somalia (1989–1990)
* George Edwin Anderson - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* Marvin Harold Anderson - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* John R. Arlandson - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
* Samuel H. Bellman, Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
* Thomas K. Berg - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
* Alfred L. Bergerud - Minnesota state legislator, businessman, and lawyer
* LeRoy Earl Brophey Sr. - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
* Margaret Mary Byrne - Minnesota state legislator
* Walter H. Campbell - Minnesota state legislator, businessman, and lawyer
* James R. Casserly - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
* George C. Dahlvang - Minnesota state representative
* John Cheatham - firefighter
* Mark Dayton - Governor of Minnesota
* Calvin Deming - Minnesota state representative
* Philip S. Duff - Minnesota state senator and newspaper editor
* Keith Ellison - Minnesota Attorney General, former member of the United States House of Representatives (2003-2019)
* William S. Ervin - former Minnesota Attorney General
* Douglas Ewald - consultant and Minnesota state representative
* George A. French - lawyer and Minnesota state representative
* Paul Willis Guilford - Minnesota state legislator, lawyer, and judge
* Carl G. Hagland - labor activist and Minnesota state representative
* Harold Harrison - businessman and Minnesota state legislator
* Andrew Osborne Hayfield - businessman and Minnesota state representative
* Hubert Humphrey - U.S. Vice President
* Robert C. Jensen - Minnesota state legislator and farmer
* Raymond J. Julkowski - Minnesota state representative and lawyer
* Harold Kalina - Minnesota state senator and judge
* Stephen Keefe - Minnesota state senator and chemist
* Burton L. Kingsley - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* Herman J. Kording- Minnesota state legislator and farmer
* Adolph Kvam - Minnesota state representative and businessman
* Bob Latz - Minnesota state representative and lawyer
* Ron Latz - Minnesota state senator and lawyer
* John George Lennon - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* Leonard E. Lindquist - Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
* Carl L. Lyse - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* Robert George Marshall - Minnesota state senator and businessman
* Eugene McCarthy - U.S. Senator
* Walter Mondale - U.S. Vice President
* Gerald T. Mullin - Minnesota state legislator, businessman, and lawyer
* George E. Murk - Minnesota state representative
* Dennis Newinski - Minnesota state representative and machinist
* Lauris Norstad - Supreme Commander Europe NATO (The 2nd highest rank by prominence in NATO)
* Harmon T. Ogdahl - Minnesota state senator and businessman
* Alan Page - Minnesota Supreme Court justice; former NFL defensive lineman and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
* Wilber L. Paulson - Minnesota state legislator and businessman
* Donna C. Peterson - Minnesota state legislator and educator
* Eric D. Petty - Minnesota state senator and businessman
* Bradley G. Pieper - Minnesota state representative
* Jim Rice - Minnesota state representative
* Charles W. Root - lawyer and politician
* Herman W. Sachtjen - member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and jurist
* Donald Savelkoul - lawyer and politician
* David D. Schaaf - Minnesota state senator and florist
* John Day Smith - Minnesota state legislator, judge, and lawyer
* Clifford C. Sommer - Minnesota state senator and businessman
* James C. Swanson - Minnesota state legislator and educator
* Samuel R. Thayer - ambassador to the Netherlands in the Benjamin Harrison administration
* Jesse Ventura - former professional wrestler, actor, and Governor of Minnesota
* Carl O. Wegner - lawyer and politician
* Vernon S. Welch - Minnesota state representative and lawyer
* Frank E. Wheelock - a founder and first mayor of Lubbock, Texas, reared in Minneapolis
* Bruce D. Williamson - Minnesota state representative
* Edwin M. Wold - Minnesota state representative
* Kenneth W. Wolfe - Minnesota state senator
* Hubert Humphrey
* Walter Mondale
* Jesse Ventura
* Eugene McCarthy
* Alan Page

## Military

* Pete Hegseth, television presenter, author, Minnesota National Guard officer, and United States Secretary of Defense
* Harold Palmer Howard, U.S. Army brigadier general

## Science

* Peter Agre - physician, biologist, Nobel Laureate
* Cynthia Ahearn (1952-2008) - echinodermologist and museum specialist
* Earl Bakken - engineer, philanthropist
* Norman Borlaug - agronomist
* Paul D. Boyer - chemist, Nobel Laureate
* Ian Coldwater - computer security specialist
* David E. Garfin - biophysicist
* Robert R. Gilruth - directed the U.S. Moon landing
* Leonid Hurwicz - economist, academician
* Finn E. Kydland - economist
* Edward B. Lewis - geneticist, Nobel Prize Winner
* C. Walton Lillehei - surgeon, open-heart pioneer, Recipient of Bronze Star Medal and Order of Health Merit Jose Fernandez Madrid
* Marcia McNutt - president National Academy of Sciences
* Bradford Parkinson - father of the Global Positioning System
* Jeannette Piccard - pioneer of balloonists
* Edward C. Prescott - economist, Nobel Prize
* John Tate - mathematician

## Sports

* Mukwelle Akale – soccer player
* Andrew Alberts - National Hockey League player
* Russ Anderson - National Hockey League player
* Sacar Anim (born 1997) - basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Nate Augspurger - rugby player
* David Backes - National Hockey League player
* Rachel Banham - professional basketball player
* Garrett Bender - rugby union player
* Casey Borer - National Hockey League player
* Rebekkah Brunson - basketball player and coach
* Brady Bryant – soccer player and coach
* Dustin Byfuglien - National Hockey League player
* Dominique Byrd - professional football player
* Geno Crandall - basketball player with Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Cully Dahlstrom - National Hockey League player
* Birdie Draper - parachutist and stunt performer
* Joe Dziedzic - National Hockey League player
* Chad Erickson - National Hockey League player
* Larry Fitzgerald - professional football player
* Rusty Fitzgerald - National Hockey League player
* Jake Gardiner - National Hockey League player
* Gabriele Grunewald - professional runner
* Brad Hand - Major League Baseball pitcher
* Pudge Heffelfinger - football player
* Joe Hennig - professional wrestler
* Chet Holmgren - Oklahoma City Thunder C
* Kent Hrbek - Major League Baseball player
* Janet Jamieson - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
* Tom Kurvers - National Hockey League player
* Reed Larson - National Hockey League player
* Brock Lesnar - professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
* Ryan Lindgren - National Hockey League player
* Dave Menne - mixed martial artist
* Chris Middlebrook - bandy player and official
* Brock Nelson - National Hockey League player
* Zach Parise - National Hockey League player
* Nick Perbix - National Hockey League player
* Paul Sather - college men's basketball coach
* Briana Scurry - Women's World Cup winner, Olympic gold medalist, retired professional soccer player, and first woman goalkeeper in the National Soccer Hall of Fame
* Kyle Shanahan - football coach
* Tom Shevlin - Yale track athlete and football captain
* Jalen Suggs - Orlando Magic PG / SG
* Terrell Suggs - Kansas City Chiefs defensive end / linebacker
* Matt Tennyson - National Hockey League player
* John Thomas (born 1975) - basketball player
* Hal Trumble - ice hockey administrator and referee
* Lyle Wright - businessman, events promoter, United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
* Taylor Twellman - former soccer player and MLS commentator