page_title: List of people from Milwaukee
section_title: Born elsewhere, raised in Milwaukee
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Milwaukee / Born elsewhere, raised in Milwaukee
caption_attribution_description: Harry Houdini, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, in chains
context_page_description: This is a List of Milwaukeeans, notable citizens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
context_section_description: The following people were not born in Milwaukee, but spent a significant amount of their growing-up years in the city.
  Naima Adedapo — American Idol finalist
  Shauna Singh Baldwin — Canadian-born author currently living in Milwaukee
  Elizabeth Banks — journalist
  Jacob Best — founder of what became the Pabst Brewing Company
  Elizabeth Baker Bohan — author, journalist, artist, social reformer
  Andrew H. Boncel – Wisconsin state legislator and newspaper editor
  Jack Carson — actor, Mildred Pierce, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Star Is Born
  Keo Coleman — NFL player
  Michael Cudahy — industrialist, great-uncle of Michael Cudahy (electronics)
  Patrick Cudahy — industrialist
  Victor DeLorenzo — drummer for punk-rock group, the Violent Femmes
  Humphrey J. Desmond — Wisconsin legislator, lawyer, writer, and newspaper editor
  Colleen Dewhurst — Canadian-born actress raised in Milwaukee, two-time Tony Award winner, four-time Emmy Award winner
  Clarke Fischer — NFL player
  Garrett M. Fitzgerald — politician
  Evelyn Frechette — lover and accomplice of John Dillinger
  Gordon Gano — lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for the Violent Femmes
  Charles Goldenberg (1911–1986) — Odessa-born All-Pro NFL player
  Wallace Wilson Graham — Wisconsin lawyer and politician
  Joseph Graybill — actor
  Elmer Grey — architect and painter
  Stone Hallquist — NFL player
  Albert Hammond — politician
  Matthea Harvey — poet
  Houdini — illusionist and stunt performer
  Jeffrey Hunter — actor, The Searchers, King of Kings
  John Johnson — NBA basketball player, First Team All-American at University of Iowa
  Warren S. Johnson — founder of Johnson Controls
  Kristen Johnston — born in Washington DC, raised in Whitefish Bay; played Sally Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun
  Al C. Kalmbach — born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, founder of Kalmbach Publishing
  Keedy — singer
  Harold Klemp — leader of Eckankar
  Tim Knoll — freestyle BMX rider
  Leon L. Lewis — attorney, spymaster, and Jewish community leader
  Rico Love — rapper and songwriter
  Jim Lovell — former NASA astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission; North/South 7th Street through the downtown area was named James Lovell Street in his honor
  James Ludington – founder of Columbus, Wisconsin and Ludington, Michigan
  John Luick — American Civil War veteran; founder of Luick Ice Cream
  Arie Luyendyk Jr. — professional auto racer, The Bachelorette contestant (Brookfield)
  Arthur MacArthur, Jr. — Medal of Honor recipient, military governor of the Philippines
  Rick Majerus — basketball coach; son of Raymond Majerus
  Golda Meir — a founder of State of Israel; served as Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister; graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  Billy Mitchell — general, regarded as "father" of United States Air Force
  Ronald Myers — noted Baptist minister
  Joseph Arthur Padway — socialist politician
  Ray Phillips — NFL player
  Antonio R. Riley — Midwest Regional Administrator of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
  Martin P. Robinson — creator and puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company; puppeteer for Telly Monster, Mr. Snuffleupagus and Slimey (Brookfield)
  Gena Rowlands — Oscar-nominated actress, four-time Emmy Award winner
  Mark Rylance — theater actor and director; director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, two-time Tony Award winner
  David J. Saposs — economist
  Gottfried Schloemer — maker of first gas automobile in Milwaukee
  Landy Scott — champion race car driver
  Edward Steichen — world's highest-paid photographer
  Mike Taylor — NBA player
  Fred W. Vetter, Jr. — U.S. Air Force general
  George H. Walther — Wisconsin State Representative
  Walter Wangerin, Jr. — author
  Garrett Weber-Gale — US Olympic swimmer
  Stanley G. Weinbaum — science fiction writer
  Oprah Winfrey — talk show host and media mogul
  Roger H. Zion — US Representative from Indiana
caption: Houdini
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