- List of people from Kenosha, Wisconsin
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This is a list of Kenoshans, notable citizens of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Contents
Artists
- Chester Biscardi, composer, director of musical arts at Yale University
- Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, film orchestrator (The Ten Commandments)
- Buddy Clark, jazz artist (Sweet Smell of Success)
- William Bast, screenwriter
- Jeff Cesario, comedian, TV writer
- Donald Clarke, author of several books on musical subjects
- Thomas Dryer, Lead singer in the Thomas Dryer Band
- John Fumo, musician with Neil Young
- Milt Herth, organist
- Margaret Landon, author Anna and the King of Siam (The King and I)
- Florence Parry Heide, author (The Shrinking of Treehorn)
- Milton K. Ozaki, author and detective novelist
- Peter Palmer, saxophonist, bandleader, songwriter (Mercury Records)
- George Pollard, portrait painter
- Thom Racina, author and screenwriter (General Hospital)
- Spike Robinson, jazz saxophonist
- Jim Rygiel, triple Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings) IMDB Biography Page
- Mary Sauer, principal pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1959, and on the piano faculty of DePaul University for 33 years, where she was coordinator of the keyboard program. [1]
- Will Schaefer, composer
- Edwin Stringham, composer, educator
- Kathie Sullivan, vocalist (The Lawrence Welk Show)
- Irving Wallace, author (The Chapman Report)
- Korey Cooper, backup vocalist and rhythm guitar for the rock band Skillet
Actors/Actresses and Directors
- Don Ameche, actor, Academy Award-winner (Cocoon)
- Jim Ameche, actor (Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy)
- Thom Bierdz, actor (Murder, She Wrote, more)
- Edward F. Cline, film director
- Bert I. Gordon, film director (The Food of the Gods)
- Al Molinaro, actor Happy Days
- Mark Ruffalo, actor
- Tony Russel, film and stage actor (Hearts Are Wild)
- Rebecca Scott, model and actress, Miss August 1999 for Playboy Productions
- Charles Siebert, actor (Trapper John, M.D.), director (Xena, Warrior Princess)
- Paul Sorensen, actor (Dance With Me, Henry, more)
- John Stephenson, voice actor (Flintstones)
- Charlie Talbert, actor (Angus)
- Concetta Tomei, actress (China Beach)
- Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill Street Blues)
- Orson Welles, producer, actor, writer, director (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, F for Fake)
- Billy Zane, actor
Sports
- Milo Allison, MLB player
- Alan Ameche, football player
- Ray Berres, MLB player
- Tom Bienemann, NFL player
- Fred Borak, NFL player
- Dick Bosman, major league baseball pitcher and coach (Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox)
- Tom Braatz, NFL player and general manager
- Frankie Conley, boxing
- Ed Corey, MLB player
- Press Cruthers, MLB player
- Ben Dyer, MLB player
- Gene Englund, basketball player
- Harvey Green, MLB player
- Jack Hammond, MLB player
- Bob Hartman, MLB player for the Milwaukee Braves and Cleveland Indians
- Ken Huxhold, NFL player
- Chuck Jaskwhich, head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team
- Chet Kozel, professional football player
- Jeff Cohen, All-American basketball player at The College of William & Mary in 1960-61
- Ed Corey, MLB player
- Walter Maurer, Olympic medalist
- Ollie O'Mara, MLB player
- Megan Oster, figure skater
- Charlie Pechous, MLB player
- Phil Pettey, NFL player
- Tom Regner, University of Notre Dame All American and member of 1966 National Championship Team; NFL Houston Oilers
- Ben Rothwell , professional mixed martial artist
- Ralph Thomas, NFL player
- Nick Van Exel, NBA player
- James Hippo Vaughn, Chicago Cubs player
Political
- John Martin Antaramian, Wisconsin legislator and former Kenosha mayor
- Peter W. Barca, U.S. Representative
- Chauncey Davis, Michigan State Representative
- Charles Durkee, U.S. Senator
- Margaret Farrow, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- Myron L. Gordon, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Daniel Hugunin, Jr., U.S. Representative from New York
- Bob Kiss, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
- John G. McMynn, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction
- George Molinaro, Wisconsin legislator
- Reince Priebus, current chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Joseph V. Quarles, U.S. Senator and former Kenosha mayor
- Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative
- Charles Sholes, former Kenosha mayor
- William H. Stevenson, U.S. Representative
Uncategorized
- Edward E. Ayer (1841–1927), railway supplies magnate, manuscript collector and benefactor to Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History
- Donald Backlund, Air Force Cross recipient
- Mary D. Bradford, educator, 1st female Superintendent of a major school system in Wisconsin
- Jerry Golden, ABC reporter who was first with the John F. Kennedy assassination news
- Linda Ham, manager of the Johnson Space Center
- Michael P. Hammond, chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
- Jim Jensen, CBS news anchor and reporter
- Raymond Edward Johnson, radio actor, host of Inner Sanctum
- Samuel C. Johnson, Sr., founder, Johnson Wax
- Edward S. "Ned" Jordan, automaker, Jordan Motor Car Company (Jordan Playboy, Jordan Ace), columnist ("Ned Jordan Speaks" AutoWeek) and ad writer ("Somewhere west of Laramie")
- Theodore H. Laban, highly-decorated U.S. Army Air Forces soldier
- Lola J. May, noted mathematics educator
- Robert Bruce McCoy, United States National Guard officer
- Charles Francis McGivern, highly-decorated U.S. Navy officer
- Joseph E. Meyer, herbologist and founder of the Indiana Botanic Gardens
- Charles W. Nash, automaker Nash Motors, Nash-Kelvinator
- Michael Phillips, theater critic, Pulitzer Prize jurist
- Peter Pirsch, builder of fire equipment
- Christopher Latham Sholes, publisher, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard
- Charles Symmonds, U.S. Army general
- George Nelson Tremper, Educator
- Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation; member of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.
- William J. White, industrial engineer, president of Bell & Howell Company, executive vice-president of USG Corporation Corporation
- Joseph Zimmerman, invented the first answering machine
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