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Famous Wisconsonites
Pee Wee King, singer | Abrams |
Loretta Sell Hildegarde, singer | Adell |
William Defoe, actor | Appleton |
Harry Houdini, magician | Appleton |
Charles Winninger, actor | Athen |
Charles and John Ringling, circus entrepreneurs | Baraboo |
Fred Macmurray, actor | Beaver Dam |
Roy Chapman Andrews, naturalist and explorer | Beloit |
Gena Rowlands, actress | Cambria |
Thorstein Veblen, economist | Cato Township |
Seymour Cray, "Father of Supercomputing" | Chippewa Falls |
Don Ameche, actor | Kenosha |
Orson Welles, actor and producer | Kenosha |
Tom Wopat, Actor | Lodi |
John Bardeen, inventor | Madison |
Tyne Daly, actress | Madison |
Chris Farley, actor | Madison |
Eric Heiden, speed skater | Madison |
Thornton Wilder, author | Madison |
Jeanne Dixon, seer | Medford |
Woody Herman, band leader | Milwaukee |
George F. Kennan, diplomat | Milwaukee |
Alfred Lunt, actor | Milwaukee |
Pat O'Brien, actor | Milwaukee |
Charlotte Rae, actress | Milwaukee |
William H. Rehnquist, jurist | Milwaukee |
Tom Snyder, newscaster | Milwaukee |
Spencer Tracy, actor | Milwaukee |
Bob Uecker, baseball player | Milwaukee |
Allen Ludden, tv host | Mineral Point |
Amy Pietz, actress | Oak Creek |
Laura Ingalls, Wilder author | Pepin |
Zona Gale, author | Portage |
Robert La Follette, politician | Primrose |
Ellen Corby, actress | Racine |
Frederic March, actor | Racine |
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect | Richland Center |
Carrie Catt woman, suffragist | Ripon |
August Derleth, author | Sauk City |
Jackie Mason, comedian | Sheboygan |
Georgia O'Keeffe, painter | Sun Prairie |
Les Paul, musician | Waukesha |
Liberace, pianist | West Allis |
Thomas Hulce, actor | Whitewater |
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