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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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