List of people from Dubuque, Iowa
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This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Dubuque, Iowa, United States, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
- Austin Adams, judge, Iowa state supreme court chief justice (1880–87)
- Don Ameche, actor, Loras College, buried in nearby Asbury, Iowa
- Francis Beckman, bishop, an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, served as Bishop of Lincoln (1924–30) and as Archbishop of Dubuque (1930–46)
- Alfred S. Bennett, judge, educator, attorney in Oregon, 49th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (1919–1920)
- Leo Binz, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque
- Richard Pike Bissell, author
- Gottfried Blocklinger, rear admiral in US Navy; in 1879, as a lieutenant, he commanded survey of Madeira river in the Amazon; lieutenant on board USS Baltimore (C-3) during Baltimore Crisis of 1891; executive officer on board USS Charleston (C-2) during the Capture of Guam during Spanish–American War in 1898
- Donald G. Bloesch, theologian
- Charles H. Bradley Jr., businessman
- James Byrne, Archbishop of Dubuque, died in Dubuque[1]
- Robert Byrne, author, billiards player, Hall of Fame instructor of pool and billiards
- LeRoy E. Cain, flight director during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- Sabin Carr, pole vault gold medalist at 1928 Summer Olympics
- John Patrick Carroll, bishop
- Saint Cessianus, whose remains are kept inside the altar at St. Raphael's Cathedral
- Mark Chamberlain, photographic, environmental, and installation artist, curator, educator
- Tom Churchill, TV and radio meteorologist for ABC, NBC, PBS
- Andrew Clemens, sand artist
- Mary Clement, Luxembourgish-American serial killer who poisoned several family members
- Ada Langworthy Collier (1843–1919), poet, writer
- Ira Davenport, 1912 Olympic bronze medalist and Dubuque coach
- Julien Dubuque, explorer, first white settler in Dubuque
- Peter H. Engle, first Speaker of the House of Wisconsin Territory, which at that time included all of what is now Iowa (and Minnesota, and parts of the Dakotas)
- David Farley, author and journalist, writing about travel, food, and culture for the New York Times, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler, and World Hum
- Victor Feguer, convicted murderer, last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia, last person put to death in Iowa
- Margaret Feldner, nun, educator; served as Quincy University's 21st president, assumed the post January 1, 2004; first woman president appointed to the role at Quincy University; excused in 2006
- William Arthur Ganfield, educator, figure in higher education, president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, 1915–1921; later president of Carroll College from 1921 until his retirement in 1939; supported athletic programs at both schools
- Thomas Gifford, author, best-selling author of thriller novels
- John Graas, musician, known primarily as one of the first and best French horn players in jazz
- Carl L. Hamilton, named partner in the Booz Allen Hamilton management and information technology consulting firm[2]
- Jerome Hanus, archbishop of the Catholic Church; Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, 1987–1994; former archbishop of Dubuque
- James H. Hawley, ninth Governor of Idaho; born in Dubuque
- Geoff Herbach, novelist
- Fridolin Heer, architect, he and his son set up practice in Dubuque in 1864; buildings by Fridolin Heer and Son include the Dubuque County Courthouse, 1891–1893
- Gwen Hennessey, activist, religious sister; known for protests at Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the Army's School of the Americas, a facility for training Latin American soldiers
- John Hennessey, bishop of the Diocese of Dubuque 1866–1893, then named the first archbishop of Dubuque
- Jack Hicks, sculptor
- Henry J. Messing (1847–1913), rabbi
- Kelly Ortberg, engineer, current CEO of Boeing
- Doron Jensen, founder of Timber Lodge Steakhouse
- Richard A. Jensen, theologian and Carlson Professor of Homiletics at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
- Frederick William Kaltenbach, American who served Nazis as wartime radio broadcaster known as "Lord Hee-Haw"
- Frank Keenan, actor, stage director and manager during silent film era; among first stage actors to star in Hollywood, pursued work in feature films
- Dallas Kinney, photojournalist who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in photography for his pictures of Florida migrant workers
- Kevin Kunnert, NBA Basketball Player, First Team All American at the University of Iowa
- Kay Kurt, New Realist painter known for her large-scale candy paintings
- Anna B. Lawther, leader in the women's suffrage movement
- Mathias Clement Lenihan, 20th-century archbishop in the Catholic Church; bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls, Montana 1904–30
- Alexander Levi, French Jew of Sephardic origin; first foreigner to be naturalized in Iowa; a grocer, miner, mine provisioner and department store owner; founded the first two Jewish congregations in the city
- Margaret Lindsay, actress, noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s such as Jezebel (1938) and Scarlet Street (1945) and for leading roles in lower-budgeted B-movies such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940s
- Bill Lipinski, politician; attended Loras College; U.S. Representative for Illinois' 3rd and 5th districts (1983–2005)
- Francis MacNutt, religious author; a leading member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
- Dennis Mahony, journalist, a founder of the Telegraph Herald
- ShaChelle Devlin Manning, businesswoman, change agent for nanotechnology, attempting to pave the way for nanotechnology's commercialization at the university, company, state, federal, and international level
- Robert Martin, original Tuskegee Airmen and war hero who flew in World War II
- Michael Joseph Melloy, judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Kate Mulgrew, actress, Star Trek: Voyager, Mrs. Columbo and Orange is the New Black
- Thomas C. Power, 19th-century senator of Montana
- Louie Psihoyos, documentary film director; in 2009 he directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary The Cove, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
- David Rabe, playwright; won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones); received Tony award nominations for Best Play in 1974 (In the Boom Boom Room), 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly)
- John F. Rague (1799–1877), architect who designed and built the 1837 Old Capitol of Illinois and the 1840 Territorial Capitol of Iowa, the Dubuque city hall, central market house, and jail[3]
- Anna M. Morrison Reed, poet, lecturer, suffragist, editor/publisher of a newspaper and a magazine
- Robert Reuland, novelist
- Raymond Roseliep, poet and haiku writer, Loras College
- Alexander Rummler, painter
- Albert Sale, soldier in the U.S. Army who served with 8th U.S. Cavalry in the Arizona Territory during the Apache Wars; was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a hostile band of Apache Indians
- Debra Saylor, pianist and singer
- John P. Schlegel, educator, 23rd President of Creighton University, 26th President of the University of San Francisco (1991–2000)
- Dennis Schmitz, contemporary poet[4]
- William A. Shanklin, educator, president of Upper Iowa University in 1905–09 and thereafter president of Wesleyan University
- George Shiras Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; practiced law in Dubuque 1855–1858
- Oliver Perry Shiras, first federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
- Hilda Siller (1861-1945), poet and short story writer
- J. R. Simplot, entrepreneur and formerly world's oldest billionaire
- Laurel Sprengelmeyer, musician better known as Little Scream
- Mark Steines, TV anchor and reporter on Entertainment Tonight
- James Huff Stout, Wisconsin politician and businessman, founded Stout Manual Institute (now University of Wisconsin-Stout)
- Jessie Taft, early authority on child placement and therapeutic adoption; best remembered for her work as the translator and biographer of Otto Rank, an outcast disciple of Sigmund Freud
- John Tomkins, criminal, arrested and charged with sending several threatening letters and bomb-like devices to financial firms in the Midwestern United States under the pseudonym The Bishop
- William Vandever, U.S. Representative for Iowa's 2nd district (1859–61) and California's 6th district (1887–91)
- James F. Watson, 25th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, 1876–1878; previously in state legislature and later served as United States Attorney for the District of Oregon
- Loras Joseph Watters, Roman Catholic bishop
- Westel W. Willoughby, educator