List of people from Rochester, Minnesota
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This is a list of people who were born or lived in Rochester, Minnesota.
- José Argüelles, author, artist
- Dan Bakkedahl, actor, comedian
- Michele Carey, actress[1]
- SungWon Cho, voice actor and YouTuber
- Darius Danesh, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, film producer
- Amanda Hocking, author
- Judy Onofrio, artist
- Johnny Pemberton, actor
- Emily Sandberg, model and actress
- Warren Skaaren, screenplay writer, producer
- Lea Thompson, actress
- John Towey, actor
- Sheree J. Wilson, actress
- Michael York, actor
- Yung Gravy (Matt Hauri), rapper
Science and medicine
- Luis Walter Alvarez, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1968
- Harry Bisel, physician
- Sara C. Bisel, physical anthropologist
- Philip Showalter Hench, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
- Edward Calvin Kendall, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
- Charles Horace Mayo, physician
- William James Mayo, physician
- William Worrall Mayo, physician
- Henry Stanley Plummer, physician
- Augustus Stinchfield, physician
- Michael Stuart, physician and orthopedic surgeon[2]
- Albert Szent-Györgyi, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937[3]
Law and politics
- Adolph Biermann, Minnesota state suditor
- Harry Blackmun, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Walter Burdick, Minnesota farmer and legislator
- Michael C. Burgess, congressman
- Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years
- Barbara Cegavske, secretary of state of Nevada, former Nevada legislator
- Kerry Conley, Minnesota legislator and businessman
- Robert Rankin Dunlap, Minnesota lawyer and legislator
- John Moonan Fitzgerald, Minnesota jurist and legislator
- Donald T. Franke, Minnesota jurist and legislator
- Don Frerichs, Minnesota legislator and businessman
- Allen John Furlow, Minnesota congressman, lawyer, and World War I veteran
- Julie Anne Genter, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Gil Gutknecht, member of Congress
- Stiles P. Jones, Minnesota state senator and lawyer
- John R. Kaley, Minnesota state representative and businessman
- Sandy Keith, lt. governor and state supreme court chief justice
- Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. secretary of state and winner of Nobel Peace Prize 1929
- Harold G. Krieger. Minnesota state senator and judge
- Gordon Moore, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[4]
- Leilani Munter, stock car driver
- Carla Nelson, incumbent Minnesota state senator and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- Richard Ojeda, member of the West Virginia Senate, candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- Edward Henry Ozmun, Minnesota lawyer, politician, and diplomat
- John Parkin, Wisconsin legislator
- John M. Peters, Iowa lawyer and legislator
- Mark Piepho, Minnesota legislator and businessman
- Nels Pierson, Minnesota legislator
- E. William Quirin, Minnesota legislator and businessman
- Dave Senjem, former majority leader of the Minnesota Senate, former minority leader of the Minnesota Senate
- Ozora P. Stearns, U.S. senator and mayor of Rochester
- Ken Zubay, Minnesota legislator and businessman
