Famous Minnesotans

Writers

• Sinclair Lewis
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• John Hassler
• Anne Tyler
• Susan Allen Toth (Smith grad)
• Ole Rolvaag
• Tami Hoag
• Wanda Gag
• Maud Hart Lovelace
• Lorna Landvik
• Robert Bly
• Thorstein Veblen
• Thomas Friedman
• Eric Sevareid
• Gary Paulsen
• Garrison Keillor
• Margaret Banning
• Faith Sullivan
• Louise Erdrich
• Laura Ingalls Wilder

Music and Art

• Prince
• Bob Dylan
• Next
• Soul Asylum
• Lipps, Inc. ("Funkytown")
• Johnny Lang
• Koerner Ray Glover
• Judy Garland
• The Andrews Sisters
• Marcy Playground
• Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
• Semisonic
• Bobby McFerrin
• Cass Gilbert
• Whoopee John (polka king)
• Charles Schultz
• "Dixie" (yes, even this classic Southern song was written in Minnesota by two Southerners longing for their home)

Law and Politics

• Hubert H. Humphrey
• Eugene McCarthy
• Harold Stassen
• Jesse Ventura!!!
• Henry Blackmun
• Warren Berger
• Frank Kellogg (of the Kellogg-Briand pact, outlawing war)
• Walter Mondale
• Don Fraser (UN delegate)
• Kate Millett

Entertainment

• Judy Garland
• Jessica Lange
• Winona Ryder
• Peter Graves
• Jim Arness
• Al Franken
• Joel and Ethan Coen
• Richard Dean Anderson
• Loni Anderson
• Charlie Korsmo
• Rachel Leigh Cook
• "Mary Tyler Moore"
• Lea Thompson
• Kevin Sorbo
• John Madden
• Craig Kilbourn
• Louie Anderson
• Tammy Faye Bakker

Business, Science, and Industry

• Charles Lindbergh
• The Mayo Brothers
• James J. Hill
• Cargill
• 3M
• General Mills
• Medtronic
• Target
• The Jolly Green Giant
• The Pillsbury Doughboy
• Betty Crocker
• Dr. C Walton Lillehei (first open heart surgery)
• Southdale (first fully enclosed shopping mall)
• First bone marrow transplant
• Will Steger
• Ann Bancroft
• George "Pinky" Nelson, astronaut

Minnesota Products and Inventions

• Post-it Notes
• Pacemakers
• Tonka trucks
• Minnetonka moccasins
• Rollerblades
• Nordic-Track
• Water skiing
• The stapler
• Sandpaper
• Video tape
• Betty Crocker
• Snowmobiles
• Iron Ore
• Turkeys, Corn, Soybeans!

People educated in Minnesota

• Kofi Annan
• Yanni