- Herb Brooks
Herbert Paul Brooks (August 5, 1937 - August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey coach, best known for coaching the U.S. hockey team to a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in an event known as the "Miracle on Ice". On November 13, 2006 Brooks was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. - Dave Winfield
David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951, in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a former Major League Baseball player. He played for 22 seasons and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame. He played for the San Diego Padres, the New York Yankees, the California Angels, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Minnesota Twins, and the Cleveland Indians. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. - Paul Molitor
Paul Leo Molitor (nicknamed Molly or The Ignitor) (born August 22, 1956 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, elected in 2004, his first year of eligibility. He played for 21 seasons, with the Milwaukee Brewers (1978-1992), Toronto Blue Jays (1993-1995) and Minnesota Twins (1996-1998). Molitor played several positions during his career. - Norm Coleman
Norman Bertram "Norm" Coleman, Jr. (born August 17, 1949) has served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota since 2003, serving in the 108th, 109th, and 110th congresses. He served as the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1994 to 2002. Previously a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Coleman switched to the Republican Party of Minnesota in 1996. In 1998 he lost a bid for Governor of Minnesota against former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura, … - Charles Burlingame
Charles Frank "Chic" Burlingame III (September 12, 1949 - September 11, 2001) was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, the aircraft that was crashed by terrorists into the Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks. - Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his "Peanuts" comic strip. - Jack Morris
John Scott "Jack" Morris (born May 16, 1955 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He played in 18 big league seasons between 1977 and 1994, mainly for the Detroit Tigers, and won 254 games throughout his career. - Mitch Hedberg
Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his stylistic elocution and routines that often consisted of a string of one-line non sequiturs. - Chris Coleman
Chris Coleman (born 1961, St. Paul) is a Minnesota politician and the mayor of the state's capital city of St. Paul. In the 2005 mayoral race, he ran against and beat incumbent St. Paul mayor Randy Kelly. Chris Coleman took office in January 2006. Coleman spent eight years working in Hennepin County as a public defender and prosecutor. Proposals to build a metal shredder along the Mississippi River in Saint Paul inspired his first run for the Saint Paul City Council. - Randy Kelly
Randy C. Kelly (born August 2 1950 in North Dakota) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). Kelly was the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota from January, 2002 through January, 2006. Kelly won office in 2001 in a tight race with Jay Benanav, a city councilman, by 403 votes. He graduated from Harding High School in Saint Paul, and the University of Minnesota. Today, he resides in Saint Paul, on the East Side with his wife and family. - August Wilson
August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. Wilson's singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—dubbed "The Pittsburgh Cycle". Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. "This cycle," notes the theater critic Christopher Rawson, "is unprecedented in American theater for its concept, size, and cohesion." - Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burger (September 17 1907 - June 25 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Under his leadership, the United States Supreme Court delivered major decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation. He worked hard for the adoption of modern management techniques in the nation's judicial system. - Josh Hartnett
Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", and has since become a leading Hollywood actor, having starred in "Black Hawk Down", "Here on Earth", "Pearl Harbor", "Wicker Park", "Lucky Number Slevin", and most recently "The Black Dahlia" - William Colby
William Egan Colby became Director of Central Intelligence on September 4, 1973, after James R. Schlesinger. It was Colby who launched the Accelerated Pacification Campaign during the Vietnam War. He later would reveal a large amount of information to Congress. He served under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford and was replaced by future President George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976. - Tim Tschida
Timothy Joseph Tschida (born May 4 1960 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an umpire in Major League Baseball. He joined the American League's full-time staff in 1986, and has worked in both major leagues since 2000. Prior to pursuing professional umpiring, he attended St. Thomas University. His professional umpiring career began after he attented the Joe Brinkman Umpire School in 1981. He was elevated to the AL for the 1986 season. - Chad Smith
Chad Smith (born October 25, 1961 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA), is the drummer of the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He joined the Chili Peppers in late 1988 after former drummer, Jack Irons quit because of the distress and chaos over former guitarist Hillel Slovak's death from a drug overdose. In 1993, he released "Red Hot Rhythm Method", an educational video for aspiring drummers. - Louie Anderson
Louie Perry Anderson (born March 24, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian. Louie has also created the cartoon series "Life with Louie", has authored three books and was the third host of the game show "Family Feud" from 1999-2002. - Richard Simmons
Richard Simmons, also known as Dick Simmons, was an American actor. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was best know for his role in the 1950s television series "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon". He appeared in many films, often uncredited, from the 1930s on. He died from Alzheimer's disease. - Loni Anderson
Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Jennifer Marlowe" on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle. Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. As she tells it in her autobiography, "My Life in High Heels", … - Leroy Neiman
LeRoy Neiman is an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, semi-abstract paintings and screen prints of athletes and sporting events. - Mike Farrell
Mike Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series "M*A*S*H" (1975-83). More recently, Farrell has starred on television series "Providence" and "Desperate Housewives". - Sharon Sayles Belton
Sharon Sayles Belton (born May 13, 1951) is an American community leader, politician and activist. She was the first African American and the first female mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is currently a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota Roy Wilkins Center. - Brent Michael Davids
Brent Michael Davids (b. Madison, Wisconsin, United States, June 4, 1959) is an American composer and flutist. He is a member of the Stockbridge Mohican nation of American Indians. He has composed for Zeitgeist, the Kronos Quartet, Joffrey Ballet, the National Symphony Orchestra, and Chanticleer. He holds a B.M. degree in music composition from Northern Illinois University (1981) and an M.M. in music composition from Arizona State University (1990), … - Joe Patrick Mauer
Joseph Patrick Mauer (born April 19 1983) is a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins. He was considered by many scouts to be the best young catcher in the sport and has been said to have one of the best swings in baseball and possibly of all-time. In his breakout 2006 season, Mauer became the first catcher in major league history to lead both leagues in batting average and the first American League catcher to win the batting title with an average of .347. - William Demarest
William Demarest (February 27, 1892 - December 28, 1983) was an American character actor. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a very prolific film and TV actor, having worked on over 140 films. He worked frequently with director Preston Sturges, becoming part of a "stock" troupe of actors that Sturges repeatedly cast in his films. He started in show business working in vaudeville, then moved on to Broadway. - Chris Weinke
Christopher Jon Weinke (born July 31, 1972 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a professional American football player who is currently a free agent. He was released by the Carolina Panthers on March 6, 2007. He has primarily been a backup during his NFL career. - Richard Pates
Richard E. Pates (born February 12, 1943) is a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He is currently the Titular Bishop of Suacia, serving as an auxiliary bishop and episcopal vicar of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Bishop Pates is a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He attended Nazareth Hall Seminary and Saint Paul Seminary, both of which were located in St. Paul. In 1965 he would earn Bachelor's degrees in Latin and Philosophy from St. Paul's Seminary. - Ken Mauer
Ken Mauer (born April 23, 1955 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the 1986-87 NBA season. As of the beginning of the 2006-07 NBA season, Mauer has officiated in 1,167 regular season and 67 playoff games, including one NBA Finals game. Mauer wears uniform number 41. - Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle, born February 19, 1902 in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States – died December 27, 1992 in Mill Valley, California, was an award-winning writer, educator, and political activist. - Philemon Bliss
Philemon Bliss (July 28, 1813 - August 25, 1889) was an Ohio Congressman, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, and a Missouri Supreme Court justice. Bliss was born in Canton, Connecticut in 1813 to Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss. He attended Fairfield Academy and Hamilton College, where he studied law. In 1840 Bliss passed the bar and began practicing law, first in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and later in Elyria, Ohio. - Steve Walsh
Stephen John Walsh (born December 1, 1966 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a former National Football League quarterback. - Frances Scott Fitzgerald
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald was the only child of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was a writer, journalist, and a prominent member of the United States Democratic Party. "Scottie" was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her mother supposedly remarked upon her birth that she was glad to have borne a girl and that she hoped she would be a "beautiful little fool." In "The Great Gatsby" (1925), … - Daniele Gaither
Daniele Gaither (born September 6, 1972) is an American comic actress. Gaither is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series "MADtv". - Graham McNamee
Graham McNamee (July 10, 1888 - May 9, 1942) was a pioneering broadcaster in American radio, the medium's most recognized national personality in its first commercial decade. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, McNamee had early aspirations of being an opera singer. In 1923, while serving jury duty in New York City, he passed the studios of radio station WEAF en route to the courthouse and, on a whim, went to see the station manager. - Tanya Beyer
Tanya Beyer (born June 4, 1971 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as "Playboy"'s Playmate of the Month in February, 1992 and has appeared in numerous "Playboy" videos. - Joseph K. Bratton
Joseph K. Bratton (April 4, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota - June 2, 2007 in Virginia) was an American Army officer and nuclear engineer. He graduated third in the class of 1948 at the United States Military Academy and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He served with an engineer battalion in Austria in 1949-52 and with the divisional 13th Engineer Combat Battalion in Korea in 1953-54, both before and after the armistice there. - T. Denny Sanford
T. Denny Sanford (born 1935) is a South Dakota businessman and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of United National Corp. - John Wozniak
John Wozniak (born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on January 19, 1971) is an American musician. Wozniak is best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Marcy Playground. As of 2006 he has recorded his second solo album, "Leaving Wonderland (... In a Fit of Rage)" and is looking for a label to release it. His first solo effort was Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground. - Robert E. Cushman Jr.
General Robert Everton Cushman, Jr. (December 24 1914 - January 2 1985) served as the 25th Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1 1972 to June 30 1975. He was honored for heroism in battle during World War II at the battles of Guam (Navy Cross), Bouganville (Bronze Star) and Iwo Jima (Legion of Merit). He also commanded all Marine forces in Vietnam from June - December of 1967. Cushman served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1969-1971.
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