- Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. - Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor 's latest book, "Homegrown Democrat," was released on July 15, 2004. Here he offers the first four chapters for your perusal, courtesy of Viking Books. Dedicating the book to "all of the good Democratic-Farmer-Laborites of Minnesota," he offers "a few plain thoughts from the heart of America." - Malcolm Moos
Malcolm Moos (1916, Saint Paul, Minnesota - 1982) was an American political scientist. He received his bachelor and masters degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving his Ph.D. Moos taught for several years at Johns Hopkins University and was employed by the Baltimore Evening Sun as an associate editor. - Orville Freeman
Orville Lothrop Freeman (May 9, 1918 - February 20, 2003) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. - Peter Graves
Peter Graves (born March 18 1926) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his starring role in the television series "Mission: Impossible" from 1967 to 1973 (and again from 1988 to 1990). - Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 - July 9, 1992) was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents-dubbed "Murrow's Boys"-because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow. Sevareid was a child of the American Plains. He was born in Velva, North Dakota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1935. Of Norwegian ancestry, he preserved a strong bond with Norway throughout his life. - Jim Ramstad
James M. "Jim" Ramstad (born May 6, 1946) is a United States politician from the state of Minnesota. Ramstad has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota. The district, the state's wealthiest, includes most of the western portion of the Twin Cities area, including cities such as Maple Grove, Bloomington, Plymouth, Minnetonka, … - C. Walton Lillehei
C(larence) Walt(on) Lillehei (October 23, 1918-July 5, 1999), was an American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery, as well as numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery. C. Walt Lillehei was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned five degrees at the University of Minnesota, including his B.S. (with distinction) in 1939, his M.D. (Alpha Omega Alpha) in 1942, his M.S. in physiology in 1951, and his Ph.D. in surgery in 1951. - Lee Raymond
Lee R. Raymond (born August 13, 1938) was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of ExxonMobil from 1999 to 2005. He had previously been the CEO of Exxon since 1993. He joined the company in 1963 and has been president since 1987 and a director since 1984. In 1989, Raymond's tenure as President of Exxon saw the Exxon Valdez disaster which spilled an estimated 30 million gallons of crude oil off the Alaskan coast and killed thousands of wildlife animals and fish. - Daniel McFadden
Daniel L. McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". He is currently the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. McFadden was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.S. in Physics at age 19, … - Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse was a United States Senator from Oregon from 1945 until 1969. He made a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953 protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest filibuster in Senate history. Morse was born to a farming family in Verona, Wisconsin, who imbued the political beliefs of Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. in their children. - Norman Shumway
Norman E. Shumway, M.D. (February 9 1923 - February 10 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was famous for being the first doctor to successfully carry out an open heart transplant operation in the USA in 1968, after Christiaan Barnard's 1967 operation in South Africa. The early years of the procedure were chequered with few patients surviving for long after it finished. - Edward B. Lewis
Edward B. Lewis (May 20, 1918 - July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Lewis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and graduated from E.L. Meyers High School. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1938, where he worked on "Drosophila melanogaster" in the lab of C.P. Oliver. In 1942 Lewis received a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), … - Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 - October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who founded the company Cray Research. Cray was born in 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. His father was a civil engineer who fostered Cray's interest in science and engineering. As early as the age of ten he was able to build a device to convert punched paper tape into Morse code signals out of Erector Set components. - Patty Berg
Patricia Jane Berg was a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended the University of Minnesota where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She took up golf in 1931 and began her amateur career in 1934, winning her first title that year - the Minneapolis City Championship. - Eric Bischoff
Eric Bischoff (born May 27 1955), is a former professional wrestling promoter and on-screen personality, most known for serving as President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later "on-air" General Manager of World Wrestling Entertainment's "RAW" brand. He still makes occasional appearances on RAW. - Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 - January 8, 1997) was a chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle (along with Andrew Benson), for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent virtually all of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Jewish immigrants. His father was Lithuanian and his mother Georgian. - Bruce Vento
Bruce Frank Vento, American politician, was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 until his death in 2000, in the 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, and 106th congresses, representing the 4th District of Minnesota. Vento was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he received his BA in 1961. - Bill Smith
Bill Smith (1929 - 1993) is the "Father of Six Sigma". Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and studied at the University of Minnesota School of Management (now known as the Carlson School of Management). In 1987, after working for nearly 35 years in engineering and quality assurance, he joined Motorola, serving as vice president and senior quality assurance manager for the Land Mobile Products Sector. - Louis Ignarro
Louis J. Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. He was corecipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad for demonstrating the signalling properties of nitric oxide. He is currently a distinguished professor of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. - Robert R. Gilruth
Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 18 1913-August 17 2000) was an American aviation and space pioneer. In the beginning of his career he was involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft and then with the manned space program, including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects. He worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1937 to 1958 and its successor agency, the NASA, until retirement in 1973. - Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder, popularly known as Pat Schroeder (born July 30, 1940), American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado, serving from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to congress from Colorado. - Peter Michael Goetz
Peter Michael Goetz (born December 10 1941) is an American actor. Born in Buffalo, New York, Goetz studied at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated. He then joined the Guthrie Theatre, where over the course of forty years he has appeared in numerous productions, including "Death of a Salesman", "All My Sons", "A Moon for the Misbegotten", … - Vin Weber
John Vincent Weber, a former Congressman from Minnesota; born in Slayton, Murray County, Minnesota, July 24 1952; attended the public schools; attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1970–1974; copublisher, Murray County newspaper; president, Weber Publishing Co.; press secretary to Representative Tom Hagedorn, 1974–1975; senior aide to Senator Rudy Boschwitz, 1977–1980; delegate, Minnesota State Republican conventions, … - Donald M. Fraser
Donald MacKay Fraser (born February 20, 1924) is an American politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota. - Harry Reasoner
Harry Reasoner was an American journalist known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator. Born in Dakota City, Iowa, Reasoner studied journalism at Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He served in World War II and then resumed his journalism career with "The Minneapolis Times". After going into radio with CBS in 1948, Reasoner worked for the United States Information Agency in the Philippines. - Lorie Skjerven Gildea
Lorie Skjerven Gildea is currently an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, taking office on January 11, 2006. Previously, she had been appointed a Judge in the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County since 2005. Gildea was raised in Plummer, Minnesota, a small town in northeast portion of the state. She received her Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1983, and her Juris Doctor, "magna cum laude", … - Bill Luther
William Paul "Bill" Luther (born June 27, 1945) is an American politician. Luther was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1995 to January 3, 2003, serving in the 104th, 105th, 106th, and 107th congresses, representing Minnesota's 6th congressional district. Luther was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota, … - John Earl Haynes
John Earl Haynes is an American historian who is a specialist in 20th century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist and anti-Communist movements, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with Harvey Klehr). He received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University in 1966, … - Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Elaine Tuttle Hansen is the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, a position she has held since 2002. Hansen graduated "cum laude", Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College in 1969. She received her M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1975. Hansen served as the Provost of Haverford College from 1995-2002 and was a Professor of English at Haverford from 1980-2002. - Michele Norris
Michele Norris (born September 7, 1961) is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast "All Things Considered". Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, a post she held from 1993 - 2002, and also wrote for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. A Minnesota native, Norris originally attended the University of Wisconsin, where she studied electrical engineering, … - Monika Bauerlein
Monika Bauerlein (born 1965 in Germany) is the co-Editor of Mother Jones magazine. (Clara Jeffery is the other co-editor.) Bauerlein was promoted to the in August 2006, following the departure of Russ Rymer; previously she was the magazine's Investigative Editor. Bauerlein first came to Mother Jones magazine in 2000, and she has focused on developing political and investigative reportage and has spearheaded the magazine's new investigative team and Washington bureau. - James Lileks
Jim is married and has no children that he is aware of. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Master of Science in Computer Science. When his first grade class was asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, he was the only one who said "scientist" (in spite of the allure of shiny firetrucks and police cars). He is an avid runner and also enjoys kayaking, xc-skiing, and similar sports. - James Blanchard
James Johnston Blanchard (b. August 8 1942, Detroit, Michigan) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. A Democrat, Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives, as Governor of Michigan, and as United States Ambassador to Canada. Blanchard attended the public schools in Ferndale. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964 and an MBA from the same school in 1965. - Dean Barkley
Dean M. Barkley (born August 31, 1950) served as a member of the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from November 4, 2002 to January 3, 2003. Barkley is a member of the Independence Party of Minnesota, formerly the Minnesota Reform Party. - Geir Haarde
Geir Hilmar Haarde (born April 8, 1951) is Prime Minister of Iceland and chairman of the Independence Party. Geir became Prime Minister on June 15 2006 following the announcement of Halldór Ásgrímsson's resignation as the Prime Minister of Iceland on June 5, 2006. He then led a coalition between his party and the Progressive Party. After the 2007 parliamentary elections, where the Independence Party increased their share of the vote, … - Mindy Greiling
Mindy Greiling is a DFL Representative in the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing District 54A, which contains part or all of Roseville, St. Anthony, and Lauderdale. Greiling was first elected as the Minnesota Representative in District 54B in 1992, after five years serving on the Roseville School Board. Following the Minnesota redistricting in 2002, Greiling shifted to District 54A, in which the incumbent, … - Dave Arneson
David L. Arneson (born September 30, 1947 in Minnesota, United States) is an American game designer. In the early 1970s, he co-created the "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D) role-playing game with Gary Gygax. He is a University of Minnesota alumnus, and began working on role-playing games (RPGs) at Coffman Union. He has kept a relatively low profile and has been called an "unsung legend" in the early development of role-playing games. - Dick Durrell
Dick Durrell (born ca. 1925) is a retired advertising executive and one of the founding staff members for "People" magazine. Durrell turned down an offer to play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers franchise in order to attend the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in 1948. For most of his career he worked for Time Inc., retiring in 1983. - Ray P. Chase
Ray Park Chase (March 12, 1880 - September 18, 1948) was a United States Representative from Minnesota; born in Anoka County, Minnesota, March 12, 1880; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1903; attended the University of Minnesota Law School in 1904, 1905, 1915, and 1916; engaged in the publishing and printing business at Anoka, Minnesota, 1904 - 1914; municipal judge of Anoka, Minnesota, …
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