- Tim Pawlenty
Timothy James (Tim) Pawlenty (born November 27, 1960) is an American politician from the Republican Party. He is the 39th and current Governor of Minnesota, and started his term on January 6, 2003. After winning re-election in 2006, he "downplayed any national ambitions" but some speculate that his vocal support of John McCain makes him a potential Vice Presidential candidate. - Anthony Kevin Dungy
Anthony Kevin "Tony" Dungy (born October 6, 1955) is a former professional American football player and coach in the National Football League. Dungy was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001, and head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2002 to 2008. He became the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Colts defeated the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007. - Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949. - Walter Mondale
Walter F. Mondale 's record of public service includes: vice president of the United States, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and U.S. senator and attorney general for the State of Minnesota. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president in 1984. He is currently a partner with the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, headquartered in Minneapolis with 16 offices worldwide. He serves as chair of the firm's Asia Law Practice Group. - 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." - Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971. In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president of the United States to succeed incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform. - Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins (August 30, 1901 - September 8, 1981) was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and between 1931 and 1934 was assistant NAACP secretary under Walter Francis White. When W. E. B. Du Bois left the organization in 1934, Wilkins replaced him as editor of "Crisis", the official magazine of the NAACP - Wendell Anderson
Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson (born February 1, 1933) was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota, from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, he resigned the governor's office in order to be named U.S. Senator to replace Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the United States. He served in the U.S. Senate from December 30, 1976 until his resignation on December 29, 1978 in the 94th and 95th congresses. - 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. - Harold Stassen
Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 - March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943 and a later perennial candidate for other offices, most notably and frequently President of the United States. Born in West St. Paul, Minnesota, he graduated from high school at age 14 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929. He was elected District Attorney of Dakota County in 1930 and 1934. - 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. - 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. - Mike Hatch
Mike Hatch (born November 12, 1948) is an American politician, and was attorney general of Minnesota from 1999 - 2007. In 2006, he was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee for governor. He challenged the reelection bid of incumbent Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty in the general election. - 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. - 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, … - 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), … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Theodore Christianson
Theodore Christianson (September 12, 1883 - December 9, 1948) was an American politician. He served as the 21st Governor of Minnesota from January 6, 1925 until January 6, 1931, and did not seek re-election. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1937 in the 73rd and 74th congresses. He was a Republican. Born in Lac qui Parle Township, Minnesota, Christianson graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1909. - 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. - 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. - Alan Page
Alan Cedric Page (born August 7 1945 in Canton, Ohio) is a former professional American football player who starred as a defensive lineman in the NFL, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings as a member of the "Purple People Eaters", and then went on to have a distinguished legal career, serving as a current Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Married to Diane Sims Page and is the father of four children, Nina, Georgi, Justin and Kamie. - Harold Levander
Karl Harold Phillip LeVander (October 10, 1910 - March 30, 1992) was an American politician. He served as the 32nd governor of Minnesota from January 2, 1967 to January 4, 1971 as a Republican. His victory over Karl Rolvaag, a DFLer whose campaign had suffered from party infighting in the primary season, made him the thirty-second governor of Minnesota. LeVander, originally from Swede Home, Nebraska (near Stromsburg, Polk County), went to high school in Watertown, … - 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. - Harrison Salisbury
Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 - July 5, 1993), an American journalist, was the first regular "New York Times" correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Salisbury was the first mainstream, well-known and respected journalist to oppose the Vietnam War after visiting North Vietnam in 1966 (as opposed to the often criticized David Halberstam). He took much heat from the Johnson Administration and the political Right, … - Brock Lesnar
Brock Edward Lesnar (born July 12, 1977) is an American mixed martial artist, former professional and amateur wrestler, best known for his professional wrestling career in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). He is currently signed to K-1 HERO'S. - Shelton Benjamin
Shelton Benjamin (born July 9 1975) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) working on its "RAW" brand as one half of The World's Greatest Tag Team with Charlie Haas. Benjamin is a three-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and has held the WWE Tag Team Championship and OVW Southern Tag Team Championship two and four times, respectively. - 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. - 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", … - 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. - Stephen Paulus
Stephen Paulus (born August 24 1949 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His most well-known piece is his 1982 opera "The Postman Always Rings Twice", one of several operas he has written for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which prompted "The New York Times" to call him "a young man on the road to big things". His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature. - 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. - Donald M. Fraser
Donald MacKay Fraser (born February 20, 1924) is an American politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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