- Jason Kendall
Jason Daniel Kendall is a Major League Baseball catcher with the Chicago Cubs. He is the son of former catcher Fred Kendall, who played in the majors from 1969–1980. Kendall attended and played at Torrance (California) High School, where he tied a national high school record by hitting safely in 43 straight games. He was drafted out of high school in the first round of the 1992 amateur draft (23rd overall pick) by the Pittsburgh Pirates. - Speech
Speech (born Todd Thomas on October 25, 1968) is a musician and member of the progressive hip hop group Arrested Development. In addition to his work with Arrested Development, Speech has released a number of solo albums. - Kyle Korver
Kyle Elliot Korver (born March 17, 1981 in Lakewood, California) is an American basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers. He plays small forward and was drafted out of Creighton University by the New Jersey Nets in the second round (51st overall) of the 2003 NBA Draft. Kyle competed in both the 2004 and 2005 Foot Locker Three-Point Shootouts, coming in third and second in those contests respectively. - Frederick Pabst
Frederick Pabst (March 28, 1836-January 1, 1904) was an American brewer, born in Saxony, Germany. In 1848, he emigrated with his parents to Chicago. There he became, first a hotel waiter, then a cabin-boy on a Lake Michigan steamer. Eventually, he became a captain of one of these vessels. In this last capacity, he met a German, Phillip Best, the owner of a small but prosperous brewery founded in 1844 in Milwaukee, and married his daughter. - Wes Helms
Wesley Ray Helms (born in Gastonia, North Carolina on May 12, 1976) is a professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. On November 15, 2006 he agreed to a contract in principle with the Philadelphia Phillies to a two year contract for approximately 5.5 million dollars, with a club option for a third year. Wes Helms was drafted by the Atlanta Braves right out of high school in the 10th round of the 1994 amateur draft. - Tom Crean
Thomas Aaron "Tom" Crean (born March 25 1966, Mount Pleasant, Michigan) is the head coach of the Marquette University men's college basketball team, a position he has held since the 1999-2000 season. During Crean's tenure, the program has averaged 20 wins a year, won a conference championship, and made six postseason appearances, including the 2003 NCAA Final Four, the program's third appearance all-time and first since 1977. - Bill Miller
Bill Miller (born 1955) is an American, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter of Mohican heritage. He was born on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation, near Shawano in northern Wisconsin. Miller's Mohican name is "'Fush-Ya Heay Aka" (meaning "bird song"). He began playing guitar when he was 12 years old, and is an accomplished player of the Native American flute). - Phil Niekro
Philip Henry Niekro (born April 1, 1939 in Blaine, Ohio) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A native of Blaine, Ohio, Niekro attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio. With 318 career victories, Niekro is the most successful knuckleball pitcher of all time. He was also an excellent fielder, winning the National League Gold Glove award five times. Together with his brother and sometime teammate Joe, … - Jack Taschner
Jack Girard Taschner (born on April 21, 1978 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He currently plays for the San Francisco Giants. He went to University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He was drafted by the Giants in the 2nd round in 1999 MLB Draft. Taschner first reached the Major Leagues as a mid-season call-up in 2005. In 2006, he started the season back in the Minor Leagues with the Triple-A Fresno Grizzlies, … - John Anderson
Roger John Anderson (born February 14, 1956, Waukesha, Wisconsin) is a former American football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers from 1978-89. Anderson attended South High School in Waukesha and the University of Michigan. He was the second of the Packers' two first-round selections in the 1978 NFL Draft (the first being James Lofton). By the end of Anderson's twelve-year career, he was the Packers' all-time team leader in tackles with 1,020, … - Bill Bray
William Paul Bray (born June 5, 1983 in Virginia Beach, Virginia), is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. The left-handed Bray was the thirteenth overall selection in the 2004 draft by the former Montreal Expos franchise which relocated to Washington, D.C. and was renamed the Washington Nationals. Bray made his major league debut on June 3, 2006, against the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee, … - Scott Williams
Scott Christopher Williams is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. Undrafted out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the 6' 10" power forward/center signed with the Chicago Bulls in 1990. He played four seasons with the Bulls, mostly as a reserve, and won three championship rings from 1991 to 1993. In 1994, he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, where he played for 4½ injury-plagued seasons before being traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in 1999. - Gwen Moore
Gwendolynne Sophia (Gwen) Moore (born April 18, 1951), a Democrat from Wisconsin, is a Congresswoman representing (map). The district is based in Milwaukee and also includes Cudahy and St. Francis. - Chuck Tanner
Charles William Tanner (born July 4, 1929 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a former left fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He is currently a major league scout for the Cleveland Indians. A lefthanded batter and thrower, Tanner signed his first contract with the Boston Braves. He played for eight seasons (1955 - 1962) for four different teams: the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels, as well as the Braves (then based in Milwaukee) and the Indians. - Rufus King
Rufus King (January 26 1814 - October 13 1876) was a newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War. King was born in New York City, the grandson of Rufus King, delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. After graduation from Columbia College, where his father, Charles King, served as president, King enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point. - Mike Wilks
Michael Sharod Wilks, Jr. (born May 7, 1979 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA with the Seattle SuperSonics. Wilks stands 5'10" and is listed at 180 pounds. After graduating from Rufus King High School in Milwaukee, Wilks played four years of college basketball at Rice University, where he majored in Economics. His senior year, he averaged 20.1 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game, … - Heather Graham
Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film and television actress from Agoura Hills, CA. - Nelson Figueroa
Nelson Figueroa is an American professional baseball player from Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts where he pitched for three years and earned a bachelors degree in American Studies. He was drafted 833rd overall by the New York Mets in the 30th round of the 1995 MLB Amateur Draft and was subsequently traded along with outfielder Bernard Gilkey to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Jorge Fábregas, Willie Blair and cash considerations. - Jim Sensenbrenner
Frank James (Jim) Sensenbrenner, Jr. (born June 14, 1943) is an American politician who has been a member of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives since 1979, representing (map). The district, the state's richest, includes most of Milwaukee's suburbs, including Waukesha, West Bend, Brookfield, Delafield, Mequon and Wauwatosa. It was numbered as the 9th District until 2003. - Matt Flynn
Matt Flynn is a lawyer and politician in the United States. He moved to Milwaukee when he was 15. He attended Yale University on a scholarship and, after a stint in the Navy, attended the University of Wisconsin Law School on the GI Bill. He then served as a clerk to federal appellate judge, 1975-'76; and lost races for U.S. House, in 1978 to Jim Sensenbrenner, author of the Patriot Act, and 1988 to Jim Moody, … - Bill Michaels
Bill Michaels is the host of "Sports Central," (no relation to 720 WGN's Sports Central) a radio talk show on Milwaukee's WTMJ-AM. Nicknamed "The Big Unit," Michaels is famous for his distinct, booming voice, his knowledge of Wisconsin sports and love of sweetcorn. Michaels is most known for hosting the Green Bay Packers Post Game Network Show "Packers Gameday" (heard on over 60 stations). - Peter Mulvey
Peter Mulvey is an acoustic musician based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while in college, he honed his performing skills while traveling in Dublin, Ireland. He later spent several years in Boston, where he frequently performed in the city's subway system. - Pat McCurdy
Pat McCurdy is a cabaret singer/songwriter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He regularly tours the upper midwestern part of the United States with regular stops in Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago and Minneapolis. His shows usually consist of just him and his guitar and include improvised interaction with the audience. While the majority of his audience is made up of a college-age crowd, McCurdy manages to appeal to a large number of people of all ages. - Frank Jude Jr.
Frank Jude Jr. is a Milwaukee man beaten by off-duty Milwaukee Police Department officers on October 24, 2004. Jude has been incarcerated since his probation was revoked in November, 2005 after he was accused of beating his mother. The officers, Jon Bartlett, Andrew Spengler, and Daniel Masarik, were all charged with battery, with Bartlett and Masarik also being charged with second-degree reckless endangerment. - Rick Mears
Rick Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American race car driver. He is the third of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991), and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time Indy Car national champion (1979, 1981 and 1982). Mears was raised in Bakersfield, California, and began his racing career in off-road racing. - Marvin Pratt
Marvin E. Pratt (born May 26, 1944) is an American politician and served as acting mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2004. - Doug Russell
Doug Russell is the host of "The Doug Russell Show" weekday mornings from 5a-9a CDT on WSSP-AM in Milwaukee. Russell joined WSSP in January of 2007 after leaving Sporting News Radio. When Russell first joined SNR in 2000, he anchored the Sporting News Flash on weeknights and weekends, while writing for SportingNews.Com. In March of 2002, Russell co-hosted "The Morning Show". Russell then hosted Sporting News Central PM edition. - Mark Metcalf
Mark Metcalf (born March 11, 1946 in Findlay, Ohio, USA) is an American actor in both television and film. He is likely most known to two different generations for two notable roles. In the classic college comedy, "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978), he played the sadistic ROTC leader "Doug Neidermeyer". - Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan (born April 2, 1957, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) was a professional female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for her victory at the 1979 Australian Open, which is, in fact, the only title she ever won in her entire time on tour (except Detroit in 1978) - she never progressed beyond the third round at any of the other Grand Slam events that she entered, and she had a sub-.500 winning percentage for her career. - Nelson Philippe
Nelson Philippe is a driver who raced in the Champ Car World Series. Philippe raced go-karts from 1998-2002. In 2003, he raced in the Barber Dodge Pro Series, finishing the season with one podium, and four top five finishes. With just one year of experience in cars, Philippe tested with two Champ Car teams, before signing with Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports Racing team. At 17, he became the youngest driver to ever race in Champ Car. - John Gurda
John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian. He is one of the most distinguished and prolific historian of the city. He has written 18 books about Milwaukee. One of his works, "The Making of Milwaukee", was filmed by Milwaukee Public Television as a documentary series. He, himself, also narrated the film. Gurda obtained his B.A. in English from Boston College and M.A. in Cultural Geography from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. - Brittany Andrews
Brittany Andrews (born August 13, 1973 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American pornographic actress and exotic dancer. Andrews grew up in Milwaukee and has described herself as being "a total punk rocker. I had hot pink hair in a very tall Mohawk." She worked in a Milwaukee beauty supply company before starting her career as an exotic dancer. While living in Texas, she became a popular feature dancer after undergoing rhinoplasty and breast augmentation. - Gordon Gano
Gordon Gano (born on June 7, 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the lead singer and guitarist from the band Violent Femmes. He has written almost all of the band's songs. During a Violent Femmes hiatus in the late 1980s, Gano formed a gospel group called The Mercy Seat with vocalist Zena Von Heppinstall, bassist Patrice Moran, and drummer Fernando Menendez. The group released one album in 1987, on Slash Records. Gano released his first solo album in 2002, … - Jerry Kleczka
Gerald (Jerry) Daniel Kleczka (born November 26, 1943), an American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing the Fourth Congressional District of Wisconsin. The district includes the city of Milwaukee, where he was born. After graduating from Milwaukee's Don Bosco High School, in 1961, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for two years. - Brooks Stevens
Clifford Brooks Stevens (June 7, 1911-January 4, 1995) was an industrial designer, as well as automotive designer, graphic designer, and stylist. Though he is often cited with inventing the concept of planned obsolescence (the practice of artificially shortening product lifecycles in order to influence the buying patterns of consumers in favor of manufacturers), he did not invent it but rather coined the term and defined it. Stevens defined it as, … - Daron Sutton
Daron Sutton (born 1970) is the television play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks. Sutton is also the son of former pitching great and Hall of Famer Don Sutton. Prior to moving to Arizona, he served for five years as the television voice of the Milwaukee Brewers, and prior to coming to Milwaukee in 2002, he was one of the radio voices of the then-Anaheim Angels, … - Drew Stafford
Drew Stafford (born October 30, 1985 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American ice hockey forward. He played for the AHL's Rochester Americans before being called up to the National Hockey League to play for the Buffalo Sabres on November 5, 2006. - Wayne Larrivee
Wayne Larrivee is an American sports broadcaster. He is the television play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls during WGN-TV (Channel 9) games, and the radio play-by-play announcer for the Green Bay Packers. He also does a daily sports commentary segment called "The Back Page", which orginiates from Packers flagship WTMJ-AM (620) in Milwaukee, and is syndicated to stations throughout Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. - Bill Berry
William "Bill" Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958) was the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer. - Chellsie Memmel
Chellsie Marie Memmel (born June 23, 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a U.S. gymnast. She started gymnastics as a young child because her parents were both gymnastics coaches and she grew up playing in the gym. She began competing as an elite in 2000.
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