- 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. - Keith Ellison
Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician belonging to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He became the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress when he won the open seat for Minnesota's 5th congressional district (which contains the entire city of Minneapolis) in the House of Representatives in 2006. He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota, … - Sid Hartman
Sid Hartman (born March 15, 1920) is a longtime sports journalist for the Minneapolis "Star Tribune" and the WCCO 830 AM radio station. He is known for his wide range of insider contacts in the sports world, and also for his coarse and, to some, abrasive personality, and a reputation for name dropping. These attributes have led him to be loved by some, but often criticized by other Minnesota sports fans. - Ibrahim Hooper
Ibrahim Hooper (aka Doug Hooper) Bosnian American convert to Islam who is the National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based Muslim advocacy organization. During the late 80s and early 90s at KSTP-TV, Hooper, then known as "Doug" worked as a news producer in the the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis. - Tammy Faye
Tamara "Tammy" Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (born March 7, 1942) is an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show hostess, actress and a prominent television personality. She is the former wife of televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker, and she co-hosted with him on "The PTL Club", from 1976 to 1987. She is known for her tendency to wear heavy makeup, … - Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966). - John Williams
John Williams (born 1959) is a radio talk show host at WGN (AM) in Chicago, Illinois. He was born John Fillipitch in Chicago, Illinois to Mary and John Fillipitch. Williams attended grade school in various places while his father was in the Air Force, but the family moved back to Joliet, Illinois after his father's Air Force retirement. Williams graduated from Minooka High School, then from Joliet Junior College where his father was a school counselor. - 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. - Mark Olson
Mark Olson (born September 18, 1961 in Minneapolis) is one of the founding members of acclaimed alternative country bands The Jayhawks and The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers and a respected singer/songwriter in his own right. Olson formed The Jayhawks in 1985 with singer/guitarist Gary Louris and was originally the principal singer/songwriter in the group. Along with Marc Perlman (bass) and Thad Spencer (drums), … - John Piper
John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946, Chattanooga, Tennessee) is a Reformed Baptist minister, author, and theologian, currently serving as senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He oversees the evangelical organization "Desiring God", which is named after his book "Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist" (1986). - Theodore Wirth
Theodore Wirth (1863-1949) was instrumental in designing the Minneapolis system of parks. Swiss-born, he was widely regarded as the dean of the local parks movement in America. He wore several hats: administrator of parks, horticulturalist, and park planner. Before emigrating to America in 1888, he worked as a florist and landscaper in Zurich, London, and Paris. He married Leonie Mense, the daughter of his employer in Glen Cove, Long Island, … - Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson (b. September 22, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a former United States Olympic ice hockey player. Johnson played for the University of Wisconsin-Madison ice hockey team for three years under his father, legendary coach Bob Johnson. In 1977, during his first year at the university, he helped the Badgers win the NCAA national championship. He was the first Badger ever to win WCHA Rookie of the year. He went on to become the school's second all-time scorer. - Paul Martin
Paul Martin (born March 5, 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a defenceman for the New Jersey Devils of the NHL. Martin played high school hockey at Elk River High School and was the Mr. Hockey award winner in 2000. He was drafted in the second round, 62nd overall by the New Jersey Devils. He has been playing for the Devils since the 2003-2004 season. He has sound offensive instincts and a projectable frame. Was part of a winning program at the University of Minnesota, … - 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, … - Mason Jennings
Mason Jennings (born 1975 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Minnesota-based pop-folk singer-songwriter. He is well known for his simple yet catchy melodies, intimate lyrics, literary and historical themes, and unique voice. His music has appeared in the surf film "Shelter" and he has toured extensively. Jennings is married to Amy Turany Jennings and has 2 sons. Born in Hawaii, Jennings moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at an early age. - Mark Ritchie
Mark Ritchie (born 1951) was elected to be the 21st Minnesota Secretary of State on November 7, 2006. He a member of the DFL. Mark Ritchie grew up in Iowa, and he graduated from Iowa State University in 1971. He and his wife, Nancy Gaschott, have lived in Minneapolis for 24 years. - Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an iconic American musician. He is best known for performing under the name Prince, though his name and identity have varied over the years. His music has spanned myriad styles; from his early material, rooted in R&B, funk, and soul, he has constantly expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including New Wave, pop, rock, blues, jazz, and hip hop. - Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody is the pseudonym of Brook Busey-Hunt, a Minnesota-based writer and blogger best known for her yearlong foray in the stripping and peep show circuits of Minneapolis, candidly chronicled on her "Pussy Ranch" blog and in her 2006 memoir "Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper". Cody has also written the forthcoming movie "Juno" and is in pre-production for development of a sitcom. - Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus (born September 17 , 1971 ) is an American interior designer and decorator and a survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami . He runs an interior design firm in Chicago , Nate Berkus Associates, and has been a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show , on which he offers design advice to viewers. Berkus was born in sunny Southern California , and grew up mainly in suburban Minneapolis . He graduated from Lake Forest College near Chicago in 1994. - Mark Dayton
Mark Brandt Dayton was a Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party U.S. Senator from Minnesota who served 2001–2007 in the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses. - John James
John James (born John James Anderson on April 18, 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actor, best known to international audiences for playing Jeff Colby in both the prime-time soap opera "Dynasty" and its spin-off series "The Colbys" throughout the 1980s. Although popular with fans during the series' run, he has since made only occasional acting appearances on television since "Dynasty" ended in 1989. - Gary Louris
Gary Louris (born March 10, 1955 in Toledo, Ohio) is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from folk-country toward a more progressive, poppier sound. - Haley Bonar
Haley Bonar is an alt-country singer/songwriter who hails from South Dakota, but currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. She plays guitar and keyboards and typically is backed sparingly, in some instances only by a drummer. Chris Morrissey currently plays bass for Haley. In 2003, she released the album entitled "...the size of planets," which received favorable reviews from the Minneapolis press. - Craig Finn
Craig Finn is a singer and guitarist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is best known as the front man for bands Lifter Puller and The Hold Steady. He currently lives in New York City and is well known for his lack of ability to actually sing. - Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson (born March 25, 1969 in Barrington, Illinois) is a Grammy Award-winning Minneapolis-based guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is both a solo artist, signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings, and the lead singer of the occasionally-active band Semisonic, in which he wrote hits like "Secret Smile", "Closing Time", and "Chemistry". He was also a member of Trip Shakespeare during the early 1990s. - Rod Grams
Rod Grams served the state of Minnesota as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Grams was born in Princeton, Minnesota. He attended Brown Institute, 1966–1968, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, 1970–1972, and Carroll College, 1974–1975. He has worked as a television news anchor and producer in Montana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. He was the president of a construction and residential development company in Minneapolis. - Jason Derusha
Jason DeRusha is a journalist, who had grew up outside of Chicago. While he currently works as a reporter in Minneapolis, he has reported in Milwaukee and anchored in Davenport, Iowa. In some circles, he might be better known as a blogger and frequent contributor to many online communities. - Ted Mann
Ted Mann (April 16, 1916 - January 15, 2001) was an American businessman, film who famously changed the name of Grauman's Chinese Theater to Mann's Chinese Theater when he purchased the National General Theatre chain that owned it in 1973. Born in Wishek, North Dakota, Mann started off in the movie business as an usher around the time he attended the University of Minnesota in the 1930s. He rented the Selby Theatre in Saint Paul, … - Margaret Anderson Kelliher
Margaret Anderson Kelliher is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. She is a State Representative from House District 60A in Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota in the U.S. She is the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. - Mark Hanson
Mark S. Hanson (1946-) is currently the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, having been elected in 2001. He also serves as president of the Lutheran World Federation. The Rev. Mark S. Hanson was born in Minneapolis Minnesota on 2 December 1946. He was raised in a Lutheran family in Minnesota. Hanson graduated from Minnehaha Academy in 1964, and earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Augsburg College in 1968. - Doug Pagitt
Doug Pagitt is an author in the Emerging Church movement and head pastor of Solomon's Porch in South Minneapolis. Doug Pagitt was born and raised in the Minneapolis area and is a graduate of Meadowbrook Elementary school, North Junior High, Hopkins High School, Bethel College, and Bethel Seminary. He has been the pastor of Solomon's Porch, a holistic, missional Christian community in Minneapolis, since its inception in January 2000. - Kara Walker
Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary American artist who is best known for her exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and identity in her artworks. Walker was born in Stockton, California. Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant and was inspired by her family to reveal her own artistic talents. - V. V. Chari
Varadarajan .V. Chari is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Chari received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1974, and was a production engineer at Union Carbide (India) Limited from 1974 to 1976. Chari received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980 and joined the Kellogg School of Management, … - Phyllis Kahn
Phyllis Kahn is a retired professor of Biophysics and a DFL Representative in the Minnesota State Legislature for District 59B. Educated at Cornell (B.A. in Physics), Yale (Ph.D. in Biophysics), and Harvard (M.P.A.) Universities, Phyllis Kahn has been a long-time advocate for education, health care and medical technology, agriculture and the natural environment, and human rights, particularly for senior citizens and women. - John Sandford
John Sandford (born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist. He worked for the Miami Herald from 1971 to 1978. In 1978 he moved to Minneapolis and started working for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, for a series of stories on Native American culture. - Louis Hennepin
Father Louis Hennepin, baptized Antoine was a Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollect order (French: "Récollets") and an explorer of the interior of North America. Hennepin was born in Ath, province of Hainaut, Belgium, but became French in 1659, when Béthune, the town where he lived, was captured by the army of Louis XIV of France. At the request of Louis XIV the Récollets sent four missionaries to New France in May 1675, … - Peter Hutchinson
Peter Hutchinson (born December 17, 1949) is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Minnesota. He ran as an Independent candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2006. He received the endorsement of the Independence Party of Minnesota. Hutchinson was born in Faribault, Minnesota, but moved to Rochester, New York with his family at a young age. He attended Dartmouth College, where he received a bachelor's degree in government and urban studies, … - Tommy Stinson
Tommy Stinson (born Thomas Eugene Stinson, October 6, 1966 in Minneapolis, USA) is an American bassist who is currently a member of Guns N' Roses. He was one of the founding members of the legendary 1980s alternative rock band The Replacements. Just 12 years old when he joined, Stinson played bass for The Replacements until their breakup in 1991. - Jesse Johnson
Jesse Mack Johnson, born June 3, 1977, plays the synthesizer for the band Motion City Soundtrack. Jesse, who was a co-worker of guitarist Joshua Cain at Pizza Lucè in Minneapolis, joined the band in January 2002 to relieve lead singer and guitarist Justin Pierre from his Synthesizer duties. Jesse is most noted for his high level of energy on stage. - Cam Gordon
Cam Gordon is an American politician and member of the Green Party of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council. On November 8, 2005, Cam Gordon was elected to represent Ward 2 on the Minneapolis City Council, defeating DFL-er Cara J. Letofsky by a vote of 2481 to 2340. He was endorsed by the Green Party of Minnesota, of which he was a former state party chair. He is the only non-DFL member of the council, …
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