- Erik Johnson
Erik Johnson (born March 21, 1988 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an American ice hockey player. He most recently played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's hockey team as a freshman. He decided to leave after just one year to join the St. Louis Blues of the NHL who made him the first overall pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. - Atar Arad
Atar Arad is an Israeli violist and professor. Arad was a member of the Cleveland Quartet from 1980 to 1987 taking the seat of Martha Strongin Katz. He was later succeeded by James Dunham. Arad currently teaches at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, and at the Steans Institute Ravinia Festival in Chicago as well as the Domaine Forget academy for the arts in Quebec. - Howard Klug
Howard Klug has been a chamber musician, soloist, and clinician throughout the United States, Great Britain, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Venezuela, China and Israel. A former member of the U.S. Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., where he soloed on flute, clarinet and saxophone, Mr. Klug has also been principal clarinet of the Fresno Philharmonic, Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. - 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, … - Peter Mueller
Peter Mueller (born April 14, 1988 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an ice hockey player. Mueller was drafted 8th overall by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He plays as a centre. He played in the USA Hockey developmental program for the 2004-05 season before moving to the Western Hockey League's Everett Silvertips. He will be following former Breck High School teammate Blake Wheeler to the Coyotes. - Mark Parrish
Mark Parrish (born 2 February, 1977 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an American ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Minnesota Wild of the NHL. - Steve Peterson
Steve Peterson is a city council member in the city of Bloomington, Minnesota. He was first elected to the city council to a term starting in 2000. According to his web site, Peterson has been a lifelong Bloomington resident. Peterson's focus on the council has been financial and public safety issues. Peterson is considered the more financially conservative council member. - Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension. - Harvey Phillips
Harvey Phillips is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of Music, Indiana University, at Bloomington (appointed professor 1971 - retired May 1994). He has performed as tuba soloist throughout the world. He was a professional freelance musician from 1950 to 1971. His first professional musicianship was with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band as a teenager. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, … - Tom Gilbert
Tom Gilbert (born January 10, 1983 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an American ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL. Played his high school hockey for Minnesota powerhouse, Bloomington Jefferson. He was the captain his senior year (2001). That same year he switched to forward from defense, which he played as a sophomore and junior. He responded by scoring 4 goals in his first game at forward against a strong Hill-Murray team. - Jason Whitlock
Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African-American sportswriter for "The Kansas City Star" and for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area. - John Strohm
John Strohm (or John P. Strohm, born Bloomington, Indiana) is an American guitarist, singer, and lawyer. He began his musical career playing drum set in Indiana's punk rock scene, then moved to Boston in 1985 and switched to guitar. With Juliana Hatfield and Freda Love (then Freda Boner) he co-founded the indie rock trio Blake Babies in 1986. Following the breakup of the Blake Babies in 1991, Strohm performed with the bands Antenna, Velo Deluxe, … - Thomas Sebeok
Thomas Albert Sebeok (born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920, died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging of US semioticians. He expanded the purview of semiotics to include non-human signaling and communication systems thus raising some of the issues addressed by philosophy of mind and coining the term "zoosemiotics". He is also the creator of biosemiotics. - George Herbert Walker
George Herbert "Bert" Walker (June 11, 1875 - June 24, 1953) was a wealthy American banker and businessman. His daughter Dorothy married Prescott Bush, making him the grandfather (and namesake) of President George H. W. Bush and the great-grandfather of current President George W. Bush. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Walker was the youngest son of David Davis Walker, a dry goods merchant from Bloomington, Illinois, and Martha Adela Beaky. - William Lowe Bryan
William Lowe Bryan (November 11, 1860-?) was the 10th president of Indiana University, serving from 1902 to 1937. Having been born near Bloomington, he earned his BA at IU in 1884. He was then hired by IU as an instructor of Greek and English, but was appointed assistant professor of philosophy in 1885. In 1887 he was granted a full professorship in philosophy, a position he held until his elevation to the presidency in 1902. - James Alexander Thom
James Alexander Thom (born 1933) is an American author, most famous for his works in the Western genre. Born in Gosport, Indiana, he graduated from Butler University and served in the United States Marine Corps. He is a former professor of journalism at Indiana University, and a contributor to the "The Saturday Evening Post". His wife, Dark Rain Thom, is a member of the Shawnee National Tribe; the Thoms presently live in the "Indiana hill country" near Bloomington. - Tom Burnett
Thomas Edward Burnett (May 29, 1963 - September 11, 2001), was the vice president and COO of a Pleasanton, California, medical devices company, Thoratec Corporation. At the time of his death, Mr. Burnett resided in San Ramon, California. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson Senior High School in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1981 after leading the football team to the state semi-finals as their starting quarterback. - Malcolm Dalglish
Malcolm Dalglish (b. August 14, 1952) is an American hammered dulcimer player and builder, composer, and choral director. A virtuoso performer on the hammered dulcimer, he is a former member of the folk/Celtic trio Metamora and has performed frequently with the percussionist Glen Velez. In addition to the dulcimer, Dalglish also plays the spoons and bones (both traditional American percussion instruments). - Ben Clymer
Ben Clymer (born April 11, 1978 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is a winger with the Washington Capitals of the NHL. He attended and played hockey for Bloomington Jefferson High School and the University of Minnesota. He was formerly with the Tampa Bay Lightning and was part of the 2004 Stanley Cup Championship team. He also played one season with the EHC Biel in the second Swiss division. - George E. Walker
George E. Walker, the great-great grandfather of President George H.W. Bush, was born in New Jersey or Maryland ca. 1797. According to one source he was sent as an orphan by his guardian to Mount Saint Mary’s College (now university) boarding school in Emmitsburg Maryland in 1811 and 1812. He married Harriet Mercer (Maryland 1802 – Bloomington IL -1869) in Baltimore in 1821. The family moved from Cecil County, Maryland, to McLean County, Illinois, in 1838. - Michael McGerr
Michael McGerr is an accomplished professor of history at Indiana University. He recently received the Paul V. McNutt Award, an award given to outstanding Professors of American history. He also recently made a trip to Taiwan to teach. In his career, Michael McGerr has worked at MIT, Yale, as well as Indiana University. He is the author of "A Fierce Discontent" and a co-author of the text "Making a Nation". - Carrie Lee
Carrie Lee is a beauty queen from Sebeka, Minnesota who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. Lee won the Miss Minnesota USA title in a state pageant held in Bloomington in late 2006. This was her fourth attempt at the title as she had placed third runner-up to Sarah Cahill in 2003, was second runner-up in 2002 and made the semi-finals in 2001. She was the first woman from Sebeka to win either the Miss Minnesota USA or Miss Minnesota Teen USA title. - Robert H. Ferrell
Robert H. Ferrell is an American historian and author of several books on Harry S. Truman. He taught for several years at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he was Distinguished Professor of History. - Jack Powell
John Joseph Powell (July 9 1874 - October 17 1944) was former Major League Baseball pitcher around the turn of the century. He had a relatively successful 16-year career, which lasted from 1897 to 1912, as he won 245 games. Unfortunately, he also lost 254 games, so despite his sparking 2.97 career ERA, he is one of only two pitchers with 200 wins to lose more games than he won. Powell was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He made his debut with the Cleveland Spiders in 1897, … - Wendy Wilde
Wendy Wilde (her legal name is Wendy Pareene) is a long time radio host and community activist, and was the 2006 Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party-endorsed candidate for the United States House of Representatives representing the state's 3rd District. Wilde and her husband Michael Pareene founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofit teen centerTwin Cities Underground, that the couple operated in Minneapolis, … - David Davis Walker
David Davis "D.D." Walker, a St. Louis dry goods wholesaler, founded Ely & Walker, which remains a clothing brand to this day. Walker was a first cousin of Senator and Supreme Court Justice David Davis. Through his son George Herbert Walker, he was the great-grandfather of President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandfather of George W. Bush. Walker was the son of George E. Walker (1797 – 1864) and Harriet Mercer (1802 -1869). - Ross Lockridge Jr.
Ross F. Lockridge, Jr. was an American novelist of the middle of the twentieth century. He is most noted for his expansive novel, "Raintree County", often considered to be one of the "Great American Novels." Lockridge was born in Bloomington, Indiana, USA and grew up there. Lockridge attended Indiana University in 1931, later graduating. Lockridge married and had four children. His novel "Raintree County" was published in early 1948, to great critical acclaim. - Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco (born February 22, 1914) is an Italian-born virologist. He was born in Catanzaro (Southern Italy) from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father. He graduated from high school at 16, then moved to the University of Turin. Despite a strong interest for mathematics and physics, he decided to study medicine. At only 22, he graduated in morbid anatomy and pathology under the supervision of professor Giuseppe Levi. - Wilmer Carter
Wilmer "Amina" Carter has been a California State Assemblywoman since December of 2006. She represents the 62nd district which consists of the cities and communities of San Bernardino, Fontana, Rialto, Colton, Bloomington and Muscoy Carter is a Democrat. She defeated Jeremy Baca, the brother of her predecessor Joe Baca, Jr. in the primary. Carter served 16 years on the Rialto Board of Education from 1983 through 1999. - Kassie Depaiva
Kassie DePaiva (born Katherine Virginia Wesley on March 21, 1961 in Morganfield, Kentucky) is an American soap opera actress. She is credited prior to 1996 as Kassie Wesley. She has played two major soap roles: Chelsea Reardon on "Guiding Light" (1986-1991) and Blair Daimler Cramer "One Life to Live". She has played the role on "One Life to Live" since 1993, when she replaced Mia Korf. - Max August Zorn
Max August Zorn (June 6, 1906 in Krefeld, Germany – March 9, 1993 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA) was a German-born American mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is famous for Zorn's lemma, a powerful tool in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets, etc. Zorn's lemma was first discovered by K. Kuratowski in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935. - Charles A. Halleck
Charles Abraham Halleck (August 22, 1900 - March 3, 1986) was a Republican leader of the United States House of Representatives from the second district of Indiana. Halleck was born near De Motte, in Jasper County, Indiana. He served in the Infantry of the United States Army, during World War I. After military service, Halleck attended Indiana University at Bloomington. In 1924 Halleck was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Rensselaer. - P. J. Abbott
P. J. Abbott (born May 28, 1964) is a U.S. race car driver. In 2004 he drove two races in the Infiniti Pro Series and prior to that has competed in US SCCA Formula Mazda and SCCA Formula Atlantic. Abbott was born in Bloomington, Indiana. - Stuart Newman
Stuart Alan Newman (born April 4, 1945 in New York City) is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, United States. His research interests center around three program areas: cellular and molecular mechanisms of vertebrate limb development, physical mechanisms of morphogenesis, and mechanisms of morphological evolution. He also writes extensively about the social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology. - Henry Babcock Veatch
Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. (August 26, 1911 - July 9, 1999) was a twentieth century American philosopher. He was a major proponent of rationalism, an authority on Thomistic philosophy, and one of the leading neo-Aristotelian thinkers of his time. Veatch was born in Evansville, Indiana. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent his career at Indiana University (1937-1965), Northwestern University (1965-1973), … - Dan Trebil
Dan Trebil (Born April 10, 1974 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the NHL with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. He played defense and shot right handed. Trebil was drafted out of high school by the New Jersey Devils in the 6th round, 138th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. After being drafted Trebil decided to go to college and played with the University of Minnesota for 4 years. - Tom Pederson
Tom Pederson (born January 14, 1970 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an American retired professional ice hockey defenseman who played five seasons in the National Hockey League with the San Jose Sharks and Toronto Maple Leafs from 1992-93 until 1996-97. Pederson was drafted 217th overall by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft. He played 240 career NHL games, scoring 20 goals and 49 assists for 69 points. - Brian Glick
Brian Glick was a homicide victim murdered at the age of 21 on October 25, 1993 by Dennis Tate and Michael Olson in Bloomington, Minnesota. Glick’s murder was a shock to the Twin Cities community and his death and the subsequent trials of his murders received widespread attention in the Twin Cities press. - James Robert Mann
James Robert Mann (October 20 1856-November 30 1922) was an American legislator and U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1897-1922. He was born near Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. He was a lawyer in Chicago and held several local political offices before serving in the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Republican party. Congressman Mann died in Washington, D.C. on November 30 1922. He is interred in Oakwood Cemetery in Chicago. - Tom Netherton
Tom Netherton (born January 11, 1947) is a singer best known from The Lawrence Welk Show. The lanky six-foot five-inch Netherton was born in Munich, Germany, as the son of a U.S. Army officer stationed there. As the eldest of four children, he and his family moved around frequently. In 1961, however, the Nethertons settled permanently in Bloomington, Minnesota. Netherton enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam War era, and was sent to Panama.
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