List of people from Kenosha, Wisconsin

This is a list of Kenoshans, notable citizens of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Artists

• Chester Biscardi, composer, director of musical arts at Yale University
• Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, film orchestrator (The Ten Commandments)
• Buddy Clark, jazz artist (Sweet Smell of Success)
• William Bast, screenwriter
• Jeff Cesario, comedian, TV writer
• Donald Clarke, author of several books on musical subjects
• Thomas Dryer, Lead singer in the Thomas Dryer Band
• John Fumo, musician with Neil Young
• Milt Herth, organist
• Margaret Landon, author Anna and the King of Siam (The King and I)
• Florence Parry Heide, author (The Shrinking of Treehorn)
• Milton K. Ozaki, author and detective novelist
• Peter Palmer, saxophonist, bandleader, songwriter (Mercury Records)
• George Pollard, portrait painter
• Thom Racina, author and screenwriter (General Hospital)
• Spike Robinson, jazz saxophonist
• Jim Rygiel, triple Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings) IMDB Biography Page
• Mary Sauer, principal pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1959, and on the piano faculty of DePaul University for 33 years, where she was coordinator of the keyboard program. [1]
• Will Schaefer, composer
• Edwin Stringham, composer, educator
• Kathie Sullivan, vocalist (The Lawrence Welk Show)
• Irving Wallace, author (The Chapman Report)
• Korey Cooper, backup vocalist and rhythm guitar for the rock band Skillet

Actors/Actresses and Directors

• Don Ameche, actor, Academy Award-winner (Cocoon)
• Jim Ameche, actor (Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy)
• Thom Bierdz, actor (Murder, She Wrote, more)
• Edward F. Cline, film director
• Bert I. Gordon, film director (The Food of the Gods)
• Al Molinaro, actor Happy Days
• Mark Ruffalo, actor
• Tony Russel, film and stage actor (Hearts Are Wild)
• Rebecca Scott, model and actress, Miss August 1999 for Playboy Productions
• Charles Siebert, actor (Trapper John, M.D.), director (Xena, Warrior Princess)
• Paul Sorensen, actor (Dance With Me, Henry, more)
• John Stephenson, voice actor (Flintstones)
• Charlie Talbert, actor (Angus)
• Concetta Tomei, actress (China Beach)
• Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill Street Blues)
• Orson Welles, producer, actor, writer, director (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, F for Fake)
• Billy Zane, actor

Sports

• Milo Allison, MLB player
• Alan Ameche, football player
• Ray Berres, MLB player
• Tom Bienemann, NFL player
• Fred Borak, NFL player
• Dick Bosman, major league baseball pitcher and coach (Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox)
• Tom Braatz, NFL player and general manager
• Frankie Conley, boxing
• Ed Corey, MLB player
• Press Cruthers, MLB player
• Ben Dyer, MLB player
• Gene Englund, basketball player
• Harvey Green, MLB player
• Jack Hammond, MLB player
• Bob Hartman, MLB player for the Milwaukee Braves and Cleveland Indians
• Ken Huxhold, NFL player
• Chuck Jaskwhich, head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team
• Chet Kozel, professional football player
• Jeff Cohen, All-American basketball player at The College of William & Mary in 1960-61
• Ed Corey, MLB player
• Walter Maurer, Olympic medalist
• Ollie O'Mara, MLB player
• Megan Oster, figure skater
• Charlie Pechous, MLB player
• Phil Pettey, NFL player
• Tom Regner, University of Notre Dame All American and member of 1966 National Championship Team; NFL Houston Oilers
• Ben Rothwell , professional mixed martial artist
• Ralph Thomas, NFL player
• Nick Van Exel, NBA player
• James Hippo Vaughn, Chicago Cubs player

Political

• John Martin Antaramian, Wisconsin legislator and former Kenosha mayor
• Peter W. Barca, U.S. Representative
• Chauncey Davis, Michigan State Representative
• Charles Durkee, U.S. Senator
• Margaret Farrow, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Myron L. Gordon, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Daniel Hugunin, Jr., U.S. Representative from New York
• Bob Kiss, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
• John G. McMynn, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction
• George Molinaro, Wisconsin legislator
• Reince Priebus, current chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Joseph V. Quarles, U.S. Senator and former Kenosha mayor
• Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative
• Charles Sholes, former Kenosha mayor
• William H. Stevenson, U.S. Representative

Uncategorized

• Edward E. Ayer (1841–1927), railway supplies magnate, manuscript collector and benefactor to Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History
• Donald Backlund, Air Force Cross recipient
• Mary D. Bradford, educator, 1st female Superintendent of a major school system in Wisconsin
• Jerry Golden, ABC reporter who was first with the John F. Kennedy assassination news
• Linda Ham, manager of the Johnson Space Center
• Michael P. Hammond, chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
• Jim Jensen, CBS news anchor and reporter
• Raymond Edward Johnson, radio actor, host of Inner Sanctum
• Samuel C. Johnson, Sr., founder, Johnson Wax
• Edward S. "Ned" Jordan, automaker, Jordan Motor Car Company (Jordan Playboy, Jordan Ace), columnist ("Ned Jordan Speaks" AutoWeek) and ad writer ("Somewhere west of Laramie")
• Laura Kaeppeler, Miss Wisconsin 2011 and Miss America 2012
• Theodore H. Laban, highly-decorated U.S. Army Air Forces soldier
• Frederick S. Lovell, Union Army general
• Lola J. May, noted mathematics educator
• Robert Bruce McCoy, United States National Guard officer
• Charles Francis McGivern, highly-decorated U.S. Navy officer
• Joseph E. Meyer, herbologist and founder of the Indiana Botanic Gardens
• Charles W. Nash, automaker Nash Motors, Nash-Kelvinator
• Michael Phillips, theater critic, Pulitzer Prize jurist
• Peter Pirsch, builder of fire equipment
• Christopher Latham Sholes, publisher, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard
• Charles Symmonds, U.S. Army general
• George Nelson Tremper, Educator
• Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation; member of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.
• William J. White, industrial engineer, president of Bell & Howell Company, executive vice-president of USG Corporation Corporation
• Joseph Zimmerman, invented the first answering machine