The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Arts and entertainment
Liz Anderson (1927–2011), country singer; grew up in Grand Forks Lynn Anderson (1947–2015), country singer; born in Grand Forks Maxwell Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter, lyricist Robert Anderson (1920–1996), actor Tom Brosseau, singer and songwriter, folk guitarist Tony Fontane, gospel singer Joel Harlow, Academy Award-winning makeup effects artist Kam Heskin, actress Hillary Kempenich, painter and studio artist Ezra Kire, guitarist for Choking Victim and Leftöver Crack Nicole Linkletter, winner of the 5th cycle of America's Next Top Model Stuart McDonald, former editorial cartoonist, Grand Forks Herald Dickie Peterson, founding member of heavy metal rock band Blue Cheer ("Summertime Blues") Alan Ritchson, actor, singer, model James Rosenquist, artist Richard St. Clair, classical composer Margaret Strobel, academic Corin Tucker, singer songwriter in Sleater-Kinney Natalie West, actress, Roseanne
Business
Greg Brockman, co-founder, chairman, and president of OpenAI Thomas D. Campbell, 1928 Time magazine "Man of the Year," and largest U.S. farmer at the time Ralph Engelstad, Las Vegas casino owner, philanthropist Andrew Freeman, invented the block heater; manager of Minnkota Power Cooperative Sally J. Smith, president and CEO of Buffalo Wild Wings
Law, politics, and government
Rick Clayburgh, North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ronald Davies, federal judge, ordered the integration of Little Rock Central High School Jerry Gaetz, North Dakota state senator Jon Godfread, North Dakota Insurance Commissioner James D. Gronna, North Dakota Secretary of State Gary Johnson, state congressman for Wisconsin Howard A. Knutson, Minnesota state legislator and lawyer Walter Maddock, 15th governor of North Dakota Leonard Peltier, American Indian activist; convicted of murder in the deaths of two FBI agents Dale V. Sandstrom, justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court Arthur G. Sorlie, 14th governor of North Dakota
Literature and journalism
James M. Edie, philosopher Marilyn Hagerty, author and writer for the Grand Forks Herald Rob Kuznia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Al McIntosh, newspaper editor, columns were featured in The War Jennie Shortridge, novelist Edward Kramer Thompson, editor of Life Era Bell Thompson, editor of Ebony George H. Walsh, newspaper editor, publisher, founding role with the University of North Dakota Walter Wangerin, Jr., author of religious novels and children's books
Military
Charles W. Lindberg, Marine, part of the first raising the flag on Iwo Jima
Science
Mancur Olson, economist, social scientist
Sports
Brooks Bollinger, American football player T. J. Frier, American football player Andrew Hampsten, champion cyclist Virgil Hill, boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1984) Ken Hunt, Major League Baseball outfielder Tim Johnson, Major League Baseball player and manager Tyler Johnson, basketball player with the NBL's Brisbane Bullets Jocelyne Lamoureux, women's ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Monique Lamoureux, women's ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Roger Maris, right fielder with the New York Yankees, hit record-breaking 61 home runs in 1961 Doug McDermott, basketball player with the NBA's Sacramento Kings Lute Olson, NCAA Champion college basketball coach of Arizona Wildcats Tim Olson, baseball player with the Colorado Rockies Ryan Potulny, assistant coach for the University of Minnesota men's ice hockey Cliff Purpur, first North Dakota native to become an NHL player Andy Schneider, defenseman with the Adler Mannheim Andrew Towne, member of the team that completed the first human-powered transit of the Drake Passage
See also List of University of North Dakota people
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