This is a list of people who were born or lived in Rochester, Minnesota.
Arts, media and music José Argüelles, author, artist Dan Bakkedahl, actor, comedian Michele Carey, actress SungWon Cho, voice actor and YouTuber Darius Danesh, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, film producer Amanda Hocking, author Judy Onofrio, artist Johnny Pemberton, actor Emily Sandberg, model and actress Warren Skaaren, screenplay writer, producer Lea Thompson, actress John Towey, actor Sheree J. Wilson, actress Michael York, actor Yung Gravy (Matt Hauri), rapper
Science and medicine
Luis Walter Alvarez, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1968 Harry Bisel, physician Sara C. Bisel, physical anthropologist Philip Showalter Hench, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950 Edward Calvin Kendall, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950 Charles Horace Mayo, physician William James Mayo, physician William Worrall Mayo, physician Henry Stanley Plummer, physician Augustus Stinchfield, physician Michael Stuart, physician and orthopedic surgeon Albert Szent-Györgyi, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937
Law and politics Adolph Biermann, Minnesota state suditor Harry Blackmun, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court Walter Burdick, Minnesota farmer and legislator Michael C. Burgess, congressman Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years Barbara Cegavske, secretary of state of Nevada, former Nevada legislator Kerry Conley, Minnesota legislator and businessman Robert Rankin Dunlap, Minnesota lawyer and legislator John Moonan Fitzgerald, Minnesota jurist and legislator Donald T. Franke, Minnesota jurist and legislator Don Frerichs, Minnesota legislator and businessman Allen John Furlow, Minnesota congressman, lawyer, and World War I veteran Julie Anne Genter, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand Gil Gutknecht, member of Congress Stiles P. Jones, Minnesota state senator and lawyer John R. Kaley, Minnesota state representative and businessman Sandy Keith, lt. governor and state supreme court chief justice Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. secretary of state and winner of Nobel Peace Prize 1929 Harold G. Krieger. Minnesota state senator and judge Gordon Moore, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court Leilani Munter, stock car driver Carla Nelson, incumbent Minnesota state senator and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives Richard Ojeda, member of the West Virginia Senate, candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries Edward Henry Ozmun, Minnesota lawyer, politician, and diplomat John Parkin, Wisconsin legislator John M. Peters, Iowa lawyer and legislator Mark Piepho, Minnesota legislator and businessman Nels Pierson, Minnesota legislator E. William Quirin, Minnesota legislator and businessman Dave Senjem, former majority leader of the Minnesota Senate, former minority leader of the Minnesota Senate Ozora P. Stearns, U.S. senator and mayor of Rochester Ken Zubay, Minnesota legislator and businessman
Sports Mark Abboud, soccer player Rafael Butler, boxer Eric Butorac, tennis player Tyler Cain, basketball player Chris Chike, Esports athlete Phil DuBois, football player John Fina, football player Robert W. Fleming, Olympic hockey leader and Mayo Clinic executive Guy Gosselin, hockey player Matthew Hurt, basketball player Sada Jacobson (born 1983), Olympic fencing silver and bronze medalist Jim Johannson (1964–2018), ice hockey player, coach and executive John Johannson, ice hockey player Ken Johannson (1930–2018), Canadian-born American ice hockey player, coach and executive; Dick Kimball, diving coach Bryce Lampman, hockey player Bethanie Mattek-Sands, tennis player Coco Miller, basketball player Scott Muller, canoer Shjon Podein, hockey player John Pohl, hockey player Michael Restovich, baseball player Bob Schmidt, football player Aaron Senne, baseball player Marcus Sherels, football player Jeff Siemon, football player Tommy Speer, fighter Eric Strobel, hockey player Colin Stuart, hockey player Mark Stuart, hockey player Mike Stuart, hockey player Darrell Thompson, football player Ben Utecht, football player Doug Zmolek, hockey player Raphaël Collignon, tennis player
Other Michael A. Fitzgerald, entrepreneur and author Fred Hargesheimer, pilot, philanthropist John Jeremiah Lawler, Roman Catholic bishop Mary Alfred Moes, Roman Catholic nun Curt Rice, Norwegian linguist and rector of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Sarah Burger Stearns, co-founder and first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association Igor Vovkovinskiy, tallest man in U.S.
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