The following notable people are from or have been associated with Appleton, Wisconsin.
Artists and performers
Judah Bauer, guitarist Willem Dafoe, actor Theodore Hardeen, magician Harry Houdini, illusionist and stunt performer Lynn Kellogg, singer Steven Krueger, actor Maury Laws, composer Jeff Loomis, guitarist Michael Patrick McGill, actor Roy Purdy, rapper Brenda Rae, operatic soprano Mark Stewart, musician Mary Ann Wells, dancer and ballet dance teacher Terry Zwigoff, filmmaker
Athletes and sports personnel
Esmir Bajraktarevic, soccer player Myrt Basing, NFL player Rocky Bleier, NFL player, four-time Super Bowl Champion Brian Butch, NBA player Mark Catlin Sr., football coach Clarence Currie, MLB player Chris DeMarco, basketball coach Matt Erickson, MLB, Manager Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Royal T. Farrand, physician and college football player Sarah Hagen, NWSL player J. P. Hayes, PGA golfer Joe Hietpas, baseball player George Hogreiver, MLB player Danny Jansen, MLB player Roger Jenkins, hockey player Erik Jensen, NFL player Swede Johnston, NFL player Ross Kenseth, America Stock car racing driver Cole Konrad, first-ever Bellator Heavyweight Champion Ron Kostelnik, football player Tony Kubek, World Series champion baseball player and Hall of Fame broadcaster Stu Locklin, baseball and educator Garrett Lowney, Olympic medalist Jack Mead, NFL player Chester J. Roberts, head coach of the Miami RedHawks football and men's basketball teams Paul Schommer, Olympic biathlete Don Werner, MLB player Silas Young, professional wrestler
Authors and journalists Mary Agria, author Gary Arndt, travel photographer and writer Lan Samantha Chang, author and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Edna Ferber, author Alfred Galpin, correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft Henry Golde, author and Holocaust survivor William Norman Grigg, author Kristine Jarinovska, legal scientist,Capps, Patrick «Metgodological Legal Positivism in Law and International Law.» In Himma, Kenneth Einar, Ed. Law, Morality, and Legal Positivism: Proceedings of the 21st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR); Lund, Sweden, 12–18 August 2003, ARSP Beiheft Nr. 98, Archiv für Rechts- und Scozialphilosophie, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart, 2004. Volume 3, p. 12.Dr. iur. Ivans Jānis Mihailovs, Mg. iur., Bc. paed. Rihards Erdmanis "The Doctrine of “in Loco Parentis” in Anglo-Saxon Legal Systems and in the Republic of Latvia", Journal of the University of Latvia. Law, No. 15, 2022 pp. 293–308 Secretary of State, LatviaLatvia Secretary of State Walter Havighurst, author Gladys Taber, author Greta Van Susteren, journalist, Newsmax television anchor
Businesspeople William Beverly Murphy, ex-president of Campbell's Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft Travis VanderZanden, founder of Bird Rides Walter B. Wriston, banker
Military personnel John Bradley, Iwo Jima Navy flag-raiser Zuhdi Jasser, doctor, former lieutenant commander in the United States Navy John S. Mills, U.S. Air Force major general Erik M. Ross, U.S. Navy rear admiral William J. Van Ryzin, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general
Politicians
George Baldwin, politician and businessman Clinton B. Ballard, Wisconsin state representative Mark Catlin Jr., speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly William F. Cirkel, Wisconsin politician and businessman'Wisconsin Blue Book 1885,' Biographical Sketch of William Fredeick Cirkel, pg. 437-438 Bob Corbin, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives Lorenzo E. Darling, Wisconsin state representative Catherine Ebert-Gray, U.S. diplomat Harold Froehlich, U.S. representative and Outagamie County circuit judge Charles J. Hagen, Wisconsin state representative David Hammel, Wisconsin state representative Leopold Hammel, Wisconsin state representative William E. Hoehle, Wisconsin state representative Steve Kagen, U.S. congressman David M. Kelly, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin state senator William Kennedy, Wisconsin state senatorWisconsin Blue Book 1893, p. 671. George Kreiss, Wisconsin politician August W. Laabs, Wisconsin state representative John F. Lappen, Wisconsin state senator James Lennon, Wisconsin state representative James E. Lyons, Wisconsin state representative Sue R. Magnuson, Wisconsin state representative David Martin, Wisconsin state representative Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator C. E. McIntosh, Wisconsin state representative Talbot Peterson, Republican Party of Wisconsin chairman David Prosser Jr., Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice William J. Rogers, Wisconsin state representative Sue Rohan, Wisconsin state representative James Ryan, Wisconsin politician Samuel Ryan Jr., Wisconsin state representative Oscar J. Schmiege, Wisconsin state representative and jurist George J. Schneider, U.S. representative Charles M. Schrimpf, Wisconsin state representative David Schutter, criminal defense attorney Henry Clay Sloan, Wisconsin state representative Perry H. Smith, Wisconsin politician John Tracy, Wisconsin state representative William Smith Warner, Wisconsin state representative Alexander B. Whitman, Wisconsin state senator Jerry L. Wing, Wisconsin state representative Bernard C. Wolter, Wisconsin state representative
Other Stephanie Chasteen, physics education researcher and science communicator Anthony Czarnik, chemist and inventor Emanuel Gerechter, rabbi and professor August Knuppel, mason and contractor Ann McKee, neuropathologist specializing in traumatic brain injuries John Benjamin Murphy, surgeon Larry Rosebaugh, Roman Catholic priest James Zwerg, civil rights activist
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