The following notable people were born in or are associated with Janesville, Wisconsin.

Artists and performers Pete Lee (comedian) Tim Davis, co-founder of The Steve Miller Band Gloria Foster, actress Karron Graves, actress Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter Tad Kubler, guitarist for The Hold Steady Kerwin Mathews, actor Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer Manilla Powers, singer, vaudeville performer, musical theater comedian Leoni W. Robinson, architect Tom Welling, actor (lived in Janesville briefly during childhood) Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet

Athletes

Mistie Bass (Mistie Williams), WNBA player Keeanu Benton, NFL player Frank Bliss, MLB player Tommy Cronin, NFL player Moxie Dalton, NFL player Stan Fox, race car driver, eight-time starter at the Indianapolis 500 Tucker Fredricks, Olympic speedskater Fred Hayner. baseball player Larry Hough, Olympic rower Paul Janus, NFL player Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver John Morrissey, professional baseball player Tom Morrissey, professional baseball player Joe Riggert, MLB player"Joe Riggert Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-12-06. Terry Ryan, MLB manager Peter Shorts, NFL player Bob Strampe, MLB player

Military personnel

Leslie Allen Bellrichard, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam James Bintliff, Union Army general Victor Bleasdale, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross recipient Frank Matteson Bostwick, U.S. Navy commodore James E. Croft, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War Gerald L. Endl, Medal of Honor recipient, World War II Theodore W. Goldin, Medal of Honor recipient, American Indian Wars John Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard general Henry Palmer, Union Army general James Pond, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War general and military governor of Georgia under occupation Lyle Seeman, military engineer, administrator, and commander involved in the Manhattan Project; college football player for the West Point team Claron A. Windus, Medal of Honor recipient

Politicians

C. S. Amsden, South Dakota state representative and senator William A. Barstow, governor of Wisconsin, Union Army general Harry W. Bolens, Wisconsin state senator Stephen Bolles, U.S. representative William B. Britton, Wisconsin state representative James H. Budd, governor of California Zebulon P. Burdick, Wisconsin state senator Bob Carr, U.S. representative from Michigan Peter P. Carr, Wisconsin state senator John B. Cassoday, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Harmon Sweatland Conger, U.S. representative from New York Dave Considine, educator and Wisconsin state representative Tim Cullen, Wisconsin state senator Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War Russ Feingold, U.S. senator Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin state representative Alexander Graham, New York and Wisconsin state representative Gilbert N. Haugen, U.S. representative from Iowa Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin state representative James H. Knowlton, Wisconsin state representative Debra Kolste, Wisconsin state representative William A. Lawrence, Wisconsin state representative and senator Don L. Love, mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska Allen P. Lovejoy, Wisconsin state senator David W. Márquez, Alaska attorney general Alexander E. Matheson, Wisconsin state representative and jurist Max Maxfield, Wyoming secretary of state Hiram Merrill, Wisconsin state representative Cyrus Miner, Wisconsin state representative David Noggle, Wisconsin state representative, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Idaho Territory Thomas S. Nolan, Wisconsin state representative Pliny Norcross, mayor of Janesville and Wisconsin state representative Andrew Palmer, Wisconsin state senator Henry A. Patterson, Wisconsin state representative Anson W. Pope, Wisconsin state representative Steve Preston, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Paul Ryan, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Michael J. Sheridan, former speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Ithamar C. Sloan, U.S. representative from Wisconsin A. Hyatt Smith, politician and businessman Bryan Steil, U.S. representative for Wisconsin E. Ray Stevens, justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court James Sutherland, Wisconsin state senator George Tarrant Sr., Wisconsin state representative Henry Tarrant, Wisconsin state representative Howard Teasdale, Wisconsin state senator Alexander McDonald Thomson, former speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Charles L. Valentine, Wisconsin state representative William G. Wheeler, Wisconsin state representative and U.S. attorney John Meek Whitehead, Wisconsin state senator Edward V. Whiton, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Charles G. Williams, U.S. representative George H. Williston, Wisconsin territorial and state legislator Agesilaus Wilson, Wisconsin state representative Wayne W. Wood, Wisconsin state representative Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin state senator

Other

David Adamany, president of Temple University Sanford Soverhill Atwood, sixteenth president of Emory University John Henry Comstock, entomologist Joseph Dutton, Civil War veteran and later missionary to the lepers of Molokai Jim Fitzgerald, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors Lavinia Goodell, first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin William Goodell, abolitionist Ken Hendricks, Forbes 400 businessman Walter Lees, early aviator Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and magazine editor Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948), American educator and college president George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist and speleogist Allene Tew, socialite during the Gilded Age who became a European aristocrat by marriage Frances Willard, educator and activist (raised and first taught here) Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon and heart surgery pioneer, raised and first employed here

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