List of people from Rochester, Minnesota
Introduction People who were born or lived in Rochester, Minnesota.
Arts, media and music *José Argüelles, author, artist*Dan Bakkedahl, actor, comedian*Michele Carey, actress*Darius Danesh, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, film producer*Matt Hauri (Yung Gravy), rapper*Amanda Hocking, author*Judy Onofrio, artist*Emily Sandberg, model and actress*Warren Skaaren, screenplay writer, producer*Lea Thompson, actress*John Towey, actor*Sheree J. Wilson, actress*Michael York, actor
Science and medicine *Luis Walter Alvarez, winner Nobel Prize for Physics 1968*Harry Bisel, physician*Sara C. Bisel, physical anthropologist *Philip Showalter Hench, winner Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950*Edward Calvin Kendall, winner 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 Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937
Law and politics *Adolph Biermann, Minnesota State Auditor*Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court*Walter Burdick, Minnesota farmer and legislator*Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years*Michael C. Burgess, Congressman*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 Nobel Peace Prize 1929*Harold G. Krieger. Minnesota state senator and judge*Gordon Moore (judge), Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court*Leilani Munter, American 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 and a 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 *Rafael Butler, boxer*Eric Butorac, tennis player*Tyler Cain, basketball player*Phil DuBois, football player*John Fina, football player*Guy Gosselin, hockey player*Sada Jacobson (born 1983), Olympic fencing silver and bronze medalist*Ken Johannson (1930–2018), Canadian-born American ice hockey player, coach and executive*Jim Johannson (1964–2018), American ice hockey player, coach and executive*John Johannson, ice hockey player*Dick Kimball, diving coach*Bryce Lampman, hockey player*Bethanie Mattek-Sands, tennis 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==Other== *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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