This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of
Dubuque, Iowa, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
General
Austin Adams, judge, Iowa state supreme court chief justice (1880–87)
Gottfried Blocklinger, rear admiral in US Navy; in 1879, as a lieutenant, he commanded survey of Madeira river in the Amazon; lieutenant on board USS Baltimore (C-3) during
Baltimore Crisis of 1891; executive officer on board USS Charleston (C-2) during the
Capture of Guam during
Spanish–American War in 1898
Ira Davenport, 1912 Olympic bronze medalist and Dubuque coach
Julien Dubuque, explorer, first white settler in Dubuque
Peter H. Engle, first Speaker of the House of
Wisconsin Territory, which at that time included all of what is now Iowa (and Minnesota, and parts of the Dakotas)
Victor Feguer, convicted murderer, last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia, last person put to death in Iowa
Margaret Feldner, nun, educator; served as
Quincy University's 21st president, assumed the post January 1, 2004; first woman president appointed to the role at Quincy University; excused in 2006
Fridolin Heer, architect, he and his son set up practice in Dubuque in 1864; buildings by Fridolin Heer and Son include the
Dubuque County Courthouse, 1891–1893
Gwen Hennessey, activist, religious sister; known for protests at
Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the Army's School of the Americas, a facility for training Latin American soldiers
John Hennessey, bishop of the Diocese of Dubuque 1866–1893, then named the first archbishop of Dubuque
Mathias Clement Lenihan, 20th-century archbishop in the Catholic Church; bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls, Montana 1904–30
Alexander Levi, French Jew of Sephardic origin; first foreigner to be naturalized in Iowa; a grocer, miner, mine provisioner and department store owner; founded the first two Jewish congregations in the city
Margaret Lindsay, actress, noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s such as Jezebel (1938) and Scarlet Street (1945) and for leading roles in lower-budgeted B-movies such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940s
Bill Lipinski, politician; attended
Loras College; U.S. Representative for Illinois' 3rd and 5th districts (1983–2005)
ShaChelle Devlin Manning, businesswoman, change agent for nanotechnology, attempting to pave the way for nanotechnology's commercialization at the university, company, state, federal, and international level
Louie Psihoyos, documentary film director; in 2009 he directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary The Cove, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
David Rabe, playwright; won the
Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones); received Tony award nominations for Best Play in 1974 (In the Boom Boom Room), 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly)
Albert Sale, soldier in the
U.S. Army who served with
8th U.S. Cavalry in the Arizona Territory during the Apache Wars; was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a hostile band of Apache Indians
Jessie Taft, early authority on child placement and therapeutic adoption; best remembered for her work as the translator and biographer of
Otto Rank, an outcast disciple of
Sigmund Freud
John Tomkins, criminal, arrested and charged with sending several threatening letters and bomb-like devices to financial firms in the
Midwestern United States under the pseudonym The Bishop
William W. Chapman, politician and lawyer in Oregon and Iowa; served as a United States Attorney in Iowa when it was part of the Michigan and Wisconsin territories; represented the Iowa Territory in the United States House of Representatives (1838–40); later immigrated to the Oregon Country, where he served in the
Oregon Territorial Legislature (1848–49)
Lincoln Clark, US Representative from Iowa (1851–53)
Maurice Connolly, elected in 1912 to a single term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd congressional district; gave up his House seat in an unsuccessful bid for election to the U.S. Senate in 1914; then served as an aviation officer in World War I and died in a plane crash in 1921
Timothy Davis, United States Representative from Iowa (1857–59); only Iowa Representative born before 1800; first Republican representative from Iowa
Carl DeMaio, San Diego city councilman (2008–present)
Thomas O. Edwards; elected as a
Whig from Ohio to the
Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849); attended former President
John Quincy Adams, who was then a Congressman, when he suffered a fatal stroke in the Hall of the House of Representatives; inspector of marine hospitals; during the Civil War served as surgeon in the Third Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry
John R. Reilly, political adviser; joined
John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign and was hired as an aide by Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy; served as a campaign aide to the presidential campaigns of all three of the
Kennedys; for John in 1960, Robert in 1968 and Edward in 1980; campaign aide to
Edmund S. Muskie in 1972,
Walter Mondale in 1984 and
Joseph Biden in 1988
Frank M. Ziebach, noted political figure in the Dakota Territory during the territorial period, 1861–1889; pioneer newspaperman, founding a number of newspapers in the Iowa and Dakota Territories, including the Yankton Weekly Dakotan in 1861; Ziebach County, South Dakota is named for him
Johnny Armstrong, football player and coach; played on the
Rock Island Independents of the National Football League, and later the first American Football League, 1923–1926; in 1924, he coached the Independents to a 5–2–2 record, and a fifth-place finish
Charlie Buelow, outfielder; Major League Baseball infielder for the New York Giants in 1901
Sabin Carr, athlete; won gold medal in the pole vault in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics
John Chalmers, head football coach at
Franklin & Marshall College (1902),
University of Iowa (1903–1905), Columbia College in Dubuque, Iowa, now known as
Loras College (1907–1914), and
University of Dubuque (1914–1924); head men's basketball coach at Iowa for one season (1904–1905); baseball coach at Iowa for two seasons (1904–1905) and at Columbia College (1915–1921)
Ira Davenport, head football coach at Columbia College, 1920–1921; general manager and treasurer of the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works; competed in the
1912 Summer Olympics held in
Stockholm, Sweden in the 800 metres where he won the bronze medal
Gary Dolphin, radio play-by-play broadcaster for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football and men's basketball teams for Learfield Sports and the Iowa Hawkeye Sports Network
Gus Dorais, head football coach at Columbia College (1914–1917),
Gonzaga University (1920–1924), and the University of Detroit (1925–1942); head coach of the NFL's
Detroit Lions (1943–1947); head basketball coach at Notre Dame, Detroit Mercy, and Gonzaga; head baseball coach at Notre Dame and Gonzaga; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954
Fred Glade, starting pitcher; played for the Chicago Orphans (1902), St. Louis Browns (1904–1907) and New York Highlanders (1908)
Sigmund Harris, football player; University of Minnesota's All-American quarterback, 1902–04
Dick Hoerner, NFL fullback; fullback for the University of Iowa in 1942 and 1946 and for the Los Angeles Rams 1947–1951; concluded his professional football career as a member of the Dallas Texans in 1952
Frederick M. Irish, first head football coach at the Territorial Normal School, 1896–1906; first athletic director at Territorial/Tempe Normal, 1896–1913; also taught science at the school
Max Kadesky, All-American college football player for the University of Iowa; later played one season in the NFL with the Rock Island Independents
Ed Keas, Major League Baseball pitcher for the 1888
Cleveland Blues of the American Association
Walton Kirk Jr., 1945 consensus All American in basketball, University of Illinois; played five years in the NBA for Tri-City Blackhawks, Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons and Milwaukee Hawks; Dubuque Senior and Dubuque Hempstead basketball coach, 1960–1973
John R. Richards, head coach at Colorado College (1905–1909), the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1911, 1917, 1919–1922), and Ohio State University (1912)
Bill Roberts, NFL running back for the Green Bay Packers (1956)[7]
Tom Ryder, 19th-century professional baseball outfielder
Bob Stull, college athletics administrator; former football player and coach
This is a list of the people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of
Dubuque, Iowa, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
General
Austin Adams, judge, Iowa state supreme court chief justice (1880–87)
Gottfried Blocklinger, rear admiral in US Navy; in 1879, as a lieutenant, he commanded survey of Madeira river in the Amazon; lieutenant on board USS Baltimore (C-3) during
Baltimore Crisis of 1891; executive officer on board USS Charleston (C-2) during the
Capture of Guam during
Spanish–American War in 1898
Ira Davenport, 1912 Olympic bronze medalist and Dubuque coach
Julien Dubuque, explorer, first white settler in Dubuque
Peter H. Engle, first Speaker of the House of
Wisconsin Territory, which at that time included all of what is now Iowa (and Minnesota, and parts of the Dakotas)
Victor Feguer, convicted murderer, last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia, last person put to death in Iowa
Margaret Feldner, nun, educator; served as
Quincy University's 21st president, assumed the post January 1, 2004; first woman president appointed to the role at Quincy University; excused in 2006
Fridolin Heer, architect, he and his son set up practice in Dubuque in 1864; buildings by Fridolin Heer and Son include the
Dubuque County Courthouse, 1891–1893
Gwen Hennessey, activist, religious sister; known for protests at
Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the Army's School of the Americas, a facility for training Latin American soldiers
John Hennessey, bishop of the Diocese of Dubuque 1866–1893, then named the first archbishop of Dubuque
Mathias Clement Lenihan, 20th-century archbishop in the Catholic Church; bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls, Montana 1904–30
Alexander Levi, French Jew of Sephardic origin; first foreigner to be naturalized in Iowa; a grocer, miner, mine provisioner and department store owner; founded the first two Jewish congregations in the city
Margaret Lindsay, actress, noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s such as Jezebel (1938) and Scarlet Street (1945) and for leading roles in lower-budgeted B-movies such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940s
Bill Lipinski, politician; attended
Loras College; U.S. Representative for Illinois' 3rd and 5th districts (1983–2005)
ShaChelle Devlin Manning, businesswoman, change agent for nanotechnology, attempting to pave the way for nanotechnology's commercialization at the university, company, state, federal, and international level
Louie Psihoyos, documentary film director; in 2009 he directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary The Cove, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
David Rabe, playwright; won the
Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones); received Tony award nominations for Best Play in 1974 (In the Boom Boom Room), 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly)
Albert Sale, soldier in the
U.S. Army who served with
8th U.S. Cavalry in the Arizona Territory during the Apache Wars; was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a hostile band of Apache Indians
Jessie Taft, early authority on child placement and therapeutic adoption; best remembered for her work as the translator and biographer of
Otto Rank, an outcast disciple of
Sigmund Freud
John Tomkins, criminal, arrested and charged with sending several threatening letters and bomb-like devices to financial firms in the
Midwestern United States under the pseudonym The Bishop
William W. Chapman, politician and lawyer in Oregon and Iowa; served as a United States Attorney in Iowa when it was part of the Michigan and Wisconsin territories; represented the Iowa Territory in the United States House of Representatives (1838–40); later immigrated to the Oregon Country, where he served in the
Oregon Territorial Legislature (1848–49)
Lincoln Clark, US Representative from Iowa (1851–53)
Maurice Connolly, elected in 1912 to a single term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd congressional district; gave up his House seat in an unsuccessful bid for election to the U.S. Senate in 1914; then served as an aviation officer in World War I and died in a plane crash in 1921
Timothy Davis, United States Representative from Iowa (1857–59); only Iowa Representative born before 1800; first Republican representative from Iowa
Carl DeMaio, San Diego city councilman (2008–present)
Thomas O. Edwards; elected as a
Whig from Ohio to the
Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849); attended former President
John Quincy Adams, who was then a Congressman, when he suffered a fatal stroke in the Hall of the House of Representatives; inspector of marine hospitals; during the Civil War served as surgeon in the Third Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry
John R. Reilly, political adviser; joined
John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign and was hired as an aide by Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy; served as a campaign aide to the presidential campaigns of all three of the
Kennedys; for John in 1960, Robert in 1968 and Edward in 1980; campaign aide to
Edmund S. Muskie in 1972,
Walter Mondale in 1984 and
Joseph Biden in 1988
Frank M. Ziebach, noted political figure in the Dakota Territory during the territorial period, 1861–1889; pioneer newspaperman, founding a number of newspapers in the Iowa and Dakota Territories, including the Yankton Weekly Dakotan in 1861; Ziebach County, South Dakota is named for him
Johnny Armstrong, football player and coach; played on the
Rock Island Independents of the National Football League, and later the first American Football League, 1923–1926; in 1924, he coached the Independents to a 5–2–2 record, and a fifth-place finish
Charlie Buelow, outfielder; Major League Baseball infielder for the New York Giants in 1901
Sabin Carr, athlete; won gold medal in the pole vault in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics
John Chalmers, head football coach at
Franklin & Marshall College (1902),
University of Iowa (1903–1905), Columbia College in Dubuque, Iowa, now known as
Loras College (1907–1914), and
University of Dubuque (1914–1924); head men's basketball coach at Iowa for one season (1904–1905); baseball coach at Iowa for two seasons (1904–1905) and at Columbia College (1915–1921)
Ira Davenport, head football coach at Columbia College, 1920–1921; general manager and treasurer of the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works; competed in the
1912 Summer Olympics held in
Stockholm, Sweden in the 800 metres where he won the bronze medal
Gary Dolphin, radio play-by-play broadcaster for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football and men's basketball teams for Learfield Sports and the Iowa Hawkeye Sports Network
Gus Dorais, head football coach at Columbia College (1914–1917),
Gonzaga University (1920–1924), and the University of Detroit (1925–1942); head coach of the NFL's
Detroit Lions (1943–1947); head basketball coach at Notre Dame, Detroit Mercy, and Gonzaga; head baseball coach at Notre Dame and Gonzaga; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954
Fred Glade, starting pitcher; played for the Chicago Orphans (1902), St. Louis Browns (1904–1907) and New York Highlanders (1908)
Sigmund Harris, football player; University of Minnesota's All-American quarterback, 1902–04
Dick Hoerner, NFL fullback; fullback for the University of Iowa in 1942 and 1946 and for the Los Angeles Rams 1947–1951; concluded his professional football career as a member of the Dallas Texans in 1952
Frederick M. Irish, first head football coach at the Territorial Normal School, 1896–1906; first athletic director at Territorial/Tempe Normal, 1896–1913; also taught science at the school
Max Kadesky, All-American college football player for the University of Iowa; later played one season in the NFL with the Rock Island Independents
Ed Keas, Major League Baseball pitcher for the 1888
Cleveland Blues of the American Association
Walton Kirk Jr., 1945 consensus All American in basketball, University of Illinois; played five years in the NBA for Tri-City Blackhawks, Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons and Milwaukee Hawks; Dubuque Senior and Dubuque Hempstead basketball coach, 1960–1973
John R. Richards, head coach at Colorado College (1905–1909), the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1911, 1917, 1919–1922), and Ohio State University (1912)
Bill Roberts, NFL running back for the Green Bay Packers (1956)[7]
Tom Ryder, 19th-century professional baseball outfielder
Bob Stull, college athletics administrator; former football player and coach