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The following notable people were born in or are associated with
Janesville,
Wisconsin.
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Tim Davis, co-founder of
The Steve Miller Band
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Gloria Foster, actress
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Karron Graves, actress
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter
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Tad Kubler, guitarist for
The Hold Steady
[1]
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Kerwin Mathews, actor
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Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
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Manilla Powers, singer, Vaudeville performer, musical theater comedian
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Leoni W. Robinson, architect
[2]
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Tom Welling, actor (lived in Janesville briefly during childhood)
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet
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Mistie Bass (Mistie Williams),
WNBA player
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Frank Bliss,
MLB player
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Tommy Cronin,
NFL player
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Moxie Dalton, NFL player
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Stan Fox, race car driver, eight-time starter at the
Indianapolis 500
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Tucker Fredricks, Olympic speedskater
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Fred Hayner. baseball player
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Larry Hough, Olympic rower
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Paul Janus, NFL player
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Travis Kvapil,
NASCAR driver
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John Morrissey, professional baseball player
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Tom Morrissey, professional baseball player
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Joe Riggert, MLB player
[3]
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Terry Ryan, MLB manager
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Peter Shorts, NFL player
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Bob Strampe, MLB player
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Leslie Allen Bellrichard, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam
[4]
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James Bintliff,
Union Army general
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Victor Bleasdale,
Navy Cross and
Distinguished Service Cross recipient
[5]
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Frank Matteson Bostwick,
U.S. Navy Commodore
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James E. Croft, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
[4]
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Gerald L. Endl, Medal of Honor recipient, World War II
[6]
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Theodore W. Goldin, Medal of Honor recipient, American Indian Wars
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John Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
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John E. McCoy,
U.S. Air National Guard general
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Henry Palmer, Union Army general
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James Pond, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
[4]
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Thomas H. Ruger,
Civil War general and military
governor of Georgia under occupation
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Claron A. Windus, Medal of Honor recipient
[7]
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C. S. Amsden, South Dakota State Representative and Senator
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William A. Barstow, Governor of Wisconsin,
Union Army general
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Harry W. Bolens, Wisconsin State Senator
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Stephen Bolles, U.S. Representative
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William B. Britton, Wisconsin State Representative
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James H. Budd, Governor of California
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Zebulon P. Burdick, Wisconsin State Senator
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Bob Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
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Peter P. Carr, Wisconsin State Senator
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John B. Cassoday, Chief Justice of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Harmon Sweatland Conger, U.S. Representative from
New York
[8]
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Dave Considine, educator and Wisconsin State Representative
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Tim Cullen, Wisconsin State Senator
[9]
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Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
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Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
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Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin State Representative
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Alexander Graham, New York and Wisconsin State Representative
[10]
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Gilbert N. Haugen, U.S. Representative from Iowa
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Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin State Representative
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James H. Knowlton, Wisconsin State Representative
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Debra Kolste, Wisconsin State Representative
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Don L. Love, Mayor of
Lincoln, Nebraska
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Allen P. Lovejoy, Wisconsin State Senator
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William A. Lawrence, Wisconsin State Representative and Senator
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David W. Márquez,
Alaska Attorney General
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Alexander E. Matheson, Wisconsin State Representative and jurist
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Max Maxfield,
Wyoming Secretary of State
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Hiram Merrill, Wisconsin State Representative
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Cyrus Miner, Wisconsin State Representative
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David Noggle, Wisconsin State Representative, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Idaho Territory
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Thomas S. Nolan, Wisconsin State Representative
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Pliny Norcross, Mayor of Janesville and Wisconsin State Representative
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Andrew Palmer, Wisconsin State Senator
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Henry A. Patterson, Wisconsin State Representative
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Anson W. Pope, Wisconsin State Representative
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Steve Preston,
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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Paul Ryan, former
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Michael J. Sheridan, former speaker of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
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Ithamar C. Sloan, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
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A. Hyatt Smith, politician and businessman
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E. Ray Stevens, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
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James Sutherland, Wisconsin State Senator
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George Tarrant Sr., Wisconsin State Representative
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Henry Tarrant, Wisconsin State Representative
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Howard Teasdale, Wisconsin State Senator
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Alexander McDonald Thomson, former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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Charles L. Valentine, Wisconsin State Representative
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William G. Wheeler, Wisconsin State Representative and U.S. Attorney
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John Meek Whitehead, Wisconsin State Senate
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Edward V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Charles G. Williams, U.S. Representative
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George H. Williston, Wisconsin territorial and state legislator
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Agesilaus Wilson, Wisconsin State Representative
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Wayne W. Wood, Wisconsin State Representative
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Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator
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David Adamany, president of
Temple University
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Sanford Soverhill Atwood, sixteenth president of
Emory University
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John Henry Comstock, entomologist
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Joseph Dutton, Civil War veteran and later missionary to the lepers of
Molokai
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Jim Fitzgerald, former owner of the
Milwaukee Bucks and the
Golden State Warriors
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Lavinia Goodell, first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin
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William Goodell, abolitionist
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Ken Hendricks,
Forbes 400 businessman
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and magazine editor
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Walter Lees, early aviator
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Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948), American educator and college president
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George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company
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Frances Willard, educator and activist (raised and first taught here)
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Daniel Hale Williams,
African-American
surgeon and
heart surgery pioneer, raised and first employed here
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Allene Tew, an American socialite during the
Gilded Age who became a European aristocrat by marriage.