People born in MN (O-P)

• O'Brien, Tim (Austin) writer - authored The Things They Carried and other works touching upon the Vietnam War.
  
• Ostroushko, Peter (Minneapolis) musician - mandolin/fiddle player makes regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion
• Paulucci, Jeno (Hibbing) entrepeneur - started Chung King, Jeno's Pizza and Luigino's
• Pedersen, Wiliam (St. Paul) architect - Shanghai World Financial Center, which will be the world's tallest building when completed
• Pirsig, Robert (Minneapolis) writer - cult classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Prince (Minneapolis) musician - considered to be a musical genius; birthname is Prince Rogers Nelson
• Puckett, Gary (Hibbing) musician - frontman of the Gary Puckett & The Union Gap band - popular in the late 1960s