People who grew up in MN

• Franken, Al (St. Louis Park) entertainer - currently Air America's host; played Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live
• Hartnett, Josh (St. Paul) actor - Black Hawk Down, The Virgin Suicides
• Hoag, Tami (Harmony) writer - popular suspense/thriller novelist
• Hutchinson, Doug (Minneapolis) actor - played Percy, the cruel prison guard, in The Green Mile with Tom Hanks
• Ingalls Wilder, Laura (Walnut Grove) writer - Little House on the Prairie books; lived along the banks of Plum Creek
• Larsen, Libby (Minneapolis) composer - one of most prolific and most performed living composers in the US
• Lindbergh, Charles (Little Falls) aviator - piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927
• Music, Lorenzo (Duluth) entertainer - voice of Garfield and Carlton the Doorman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Nagurski, Bronko (International Falls) athlete - Hall of Fame football player
• Parks, Gordon (St. Paul) director - Shaft was only one accomplishment of this Renaissance man
• Vaughn, Robert (Minneapolis) actor - The Man from U.N.C.L.E. went to North High School
• Wellcome, Henry Solomon (Garden City) entrepeneur - made his fortune in pharmaceuticals and invented invisible ink at age 16