People who made a home in MN

• Buettner, Dan (St. Paul) explorer - has three Guinness World Records in long distance bicycling
• DiCamillo, Kate (Minneapolis) writer - The Tale of Despereaux won the 2004 Newbery Medal
• Guest, Judith (Edina) writer - her novel, Ordinary People, was adapted into a film that won 4 Oscars in 1981
• Henke, Milburn (Hutchinson) resident - first enlisted man to land in Europe in WWII on January 26, 1942
• Hill, James J. (St. Paul) tycoon - his Great Northern Railway fosterd Northwestern expansion in the 19th century
• Humphrey, Hubert H. (Waverly) politician - 38th US Vice President from 1965 to 1969
• Jennings, Mason (Minneapolis) musician - produced and released his first two albums himself
• Kottke, Leo (Wayzata) musician - one of the most innovative folk-rock acoustic guitarist
• LaDuke, Winona (White Earth Reservation) politician - 2000 Green Party VP candidate
• LeMond, Greg (Medina) athlete - three-time Tour de France winner
• McFerrin, Bobby (Minneapolis) musician - became the Creative Chair of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 1994
• Moua, Mee (St. Paul) politician - first Hmong-American legislator in the nation
• Nolte, Nick (Minneapolis) actor - started his career in Minneapolis at the Eleanor Moore Agency as a print model
• Olson, Sigurd (Ely) writer - also an influential conservationist; best known work is The Singing Wilderness
• Page, Alan (Twin Cities) judge - former Minnesota Viking, now MN Supreme Court justice
• Patch, Dan (Savage) athlete - famous horse* (ok, not a person) who never lost a harness race, lived in Hamilton, renamed Savage for his owner
• Ross, Percy (Minneapolis) philanthropist - gave millions to people who read his newspaper column, Thanks a Million
• Rowley, Coleen (Minneapolis) civil servant - Time's 2002 Person of the Year; recently retired from the FBI
• Shepard, Sam (Stillwater) actor - lived in Stillwater from 1995 until 2004; married to Jessica Lange
• Tiny Tim (Minneapolis) entertainer - moved to the Twin Cites in the 1990s and now buried in Lakewood Cemetary
• Veblen, Thorstein (Nerstrand) economist - coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" & wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class
• Vee, Bobby (St. Cloud) musician - teen music idol from the 1960s
• Wellstone, Paul (St. Paul) politician - popular, progressive US Senator from 1991 to 2002
• Weyerhaeuser, Frederick (St. Paul) tycoon - ruled his lumber empire from MN starting in 1891
• Wilson, August (St. Paul) writer - Pulitzer Prize winner founded the Black Horizons Theatre in 1968