List of people from Duluth, Minnesota
The following list includes notable people, past and present, who were born or have lived in Duluth, Minnesota, the second-largest city (and first-largest U.S. city) on the shores of Lake Superior.
Business and industry
- W. T. Bailey (1842-1914), 19th and 20th-century lumber tycoon who kept his headquarters in Duluth
- Bob Chinn, owner of Bob Chinn's Crab House, highest grossing restaurant in America
- Thomas F. Cole (1862-1939), miner and executive. President of Oliver Iron Mining Company after U.S. Steel merger.
- Chester Adgate Congdon (1853-1916), attorney and investor
- Alan and Dale Klapmeier, founders of Cirrus Aircraft; pioneered the use of composites, glass cockpits and ballistic parachutes for production aircraft; inducted into National Aviation Hall of Fame (2014)
- Seven Iron Brothers, also known as the Merritt brothers of Duluth, discovered iron ore in 1890 in the Mesabi Iron Range
- David Oreck, entrepreneur and lecturer
- Jeno Paulucci, entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of Bellisio Foods and Chun King; creator of pizza rolls
Entertainment
- Otis Dozovic, professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment
- Dale Arnold, sportscaster for WEEI-FM and NESN
- Dorothy Arnold, actress; first wife of baseball player Joe DiMaggio
- Maria Bamford, comedian and television actress; American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic (2014)
- Mitch Clem, cartoonist
- Marguerite De La Motte, silent movie actress
- Carol Dempster, silent movie actress
- Jane Frazee, actress
- Peggy Knudsen, actress
- Don LaFontaine (1940-2008), voice-over actor of film and video-game trailers, television advertisements, and network promotions; popularized the phrase "In a world..."
- Jessica Lange, photographer and Academy, Emmy, Tony, SAG and Golden Globe Award-winning actress; tied as the sixth most Oscar-nominated actress in history, born in Cloquet and resided in Duluth
- Verne Lundquist, CBS sportscaster
- Chris Monroe, cartoonist and children's book illustrator
- Edna Munsey, stage and silent film actress
- Lorenzo Music, voice actor, raised in Duluth
- Gena Lee Nolin, actress
- Dennis Shryack, screenwriter
Music
- Bill Berry, drummer for band R.E.M.
- Haley Bonar, folk music singer and songwriter
- David Dondero, indie-folk musician
- Bob Dylan, iconic Grammy and Academy Award-winning folk singer and songwriter; spearheaded American folk music revival during mid-1960s; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988); Nobel Prize in Literature (2016), born in Duluth
- Sadik Hakim, jazz pianist, played on Charlie Parker's famous "Ko-Ko" session
- Dan Murphy, Soul Asylum band member and founder
- Mimi Parker, founding member of alternative rock group Low
- Charlie Parr, folk musician
- Rivulets, slowcore band, founder Nathan Amundson originates from Duluth
- Alice Sjoselius (1888-1982), concert singer, voice teacher
- Phil Solem, musician
- Alan Sparhawk, founding member of alternative rock group Low
- Trampled by Turtles, bluegrass band, hails from Duluth and refers to city in several songs
Politics and law
- Melvin Baldwin, U.S. Representative
- Chester Adgate Congdon (1853-1916), lawyer and capitalist
- Albert J. Connors, Wisconsin state senator
- Alfred E. France, Minnesota state representative and businessman
- Ben E. Gustafson, Minnesota state legislator and businessman
- Earl B. Gustafson, Minnesota state legislator, judge, and lawyer
- James Gustafson, Minnesota State Senator and businessman
- Gerald Heaney (1918-2010), United States Circuit Judge
- Charles Lundy Lewis, Minnesota Supreme Court justice
- Robert Mahoney, Michigan state legislator
- Page Morris (1853-1924), United States Representative (1897-1903) and United States District Judge (1903-1924)
- Richard F. Palmer, Minnesota state legislator and newspaper editor
- Samuel F. Snively, Mayor of Duluth from 1921 to 1937; pushed for the creation of numerous parks and boulevards throughout the city; longest running Mayor in Duluth's history
- Ozora P. Stearns, lawyer and U.S. senator from Minnesota (1871)
- Gordon Voss, Minnesota state legislator
- Gerald Willet, Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Sports
- Mason Aguirre, professional snowboarder, competed in 2006 Winter Olympics
- Jim Ahern, professional golfer, played on PGA Tour and Champions Tour
- Greg Anderson, drag racer, Pro Stock NHRA champion
- Herbert Clow, National Football League, 1920s
- Jack Connolly, hockey player, Hobey Baker Award winner (2012), captain of 2011 Minnesota-Duluth men's NCAA championship team
- Gary DeGrio, professional ice hockey forward
- Dan Devine, captain of UMD football team, later coached the Missouri Tigers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Green Bay Packers
- Ethan Finlay, soccer player
- P. J. Fleck, head coach for the Minnesota Golden Gophers football
- Derek Forbort, hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings
- Dates Fryberger, hockey player in 1964 Winter Olympics
- Kara Goucher, distance runner, world championships silver medalist, 2008 and 2012 Olympian
- C. J. Ham, running back for Minnesota Vikings
- Phil Hoene, hockey player, native Duluthian, played for UMD and Los Angeles Kings
- Bill Irwin, professional wrestler, known in WWE as "The Goon"
- Lenny Lane, professional wrestler
- Drew LeBlanc, hockey player, Hobey Baker Award winner (2013)
- Jim McNally, Olympic sport shooter
- Russ Method, football player
- Bill O'Toole, football player
- Neal Pionk, defensemen for the New York Rangers
- Chris Plys, curler, 2010 Winter Olympic team
- Joe Polo, curler, 2006 Winter Olympic team
- Rick Rickert, basketball player, University of Minnesota and New Zealand Breakers
- Barbara Rotvig, AAGPBL player
- John Shuster, Olympic curling medalist
- Whitey Skoog, basketball player, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Lakers
- Gordy Soltau, NFL player for San Francisco 49ers
- Jamie Trachsel, head softball coach at Ole Miss; former head coach at Minnesota, Iowa State and North Dakota State
- Darren Ward, Olympic swimmer
- Butch Williams, NHL player
- Tom Williams (1940-1992), NHL player, 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist
Writers and journalists
- Margaret Culkin Banning, best-selling author of 36 novels; early women's rights advocate
- Carol Bly, author
- Irving Copi, philosopher, logician and textbook author
- Marty Essen, ten-time award-winning author, photographer, professional speaker
- Roger Grimsby, journalist, television news anchor and actor
- David Hagberg, author of international thrillers
- Steve Hagen, Zen author and priest
- Amy Hoff, Scottish historian, folklorist, writer, and director
- Louis Jenkins, author and poet
- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), author and Nobel laureate, wrote the novel Cass Timberlane while a resident of Duluth
- John L. Morrison, newspaper publisher
- Lauran Paine (1916-2001), author
Others
- Scott D. Anderson (1965-1999), author and pilot; successfully flew all in-flight test-deployments of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System; inducted into Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame (2010)
- Mike Colalillo (1925-2011), Medal of Honor recipient (US Army, World War II)
- Henry A. Courtney Jr. (1916-1945), posthumous Medal of Honor recipient (US Marine Corps, World War II)
- John H. Darling, engineer and astronomer
- Robert R. Gilruth, first director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Mercury through Apollo; inducted into National Aviation Hall of Fame (1994)
- Robert Isabell (1952-2009), event planner
- Kay Kurt, painter
- Nika Nesgoda, conceptual artist and photographer
- William P. Levine, U.S. Army major general and Holocaust speaker
- Janet McCarter Woolley (1906-1996), tuberculosis researcher
- Ellen Pence, scholar and social activist, created Duluth Model of intervention in domestic violence
- Erik Sommer, artist
- Sarah Burger Stearns, first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
- Gloria Tew, abstract sculptor
- Oliver G. Traphagen (1854-1932), architect
- Albert Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956), last Union civil war soldier to die
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