| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Henry Cullen Adams |
Politician |
28-Nov-1850 |
9-Jul-1906 |
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1903-06 |
| Iajuddin Ahmed |
Head of State |
1-Feb-1931 |
10-Dec-2012 |
President of Bangladesh. 2002-09 |
| Howard Aiken |
Physicist |
8-Mar-1900 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Designer of early computers |
| W. Steve Albrecht |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
Accounting Professor at BYU |
| Gene Amdahl |
Engineer |
16-Nov-1922 |
10-Nov-2015 |
Parallel computing pioneer |
| Alan Ameche |
Football |
1-Mar-1933 |
8-Aug-1988 |
Winner, 1954 Heisman Trophy |
| David R. Anderson |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of American Family Insurance |
| John Atanasoff |
Inventor |
4-Oct-1903 |
15-Jun-1995 |
Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
| William Bagley |
Educator |
15-Mar-1874 |
1-Jul-1946 |
Opponent of Dewey's progressive education |
| Stephen Baker |
Author |
15-Nov-1955 |
|
The Numerati |
| Tammy Baldwin |
Politician |
11-Feb-1962 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin |
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Robert B. Barnett |
Attorney |
26-Aug-1946 |
|
Washington literary agent, debate coach |
| Tom Barrett |
Politician |
8-Dec-1953 |
|
Mayor of Milwaukee |
| Carol Bartz |
Business |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
CEO of Yahoo, 2009-11 |
| Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Stephen M. Bennett |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Symantec, 2012-14 |
| Lowell Bergman |
Film/TV Producer |
24-Jul-1945 |
|
Former 60 Minutes producer |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Günter Blobel |
Scientist |
21-May-1936 |
|
Protein signaling in cells |
| Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
| Jerry Bock |
Composer |
23-Nov-1928 |
3-Nov-2010 |
Fiorello! |
| Nils A. Boe |
Politician |
10-Sep-1913 |
30-Jul-1992 |
Governor of South Dakota, 1965-69 |
| Ron Bonjean |
Government |
c. 1970 |
|
Republican strategist |
| Paul D. Boyer |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1918 |
|
ATP process |
| Norman O. Brown |
Historian |
25-Sep-1913 |
2-Oct-2002 |
Life Against Death |
| Johnny Burke |
Songwriter |
3-Oct-1908 |
25-Feb-1964 |
Swinging on a Star |
| Bob Carr |
Politician |
27-Mar-1943 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1975-95 |
| Howard L. Carver |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Partner, Ernst & Young |
| Chris Chelios |
Hockey |
25-Jan-1962 |
|
Detroit Red Wings |
| Dick Cheney |
Politician |
30-Jan-1941 |
|
US Vice President, 2001-09 |
| Vivek Chibber |
Scholar |
1965 |
|
Locked in Place |
| Dale Chihuly |
Artist |
20-Sep-1941 |
|
Glass artist |
| Stephen J. Cimbala |
Scholar |
4-Nov-1943 |
|
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy |
| Stephen P. Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1946 |
|
Foreign policy analyst |
| Wilbur J. Cohen |
Government |
10-Jun-1913 |
17-May-1987 |
HEW Secretary, 1968-69 |
| Duane E. Collins |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Parker Hannifin, 1993-2001 |
| Michael J. Critelli |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Pitney Bowes, 1997-2007 |
| Richard N. Current |
Historian |
5-Oct-1912 |
26-Oct-2012 |
The Lincoln Nobody Knows |
| Tom Davis |
Basketball |
3-Dec-1938 |
|
Iowa Hawkeyes Head Coach, 1986-99 |
| Ron Dayne |
Football |
14-Mar-1978 |
|
Houston Texans RB |
| Blake E. Devitt |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Retired Partner, Ernst & Young |
| Jim Doyle |
Politician |
23-Nov-1945 |
|
Governor of Wisconsin, 2003-11 |
| Lee S. Dreyfus |
Politician |
20-Jun-1926 |
2-Jan-2008 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1979-83 |
| Lawrence Eagleburger |
Government |
1-Aug-1930 |
4-Jun-2011 |
US Secretary of State, 1992-93 |
| Thomas J. Falk |
Business |
1958 |
|
CEO of Kimberly-Clark |
| Kenneth Fearing |
Novelist |
28-Jul-1902 |
26-Jun-1961 |
The Big Clock |
| Russ Feingold |
Politician |
2-Mar-1953 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1993-2011 |
| Bill Foster |
Politician |
7-Oct-1955 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 2008-11 |
| Foster Friess |
Business |
2-Apr-1940 |
|
Friess Associates |
| Harold V. Froehlich |
Politician |
12-May-1932 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1973-75 |
| Ellen V. Futter |
Educator |
21-Sep-1949 |
|
President of Barnard College, 1980-93 |
| Zona Gale |
Novelist |
26-Aug-1874 |
27-Dec-1938 |
Miss Lulu Bett |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| C. Daniel Gelatt |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of NMT Corporation |
| Stuart Gordon |
Film Director |
11-Aug-1947 |
|
Re-Animator |
| William J. Grede |
Business |
24-Feb-1897 |
5-Jun-1989 |
Grede Foundries, Inc. |
| Mark Green |
Politician |
1-Jun-1960 |
|
US Ambassador to Tanzania |
| Robert Greenblatt |
Business |
16-Aug-1960 |
|
Chairman, NBC Entertainment |
| Steven Gunderson |
Politician |
10-May-1951 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1981-97 |
| Arvid Harnack |
Spy |
24-May-1901 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Hanged by the Nazis for espionage |
| Mildred Fish Harnack |
Spy |
16-Sep-1902 |
16-Feb-1943 |
Guillotined by the Gestapo |
| S. I. Hayakawa |
Politician |
19-Jul-1906 |
27-Feb-1992 |
Semanticist and US Senator |
| Eric Heiden |
Speed Skating |
15-Jun-1958 |
|
Olympic speed skater, 5 gold medals |
| Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch |
Football |
17-Jun-1923 |
28-Jan-2004 |
LA Rams halfback 1949-57 |
| bell hooks |
Sociologist |
9-Sep-1952 |
|
Ain't I A Woman |
| Leslie Ann Howard |
Administrator |
c. 1954 |
|
President, Dane County United Way |
| Mark W. Huddleston |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, University of New Hampshire |
| Clark L. Hull |
Psychologist |
24-May-1884 |
10-May-1952 |
Principles of Behavior |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1946 |
|
Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| Karl Jansky |
Astronomer |
22-Oct-1905 |
14-Feb-1950 |
Radio waves from outer space |
| Richard H. Jones |
Diplomat |
26-Aug-1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 2005-08 |
| Steve Kagen |
Politician |
12-Dec-1949 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 2007-11 |
| Philip M. Kaiser |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1913 |
24-May-2007 |
US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81 |
| Marcy Kaptur |
Politician |
17-Jun-1946 |
|
Congresswoman, Ohio 9th |
| Ted D. Kellner |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Fiduciary Management, Inc. |
| H. Gobind Khorana |
Scientist |
9-Jan-1922 |
9-Nov-2011 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Jack S. Kilby |
Inventor |
8-Nov-1923 |
20-Jun-2005 |
Electrical engineering pioneer |
| Scott L. Klug |
Politician |
16-Jan-1953 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1991-99 |
| Charles B. Knapp |
Educator |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President, University of Georgia, 1987-97 |
| Herb Kohl |
Politician |
7-Feb-1935 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1989-2013 |
| Richard H. Kohn |
Historian |
29-Dec-1940 |
|
Eagle and Sword |
| Kay Koplovitz |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Co-Founder, USA Network |
| Michael Krasny |
Talk Show Host |
1944 |
|
Host of Forum on KQED-FM |
| Robert M. La Follette, Jr. |
Politician |
6-Feb-1895 |
24-Feb-1953 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Robert M. La Follette |
Politician |
14-Jun-1855 |
20-Jun-1925 |
Governor and Senator from Wisconsin |
| Walter LaFeber |
Historian |
30-Aug-1933 |
|
The New Empire |
| Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
| Barbara Lawton |
Politician |
5-Jul-1951 |
|
Lt. Governor of Wisconsin |
| Donald C. Leidel |
Diplomat |
31-Aug-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Bahrain, 1983-86 |
| Patrick J. Lucey |
Politician |
21-Mar-1918 |
10-May-2014 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1971-77 |
| Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Chemist |
14-Apr-1927 |
7-Feb-2007 |
Metallic polymers |
| Michael Mann |
Film Director |
5-Feb-1943 |
|
Manhunter |
| Lynn Margulis |
Biologist |
5-Mar-1935 |
22-Nov-2011 |
Origin of eukaryotic organelles |
| Robert E. May |
Historian |
6-Jul-1943 |
|
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire |
| Montgomery Meigs |
Military |
11-Jan-1945 |
|
Military analyst |
| Frederick Merk |
Historian |
15-Aug-1887 |
24-Sep-1977 |
Slavery and the Annexation of Texas |
| Horace Samuel Merrill |
Historian |
31-Jan-1910 |
2-Oct-1996 |
The Republican Command, 1897-1913 |
| Laura Miller |
Politician |
18-Nov-1958 |
|
Mayor of Dallas, 2002-07 |
| Thomas J. Mohs |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Founder, Placon Corporation |
| Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| John P. Morgridge |
Business |
23-Jul-1933 |
|
CEO of Cisco, 1988-95 |
| Errol Morris |
Film Director |
5-Feb-1948 |
|
Documentary filmmaker |
| Dan Mozena |
Diplomat |
1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Angola |
| Erwin Neher |
Scientist |
20-Mar-1944 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| John M. Nelson |
Politician |
10-Oct-1870 |
29-Jan-1955 |
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1921-33 |
| Mark Neumann |
Politician |
27-Feb-1954 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1995-99 |
| Edwin Newman |
Journalist |
25-Jan-1919 |
13-Aug-2010 |
Journalist and commentator for NBC News |
| Arthur C. Nielsen |
Business |
5-Sep-1897 |
1-Jun-1980 |
Founder of A.C. Nielsen ratings company |
| Keith D. Nosbusch |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Rockwell |
| David Obey |
Politician |
3-Oct-1938 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1969-2011 |
| San W. Orr, Jr. |
Business |
1941 |
30-Sep-2014 |
Wausau Paper Corporation |
| John Allen Paulos |
Mathematician |
4-Jul-1945 |
|
Innumeracy |
| Debra J. Perry |
Business |
17-Apr-1951 |
|
Moody's |
| Irna Phillips |
Film/TV Producer |
1-Jul-1901 |
23-Dec-1973 |
Queen of soap operas |
| Peter M. Platten III |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Vice Chairman of Marshall & Ilsley, 1994-97 |
| Mark Pocan |
Politician |
14-Aug-1964 |
|
Congressman, Wisconsin 2nd |
| James A. Quella |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Blackstone Group |
| Alfred Regnery |
Publisher |
21-Nov-1942 |
|
The American Spectator |
| Oscar Rennebohm |
Politician |
25-May-1889 |
15-Oct-1968 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1947-51 |
| Julie G. Richardson |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Providence Equity Partners |
| Carl Rogers |
Psychologist |
8-Jan-1902 |
4-Feb-1987 |
Non-directive theory of psychology |
| Eric S. Rosengren |
Economist |
3-Jun-1957 |
|
President and CEO, Boston Fed |
| David S. Ruder |
Government |
25-May-1929 |
|
SEC Chairman, 1987-89 |
| Wiley Rutledge |
Judge |
20-Jul-1894 |
10-Sep-1949 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1943-49 |
| Jeremy Scahill |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1974 |
|
Democracy Now! |
| Bud Selig |
Baseball |
30-Jul-1934 |
|
Commissioner of Baseball, 1992-2015 |
| Jim Sensenbrenner |
Politician |
14-Jun-1943 |
|
Congressman, Wisconsin 5th |
| Michael S. Shannon |
Business |
15-Jun-1958 |
|
KSL Capital Partners |
| Stephen H. Siegele |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Advanced Delivery and Chemical Systems |
| Michael Smith |
Chemist |
26-Apr-1932 |
4-Oct-2000 |
Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis |
| Joan Spero |
Diplomat |
2-Oct-1944 |
|
Under Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
| Francesca M. Spinelli |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Senior VP at PetSmart |
| Michael R. Splinter |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Applied Materials |
| Joel Stebbins |
Astronomer |
30-Jul-1878 |
16-Mar-1966 |
Photoelectric photometry |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| Janet Steiger |
Government |
10-Jun-1939 |
3-Apr-2004 |
FTC chairman, 1989-95 |
| William A. Steiger |
Politician |
15-May-1938 |
4-Dec-1978 |
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1967-78 |
| Peter Straub |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1943 |
|
Ghost Story |
| David Susskind |
Talk Show Host |
19-Dec-1920 |
22-Feb-1987 |
The David Susskind Show |
| David M. Szymanski |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Retailing Studies Professor |
| Edward Tatum |
Scientist |
14-Dec-1909 |
7-Nov-1975 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
| Ruy Teixeira |
Author |
15-Dec-1951 |
|
The Emerging Democratic Majority |
| James A. Thomson |
Administrator |
21-Jan-1945 |
|
President and CEO, Rand Corporation |
| Frederick Jackson Turner |
Historian |
14-Nov-1861 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Frontier Thesis |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| Troy Vincent |
Football |
8-Jun-1971 |
|
All-pro defensive back |
| John E. Walker |
Chemist |
7-Jan-1941 |
|
ATP process |
| Joan Walsh |
Editor |
18-Sep-1958 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Salon, 2005-10 |
| Thomas J. Walsh |
Politician |
12-Jun-1859 |
2-Mar-1933 |
US Senator from Montana, 1913-33 |
| Michael Warner |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Fear of a Queer Planet |
| Willard Waterman |
Actor |
29-Aug-1914 |
2-Feb-1995 |
The Great Gildersleeve |
| Mike Webster |
Football |
18-Mar-1952 |
24-Sep-2002 |
Hall of Fame Center, Pittsburgh Steelers |
| John D. Wiley |
Educator |
23-Mar-1942 |
|
Chancellor, UW-Madison |
| William Appleman Williams |
Historian |
12-Jun-1921 |
6-Mar-1990 |
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy |
| Russell Wilson |
Football |
29-Nov-1988 |
|
Seattle Seahawks QB |
| Dave Winer |
Computer Programmer |
2-May-1955 |
|
Co-Creator of RSS, Scripting News |
| Edwin E. Witte |
Economist |
4-Jan-1887 |
20-May-1960 |
Father of Social Security |
| Tom Wopat |
Actor |
9-Sep-1951 |
|
Luke Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
Architect |
8-Jun-1867 |
9-Apr-1959 |
Fallingwater |
| James Wright |
Educator |
1939 |
|
President, Dartmouth College |
| Clayton K. Yeutter |
Government |
10-Dec-1930 |
|
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1989-91 |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Rasmus B. Anderson |
Scholar |
12-Jan-1846 |
2-Mar-1936 |
America Not Discovered by Columbus |
| Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
| George E. P. Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
| Paul S. Boyer |
Historian |
2-Aug-1935 |
17-Mar-2012 |
When Time Shall Be No More |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Philip D. Curtin |
Historian |
22-May-1922 |
4-Jun-2009 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census |
| John W. Dower |
Historian |
21-Jun-1938 |
|
Embracing Defeat |
| Lee S. Dreyfus |
Politician |
20-Jun-1926 |
2-Jan-2008 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1979-83 |
| Paul W. Glad |
Historian |
15-Aug-1926 |
|
The Trumpet Soundeth |
| Harry Harlow |
Psychologist |
31-Oct-1905 |
6-Dec-1981 |
Comparative psychologist, studied isolation |
| Walter W. Heller |
Economist |
27-Aug-1915 |
15-Jun-1987 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64 |
| Clark L. Hull |
Psychologist |
24-May-1884 |
10-May-1952 |
Principles of Behavior |
| J. Hans D. Jensen |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1907 |
11-Feb-1973 |
Shell nuclear model |
| Peter Kolchin |
Historian |
3-Jun-1943 |
|
American Slavery, 1619-1877 |
| Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
| Aldo Leopold |
Naturalist |
11-Jan-1887 |
21-Apr-1948 |
A Sand County Almanac |
| Gerda Lerner |
Historian |
30-Apr-1920 |
2-Jan-2013 |
The Woman in American History |
| Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
| Katharine C. Lyall |
Business |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
President of the UW System, 1992-2004 |
| Robert W. McChesney |
Author |
c. 1955 |
|
Rich Media, Poor Democracy |
| Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
| William L. O'Neill |
Historian |
18-Apr-1935 |
29-Mar-2016 |
Coming Apart |
| Donald E. Osterbrock |
Astronomer |
13-Jul-1924 |
11-Jan-2007 |
Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81 |
| Andrew J. Policano |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Business School Dean, UC Irvine |
| Norman K. Risjord |
Historian |
25-Oct-1931 |
|
Representative Americans |
| Carl Rogers |
Psychologist |
8-Jan-1902 |
4-Feb-1987 |
Non-directive theory of psychology |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Jack Schmitt |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1935 |
|
12th Man on the Moon |
| Robert B. Shapiro |
Business |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 |
| Oliver Smithies |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1925 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| Barbara Stallings |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Watson Institute for International Studies |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| Howard M. Temin |
Scientist |
10-Dec-1934 |
9-Feb-1994 |
Tumor viruses and host genetics |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| Jan Vansina |
Historian |
14-Sep-1929 |
|
Oral Tradition as History |
| James Craig Watson |
Astronomer |
28-Jan-1838 |
23-Nov-1880 |
Claimed to discover the planet Vulcan |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
| John D. Wiley |
Educator |
23-Mar-1942 |
|
Chancellor, UW-Madison |
| Patricia J. Williams |
Scholar |
28-Aug-1951 |
|
The Alchemy of Race and Rights |
| William Appleman Williams |
Historian |
12-Jun-1921 |
6-Mar-1990 |
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy |
| Edwin E. Witte |
Economist |
4-Jan-1887 |
20-May-1960 |
Father of Social Security |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
