List of people from Janesville, Wisconsin explained

The following notable people were born in or are associated with Janesville, Wisconsin.

Artists and performers

• Tim Davis, co-founder of The Steve Miller Band
• Gloria Foster, actress
• Karron Graves, actress
• Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter
• Tad Kubler, guitarist for The Hold Steady^[1]
• Kerwin Mathews, actor
• Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
• Manilla Powers, singer, Vaudeville performer, musical theater comedian
• Leoni W. Robinson, architect^[2]
• Tom Welling, actor (lived in Janesville briefly during childhood)
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet

Athletes

• Mistie Bass (Mistie Williams), WNBA player
• Frank Bliss, MLB player
• Tommy Cronin, NFL player
• Moxie Dalton, NFL player
• Stan Fox, race car driver, eight-time starter at the Indianapolis 500
• Tucker Fredricks, Olympic speedskater
• Fred Hayner. baseball player
• Larry Hough, Olympic rower
• Paul Janus, NFL player
• Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver
• John Morrissey, professional baseball player
• Tom Morrissey, professional baseball player
• Joe Riggert, MLB player^[3]
• Terry Ryan, MLB manager
• Peter Shorts, NFL player
• Bob Strampe, MLB player

Military personnel

• Leslie Allen Bellrichard, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam^[4]
• James Bintliff, Union Army general
• Victor Bleasdale, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross recipient^[5]
• Frank Matteson Bostwick, U.S. Navy Commodore
• James E. Croft, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
• Gerald L. Endl, Medal of Honor recipient, World War II^[6]
• Theodore W. Goldin, Medal of Honor recipient, American Indian Wars
• John Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
• John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard general
• Henry Palmer, Union Army general
• James Pond, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
• Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War general and military governor of Georgia under occupation
• Claron A. Windus, Medal of Honor recipient^[7]

Politicians

• C. S. Amsden, South Dakota State Representative and Senator
• William A. Barstow, Governor of Wisconsin, Union Army general
• Harry W. Bolens, Wisconsin State Senator
• Stephen Bolles, U.S. Representative
• William B. Britton, Wisconsin State Representative
• James H. Budd, Governor of California
• Zebulon P. Burdick, Wisconsin State Senator
• Bob Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Peter P. Carr, Wisconsin State Senator
• John B. Cassoday, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Harmon Sweatland Conger, U.S. Representative from New York^[8]
• Dave Considine, educator and Wisconsin State Representative
• Tim Cullen, Wisconsin State Senator^[9]
• Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
• Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
• Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin State Representative
• Alexander Graham, New York and Wisconsin State Representative^[10]
• Gilbert N. Haugen, U.S. Representative from Iowa
• Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin State Representative
• James H. Knowlton, Wisconsin State Representative
• Debra Kolste, Wisconsin State Representative
• Don L. Love, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
• Allen P. Lovejoy, Wisconsin State Senator
• William A. Lawrence, Wisconsin State Representative and Senator
• David W. Márquez, Alaska Attorney General
• Alexander E. Matheson, Wisconsin State Representative and jurist
• Max Maxfield, Wyoming Secretary of State
• Hiram Merrill, Wisconsin State Representative
• Cyrus Miner, Wisconsin State Representative
• David Noggle, Wisconsin State Representative, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Idaho Territory
• Thomas S. Nolan, Wisconsin State Representative
• Pliny Norcross, Mayor of Janesville and Wisconsin State Representative
• Andrew Palmer, Wisconsin State Senator
• Henry A. Patterson, Wisconsin State Representative
• Anson W. Pope, Wisconsin State Representative
• Steve Preston, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Michael J. Sheridan, former speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Ithamar C. Sloan, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• A. Hyatt Smith, politician and businessman
• E. Ray Stevens, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• James Sutherland, Wisconsin State Senator
• George Tarrant Sr., Wisconsin State Representative
• Henry Tarrant, Wisconsin State Representative
• Howard Teasdale, Wisconsin State Senator
• Alexander McDonald Thomson, former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Charles L. Valentine, Wisconsin State Representative
• William G. Wheeler, Wisconsin State Representative and U.S. Attorney
• John Meek Whitehead, Wisconsin State Senate
• Edward V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Charles G. Williams, U.S. Representative
• George H. Williston, Wisconsin territorial and state legislator
• Agesilaus Wilson, Wisconsin State Representative
• Wayne W. Wood, Wisconsin State Representative
• Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator

Other

• David Adamany, president of Temple University
• Sanford Soverhill Atwood, sixteenth president of Emory University
• John Henry Comstock, entomologist
• Joseph Dutton, Civil War veteran and later missionary to the lepers of Molokai
• Jim Fitzgerald, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors
• Lavinia Goodell, first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin
• William Goodell, abolitionist
• Ken Hendricks, Forbes 400 businessman
• Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and magazine editor
• Walter Lees, early aviator
• Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948), American educator and college president
• George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company
• Frances Willard, educator and activist (raised and first taught here)
• Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon and heart surgery pioneer, raised and first employed here
• Allene Tew, an American socialite during the Gilded Age who became a European aristocrat by marriage.

References

1. Web site: Interview: The Hold Steady. dead. 2022-01-17. Stylus Magazine. 2018-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20181215222400/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/the-hold-steady.htm.
2. Book: Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. Annual Report of Proceedings, Volumes 36-39. New Haven. 113.
3. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/riggejo01.shtml "Joe Riggert Statistics and History"
4. Web site: December 1998. Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204940/http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/Res_honorrecipients_List.asp. 3 March 2016. 19 November 2010. Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
5. Web site: Victor F. Bleasdale. dead. 19 November 2010. Military Times. 7 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120307002552/http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=8576.
6. Web site: Medal of Honor Recipients: World War II (A-F). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080616211621/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/wwII-a-f.html. 2008-06-16. United States Army Center of Military History.
7. Web site: Medal of Honor Recipients: Indian Wars Period. dead. 2022-01-17. 2009-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20091106222032/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html.
8. Web site: Conger, Harmon Sweatland. 19 November 2010. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress.
9. Web site: Common Cause in Wisconsin: Tim Cullen to join CC/WI state governing board. registration. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125070544/http://www.wispolitics.com/index.Iml?Article=143362. 25 January 2016. WisPolitics.
10. Book: The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin. 1872. Turner. A. J.. 11th. Madison, Wisconsin. 456. en.