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MADISON
Most Famous People Born in Madison, United States
- Notable people
- 567
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1950
- Most distinctive
- Skater 9.5×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Madison during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 80 notable births.
What Madison Is Known For
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Politician is Madison's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (73).
Madison over-indexes on skater — 9.5× the global rate.
Madison under-produces writer — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Madison's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Science
- Music
- Writing
- Other
John Bardeen
1908 - 1991
Bradley Whitford
Born 1959
Thornton Wilder
1897 - 1975
Chris Farley
1964 - 1997
Chris Noth
Born 1954
Tyne Daly
Born 1946
Eric Heiden
Born 1958
Rob Marshall
Born 1960
Patrick Rothfuss
Born 1973
Tammy Baldwin
Born 1962
Greg Graffin
Born 1964
Robert Bly
Born 1926
Alice Sebold
Born 1963
Liz Cheney
Born 1966
Phil Hellmuth
Born 1964
Imran Khan (Bollywood actor)
Born 1983
Andrea Anders
Born 1975
Charles Martin Hall
1863 - 1914
Mary Sweeney
Born 1953
William P. Murphy
1892 - 1987
Phil Kessel
Born 1987
Hendrik Wade Bode
1905 - 1982
Wayne Morse
1900 - 1974
Joel McNeely
Born 1959
Beth Heiden
Born 1959
James L. Kemper
1823 - 1895
Kevin Farley
Born 1965
Stacey Abrams
Born 1973
Bill Foster (politician)
Born 1955
Don Newcombe
1926 - 2019
Robert M. La Follette Jr.
1895 - 1953
Vinnie Ream
1847 - 1914
Mary Cheney
Born 1969
Brother Ali
Born 1977
Connie Carpenter-Phinney
Born 1957
Kris Kobach
Born 1966
Nick Eversman
Born 1986
Pat Neshek
Born 1980
John A. List
Born 1968
Peter Mueller (speed skater)
Born 1954
Hasil Adkins
1937 - 2005
Bradford Parkinson
Born 1935
Jim Montgomery (swimmer)
Born 1955
Ryan Suter
Born 1985
Mary Hart
Born 1950
Frederick Burr Opper
1857 - 1937
Frederic Prokosch
1906 - 1989
Richard Lamm
Born 1935
Gary Suter
Born 1964
Casey FitzRandolph
Born 1975
Scott Phillips (musician)
Born 1973
LeGarrette Blount
Born 1986
Julius Albert Krug
1907 - 1970
Linda Wallem
Born 1961
Philip La Follette
1897 - 1965
Eddie Trunk
Born 1964
Kid Nichols
1869 - 1953
Lewis Sayre
1820 - 1900
Bruce Wagner
Born 1954
John Jorgenson
Born 1956
Matthew Fox (priest)
Born 1940
Nick Schmaltz
Born 1996
Michael Brandt
Born 1968
Reece Gaines
Born 1981
Meredith Stiehm
Born 1969
Chris Tallman
Born 1970
Jack Skille
Born 1987
Lindsay Tarpley
Born 1983
Steve Rude
Born 1956
Levi Randolph
Born 1992
Craig Smith (ice hockey)
Born 1989
Matt Hamilton (curler)
Born 1989
Tate Ellington
Born 1979
Armitage Trail
1902 - 1930
Mike Baron
Born 1949
Annie Laurie Gaylor
Born 1955
Nick Grinde
1893 - 1979
August Herman Pfund
1879 - 1949
Lee Hoiby
1926 - 2011
Max Carl
Born 1950
Leigh Zimmerman
Born 1969
Karole Armitage
Born 1954
Adam Burish
Born 1983
Amanda Kessel
Born 1991
Ian Nelson (actor, born 1982)
Born 1982
Tohoru Masamune
Born 1956
Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
1858 - 1942
Willard Waterman
1914 - 1995
Theodore Christianson
1883 - 1948
Max Mason
1877 - 1961
Clyde H. Smith
1876 - 1940
Amos Wilder
1895 - 1993
Noah Dietrich
1889 - 1982
Awonder Liang
Born 2003
Maurice Baker
Born 1979
Bob Suter
1957 - 2014
Keaton Nankivil
Born 1989
John M. Dillon
Born 1939
Brad Winchester
Born 1981
Scott Johnson (composer)
Born 1952
Fred Lerdahl
Born 1943
Michael Cole (actor)
Born 1945
Peter Early
1773 - 1817
Jordan Matthews
Born 1992
Eugene Luther Vidal
1895 - 1969
Colin Kelly
1915 - 1941
John Farley (actor)
Born 1968
Becca Hamilton
Born 1990
Minot Judson Savage
1841 - 1918
Donnie Freeman
Born 1944
Gary King (political scientist)
Born 1958
Jim Bakken
Born 1940
J. D. Walsh (actor)
Born 1974
Gale Gillingham
1944 - 2011
Pamela Matson
Born 1953
Charles Willis Lane
1869 - 1945
Taylor Louderman
Born 1990
Erika Brown
Born 1973
James Wright (historian)
Born 1939
E. Adamson Hoebel
1906 - 1993
Chris Thompson (running back)
Born 1990
Drew McDermott
Born 1949
Alfred E. Senn
1932 - 2016
Louis J. Brann
1876 - 1948
Daniel Kane (mathematician)
Born 1986
David Brevik
Born 1968
Robert A. Rushworth
1924 - 1993
Tom Nissalke
1932 - 2019
Barbara Lerner Spectre
Born 1942
Kevin Dean (ice hockey)
Born 1969
Steven Grant
Born 1953
Sarayu Rao
Born 1975
Sandra Nelson
Born 1962
Lisa Wang
Born 1988
Libby Riddles
Born 1956
Jack Waite
Born 1969
Peter Barrett (sailor)
1935 - 2000
George Kittle
Born 1993
Randy Paul Gage
Born 1959
Richard E. Blackwelder
1909 - 2001
Steve Furniss
Born 1952
Dan Immerfall
Born 1955
David J. Lesar
Born 1953
Charles N. Herreid
1857 - 1928
Frank Ackerman
1946 - 2019
George Comstock (astronomer)
1855 - 1934
Billy Edd Wheeler
Born 1932
John Dalley
Born 1935
Steven Kerckhoff
Born 1952
Sumner Slichter
1892 - 1959
Alexander Duncan (politician)
1788 - 1853
Ken Lunde
Born 1965
Brent Michael Davids
Born 1959
Norman Uphoff
Born 1940
Kevin James (pornographic actor)
1954 - 1990
Titus Coan
1801 - 1881
Sherri Steinhauer
Born 1962
Carie Graves
Born 1953
Nina Roth
Born 1988
Linn Banks
1784 - 1842
Russ Hellickson
Born 1948
Clare Jacobs
1886 - 1971
Blake Kessel
Born 1989
Steve Green (basketball)
Born 1953
Virginia Lanier
1930 - 2003
Robert Mallory
1815 - 1885
Tyler Haskins
Born 1986
Charlotte Wilder
1898 - 1980
Heather Miller
Born 1987
Janet D. Spector
1944 - 2011
Nick Kiriazis
Born 1969
Estella Leopold
Born 1927
John F. Tefft
Born 1949
Mary Docter
Born 1961
Ernest W. Roberts
1858 - 1924
Konrad Bates Krauskopf
1910 - 2003
Cory Riordan
Born 1986
Zane Smith
Born 1960
Leonard G. Wolf
1925 - 1970
Sarah Docter
Born 1964
Raymond Andrews
1934 - 1991
Alex Brooks
Born 1976
Jeremy Dehner
Born 1987
Douglas Evans (actor)
1904 - 1968
Will Mastin
1878 - 1979
Jenn Korbee
Born 1980
James W. Grant
Born 1943
Mary Cardwell Dawson
1894 - 1962
Albert G. Schmedeman
1864 - 1946
Vincent Valentine (American football)
Born 1994
George Rublee
1868 - 1957
Harry Sauthoff
1879 - 1966
Joanne Reid
Born 1992
Floyd "Candy" Johnson
1922 - 1981
Paul Manning (TV producer)
1959 - 2005
Greg Olear
Born 1972
Paul Cloyd
1920 - 2005
Mary Burke
Born 1959
Ira Loren Wiggins
1899 - 1987
Jerry Kelly
Born 1966
William Freudenburg
1951 - 2010
William F. Jasper
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George Ireland
1913 - 2001
James Byron Huggins
Born 1959
Benny Andrews
1930 - 2006
Charles R. Robertson
1889 - 1951
Matt Sloan (voice actor)
Born 1973
Jeff Nygaard
Born 1972
William T. Schulte
1890 - 1966
David E. Aspnes
Born 1939
Robert Stell Heflin
1815 - 1901
Shaka Smart
Born 1977
Seaborn Reese
1846 - 1907
David R. Paige
1844 - 1901
Rick Neuheisel
Born 1961
Marc Behrend
Born 1961
Jessica Nelson North
1891 - 1988
Barry Richter
Born 1970
Dave Stalls
Born 1955
Edward Swann
1862 - 1945
Samuel Herrick (astronomer)
1911 - 1975
Don Trachte
1915 - 2005
Jeff Butler
Born 1958
Michael Weiss (swimmer)
Born 1991
Jesco White
Born 1956
Keith Carter (photographer)
Born 1948
Jacob Soll
Born 1968
Craig Brown (curler)
Born 1975
Louis B. Slichter
1896 - 1978
Leonard S. Echols
1871 - 1946
Washington F. Willcox
1834 - 1909
Kurt Stein
Born 1970
Jay Norvell
Born 1963
Michael Fellman
1943 - 2012
Tommy Durden
1919 - 1999
Tyrone Braxton
Born 1964
INOJ
Born 1976
Chris Spencer (American football)
Born 1982
Thomas B. Fitzpatrick
1919 - 2003
Charles McCallister
1903 - 1997
Jules Boykoff
Born 1970
Philip Nelson (American football)
Born 1993
Alexander Campbell Botkin
1842 - 1905
Gideon Yago
Born 1978
Stephen A. Cobb
1833 - 1878
Nathaniel Greene Foster
1809 - 1869
Richard Barrett Lowe
1902 - 1972
Leo Sidran
Born 1976
Charles E. Peterson
1906 - 2004
Fola La Follette
1882 - 1970
Jerry Schemmel
Born 1959
B. J. Elder
Born 1982
Paul Chryst
Born 1965
Sonia Nazario
Born 1960
Abel Buell
1742 - 1822
Sammy Winder
Born 1959
James B. Loken
Born 1940
Tracy Nelson (singer)
Born 1944
Barbara Browning
Born 1961
Leslie Joyce Abrams
Born 1974
Craig Hickman
Born 1967
Robert Schneider (cyclist)
Born 1944
Peter Goin
Born 1951
Jessica Smith (editor)
1895 - 1983
Gary Hebl
Born 1951
Gordon King
Born 1956
DJ Pain 1
Born 1983
Nick Hexum
Born 1971
Lauriston Sharp
1907 - 1993
Anne-Marie O'Connor
Born 1959
Will Hudson
Born 1989
Jackie Zoch
Born 1949
Hobo Jim
Born 1952
Robin Davis
Born 1956
Howard Hibbard
1928 - 1984
Jennifer Gale
1960 - 2008
Aaron Yonda
Born 1973
Joe Schermie
1946 - 2002
The Audible Doctor
Born 1984
Graham Lindsey
Born 1978
Victoria Opitz
Born 1988
Thomas Thorn
Born 1964
Christo Landry
Born 1986
Jimmy Davis (songwriter)
1915 - 1997
Dominic Zhai
Born 1990
Pat Richter
Born 1941
Melissa Sargent
Born 1969
Andrew Swant
Born 1976
Thomas G. Pullen
1898 - 1979
Stu Voigt
Born 1948
Jay P. Sanford
1928 - 1996
George Brasno
1911 - 1982
Joseph L. Hogg
1806 - 1862
Sandy Dempsey
1949 - 1975
Jeronne Maymon
Born 1991
Lane Bradbury
Born 1938
Eric Goldman
Born 1968
Mike Gosling
Born 1980
Jesse Solomon
Born 1963
Rick Weiland
Born 1958