41.7994° N, 87.4912° W
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
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.
1908 - 1930
Dorcas Denhartog
Born 1965
Lewie Hardage
1891 - 1973
Fred Risser
Born 1927
Phyllis Bramson
Born 1941
Joe Parisi
Born 1960
Kim Cobb
Born 1974
George Witte
-
John Byce
Born 1967
Scott Owens (ice hockey)
Born 1956
Alexander Legge
1866 - 1933
Michelle Rohl
Born 1965
Nick Hawk
Born 1981
D. Ray White
1927 - 1985
Horace L. McBride
1894 - 1962
Josh Portman
Born 1979
Howard Marklein
Born 1954
Marty Crump
Born 1946
Connie Wanek
Born 1952
Gene Brabender
1941 - 1996
Thomas Trautmann
-
Sondy Pope-Roberts
Born 1950
Shirley Wilson
Born 1925
Jeff Erlanger
1970 - 2007
Patterson Dial
1902 - 1945
Jake Brendel
Born 1992
Helen Weaver
Born 1931
Rod Carey
Born 1971
Irving D. Tressler
1908 - 1944
Dave Pasch
Born 1972
Lisa Stone
Born 1962
Dale Hackbart
Born 1938
Fran Ulmer
Born 1947
Clement D. Child
1868 - 1933
Eugene H. Merrill (academic)
Born 1934
Sarah Beth James
Born 1989
Geno Hayes
Born 1987
Bobby Curtis (runner)
Born 1984
Shelley Glover
1986 - 2004
Jim Myers
1921 - 2014
Charles H. Baker
1847 - 1919
Chris Broach
Born 1976
Ken Frailing
Born 1948
Jeremy Nobis
Born 1970
Ann Risley
Born 1949
Dale Schultz
Born 1953
Oliver Cutts
1873 - 1939
Pascual Romero
Born 1980
Ted Park
Born 1994
John Perdue
Born 1950
Merrill K. Riddick
1895 - 1988
David Allan Cates
Born 1956
Stephen Roger Powers
Born 1974
Lance Carson
1945 - 2020
Lori Monk
Born 1956
Blake Young (motorcyclist)
Born 1987
Cliff Lyons (actor)
1901 - 1974
Burton E. Green
1868 - 1965
Jack Ikegwuonu
Born 1986
Susan Brnovich
Born 1968
Casey Cramer
Born 1982
Alfred L. Buser
1888 - 1956
Kenneth Keller Hall
1918 - 1999
Oliver Ernesto Branch
1847 - 1916
Corky Withrow
Born 1937
Mila Jasey
Born 1951
Steve Stadelman
Born 1976
James L. Papandrea
Born 1963
Clinton Greaves
1855 - 1906
Donald James Porter
1921 - 2003
Lincoln Brower
1931 - 2018
Peter Duncan (écrivain)
1918 - 1994
Robert Michael Dow Jr.
Born 1965
Eric Studesville
Born 1967
Eric Lampe
Born 1986
Scott Kooistra
Born 1980
Mark Hengst
Born 1981
Donald S. Jones
1928 - 2004
Pola Rapaport
Born 1958
Isabel Wilder
1900 - 1995
Dianne Hesselbein
Born 1971
Ed Barry (baseball)
1882 - 1920
Nate Wright
Born 1947
John Duer Irving
1874 - 1918
Bernardine Flynn
1904 - 1977
Mark Hennen
Born 1951
Charlie Chech
1878 - 1938
Lillian Trimble Bradley
1875 - 1959
Mike Hunt (American football)
Born 1956
Flint Fleming
Born 1965
Janis Ringhand
Born 1950
Karl Pagel
Born 1955
John Carmichael (sportswriter)
1902 - 1986
Evan Stoflet
Born 1984
Billy Moll
1905 - 1968
Catherine Zimmerman
Born 1995
Patrick Borchers
Born 1961
James Creitz
Born 1957
Lou Mahaffey
1874 - 1949
Geep Chryst
Born 1962
Ron Stollings
Born 1955
Jared Carter (Latter Day Saints)
1801 - 1849
Greg Mattison
Born 1949
Ironhead Gallon
Born 1994
Mark Radcliffe (politician)
Born 1971
Annabelle Cripps
Born 1968
Logan Ketterer
Born 1993
Bob Bruer
Born 1953
Joe Wineke
Born 1957
Gene Schroeder
1915 - 1975
Aaron Patzer
-
Jordan George
Born 1990
Dorothy Bradley
Born 1947
Kevin Ulanski
Born 1982
Buddy Brown (musician)
Born 1982
Misha Mitrofanov
Born 1997
George Gordon Crawford
1869 - 1936
Jeffrey Sprecher
Born 1956
Cheryl Chapman
Born 1948
Daurice Fountain
Born 1995
Roman Brumm
1898 - 1981
Kathryn Morrison (legislator)
1942 - 2013
David W. Bates
Born 1957
Timothy Brown (judge)
1889 - 1977
Brian J. Nelson
Born 1967
Larry Hart (American football)
Born 1987
Keith Ripp
Born 1961
Steffon Walby
Born 1972
Tim Stracka
Born 1959
George Muter
Died 1810
Auzella Savage
1846 - 1882
Walter H. Jurgensen
1894 - 1973
Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.
1922 - 2000
Luke Stauffacher
Born 1980
Guy Sundt
1898 - 1955
Donnel Thompson
Born 1978
George Becker (labor leader)
1928 - 2007
Zachary Mortensen
Born 1972
Samuel S. Coursen
1926 - 1950
Rick Reichardt
Born 1943
Tim Jordan (American football)
Born 1964
Hononegah
1814 - 1847
Richard Carl Vogt
Born 1949
Ashton Dovell
1885 - 1949
Tony Yelk
Born 1981
Clarence Esser
1925 - 2009
Carl R. Kimball
1876 - 1965
Mary Van Rensselaer Buell
1893 - 1969
Sean Varah
Born 1968
Pete Schmitt
Born 1984
Jason Crow
Born 1979
Eugene T. Wilson
1852 - 1925
Clifford Krueger
1918 - 1988
Spottswood Rice
1819 - 1907
Bill Collins (American football)
1901 - 1976
Scott Kelly (politician)
1927 - 2005
John Geisse
1920 - 1992
Michael Dessen
Born 1967
Lori S. Wilbur
-
Michael Gerhardt
Born 1956
Ben Demott
1889 - 1963
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Born 1942
Julian Baretta
Born 1957
John B. Pierce
1844 - 1917
Sam Harshany
1910 - 2001
Dolly Leigh
Born 1991
Mike Nelson (cestista)
Born 1986
Ted Scalissi
1921 - 1987
Derek Kolstad
Born 1974
Steven Haugaard
Born 1956
Steven Schend
Born 1967
Carl Yowell
1902 - 1985
Dave Besteman
Born 1963
Carl Maguire
Born 1970
George Levis
1894 - 1980
Linda Burgess
Born 1969
John T. Schiller
Born 1953
Don Williams (racing driver)
1947 - 1989
Patrick Testin
Born 1988
Henry D. Messer
1927 - 2014
Shannon Zimmerman
Born 1972
John Braun
1939 - 2011
Sterling Long-Colbo
-
Jean Blashfield Black
-
Peter DeMaria
Born 1960
Barbara Notestein
Born 1949
Jay P. Rolison Jr.
1929 - 2007
Horace W. Wilkie
1917 - 1976
Henry Willegale
1901 - 1964
George Washburn
1914 - 1979
Leo Hewlett Thebaud
1890 - 1980
Carol Roessler
Born 1948
John C. Hunton
1839 - 1928
Johnny Meador
1892 - 1970
Richard E. Cross
1910 - 1996
Sandy Botham
Born 1965
Andrew Kasarskis
Born 1972
San W. Orr Jr.
1941 - 2014
Marjorie R. Turnbull
Born 1940
Norma Elaine Brown
1926 - 2003
Dan Lanphear
1938 - 2018
Ole G. Kinney
1858 - 1922
Ken Starch
Born 1954
Gregory Joseph Kessenich
1896 - 1958
Robert Opie Lindsay
1894 - 1952
Jay Eck
Born 1950
Ronald J. Kurth
1931 - 2020
Matt Peckham
Born 1972
Bob Morrow (American football)
1918 - 2003
Phyllis Koehn
1922 - 2007
Brontez Purnell
-
Troy Kopp
Born 1971
John Higgins (admiral)
1899 - 1973
Chris Sahs
Born 1970
Carolyn Nelson (politician)
Born 1937
Les Bartholomew
1903 - 1972
Tia Nelson
Born 1956
Otto Friedli
1931 - 2008
Johnnie H. Corns
1936 - 2020
John R. Burke
1924 - 1993
Shirley Stovroff
1931 - 1994
Bob Stefik
1923 - 2008
Albert T. Harris
1915 - 1942
Barbara Fister
Born 1954
Edwin Wheeler
1828 - 1864
Ed Gaunch
Born 1947
Robert Watson Landry
1922 - 2017
Levi Withee
1834 - 1910
Matthew S. Dudgeon
1871 - 1949
Jerome B. Lammers
Born 1937
Margaret J. Vergeront
Born 1946
Bill Lindsay (baseball)
1881 - 1963
Royal McCracken
Born 1941
Gertrude Newsome Jackson
1923 - 2019
Monte Smith
Born 1967
Vern Geishert
Born 1946
Sara Radcliffe
-
Robert Joseph Wells
1856 - 1941
David Austin Sayre
1793 - 1870
Larry Lemanski
Born 1943
Maurice Nelles
Died 30
Kathryn Ann Lunda
Born 1957
Bruce Christensen
Born 1948
Bob Schwartz
1919 - 1995
Bill Southworth
Born 1945
Kay Lunda
Born 1957
Eugene L. Tattini
Born 1943
John Edward Mower
1815 - 1879
Henderson M. Somerville
1837 - 1915
Paul R. Norby
1913 - 2015
Alma Cook (American singer)
Born 1991
Albert Taubert
-
John W. Harbaugh
Died 2019
W. Patrick Donlin
Died 1996
Archie Ware
1918 - 1990
John T. Lesley
1835 - 1913
Carl Holden
Born 1941
Livingston C. Lord
1851 - 1933
Kim Taylor (entrepreneur)
-
August Sauthoff
1876 - 1950
Paul Feldhausen
Born 1946
W. Turner Davis
1901 - 1988
Greg Canuteson
Born 1967
Rogers H. Stolen
Born 1937
Adeline Albright Wigand
1852 - 1944
Dale Shaw
Born 1964
Horace Winchell
1915 - 1993