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MILWAUKEE
Most Famous People Born in Milwaukee, United States
- Notable people
- 1,210
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1940
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 5.0×
Milwaukee's bench leans hard on mid-century brains and beer-league sport: a thick Baseball and Basket cohort traces back to the Braves-then-Brewers years and Marquette's old basketball powerhouse, while an outsized Lawyer class reflects the Gilded Age German-American legal scene that eventually sent a chief justice to the Supreme Court. The quieter Film vein belongs to the studio-era screenwriters and directors who filtered up through Chicago on their way to Hollywood.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Milwaukee during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Milwaukee Is Known For
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Politician is Milwaukee's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (148).
Milwaukee over-indexes on baseball — 5.0× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Milwaukee's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Alvin Kraenzlein
1876 - 1928
Morris Fuller Benton
1872 - 1948
Theodore Wharton
1875 - 1931
Francis Gano Benedict
1870 - 1957
H. V. Kaltenborn
1878 - 1965
Marion Wachtel
1875 - 1954
Arthur Berthelet
1879 - 1949
Herbert James Hagerman
1871 - 1935
Charles Keeler
1871 - 1937
William James Aylward
1875 - 1956
Felix Riesenberg
1879 - 1939
Everett Colby
1874 - 1940
William Juneau
1879 - 1949
Meta Berger
1873 - 1944
Gerhard Adolph Bading
1870 - 1946
Frank Albert Young
1876 - 1941
Red Kleinow
1877 - 1929
George Hambrecht
1871 - 1943
Wheeler Peckham Bloodgood
1871 - 1930
Martin Glendon
1877 - 1950
George E. Page
1873 - 1959
George Coolidge Hunting
1871 - 1924
Herman Georgi
Born 1870
Edward H. Kiefer
1874 - 1951
William Frederick Hase
1874 - 1935
John Wassow
1879 - 1920
Albert Ehlman
1876 - 1930
Clement A. Trott
1877 - 1950
Oscar M. Fritz
1878 - 1957
August W. Laabs
1873 - 1941