Famous Montanans

ARTS/ACTING/MUSIC/MEDIA

• Eden Atwood – jazz singer
• Jeff Ament- Rock Musician
• Dirk Benedict - TV actor
• Brad Bird – animator/director
• Judith Blegan - opera soprano
• Dana Carvey - actor/comedian
• Gary Cooper - movie actor
• Monte Dolack – artist
• Patrick Duffy - TV actor
• Taylor Gordon – vaudeville performer/concert singer
• Chet Huntley - TV newsman
• Myrna Loy - movie actress
• David Lynch - director
• Stan Lynde - cartoonist
• George Montgomery - movie actor
• Brent Musberger - TV sports announcer
• Edgar S. Paxson - artist
• Charlie Pride - country and western singer
• Martha Raye - singer
• Kevin Red Star - artist
• Charles M. Russell - artist
• Michael Smuin - choreographer
• Peter Voulkos - ceramic artist
• Michelle Williams – TV and movie actress

POLITICIANS

• Mike Mansfield - U.S. Senator; ambassador
• Lee Metcalf - U.S. Senator
• Jeannette Rankin - first woman in the U.S. House
• Thomas J. Walsh - U.S. Senator
• Burton K. Wheeler - U.S. Senator

SPORTS

• Eric Bergoust- Olympic Gold medalist — ski aerialist
• Phil Jackson – NBA coach
• Levi Leipheimer- Bicycle Racer
• Alex Lowe- Mountaineer
• Larry Krystkowiak - NBA basketball player
• Ryan Leaf – NFL quarterback
• Dave McNally - baseball player
• John "Misha" Petkevich - figure skater
• Mike Ramos - Olympic decathlete
• Lones Wigger - Olympic marksman

LITERATURE

• Mary Clearman Blew - author; poet
• Grace Stone Coates - author; poet
• Ivan Doig - author
• A.B. Guthrie, Jr. - author
• Joseph Kinsey Howard - author
• Richard Hugo - poet
• Dorothy M. Johnson - author
• William Kitteredge - author; poet
• Frank Bird Linderman – author
• Norman Maclean - author
• Deirdre McNamer – author
• William D’Arcy McNickle – author
• Tom McGuane - author
• Christopher Paolini - author
• James Welch - Native American author

MISCELLANEOUS

• Tony Boyle - labor leader
• William A. Clark - entrepreneur
• Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow - historian
• Plenty Coups - Crow leader
• Marcus Daly - entrepreneur
• Maurice Hilleman - microbiologist (mumps vaccine)
• John R. Horner - dinosaur paleontologist
• Henry Plummer - sheriff; outlaw
• Howard Ricketts - disease scientist
• Lester Thurow - economist
• Harold C. Urey - Nobel Prize - winning scientist
• Robert Yellowtail - Crow Reservation leader