Some Famous Montanans
|
Dirk Benedict |
TV
actor |
|
Judith Blegan |
opera
soprano |
| Gary Cooper |
movie
actor |
| Patrick Duffy |
TV actor |
| Chet Huntley |
TV newsman |
| Myrna Loy |
movie
actress |
| 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 |
| Charles M.
Russell |
artist |
| Michael Smuin |
choreographer |
| Peter Voulkos |
ceramic
artist |
|
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 |
| Eric Bergoust |
Olympic freestyle aerialist |
| Scott Davis |
figure skater |
| Larry Krystkowiak |
NBA basketball player |
| Dave McNally |
baseball player |
| John "Misha" Petkevich |
figure skater |
| Mike Ramos |
Olympic decathlete |
| Lones Wigger |
Olympic marksman |
| Mary Clearman Blew |
author; poet |
| Grace Stone Coates |
author; poet |
| Ivan Doig |
author |
| A.B. Guthrie, Jr. |
author |
| Joseph Kinsey Howard |
author |
| Dorothy M. Johnson |
author |
| William Kitteredge |
author; poet |
| Norman Maclean |
author |
| Tom McGuane |
author |
| James Welch |
author; poet |
| Tony Boyle |
labor leader |
| William A. Clark |
entrepreneur |
| Plenty Coups |
Crow leader |
| Marcus Daly |
entrepreneur |
| Norman "Jeff" Holter |
scientist; inventor |
| Henry Plummer |
sheriff; outlaw |
| Howard Ricketts |
disease scientist |
| Lester Thurow |
economist |
| Harold C. Urey |
Nobel Prize-winning scientist |
| Robert Yellowtail |
Crow Reservation leader |
Additional biographical
information on these people, and other noteworthy Montanans, can be found at
your local public library--in such reference works as Who's Who, the Dictionary of
American Biography, the World Almanac, etc.
