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• Dorothy Adams
  Dorothy Adams
  Dorothy Adams was an American character actress. She was married to character actor Byron Foulger from 1921-1970. She was the mother of soap opera actress Rachel Ames...
  
   (1900–1988); character actress; born in Hannah
  Hannah, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 20 people, 13 households, and 5 families residing in the city. The population density was 103.5 people per square mile . There were 24 housing units at an average density of 124.2 per square mile...
  
  
• Lynn Anderson
  Lynn Anderson
  Lynn Rene Anderson is an American country music singer and equestrian known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably her Grammy Award-winning, worldwide mega-hit, " Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most...
  
   (b. 1947); singer; born in Grand Forks
  Grand Forks, North Dakota
  Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461...
  
  
• Sam Anderson
  Sam Anderson
  Sam Anderson is an American actor.-Early life:Anderson was born in Wahpeton, North Dakota. He is a graduate of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. During the 1970s, Sam taught drama at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California.-Career:Anderson is perhaps best known for his roles...
  
  ; actor; born in Wahpeton
  Wahpeton, North Dakota
  The first European explorer in the area was Jonathan Carver in 1767. He explored and mapped the Northwest at the request of Major Robert Rogers, commander of Fort Michilimackinac, the British fort at Mackinaw City, Michigan, which protected the passage between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron...
  
  
• Dick Armey
  Dick Armey
  Richard Keith "Dick" Armey is a former U.S. Representative from Texas's and House Majority Leader . He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades. Armey was...
  
   (b. 1940); former U.S. Representative from Texas; born in Cando
  Cando, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 1,342 people, 595 households, and 345 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,178.3 people per square mile . There were 707 housing units at an average density of 1,147.6 per square mile...
  
  

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• Jennifer Baumgardner
  Jennifer Baumgardner
  Jennifer Baumgardner is an author, filmmaker, and third-wave feminist activist.-Early and personal life:Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1992...
  
   (b. 1970) - feminist author and activist
• Carmen Berg (b. 1963) - model and actress, 1987 Playboy Playmate of the Month
• Leslie Bibb
  Leslie Bibb
  Leslie Louise Bibb is an American actress and former fashion model. She transitioned into film and television in late 1990s. She appeared in television shows such as Home Improvement , before she appeared in her first film, the comedy Private Parts , which was followed by her first show The Big Easy...
  
   (b. 1974) - actress, Talladega Nights
  Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 American comedy film, directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell. The film also features John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Amy Adams, Gary Cole, Jane Lynch, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Various Saturday Night Live alumni also...
  
  , Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  , Popular
  Popular (TV series)
  Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to...
  
  ; born in Bismarck
  Bismarck, North Dakota
  Bismarck is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was 61,272 at the 2010 census, while its metropolitan population was 108,779...
  
  
• Elizabeth Bodine
  Elizabeth Bodine
  Elizabeth Bodine was a humanitarian who was given the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award in July 1979 in recognition of the International Year of the Child. She was honored as the North Dakota Mother of the Year in 1968....
  
   (1898–1986) - humanitarian, North Dakota Mother of the Year in 1968
• Brooks Bollinger
  Brooks Bollinger
  Brooks Bollinger is a retired American football quarterback. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
  
   (1979–present) - NFL quarterback (New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings); born and raised in Grand Forks
  Grand Forks, North Dakota
  Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461...
  
  
• Marcus Borg
  Marcus Borg
  Marcus J. Borg is an American Biblical scholar and author. He is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, holds a DPhil degree from Oxford University and is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, an endowed chair, at Oregon State University, from which he retired in 2007...
  
  
• Jeff Boschee
  Jeff Boschee
  Jeffrey Allen Boschee is an American basketball player and coach. He currently serves as an assistant coach of the men's team at Missouri Southern State University. Boschee played guard at the University of Kansas from 1998 to 2002. He was named Mr...
  
   (b. 1979); University of Kansas basketball player (1998–2002)
• Dale Brown
  Dale Brown (basketball)
  Dale Duward Brown is an American former college basketball coach who spent 25 years leading the LSU Tigers. His team earned Final Four appearances in 1981 and 1986. He is also remembered as one of the most vocal critics of the NCAA because he said it legislated against human dignity.-Life in...
  
   (1935–present) - college basketball coach; born in Minot
  Minot, North Dakota
  Minot is a city located in north central North Dakota in the United States. It is most widely known for the Air Force base located approximately 15 miles north of the city. With a population of 40,888 at the 2010 census, Minot is the fourth largest city in the state...
  
  
• Tom Brosseau
  Tom Brosseau
  Tom Brosseau is an American musical storyteller and guitarist, born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota.-Biography:Fat Cat Records artist Tom Brosseau tours and performs in the US, UK, Europe, Japan and Taiwan. In the Los Angeles area his home club is Largo. His song "How to Grow a Woman from...
  
   - singer-songwriter and guitarist; born and raised in Grand Forks
• James F. Buchli
• Quentin N. Burdick
  Quentin N. Burdick
  Quentin Northrup Burdick was a United States Senator from North Dakota from August 8, 1960 until his death in 1992. Prior to that he had served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 to August 8, 1960. He was the son of NPL North Dakota Congressman Usher L...
  
   (1908–1992) - former U.S. Senator, born in (Munich, North Dakota)

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• Sam Childers
  Sam Childers
  Sam Childers is a former gang biker who now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, Sudan, where they currently have more than 300 children...
  
   (b. 1962); former gang biker, founder of Angels of East Africa located in Sudan
  Sudan
  Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
  
  ; born in Grand Forks
  Grand Forks, North Dakota
  Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461...
  
  
• Warren Christopher
  Warren Christopher
  Warren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. He also served as Deputy Attorney General in the Lyndon Johnson administration, and as Deputy Secretary of State in the Jimmy...
  
   (1925–2011); lawyer, former U.S. Secretary of State; born in Scranton
  Scranton, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 304 people, 125 households, and 86 families residing in the city. The population density was 343.6 people per square mile . There were 139 housing units at an average density of 157.1 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 99.01% White, 0.33% Native...
  
  
• Alf Clausen
  Alf Clausen
  Alf Clausen is an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of The Simpsons, of which he has been the sole composer since 1990...
  
   (b. 1941); television and film orchestrater; grew up in Jamestown
  Jamestown, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 15,527 people, 6,505 households, and 3,798 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,246.7 per square mile . There were 6,970 housing units at an average density of 559.6 per square mile...
  
  
• Chris Coste
  Chris Coste
  Christopher Robert Coste is an author and Major League Baseball catcher who is currently a free agent. Coste was on a Major League Baseball team for the first time in his career at age 33...
  
    (b. 1973); Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   player (New York Mets
  New York Mets
  The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
  
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• Ronnie Cramer
  Ronnie Cramer
  Ronnie Cramer is an American artist, composer and filmmaker.Born in Bismarck, North Dakota, Cramer currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. During the 1980s he produced watercolor paintings, video installations and played guitar in several rock bands, most notably Alarming Trends, the...
  
    (b. 1957); artist and film director; born in Bismarck
  Bismarck, North Dakota
  Bismarck is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was 61,272 at the 2010 census, while its metropolitan population was 108,779...
  
  

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• Ronald Davies
  Ronald Davies (judge)
  Ronald Norwood Davies was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota...
  
   (1904–1996); judge for U.S. District Court of North Dakota, ordered integration of Little Rock Central High in the 1960s
• Angie Dickinson
  Angie Dickinson
  Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...
  
   (b. 1931); actress; born in Kulm
  Kulm, North Dakota
  Kulm is a city in LaMoure County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 354 at the 2010 census. Kulm was founded in 1892.-Geography:Kulm is located at ....
  
  
• Josh Duhamel
  Josh Duhamel
  Joshua David "Josh" Duhamel is an American actor and former fashion model. He first achieved acting success in 1999 as Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children and later as the chief of security, Danny McCoy, on NBC's Las Vegas...
  
   (b. 1972); Emmy Award-winning actor; born in Minot
  Minot, North Dakota
  Minot is a city located in north central North Dakota in the United States. It is most widely known for the Air Force base located approximately 15 miles north of the city. With a population of 40,888 at the 2010 census, Minot is the fourth largest city in the state...
  
  

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• James M. Edie
  James M. Edie
  James M. Edie was a twentieth century American philosopher.-Life and career:Edie was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He studied at Saint John’s University in Minnesota and at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St...
  
   (1927–1998), philosopher
• Richard Edlund
  Richard Edlund
  Richard Edlund, A.S.C. is a multi-Academy Award-winning US special effects cinematographer.Edlund was born in Fargo, North Dakota. After first joining the Navy, he developed an interest in experimental film and attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the late 60s...
  
   (b. 1940), Academy Award-winning special effects cinematographer, Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
  , the original Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
  trilogy
• Carl Ben Eielson
• CariDee English
  CariDee English
  CariDee English is an American fashion model and TV personality who won Cycle 7 of America's Next Top Model in December 2006. Her prize was a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics, a modeling contract with Elite Models, and a six-page fashion editorial and cover for Seventeen magazine...
  
   Winner of cycle 7 of 'America's Next Top Model', host of tv show 'Pretty Wicked'
• Darin Erstad
  Darin Erstad
  Darin Charles Erstad is the Head Coach of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team and a former Major League Baseball outfielder/first baseman. Prior to , he had played with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise before signing with the Chicago White Sox in 2007...
  
   (b. 1974); MLB player (Anaheim Angels, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros)

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• Joe Clifford Faust
  Joe Clifford Faust
  Joe Clifford Faust is an American author best known for his seven science fiction novels primarily written during the 1980s and 1990s, including A Death of Honor, The Company Man, the Angel's Luck Trilogy , and the satirical Pembroke Hall novels...
  
   (b. 1957); author; born in Williston
  Williston
  -Places:United States* Williston Northampton School, a prep school in Easthampton, Ma* Williston, Florida, a city in Levy County* Williston, Maryland, a town in Caroline County* Williston, North Carolina, a village in Carteret County...
  
  
• Michael Forest
  Michael Forest
  Gerald Michael Charlebois, better known as Michael Forest is an American actor who provides the voices for many animated titles. At the age of 71, he provided the voice of Prince Olympius in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue...
  
   (b. 1929); actor, voice actor; born in Harvey
  Harvey, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 1,989 people, 926 households, and 529 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,031.8 people per square mile . There were 1,056 housing units at an average density of 547.8 per square mile...
  
  
• Hans Andersen Foss
  Hans Andersen Foss
  Hans Andersen Foss was an American author, newspaper editor and temperance leader. Born the son of a small tenant farmer in 1851 in Modum, Buskerud county, Norway, Foss immigrated to the United States in 1887.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sally Fraser
  Sally Fraser
  Sally Fraser is an American actress who appeared on television and in numerous films. She became best known for appearing in low-budget science fiction films of the 1950s....
  
   (b. 1932); actress; born in Williston
• Phyllis Frelich
  Phyllis Frelich
  Phyllis Frelich is an American actress, and, with Marlee Matlin, one of the two pre-eminent deaf actresses in the United States. Frelich was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota to deaf parents and is the oldest of 9 children...
  
  

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• Travis Hafner
  Travis Hafner
  Travis Lee Hafner is a left-handed hitting designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians of the American League Central Division. His nickname, "Pronk", was given to him by former teammate Bill Selby during spring training of when people sometimes referred to him as "The Project" and other times...
  
   (b. 1977); MLB player (Cleveland Indians)
• Gulbrand Hagen
  Gulbrand Hagen
  Gudbrand Torsteinson Hagen was an American newspaper editor, writer, photographer in Minnesota and North Dakota at the end of 19th Century and beginning of the 20th.-Biography:...
  
   (1864 to 1919); newspaper editor and publisher
• Patrick E. Haggerty
  Patrick E. Haggerty
  Patrick Eugene Haggerty was an American engineer and businessman. He was a co-founder and former president and chairman of Texas Instruments, Incorporated. Haggerty is most responsible for turning a small Texas oil exploration company into the leader in semiconductors that Texas Instruments is today...
  
   (1914 to 1980); engineer and businessman who co-founded Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
  
  
• Monica Hannan
  Monica Hannan
  Monica Hannan is the news director of KFYR-TV in Bismarck, North Dakota and anchors The Evening Report and First News at Five.-Career:...
  
  
• Phil Hansen
  Phil Hansen (American football)
  Phillip Allen Hansen is a former American football defensive end in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills, drafted in the second round, making the 1991 all-rookie team, and playing on three Super Bowl teams...
  
   (b. 1968); former NFL player (Buffalo Bills)
• Tom Hatten
  Tom Hatten
  Tom Hatten is a veteran radio, film and television personality best known as the long-time host of The Popeye Show and Family Film Festival on KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles in the 1960s, '70s and '80s...
  
   (b. 1927); radio, film and television personality
• Rick Helling
  Rick Helling
  Richard Allen Helling is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.-High school and college:...
  
   (b. 1970); former MLB player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins)
• Kam Heskin
  Kam Heskin
  Kam Heskin is an American actress best known for her roles as the second Caitlin Richards Deschanel on NBC's soap opera Sunset Beach and as her role as Paige Morgan in the The Prince and Me sequels.-Private life:Heskin was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota...
  
   (b. 1973); actress, Sunset Beach
  Sunset Beach (TV series)
  Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
  
  , Passions
  Passions
  Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....
  
  
• Virgil Hill (b. 1964); WBA champion boxer
• Christopher Michael Holley (b. 1971); actor
• Jeremy Horst (b. 1985); MLB player (Cincinnati Reds)

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• Phil Jackson
  Phil Jackson
  Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson is a retired American professional basketball coach and player. Jackson is widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of the National Basketball Association . His reputation was established as head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 through 1998;...
  
  
• Dr. Leon O. Jacobson
• Robert Jensen
  Robert Jensen
  Robert William Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. He joined the faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota...
  
  
• Gary Johnson
  Gary Johnson
  Gary Johnson may refer to:*Gary Johnson , former Governor of New Mexico and candidate for President in 2012*Gary Johnson , American politician, Wisconsin State Assembly...
  
  
• Harold K. Johnson
• David C. Jones

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• Gordon Kahl
  Gordon Kahl
  Gordon Wendell Kahl is best known for his involvement in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement officers in the United States in 1983....
  
   tax protestor, Medina shootout.
• Rich Karlgaard
  Rich Karlgaard
  Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes magazine He began as an editor and became the publisher in 1998.A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, Karlgaard graduated from Stanford University, with a B.A...
  
  
• Woodrow W. Keeble
  Woodrow W. Keeble
  Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble was a U.S. Army National Guard veteran of both World War II and the Korean War...
  
   (May 16, 1917 - January 28, 1982) U.S. Army (Wahpeton National Guard) Medal of Honor
• Jim Kleinsasser
  Jim Kleinsasser
  Jim Carter Kleinsasser is an American Football player who currently plays fullback, H-back, and tight end for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. Sometimes referred to as Jim Clank Clank.-High school:...
  
   (b. 1977); NFL player (Minnesota Vikings)
• Chuck Klosterman
  Chuck Klosterman
  Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman is an American author and essayist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture....
  
  
• Wiz Khalifa
  Wiz Khalifa
  Cameron Jibril Thomaz , better known by the stage name Wiz Khalifa , is an American rapper. He released his debut album, Show and Prove, in 2006, and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007...
  
  - Rapper, Born in Minot
• Dagny Knutson
  Dagny Knutson
  Dagny Knutson is an American swimmer of Norwegian heritage. Knutson is a former American record holder in 400-yard individual medley and holds several high school national records....
  
   USA Professional Swimmer, Minot
• Charlie Korsmo
  Charlie Korsmo
  Charles Randolph "Charlie" Korsmo is an American former child actor turned lawyer and political activist.Korsmo was born in Fargo, North Dakota, the son of Deborah Ruf, an educational psychologist, and John Korsmo, a hospital administrator and chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board...
  
   - former child actor, lawyer

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• Louis L'Amour
  Louis L'Amour
  Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels , however he also wrote historical fiction , science fiction , nonfiction , as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies...
  
  
• Jonny Lang
  Jonny Lang
  Jonny Lang is a Grammy award-winning American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter and recording artist. Lang's music is notable for both his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a forty-year-old blues veteran, and for his guitar solos...
  
   (b. 1981); Grammy-winning musician
• Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
  
  
• William Lemke
  William Lemke
  William Frederick Lemke was a United States politician.-Life and career:He was born in Albany, Minnesota, and raised in Towner County, North Dakota, the son of Fred Lemke and Julia Anna Klier, pioneer farmers who had accumulated some of land...
  
  
• Nicole Linkletter
  Nicole Linkletter
  Nicole Linkletter is an American fashion model, winner of Cycle 5 of America's Next Top Model.-America's Next Top Model:Linkletter appeared in Cycle 5 of the show after auditioning for the show at the Mall of America...
  
   (b. 1985); fashion model, winner of 'America's Next Top Model' cycle 5
• Matt Lowe (b. 1985); USA Professional Swimmer, Minot
• Kellan Lutz
  Kellan Lutz
  Kellan Christopher Lutz is an American fashion model, and film and television actor, who is best known for playing Emmett Cullen in the Twilight series.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1985); actor, Dickinson

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• Jan Maxwell
  Jan Maxwell
  Jan Maxwell is an American stage and television actress. She is a four-time Tony Award nominee.-Biography:She is the daughter of former First District Judge Ralph B. Maxwell and Elizabeth Maxwell, a lawyer for the EPA. She attended West Fargo High School, West Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead...
  
   - actress, born in Fargo
  Fargo, North Dakota
  Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...
  
  
• Kevin Miller
  Kevin Miller (voice actor)
  Kevin Miller is an American voice actor. Miller moved to San Jose, California in 1997, starting his business in voice acting there. Miller is famously known as the voice of Sly Cooper, a main character from the video game series of the same name. He had also worked for Sega, Namco, The Learning...
  
   - voice actor
• Marquis de Mores
  Marquis de Mores
  Marquis de Morès was a famous duelist, frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and an anti-Semitic politician in his native France....
  
  
• Debra Mooney
  Debra Mooney
  Debra Mooney is an American actress known for her role as Edna Harper on the TV series Everwood.Mooney was born Debra Vick in Aberdeen, South Dakota, the daughter of Isabel and Henry M. Vick.- Filmography :...
  
   - actress, grew up in Elendale, North Dakota
• Shane McMenamy
  Shane McMenamy
  In July of 1996, Shane McMenamy, 16, of Grand Forks, N.D., sank a 22-foot putt for a birdie on the first extra hole to claim the 1996 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship title at Forest Highlands Golf Club in Flagstaff, Ariz....
  
   - golfer, 1996 U.S. Junior Amateur Champion, Grand Forks, North Dakota

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• Steve Nelson
  Steve Nelson
  Steve Nelson may refer to:* Steve Nelson , New England Patriots football player* Steve Nelson , American musician* Steve Nelson , Communist Party member, Spanish Civil War veteran and U.S...
  
  
• Gerhard Brandt Naeseth
  Gerhard Brandt Naeseth
  Gerhard Brandt Naeseth was an American librarian and genealogist who specialized in the field of Norwegian-American immigration.-Background and career:...
  
   - Founder of the Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library.
• Sondre Norheim
  Sondre Norheim
  Sondre Norheim, born Sondre Auverson, was a Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing. Sondre Norheim is known as the father of Telemark skiing.-Background:...
  
   - pioneer of modern skiing

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• Leonard Peltier
  Leonard Peltier
  Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement . In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine...
  
   (1944) American Indian activist
• Arthur Peterson, Jr.
  Arthur Peterson, Jr.
  Arthur Peterson, Jr. was an American actor. He played character and supporting roles on stage, television, and feature films...
  
   (1912–1996), actor, Soap
  Soap (TV series)
  Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981.The show was created as a parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such...
  
  
• Neal Peterson
  Neal Peterson
  Neal Calvin Peterson is a musician and artist residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.- Biography :Peterson was raised in Minot, North Dakota. From 1999–2003, he played bass guitar in a band called Curious Yello. Curious Yello recorded one album titled "Wish" under the supervision of two-time...
  
  

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• Aagot Raaen
  Aagot Raaen
  Aagot Raaen was an American author and educator.-Background:Aagot Raaen was born in Iowa. Her parents, Thomas Raaen and Ragnhild Rodningen, were immigrants from Norway. The family moved to Dakota Territory to establish a homestead, settling near Hatton, North Dakota...
  
   - author and educator.
• Erik Ramstad
  Erik Ramstad
  Erik Ramstad was one of the founders of Minot, North Dakota.-Biography:Erik Ramstad and his brother Peter were natives of Sigdal, Buskerud County, Norway. They were early settlers in the Souris River Valley of North Dakota arriving in May 1883. They staked a claim to property on both the north and...
  
   - one of the founders of Minot, North Dakota
• Tom Rapp
  Tom Rapp
  Thomas Dale Rapp is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine, the psychedelic folk rock group of the 1960s and 1970s. More recently he has practiced as a lawyer.-Life:...
  
   - leader of the band Pearls Before Swine
  Pearls Before Swine (band)
  Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, now part of Melbourne, Florida. They released six albums between 1967 and 1971, before Rapp launched a solo career.-Early years, 1965-68:...
  
  
• Greg Raymer
  Greg Raymer
  Gregory Raymer nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.-Early life:...
  
  
• Clint Ritchie
  Clint Ritchie
  Clinton Charles Augustus Ritchie was an American actor.-Early life:Ritchie was born on a farm in Grafton, North Dakota to J. C. and Charlotte Ritchie, and his family moved to Washington state when he was seven...
  
   - actor, One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
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  Thunder (TV series)
  Thunder was a television series which aired on Saturday Mornings on NBC during the 1977-1978 television season. The show centered around the adventures of Cindy Prescott and her friend, Willie Williams and featured Thunder, a black stallion who ran wild near the ranch owned by the Prescott...
  
  
• Alan Ritchson
  Alan Ritchson
  Alan Ritchson is an American actor, singer, and fashion model. He is best known for his modeling career as well as his portrayals of the superhero Aquaman on The CW's Smallville and Thad Castle on Spike TV's Blue Mountain State....
  
   - model, singer, actor, Blue Mountain State
  Blue Mountain State
  Blue Mountain State is an American comedy series that premiered on Spike on January 11, 2010. The series producers include Chris Romano and Eric Falconer and is produced by Lionsgate Television...
  
  
• James Rosenquist
  James Rosenquist
  James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...
  
  

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• Sakakawea
  Sacagawea
  Sacagawea ; was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States...
  
  
• Ed Schafer - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• Harold Schafer
  Harold Schafer
  Harold Schafer was a North Dakota businessman who founded the Gold Seal Company, the original maker of Mr. Bubble bubble bath...
  
  
• Donny Schatz
  Donny Schatz
  Donny Schatz is a World of Outlaws sprint car driver. He was the 2006 World of Outlaws sprint car champion. He also won the 2006 Knoxville Nationals. In 2007 he won The King's Royal at Eldora Speedway, as well as the 2007 Knoxville Nationals for the second time...
  
   (b. 1977); World of Outlaws sprint car champion
• Ed Schultz
  Ed Schultz
  Edward Andrew "Ed" Schultz Is an American television and radio host and a liberal political commentator . He is the host of The Ed Show, a daily news talk program on MSNBC, and The Ed Schultz Show, a talk radio show, nationally syndicated by Dial Global, promising "straight talk."-Early...
  
  
• Eric Sevareid
  Eric Sevareid
  Arnold Eric Sevareid was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents—dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow....
  
  
• Timm Sharp
  Timm Sharp
  Timm Sharp is an American actor known mainly for his TV roles, including a lead role in the 2001 comedy Undeclared, as well as recurring roles in Six Feet Under and Til Death. He appears with Laura Dern in the HBO comedy series Enlightened, which debuted on October 10, 2011. He also attended...
  
  
• Michael Soltis
  Michael Soltis
  Michael Soltis is an actor from Vancouver.Born in Minot, North Dakota and raised in the state of Washington, he first gained recognition starring in the Steven Spielberg mini-series, Taken as Lt. Pierce. He has also appeared in the feature films, X-Men 2 and "Walking Tall" starring Dwayne "The...
  
  
• Ann Sothern
  Ann Sothern
  Ann Sothern was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Richard St. Clair
  Richard St. Clair
  Richard St. Clair is an American composer, pedagogue, and pianist.-Life History and Musical Career:Richard St. Clair, a noted American musician, is descended from both Franco-Scottish roots on his father's side, and Norwegian-Swedish roots on his mother's side...
  
  
• Rodney Stark
  Rodney Stark
  Rodney Stark is an American sociologist of religion. He grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota in a Lutheran family. He spent time in the U.S. Army and worked as a journalist before pursuing graduate studies at The University of California, Berkeley...
  
  
• Leslie Stefanson
  Leslie Stefanson
  Leslie Ann Stefanson is an American actress. She is most known for playing the title role as Capt. Elisabeth Campbell in the film The General's Daughter....
  
  
• Shadoe Stevens
  Shadoe Stevens
  Shadoe Stevens is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of American Top 40 from 1988 to 1995...
  
   (Real name: Terry Ingstad)
• Clyfford Still
  Clyfford Still
  Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dorothy Stickney
  Dorothy Stickney
  Dorothy Stickney was a Broadway actress best known for appearing in the long running Life with Father.Born in Dickinson, North Dakota, Stickney attended the North Western Dramatic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
  
  

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• Matthew Ward
  Matthew Ward (singer)
  Matthew Ward is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. He is best known as a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which he sang and performed with his sisters, Annie Herring and Nellie Greisen...
  
  
• Mimi Weddell
  Mimi Weddell
  Marion Rogers "Mimi' Weddell was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Stanford's grandmother on Sex and the City and for being featured in a documentary film, Hats Off, about her life and her collection of some 150 hats.-Early life:She was born as Marion Rogers in Williston, North...
  
  
• Lawrence Welk
  Lawrence Welk
  Lawrence Welk was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982...
  
   (1903–1992) singer and entertainer
• Gabby West
  Gabby West
  Gabrielle D. "Gabby" West is an American actress. She won a role in Saw 3D in a competition on the reality show Scream Queens.-Life and career:West was born in Bismarck, North Dakota; she graduated Century High School in 2003...
  
  
• Natalie West
  Natalie West
  Natalie Marla West is an American actress.West is best known for her role as Crystal Anderson Conner, Roseanne's friend and Dan's stepmother, on the 1988-1997 ABC sitcom Roseanne...
  
  
• Larry Woiwode
  Larry Woiwode
  Larry Alfred Woiwode is an American writer who lives in North Dakota, where he has been the state's Poet Laureate since 1995. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Gentleman's Quarterly, The Partisan Review and The Paris Review...