List of people from Janesville, Wisconsin

The following notable people were born in or are associated with Janesville, Wisconsin.

Artists and performers

 * Tim Davis, co-founder of The Steve Miller Band
 * Gloria Foster, actress
 * Karron Graves, actress
 * Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter
 * Tad Kubler, guitarist for The Hold Steady
 * Kerwin Mathews, actor
 * Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
 * Manilla Powers, singer, Vaudeville performer, musical theater comedian
 * Leoni W. Robinson, architect
 * Tom Welling, actor (lived in Janesville briefly during childhood)
 * Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet

Athletes

 * Mistie Bass (Mistie Williams), WNBA player
 * Frank Bliss, MLB player
 * Tommy Cronin, NFL player
 * Moxie Dalton, NFL player
 * Stan Fox, race car driver, eight-time starter at the Indianapolis 500
 * Tucker Fredricks, Olympic speedskater
 * Fred Hayner. baseball player
 * Larry Hough, Olympic rower
 * Paul Janus, NFL player
 * Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver
 * John Morrissey, professional baseball player
 * Tom Morrissey, professional baseball player
 * Joe Riggert, MLB player
 * Terry Ryan, MLB manager
 * Peter Shorts, NFL player
 * Bob Strampe, MLB player

Military personnel

 * Leslie Allen Bellrichard, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam
 * James Bintliff, Union Army general
 * Victor Bleasdale, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross recipient
 * Frank Matteson Bostwick, U.S. Navy Commodore
 * James E. Croft, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
 * Gerald L. Endl, Medal of Honor recipient, World War II
 * Theodore W. Goldin, Medal of Honor recipient, American Indian Wars
 * John Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
 * John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard general
 * Henry Palmer, Union Army general
 * James Pond, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
 * Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War general and military governor of Georgia under occupation
 * Claron A. Windus, Medal of Honor recipient

Politicians

 * C. S. Amsden, South Dakota State Representative and Senator
 * William A. Barstow, Governor of Wisconsin, Union Army general
 * Harry W. Bolens, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Stephen Bolles, U.S. Representative
 * William B. Britton, Wisconsin State Representative
 * James H. Budd, Governor of California
 * Zebulon P. Burdick, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Bob Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
 * Peter P. Carr, Wisconsin State Senator
 * John B. Cassoday, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Harmon Sweatland Conger, U.S. Representative from New York
 * Dave Considine, educator and Wisconsin State Representative
 * Tim Cullen, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
 * Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
 * Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Alexander Graham, New York and Wisconsin State Representative
 * Gilbert N. Haugen, U.S. Representative from Iowa
 * Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin State Representative
 * James H. Knowlton, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Debra Kolste, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Don L. Love, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
 * Allen P. Lovejoy, Wisconsin State Senator
 * William A. Lawrence, Wisconsin State Representative and Senator
 * David W. Márquez, Alaska Attorney General
 * Alexander E. Matheson, Wisconsin State Representative and jurist
 * Max Maxfield, Wyoming Secretary of State
 * Hiram Merrill, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Cyrus Miner, Wisconsin State Representative
 * David Noggle, Wisconsin State Representative, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Idaho Territory
 * Thomas S. Nolan, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Pliny Norcross, Mayor of Janesville and Wisconsin State Representative
 * Andrew Palmer, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Henry A. Patterson, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Anson W. Pope, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Steve Preston, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
 * Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * Michael J. Sheridan, former speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Ithamar C. Sloan, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
 * A. Hyatt Smith, politician and businessman
 * E. Ray Stevens, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * James Sutherland, Wisconsin State Senator
 * George Tarrant Sr., Wisconsin State Representative
 * Henry Tarrant, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Howard Teasdale, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Alexander McDonald Thomson, former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Charles L. Valentine, Wisconsin State Representative
 * William G. Wheeler, Wisconsin State Representative and U.S. Attorney
 * John Meek Whitehead, Wisconsin State Senate
 * Edward V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Charles G. Williams, U.S. Representative
 * George H. Williston, Wisconsin territorial and state legislator
 * Agesilaus Wilson, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Wayne W. Wood, Wisconsin State Representative
 * Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator

Other

 * David Adamany, president of Temple University
 * Sanford Soverhill Atwood, sixteenth president of Emory University
 * John Henry Comstock, entomologist
 * Joseph Dutton, Civil War veteran and later missionary to the lepers of Molokai
 * Jim Fitzgerald, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors
 * Lavinia Goodell, first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin
 * William Goodell, abolitionist
 * Ken Hendricks, Forbes 400 businessman
 * Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and magazine editor
 * Walter Lees, early aviator
 * Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948), American educator and college president
 * George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company
 * Frances Willard, educator and activist (raised and first taught here)
 * Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon and heart surgery pioneer, raised and first employed here
 * Allene Tew, an American socialite during the Gilded Age who became a European aristocrat by marriage.