List of people from Rochester, Minnesota

This is a list of people who were born or lived in Rochester, Minnesota.

Arts, media and music

 * José Argüelles, author, artist
 * Dan Bakkedahl, actor, comedian
 * Michele Carey, actress
 * Darius Danesh, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, film producer
 * Amanda Hocking, author
 * Judy Onofrio, artist
 * Emily Sandberg, model and actress
 * Warren Skaaren, screenplay writer, producer
 * Lea Thompson, actress
 * John Towey, actor
 * Sheree J. Wilson, actress
 * Michael York, actor
 * Yung Gravy (Matt Hauri), rapper

Science and medicine

 * Luis Walter Alvarez, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1968
 * Harry Bisel, physician
 * Sara C. Bisel, physical anthropologist
 * Philip Showalter Hench, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
 * Edward Calvin Kendall, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
 * Charles Horace Mayo, physician
 * William James Mayo, physician
 * William Worrall Mayo, physician
 * Henry Stanley Plummer, physician
 * Augustus Stinchfield, physician
 * Michael Stuart, physician and orthopedic surgeon
 * Albert Szent-Györgyi, winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937

Law and politics

 * Adolph Biermann, Minnesota State Auditor
 * Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * Walter Burdick, Minnesota farmer and legislator
 * Michael C. Burgess, Congressman
 * Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years
 * Barbara Cegavske, Secretary of State of Nevada, former Nevada legislator
 * Kerry Conley, Minnesota legislator and businessman
 * Robert Rankin Dunlap, Minnesota lawyer and legislator
 * John Moonan Fitzgerald, Minnesota jurist and legislator
 * Donald T. Franke, Minnesota jurist and legislator
 * Don Frerichs, Minnesota legislator and businessman
 * Allen John Furlow, Minnesota Congressman, lawyer, and World War I veteran
 * Julie Anne Genter, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
 * Gil Gutknecht, member of Congress
 * Stiles P. Jones, Minnesota state senator and lawyer
 * John R. Kaley, Minnesota state representative and businessman
 * Sandy Keith, Lt. Governor and State Supreme Court Chief Justice
 * Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State and winner of Nobel Peace Prize 1929
 * Harold G. Krieger. Minnesota state senator and judge
 * Gordon Moore, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
 * Leilani Munter, stock car driver
 * Carla Nelson, incumbent Minnesota state senator and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
 * Richard Ojeda, member of the West Virginia Senate and a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
 * Edward Henry Ozmun, Minnesota lawyer, politician, and diplomat
 * John Parkin, Wisconsin legislator
 * John M. Peters, Iowa lawyer and legislator
 * Mark Piepho, Minnesota legislator and businessman
 * Nels Pierson, Minnesota legislator
 * E. William Quirin, Minnesota legislator and businessman
 * Dave Senjem, former Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate, former Minority Leader of the Minnesota Senate
 * Ozora P. Stearns, U.S. Senator and mayor of Rochester
 * Ken Zubay, Minnesota legislator and businessman

Sports

 * Rafael Butler, boxer
 * Eric Butorac, tennis player
 * Tyler Cain, basketball player
 * Phil DuBois, football player
 * John Fina, football player
 * Guy Gosselin, hockey player
 * Matthew Hurt, basketball player
 * Sada Jacobson (born 1983), Olympic fencing silver and bronze medalist
 * Jim Johannson (1964–2018), ice hockey player, coach and executive
 * John Johannson, ice hockey player
 * Ken Johannson (1930–2018), Canadian-born American ice hockey player, coach and executive
 * Dick Kimball, diving coach
 * Bryce Lampman, hockey player
 * Bethanie Mattek-Sands, tennis player
 * Scott Muller, canoer
 * Shjon Podein, hockey player
 * John Pohl, hockey player
 * Michael Restovich, baseball player
 * Bob Schmidt, football player
 * Aaron Senne, baseball player
 * Marcus Sherels, football player
 * Jeff Siemon, football player
 * Tommy Speer, fighter
 * Eric Strobel, hockey player
 * Colin Stuart, hockey player
 * Mark Stuart, hockey player
 * Mike Stuart, hockey player
 * Darrell Thompson, football player
 * Ben Utecht, football player
 * Doug Zmolek, hockey player

Other

 * Fred Hargesheimer, pilot, philanthropist
 * John Jeremiah Lawler, Roman Catholic bishop
 * Mary Alfred Moes, Roman Catholic nun
 * Curt Rice, Norwegian linguist and rector of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences
 * Sarah Burger Stearns, co-founder and first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
 * Igor Vovkovinskiy, tallest man in U.S.