Famous Montanans
ARTS/ACTING/MUSIC/MEDIA
- Eden Atwood jazz singer
- Jeff Ament- Rock musician
- Dirk Benedict - TV actor
- Brad Bird animator/director
- Judith Blegen - opera soprano
- Robert Bray - actor
- Dana Carvey - actor/comedian
- Gary Cooper- movie actor
- Monte Dolack artist
- Patrick Duffy - TV actor
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson - Broadway and TV actor
- Taylor Gordon vaudeville performer/concert singer
- Chet Huntley - TV newsman
- Myrna Loy - movie actress
- Bud Luckey - Pixar animator and cartoonist
- David Lynch - director
- Stan Lynde - cartoonist
- Colin Meloy- singer/songwriter
- George Montgomery - movie actor
- Brent Musburger - TV sports announcer
- Edgar S. Paxson - artist
- Charley Pride - country and western singer
- Martha Raye - singer
- Kevin Red Star - artist
- Charles M. Russell - artist
- Michael Smuin - choreographer
- Peter Voulkos - ceramic artist
- Kathlyn Williams - Actress
- Michelle Williams TV and movie actress
POLITICIANS
- Ella Haskell - Montana's first female lawyer and first female candidate for state attorney general in the U.S.
- Mike Mansfield - U.S. Senator; ambassador
- Lee Metcalf - U.S. Senator
- Jeannette Rankin - first woman in the U.S. House
- Brian Schweitzer - Montana Governor
- 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 - Olympic 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 DArcy McNickle author
- Tom McGuane - author
- Christopher Paolini - author
- James Welch - Native American author
MISCELLANEOUS
- Katie Blair - Miss Teen USA 2006
- 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
- Greg Mortenson - Humanitarian, author
- Henry Plummer - sheriff; outlaw
- Howard Ricketts - disease scientist
- Lester Thurow - economist
- Harold C. Urey - Nobel Prize - winning scientist
- Robert Yellowtail- Crow Reservation leader