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
Matt Hauri (Yung Gravy), rapper
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
Science and medicine
Luis Walter Alvarez, winner Nobel Prize for Physics 1968
Harry Bisel, physician
Sara C. Bisel, physical anthropologist
Philip Showalter Hench, winner Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
Edward Calvin Kendall, winner 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 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
Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years Michael C. Burgess, Congressman 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 Nobel Peace Prize 1929 Harold G. Krieger. Minnesota state senator and judge Gordon Moore (judge), Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court Leilani Munter, American 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
Sada Jacobson (born 1983), Olympic fencing silver and bronze medalist
Ken Johannson (1930–2018), Canadian-born American ice hockey player, coach and executive Jim Johannson (1964–2018), American ice hockey player, coach and executive John Johannson, ice hockey player 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.