Notable Residents and Natives
- Mason Aguirre, professional snowboarder, attended 2006 Winter Olympics
- Dorothy Arnold (Olson), American actress and the first wife of baseball player Joe DiMaggio
- Maria Bamford, comedian and actor
- Margaret Culkin Banning, best-selling author of 36 novels, early women's rights advocate
- Bill Berry, drummer for the band R.E.M.
- Carol Bly, author
- Chester Adgate Congdon, lawyer and capitalist
- Irving Copi, Philosopher, logician and textbook author
- John H. Darling, engineer and astronomer
- Dan Devine, Captain of UMD football team, later coached the Missouri Tigers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Green Bay Packers
- Bob Dylan, Grammy and Academy Award-winning folk singer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988)
- Kara Goucher, distance runner and 2008/2012 Olympian
- Roger Grimsby, journalist, television news anchor and actor
- Steve Hagen, Zen priest and author
- Sadik Hakim, Jazz pianist, played on Charlie Parker's famous "Ko-Ko" session
- Brett Hull, professional hockey player, played for UMD
- Bill Irwin, professional wrestler, best known for his stint in the WWF as "The Goon."
- Robert Isabell (1952–2009), event planner.
- Peggy Knudsen, film actress, appeared in The Big Sleep and A Stolen Life
- Don LaFontaine, voiceover artist famous for recording film trailers, television advertisements, network promotions and video game trailers.
- Lenny Lane, professional wrestler
- Sinclair Lewis, author and Nobel laureate, wrote the novel Cass Timberlane while resident in Duluth
- The Seven Iron Brothers, the Merritt brothers of Duluth, discovered iron ore in 1890 in the Mesabi Iron Range.
- Chris Monroe, cartoonist and children's book illustrator
- Dan Murphy, Soul Asylum band member and founder
- Lorenzo Music, voice actor, though born in Brooklyn, New York, was raised and educated in Duluth
- Gena Lee Nolin, TV Actress
- David Oreck, entrepreneur and businessman
- Charlie Parr, folk musician
- Jeno Paulucci, businessman
- Ellen Pence,scholar and social activist. Created the Duluth Model of intervention in domestic violence
- Chris Plys, Olympic curler
- Rick Rickert, basketball player for the New Zealand Breakers
- Barbara Rotvig, AAGPBL player
- John Shuster, Olympic curling medalist
- Samuel F. Snively, ex-mayor who created some parks
- Phil Solem, musician
- Erik Sommer, artist
- Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker founding members of the alternative rock group Low
- Trampled by Turtles, a bluegrass band, hails from Duluth and refers to the city in several songs
- Butch Williams, NHL player
- Tom Williams (1940–1992), NHL player, 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist
- Albert Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956) last Union civil war soldier to die
- Kay Kurt, American painter
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“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
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“As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)