Great Falls, Montana - Notable Natives and Residents

Notable Natives and Residents

  • Valeen Tippetts Avery, American biographer and historian
  • Walter Breuning (1896–2011), once the oldest man in the world
  • Mal Bross, National Football League player
  • James R. Browning, judge and former Chief Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and former Clerk of the United States Supreme Court
  • Dorothy Coburn, silent movie actress
  • Walter Coy, actor
  • Brian Coyle, Minnesota community leader and gay activist
  • Scott Davis, two-time U.S. Figure Skating Championships gold medalist
  • Dave Dickenson, Canadian Football League quarterback
  • Ian Joe Dutch, longboarder, filmmaker, artist
  • Patrick Dwyer, National Hockey League player
  • Cory Fong, North Dakota State Tax Commissioner
  • Ted Geoghegan, horror filmmaker
  • John Gibbons, Major League Baseball manager
  • Paris Gibson, U.S. Senator, city founder
  • Missy Gold, child actress on Benson
  • Melony G. Griffith, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
  • A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Way West
  • Malcolm Hancock, magazine cartoonist
  • Charles S. Hartman, United States Representative from Montana
  • Paul G. Hatfield, Federal District Court Judge (1979 to 2000), former U.S. Senator, former Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, former Montana state District Court Judge
  • Lester Hogan, pioneer in microwave & semiconductor technology
  • Joseph Kinsey Howard, author and historian
  • Alma Smith Jacobs - first African American Montana State Librarian
  • Jay L. Johnson, U.S. Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
  • Edward McKnight Kauffer, early 20th century graphic designer and poster artist
  • Pert Kelton, actress, the original Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners
  • Ryan Leaf, National Football League quarterback
  • Barbara Luddy, American actress
  • Howard Lyman, vegetarian activist
  • Einar Axel Malmstrom, U.S. Air Force colonel
  • Mike Mansfield, U.S. Representative, Senator, longest-ever serving Senate majority leader& U.S. Ambassador to Japan
  • Linda McDonald, drummer in all-girl metal band Phantom Blue
  • Leonard McEwan, former member of the Wyoming Supreme Court, born in Great Falls
  • Cyra McFadden, writer
  • Hugh Mitchell, served as a member of the United States Senate from 1945 to 1946 and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1953 for the state of Washington.
  • Gerald R. Molen, Academy Award–winning film producer
  • George Montgomery, actor, painter, sculptor & stuntman, born in nearby Brady
  • Matt Morrison, Fox Sports Net sportscaster
  • John Misha Petkevich, U.S. Figure Skating Championships gold medalist
  • Andrew Nelson, Japanese-language lexicographer
  • Tom Neville, National Football League player
  • Victoria Paris, adult film actress
  • Tera Patrick, adult film actress
  • Charles Nelson Pray, former U.S. Representative from Montana
  • Charley Pride, country singer
  • Traver Rains, one half of the New York fashion design duo Heatherette
  • Merle Greene Robertson, artist, art historian, archaeologist & Mayan researcher
  • William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Representative & Senator from Delaware
  • Charles Marion Russell, western artist
  • Brian Salonen, tight end for the Dallas Cowboys
  • Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose
  • Haila Stoddard, American actor, writer, producer and director
  • Edward L. Thrasher, Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1931 and 1942, born in Great Falls
  • Al Ullman, United States Congressman from Oregon
  • Reggie Watts, comedian, musician, performance artist
  • John Warner, justice of the Montana Supreme Court
  • Irving Weissman, scientist
  • Brett Weldele, comic book artist, Southland Tales graphic novels
  • Bill Zadick, wrestler
  • Mike Zadick, wrestler

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