Famous Residents
Famous people who hail from central Minnesota, with the names of cities they grew up in listed in parentheses, include:
- Judy Garland (Grand Rapids)
- Brian Kobilka (Little Falls)
- Charles Lindbergh (Little Falls)
- Sinclair Lewis (Sauk Centre)
- Eugene McCarthy (Watkins)
- Gig Young (St. Cloud)
- Lesley J. McNair (Verndale)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“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.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)