Religion
- Anton Anderledy (1819–1892), Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Green Bay)
- Stuart E. Barstad (1929–2009), Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force (Colfax)
- David Benke (1946–), President of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (Milwaukee)
- Thea Bowman (1937–1990), noted Roman Catholic nun (La Crosse)
- Fabian Bruskewitz (1935–), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln (Milwaukee)
- Raymond Leo Burke (1948–), Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (Richland Center)
- Solanus Casey (1870–1957), noted Roman Catholic priest, declared Venerable by Blessed John Paul II (Oak Grove)
- W. Patrick Donlin, Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus (Madison)
- Augustus F. Gearhard (1893–1975), Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force (Milwaukee)
- Zenas H. Gurley, Sr. (1801–1871), Apostle of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (Yellowstone)
- Francis J. Haas (1889–1953), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids (Racine)
- Jerome J. Hastrich (1914–1995), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup (Milwaukee)
- Carl Christian Hein (1868–1937), President of the American Lutheran Church (Marion)
- Keith K. Hilbig (1942–), General authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Milwaukee)
- Francis Peter Leipzig (1895–1981), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker (Chilton)
- Felix Ley (1909–1972), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Naha (Hewitt)
- Arthur C. Lichtenberger (1900–1968), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (Oshkosh)
- Albert Gregory Meyer (1903–1965), Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
- Aloisius Joseph Muench (1889–1962), Roman Catholic Cardinal (Milwaukee)
- Joseph Perry (1948–), Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (Mount Calvary, Milwaukee)
- Franz Pieper (1852–1931), President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (Manitowoc)
- Herman Amberg Preus (1825–1894), President of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Spring Prairie)
- Vincent James Ryan (1884–1951), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bismarck (Arlington)
- Augustine Francis Schinner (1863–1937), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Superior and Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane (Milwaukee)
- Mark Francis Schmitt (1923–), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette (Algoma)
- James Strang (1813–1856), founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) (Voree)
- Hans Gerhard Stub (1849–1931), Bishop of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (Muskego)
- Paul Francis Tanner (1905–1994), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine (Milwaukee)
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“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.”
—Jaroslav Pelikan (b. 1932)
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)