Notable People
Notable current and former residents include:
- Andy Breckman (born 1955), creator and producer of television series Monk, former Saturday Night Live writer, radio personality.
- Jonathan Edward Caldwell (born 1883), aeronautical engineer whose designs included an ornithopter, which would have flown by flapping its wings.
- Robert L. Chapman (1920–2002), thesaurus editor.
- Alese Coco (1984–2007), Hodgkin's lymphoma sufferer and advocate.
- Samuel S. Coursen (1926–50), awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War.
- Dick DeBiasse, automotive engineer and machinist (founder of AER Research, also located in Madison), is credited with having contributed to the success of the Lake Underwood team that established Porsche as a winning race car in the United States. He also did the motor work for Mark Donohue in the following decade.
- Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882–1973), philanthropist and noted dog breeder and judge.
- Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. (1881–1963), chairman of the board of Remington Arms.
- Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr. (1908–30), heir to the Remington-Rockefeller fortune.
- Alexander Duncan (1788–1853), Member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.
- Jonathan Dwight (1858–1929), ornithologist.
- Dean Faiello (born 1959), fake doctor convicted of operating without a license after the 2003 death of a patient.
- Janeane Garofalo (born 1964), actor, comedian, author, and activist moved to Madison at age nine, where she remained until she was graduated from high school.
- Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria (born 1933), daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna of Bulgaria and the sister of HM Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, the deposed monarch.
- William McGurn, former speechwriter for George W. Bush.
- Don Newcombe (born 1926), former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1949–51 and 1954–58), Cincinnati Reds (1958–60) and Cleveland Indians (1960).
- Neil O'Donnell (born 1966), former NFL quarterback.
- Greg Olear (born 1972), novelist.
- Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (1858–1942), author of Imre: A Memorandum, who wrote under the pseudonym Xavier Mayne.
- Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr., (1923–2000), Chief Federal Judge of the District Court of the District of Columbia, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966.
- David Austin Sayre (1793–1870), silversmith.
- JoJo Starbuck (born 1951), two-time Olympic competitor in figure skating.
- Charles Henry Totty (1873–1939), horticulturalist.
- Eddie Trunk (born 1964), heavy metal radio host.
- George Witte, poet and author of Deniability: Poems.
- Marta Wittkowska, contralto opera singer, Madison resident.
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