Notable People
- Barbara Bedford (1908–1981), silent film and Western actress
- Nicholas Boilvin (1761–1827), 19th century American frontiersman
- Pat Bowlen (b. 1944), owner of the Denver Broncos
- Michel Brisbois (1759–1837), voyageur
- Walter Bradford Cannon (1871–1945), physiologist who first developed the concepts of fight or flight and homeostasis
- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, was stationed at Fort Crawford in the 1830s
- Hercules Louis Dousman (1800–1868), real estate speculator and Wisconsin's first millionaire
- Wiram Knowlton (1816–1863), Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Daniel W. Lawler, Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Henry Leavenworth (1783–1834), U.S. army officer in the War of 1812 and against the Plains Indians
- James Henry Lockwood (1793-1857), lawyer, merchant, fur trapper
- Patrick Joseph Lucey (b. 1918), U.S. diplomat; 38th Governor of Wisconsin (1971–1977)
- Thomas Mower McDougall (1845–1909), U.S. Army officer
- John Muir (1838–1914), conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club was employed as a chore boy at a boarding house in Prairie du Chien before leaving to attend University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Leo J. Ryan (1925–1978), U.S. Representative from California
- Joseph M. Street (1782–1840), U.S. Army officer and U.S. Indian agent to the Winnebago, Sauk, and Fox tribes after the Black Hawk War
- Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836–1920), engineer who invented the Tainter gate
- Ormsby B. Thomas, U.S. Representative
- William Miller Wallace (1844–1924), U.S. Army general
- Wapello (1787–1842), Native American chief of the Fox tribe
- Brad Williams (mnemonist) (b. 1956) Super Long Memory
- Zachary Taylor 12th President of the United States, was the commanding officer of Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War of 1832. Taylor oversaw the surrender of Chief Black Hawk.
- William Beaumont, Army Doctor in the 1820s, Carried out experiments on the human digestion system at the Fort Crawford hospital. Beaumont's work is still the foundation of knowledge on the human digestive stem
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