List of people from Rochester, Minnesota

People who were born or lived in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Adolph Biermann, Minnesota State Auditor
Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Walter Burdick, Minnesota farmer and legislator
Marshall Burt, Wyoming legislator, first member of the Libertarian Party to be elected to a legislature in over 20 years
Michael C. Burgess, Congressman
Kerry Conley, Minnesota legislator and businessman
John Moonan Fitzgerald, Minnesota jurist and legislator
Donald T. Franke, Minnesota jurist and legislator
Don Frerichs Minnesota legislator and businessman
Allen John Furlow, Minnesota Congressman, lawyer, and World War I veteran
Julie Anne Genter, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Gil Gutknecht, member of Congress
Sandy Keith, Lt. Governor and State Supreme Court Chief Justice
Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State
Harold G. Krieger. Minnesota state senator and judge
Leilani Munter, American stock car driver
Richard Ojeda, member of the West Virginia Senate and a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Edward Henry Ozmun, Minnesota lawyer, politician, and diplomat
John Parkin, Wisconsin legislator
John M. Peters, Iowa lawyer and legislator
Dave Senjem, Incumbent Minnesota state senator, former Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate, former Minority Leader of the Minnesota Senate
Ozora P. Stearns, U.S. Senator and mayor of Rochester
Ken Zubay, Minnesota legislator and businessman

Rafael Butler, boxer
Eric Butorac, tennis player
Tyler Cain, basketball player
Phil DuBois, football player
John Fina, football player
Guy Gosselin, hockey player
Sada Jacobson (born 1983), Olympic fencing silver and bronze medalist
Ken Johannson (1930–2018), Canadian-born American ice hockey player, coach and executive^[1]^[2]
Jim Johannson (1964–2018), American ice hockey player, coach and executive^[3]^[4]
John Johannson, ice hockey player^[5]
Dick Kimball, diving coach
Bryce Lampman, hockey player
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, tennis player
Scott Muller, canoer
Shjon Podein, hockey player
John Pohl, hockey player
Michael Restovich, baseball player
Bob Schmidt, football player
Aaron Senne, baseball player
Marcus Sherels, football player
Jeff Siemon, football player
Tommy Speer, fighter
Eric Strobel, hockey player
Colin Stuart, hockey player
Mark Stuart, hockey player
Mike Stuart, hockey player
Darrell Thompson, football player
Ben Utecht, football player
Doug Zmolek, hockey player

Fred Hargesheimer, pilot, philanthropist
John Jeremiah Lawler, Roman Catholic bishop
Mary Alfred Moes, Roman Catholic nun
Sarah Burger Stearns, co-founder and first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
Igor Vovkovinskiy, tallest man in U.S.

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^ "Ken Johannson". Star Tribune. December 2, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2021.; "Johannson, Ken". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 2, 2018. p. B10.
^ "1982 NHL Entry Draft: Jim Johannson". Hockey Draft Central. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
^ Podnieks, Andrew (February 6, 2019). "Hall of Fame Class of 2019 named". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
^ "1981 NHL Entry Draft – John Johannson". Hockey Draft Central. Retrieved December 21, 2021.