Minneapolis, Minnesota

:This article is about the city in Minnesota, USA. There are two other cities named Minneapolis in the United States: Minneapolis, Kansas and Minneapolis, North Carolina. For an overview of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, see Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Famous Minneapolitans

• Eddie Albert, actor famous for role in Green Acres
• Louie Anderson
• Richard Dean Anderson
• The Andrews Sisters
• Lew Ayres
• C.C. Beck
• Mitch Clem
• Joel and Ethan Coen
• Rachael Leigh Cook
• Dr. Demento (aka Barry Hansen)
• Gordon R. Dickson
• Bob Dylan
• Al Franken
• Thomas L. Friedman, journalist
• Neil Gaiman
• J. Paul Getty
• Terry Gilliam, the Stateside Monty Python
• Josh Hartnett
• George Roy Hill
• Kent Hrbek
• Doug Pagitt
• Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President
• Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion
• Walter Mondale, former Vice President
• Prince
• Kirby Puckett
• Lili St. Cyr
• Semisonic
• The Soviettes, punk rock band
• Tiny Tim (aka Herbert Khaury, buried in the city's Lakewood Cemetary)
• Vince Vaughn
• Jesse Ventura, wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota

(Note that many on this list will object to their classification as a "Minneapolitan": e.g. Keillor grew up in Anoka, a local suburb, and has lived in St. Paul; Ventura lives in a northern suburb, of which he was mayor; Kirby Puckett, now a suburbs resident, was born and grew up in Chicago; Bob Dylan grew up in the Northern Minnesota town of Hibbing, etc.)

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