These are some famous people born in Montana, some in Missoula.

  • Dorothy Baker (1907 - 1968) Author; born in Missoula.
  • Dirk Benedict (1945 - ) Actor; born in Helena
  • Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) Became a famous actor in the 1930s; born in Helena.
  • Marcus Daly (1841-1900) Founded the city of Anaconda.
  • Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1901 - 1981) Pulitzer Prize-winning author; lived in Choteau.
  • Will James (1892 - 1942) Artist/Writer; lived in Billings.
  • Evel Knievel (1938 - ) Daredevil motorcyclist; born in Butte.
  • Jerry Kramer (1936 - ) Football player; born in Jordan.
  • Chet Huntley (1911 - 1974) TV newscaster; born in Cardwell.
  • David Lynch (1946 - ) Filmmaker; born in Missoula.
  • Myrnal Loy - (1905 - 1993) Legendary actress; born in Radersburg.
  • Dave McNally (1942- 2002) The only baseball pitcher to hit a grand slam home run in a World Series; born in Billings.
  • George Montgomery (1916 - 2000) Actor; born in Brady.
  • Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973) A Montana Republican, became the first woman to serve in Congress in 1917; born in Missoula

    • Historical Note

    • Jeannette Rankin, pacifist and feminist, was born near Missoula, Montana, on June 11, 1880, the daughter of John Rankin and Olive (Pickering) Rankin. She graduated from the University of Montana (1902) and attended the School of Philanthropy (now the Columbia University School of Social Work) in New York City (1908-1909). After working briefly as a social worker in Seattle, JR campaigned for women's suffrage in Washington, California, Montana and other states from 1910 to 1915.
    • The first woman elected to Congress (1916), she voted against United States entry into World War I and worked for women's rights as well as peace legislation. From 1919 to 1940 Rankin lobbied Congress and lectured for various peace and other humanitarian causes: in the 1920's she was employed by the National Consumers' League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and founded the Georgia Peace Society; in the 1930's she worked mainly for the National Council for the Prevention of War.
    • Re-elected to Congress in 1940, she was the only legislator to vote against United States entry into World War II. From 1945 through the early 1970's JR traveled extensively, especially to India. In the late 1960's and early 1970's she was active in both peace and feminist causes, opposing the war in Vietnam and working for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also strongly supported the direct election of Presidents and multiple-member Congressional districts. She died in Carmel, California, on May 18, 1973.
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  • Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926) Charles Marion Russell was many things: consummate Westerner, historian, advocate of the Northern Plains Indians, cowboy, outdoorsman, writer, philosopher, environmentalist and conservationist, and not least, artist. Moved to the Judith Basin of Montana in 1880.
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