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Among those who have lived or worked in Minneapolis are scientists and Nobel prize laureates Peter Agre, Norman Borlaug, Paul D. Boyer, Finn E. Kydland, Edward B. Lewis, and Edward C. Prescott. Inventor Earl Bakken and surgeon C. Walton Lillehei forever changed the field of heart medicine. Robert R. Gilruth directed the U.S. Moon landing for NASA. Jean Piccard, the namesake of Captain Picard, and Jeannette Piccard were pioneering balloonists. Marcia McNutt is a leading geophysicist.

Alan Page is both a state supreme court justice and a Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. Elgin Baylor is a basketball great. A home to artists of all kinds, Robert Bly, Sinclair Lewis, Maud Hart Lovelace, Westbrook Pegler, Clifford D. Simak, Anne Tyler, and Gerald Vizenor are poets, writers, and journalists who lived in the city. Actors Eddie Albert and Jessica Lange, producers Michael Todd and the Coen Brothers, and burlesque dancer Lili St. Cyr are noted in the performance arts. George Morrison is remembered in the fine arts, as are cartoonists Charles M. Schulz and Dick Guindon. The Andrews Sisters, Bob Dylan, Prince, Tiny Tim, and Paul Westerberg are known for their music. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis continue to write and produce recordings. The baritone Cornell MacNeil became famous at the Metropolitan Opera.

Among leaders, John S. Pillsbury and George Dayton are remembered as influential city founders and businessmen. Industrialist J. Paul Getty lived in the city for a time. Theodore Wirth planned the city's park system. Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Sharon Sayles Belton, Brian Coyle, Keith Ellison, W. Harry Davis, and Cecil Newman are among those who changed the city through civic leadership and civil rights activism. Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale were U.S. vice presidents, Eugene McCarthy was an important U.S. senator and Orville Freeman helped millions of Americans through the U.S. Food Stamp program. Jesse Ventura brought unconventional politics and knowledge of wrestling to the state. Lauris Norstad was a supreme commander of NATO.

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Proposed criteria for changes from Minneapolis talk page

Maximum of 50 people
Residence however brief in the city of Minneapolis (for example, not Saint Paul or Bloomington)
Influence outside Minneapolis (for example, an award or obituary might establish this)
Notability compared to others in the list
Balance of field of interests (for example, if the list has three musicians and you add one then remove one)
Exceptions as agreed on this talk page (for example, careers of women and minorities may not be as well documented as white males)
Birthplace of Minneapolis is not a requirement as Wikipedia already generates Category:People from_Minneapolis, Minnesota