Minneapolis media
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a popular television situation comedy in the 1970s,
was set in Minneapolis.
A statue of Mary Tyler Moore was erected downtown,
on Nicollet Mall, in 2002 to commemorate the program.
Although the city is not often a setting for movies, a few notable ones have been filmed there:
* North Country (2005)
Fargo
* Grumpy Old
Men and Grumpier Old Men (set in Wabasha)
* The Mighty Ducks
* Jingle All the
Way
* That Was Then, This Is Now, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton
* Untamed
Heart
* Prince's movie Purple Rain featured First Avenue, considered the city's most influential music
venue.
* Drop Dead Fred
* Joe Somebody
* Beautiful Girls
* Mall Rats
* 20 Bucks
* Drop Dead Gorgeous
* The Heartbreak
Kid (some scenes)
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
* Khalid El-Amin
* Kimberly Elise
* Al Franken
* Thomas
L. Friedman, journalist
* Neil Gaiman
* J. Paul Getty
*
Terry Gilliam, the Stateside Monty Python
* Genevieve Gorder, Trading Spaces
*
Josh Hartnett
* George Roy Hill
* Jimmy Jam
* Kent Hrbek
* Doug Pagitt
* Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President
* Dan Israel, songwriter
* Jerry Lynn, professional wrestler for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
* Mint Condition, famous band
* Walter Mondale, former Vice President
* Prince
* Charles Schulz, Creator of
the Peanuts comic
* Lili St. Cyr
* Raymond W. Rolfe, Artist
* Semisonic
* Soul Asylum
* The Soviettes, punk rock band
* Tiny Tim (aka Herbert Khaury, buried in the city's Lakewood Cemetery)
* Vince Vaughn
* John Piper, Internationally known reformed author, theologian, and pastor of Bethlehem Baptist in downtown Minneapolis
* Mark Mallman, musician
Famous people from Minnesota
Eddie Albert
Loni Anderson
Louie Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson
James Arness
Tom
Arnold
Soul Asylum
Ann Bancroft
Patty Berg
Bill Berry
Jessica Biel
Herb Brooks
Warren
Burger
Robert Cabana (NASA astronaut)
Bob Casey (Stadium P.A. Announcer)
Joel and Ethan Coen
Rachael
Leigh Cook
Morris Day
Mark Dayton
Bob Dylan,
Richard Eberhart
Tammy Faye
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Al Franken
Orville Freeman
Judy Garland
Terry Gilliam
Mary GrandPré
Peter
Graves (actor)
Alex Hage, Sid Hartman
Josh Hartnett
Mitch Hedberg
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hüsker
Dü
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Pat Jarosch
Garrison Keillor
Frank B. Kellogg
Tom
Kelly
Craig Kilborn
Peter Krause
Don LaFontaine
Jessica Lange
Tom Lehman
The
Trashmen
Brock Lesnar
Sinclair Lewis
Charles Lindbergh
John Madden
Roger Maris
Charles
Mayo
William Mayo
William Worrall Mayo
Eugene J. McCarthy
Kevin McHale
Breckin
Meyer
George Mikan
Mint Condition
Paul Molitor
Walter F. Mondale
Lorenzo Music
George
Nelson (astronaut)
Gena Lee Nolin
David Oreck
Carl Pohlad
Prince
The Replacements
Marion
Ross
Winona Ryder
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Flip Saunders
Charles Schulz
Seann William
Scott
The Spin Doctors
The Suburbs
Phil Solem
Kevin Sorbo
Harold Stassen
Will
Steger
Glen A. Taylor
Lea Thompson
Cheryl Tiegs
Vince Vaughn
Thorstein Veblen
Jesse
Ventura
DeWitt Wallace
Roy Wilkins
Bud Wilkinson
Dave Winfield
Steve Zahn
Mythical figures from Minnesota
Jolly Green Giant
Minnehaha
Paul Bunyan
Poppin' Fresh
Betty Crocker
Rocky and Bullwinkle
