Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry.

Irvine Kerlan, M.D. was a Minnesota native who earned his medical degree through the University of Minnesota.

The Minnesota native who was reared in Louisiana is an adopted West Texan who exerts great pride in the city of which he served as mayor.

"It's a nice social base," said Dominic Trader, a Minnesota native who took a job this summer at Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan.

And, O.K., this Minnesota native would refer to tides on Lake Superior, which has none.

Cox was born in Stockton, California, to parents who were Minnesota natives.

A Golden Gophers hockey tradition is to stock the roster almost exclusively (sometimes completely) with Minnesota natives.

"I found out that I've made a few mistakes," the 48-year-old Minnesota native said.

The town of Faribault, for example, was established in 1852 by Alexander Faribault, a Minnesota native of mixed French-Canadian/Dakota ancestry.

Since then, the affable but tough-minded Minnesota native has put his own stamp on the district.