Editing Missoula, Montana (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Missoula, Montana}}
{{See also|University of Montana#Notable people|label 1=List of University of Montana alumni}}

Missoula has produced and been home to a number of notable individuals in varying fields. Its natives and residents are referred to as "Missoulians". In politics, [[Jeannette Rankin]],<ref name="Rankin">{{cite web |url=http://montanakids.com/cool_stories/Famous_Montanans/rankin.htm |title=Cool Montana Stories: Jeannette Rankin |publisher=Travel Montana |date=2007 |access-date=August 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701170331/http://montanakids.com/cool_stories/Famous_Montanans/rankin.htm |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> the first woman in Congress, was born and raised in Missoula while Senators [[Mike Mansfield]],<ref name="Oberdorfer 2015">{{cite book|last=Oberdorfer|first=Don|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaFfBgAAQBAJ|title=Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat|date=2015|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|isbn=978-1-58834-514-1|location=Washington, D.C.|page=61|lccn=2003045553|oclc=903929842|ol=8965072W|author-link=Don Oberdorfer|access-date=August 28, 2015|orig-year=1st pub. 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904113534/https://books.google.com/books?id=oaFfBgAAQBAJ|archive-date=September 4, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> the U.S.'s longest serving [[Party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Majority Leader]], and [[Max Baucus]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers6/baucus.html |title=125 Montana Newsmakers: Sen. Max Baucus |newspaper=Great Falls Tribune |issn=2329-647X |archive-date=January 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160121155649/http://archive.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers6/baucus.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Montana's longest serving U.S. Senator both established careers and joined politics while living in the city.

Noted athletes who were born or resided in Missoula include five Olympic medalists, [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] Quarterback [[John Elway]],<ref name="Christopher 2009">{{cite book |last=Christopher |first=Matt |title=In the Huddle with... John Elway |publisher=Hachette Book Group |location=New York |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-316-09524-2 |author-link=Matt Christopher |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_6xcJQNmAMC&pg=PT4 |page=4 |chapter=1960–1975: Birth of a Quarterback |orig-year=1st pub. 1999 |ol=15108719W |lccn=98045549 |oclc=39985596 |access-date=August 28, 2015 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904113534/https://books.google.com/books?id=T_6xcJQNmAMC&pg=PT4 |url-status=live }}</ref> and former [[Milwaukee Bucks]] coach [[Larry Krystkowiak]].<ref name="Krystkowiak">{{cite news |title=125 Montana Newsmakers: Larry Krystkowiak |url=http://archive.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers5/krystkowiak.html |newspaper=Great Falls Tribune |issn=2329-647X |archive-date=January 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160121054406/http://archive.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers5/krystkowiak.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Filmmaker [[David Lynch]],<ref name="Browning 2007">{{cite news |url=http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/demystifying-david-lynch/Content?oid=1139502 |title=Demystifying David Lynch |newspaper=Missoula Independent |date=April 12, 2007 |access-date=August 13, 2015 |last=Browning |first=Skylar |quote=he was born in Missoula in 1946 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910001815/http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/demystifying-david-lynch/Content?oid=1139502 |archive-date=September 10, 2015}}</ref> actor [[Dana Carvey]],<ref name="Hirschmann 2003">{{cite book |last=Hirschmann |first=Kris |title=Montana: The Treasure State |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiAHDXpnOSAC&pg=PA41 |series=World Almanac Library of the States |date=2003 |publisher=World Almanac Library |location=Milwaukee |isbn=978-0-8368-5153-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/montanatreasures0000hirs/page/41 41] |chapter=Notable People |lccn=2002038041 |oclc=50919750 |ol=8203372M |quote=Dana Carvey .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Born: June 2, 1955, Missoula |url=https://archive.org/details/montanatreasures0000hirs/page/41 }}</ref> and award-winning biologist [[Leroy Hood]]<ref name="Hood 2002">{{cite web |last=Hood |first=Leroy |title=My Life and Adventures Integrating Biology and Technology: A Commemorative Lecture for the 2002 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technologies |url=http://www.systemsbiology.org/download/2002Kyoto.pdf |website=Institute for Systems Biology |access-date=August 13, 2015 |date=2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419062440/http://systemsbiology.org/download/2002Kyoto.pdf |archive-date=April 19, 2015 |page=3 |quote=I was born in October of 1938 in Missoula, Montana, a beautiful town split by a rapidly flowing river and lying at the convergence of two forested mountain ranges. }}</ref> were born in Missoula, while [[Carroll O'Connor]]<ref name="Jahrig 2000">{{cite news |url=http://missoulian.com/article_33571391-b831-5ecc-9df9-5162d6ce6160.html |title=Carroll O'Connor to teach classes at UM |newspaper=Missoulian |issn=0746-4495 |date=March 5, 2000 |access-date=August 13, 2015 |last=Jahrig |first=Gary |location=Missoula Ric Parnell - best known for his portrayal of drummerMick Shrimpton in Spinal Tap moved to the city in his later years and died there. |quote=Carroll O'Connor, the UM graduate best known for his portrayal of the outspoken [[Archie Bunker|Bunker]] on the television series ''[[All in the Family|All In The Family]]''. |archive-date=September 15, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915101558/http://missoulian.com/article_33571391-b831-5ecc-9df9-5162d6ce6160.html}}</ref> and [[J. K. Simmons]]<ref name="Schweber 2015">{{cite magazine |last=Schweber |first=Nate |date=Spring 2015 |title=Family Ties |url=http://archive.umt.edu/montanan/Spring2015.pdf#page=21 |journal=Montanan |publisher=University of Montana |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=16–19 |access-date=August 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604005407/http://archive.umt.edu/montanan/Spring2015.pdf#page=21 |archive-date=June 4, 2015 |url-status=live |format=PDF |quote='One of the first things [[Damien Chazelle|Damien]] said was, "I don't want you to be intimidated by the musical aspects of this. I can shoot this in a way to make you look good, like you know what you're doing{{" '}}, [[J. K. Simmons|Simmons]] says. 'I said, "Let me stop you right there. Forty years ago I was a music major at the University of Montana. I conducted pit orchestra, and I can read these charts. I'm not just some actor who's going to be waving his arms around.'}}</ref> attended the University of Montana. Composer [[David Maslanka]] lived in Missoula.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://davidmaslanka.com/works/blue-mountain-meadow-missoula-montana/ |title=Blue Mountain Meadow |publisher=David Maslanka |access-date=August 9, 2015 |quote=Blue Mountain is my favorite nature-walk place in the Missoula, Montana area where I live. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006193546/http://davidmaslanka.com/works/blue-mountain-meadow-missoula-montana/ |archive-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> Musician [[Jeff Ament]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://montanakids.com/cool_stories/famous_montanans/ament.htm |title=Famous Montanans: Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam |publisher=State of Montana |access-date=January 27, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101163336/http://montanakids.com/cool_stories/Famous_Montanans/ament.htm |archive-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref> and [[YouTuber]], [[science communicator]], novelist, and entrepreneur [[Hank Green]]<ref name="Erickson 2015">{{cite news |last=Erickson |first=David |date=January 23, 2015 |title=Missoula YouTube star Hank Green interviews Obama |url=http://missoulian.com/article_a11596a2-79de-52cd-9436-4748518baa17.html |newspaper=Missoulian |issn=0746-4495 |location=Missoula |access-date=August 13, 2015 |quote=Missoula resident Hank Green sat down for a face-to-face interview with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, and the whole thing was live-streamed on YouTube. |archive-date=September 15, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915102319/http://missoulian.com/article_a11596a2-79de-52cd-9436-4748518baa17.html}}</ref> reside in Missoula. Academically, Missoula has been home to Nobel Prize winners [[Harold C. Urey]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-Urey |title=Harold C. Urey |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=June 24, 2015 |access-date=August 9, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802212143/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-Urey |archive-date=August 2, 2015}}</ref> and [[Steve Running]]<ref name="Adams 2007">{{cite news |url=http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/a-nobel-cause/Content?oid=1139384 |title=A Nobel cause: Q&A with UM climate guru Steve Running |newspaper=Missoula Independent |date=October 25, 2007 |access-date=August 13, 2015 |last=Adams |first=John |quote=Running .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Missoula's first Nobel laureate since UM professor Harold Urey received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1934&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910040646/http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/a-nobel-cause/Content?oid=1139384 |archive-date=September 10, 2015}}</ref> as well as 20th century Montana historian [[K. Ross Toole]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06430 |title=K. Ross Toole Papers, 1867–1992 (bulk 1961–1981) |website=Archives West |access-date=August 13, 2015 |publisher=Orbis Cascade Alliance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813163928/http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark%3A/80444/xv06430 |archive-date=August 13, 2015 |url-status=live |quote=This collection largely contains correspondence, research materials and writings, and faculty materials from 1961, when he was named the A.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, to his death in 1981.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Kenneth Ross Toole was born August 8, 1920 in Missoula, Montana.}}</ref>

Noted names in literature include Native American poet [[James Welch (writer)|James Welch]],<ref name="Saxon 2003">{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=August 9, 2003 |title=James Welch, 62, an Indian Who Wrote About the Plains |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/09/arts/james-welch-62-an-indian-who-wrote-about-the-plains.html |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=August 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909121335/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/09/arts/james-welch-62-an-indian-who-wrote-about-the-plains.html |archive-date=September 9, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> crime novelist [[James Crumley]],<ref name="Sullivan 2008">{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Patricia |date=September 19, 2008 |title=James Crumley; Inspired Generation of Crime Writers |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803667.html |newspaper=Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=August 13, 2015 |quote=James Crumley, 68, whose poetic and violent tales of crime in the American West made him a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel, died of complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. in Missoula, Mont., where he lived. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904113534/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803667.html |archive-date=September 4, 2015}}</ref> former head of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Program [[Richard Hugo]],<ref name="Bolin 2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/05/14/at-the-grave-of-richard-hugo/ |title=At the Grave of Richard Hugo |last=Bolin |first=Alice |date=May 14, 2012 |publisher=The Paris Review |website=The Paris Review Daily |access-date=August 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404165602/http://theparisreview.org/blog/2012/05/14/at-the-grave-of-richard-hugo |archive-date=April 4, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[William Kittredge]], a western writer and professor of creative writing at the [[University of Montana]] at Missoula, and [[Norman Maclean]],<ref name="Maclean">{{cite news |title=125 Montana Newsmakers: Norman F. Maclean |url=http://archive.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers3/maclean.html |newspaper=Great Falls Tribune |issn=2329-647X |archive-date=January 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160121215324/http://archive.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers3/maclean.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> whose ''[[A River Runs Through It (novel)|A River Runs Through It]]'' chronicles his life in early 20th-century Missoula. [[Joanna Klink]], poet and professor at the University of Montana. [[Michael Punke]], the author of the best-selling novel ''[[The Revenant (novel)|The Revenant]]'', also lives in Missoula.