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Famous Natives
People listed are almost always native to the state. We do (on occasion) include those that have either lived within a state for most of their adult life, or have made a significant contribution to the state in their personal endeavors. Julie Adams actress Beth Streeter Aldrich author Fran Allison actress Adrian Constantine (Cap) Anson baseball player Samuel Z. Arkoff movie producer Tom Arnold actor Jack Bailey actor Bix Beiderbecke musician Clifford Berry inventor Earl Blakesley, Jr. screenwriter Tommy Bolin singer Norman Ernest Borlaug nobel peace prize winner, agronomist Lara Flynn Boyle actress Neville Brand actor Norman Breyfogle illustrator Bill Bryson author Ellis Parker Butler author Macdonald Carey actor Wallace Hume Carothers inventor Johnny Carson entertainer (born in Iowa) Walter Cassel opera singer Virginia Christine actress Dallas Clark football player Christian Clemenson actor William (Buffalo Bill) Cody buffalo hunter, entertainer, pony express rider Stephen Collins actor Chester Conklin actor Gardner Cowles, Jr. publisher Roger Craig football player Janet Dailey author Bill Daily actor Lee DeForest inventor Tim Dwight football player Mamie Doud Eisenhower u. s. first lady James Ellison actor Simon Estes opera singer Sharon Farrell actress Terry Farrell actress Bob Feller baseball player William Frawley actor John Froelich inventor Dan Gable amateur wrestler George Gallup statistician, inventor gallup poll Susan Glaspell author Frank Gotch wrestler Fred Grandy actor James Norman Hall author Roy Halston fashion designer Ricko Hamm musician Van Hardin radio host Tom Harkin politician Hill Harper actor Chad Hennings football player Dave Higgins actor Marjorie Holmes author Herbert Hoover u. s. president Lou Henry Hoover u. s. first lady Mary Beth Hurt actress Zach Johnson golfer Nate Kaeding football player MacKinlay Kantor author, screenwriter Frank Keenan actor Corita Kent artist Nile Kinnick football player Ted Kooser poet Ashton Kutcher actor Ann Landers columnist Priscilla Lane actress Harry Langdon actor Rustin Larson poet Cloris Leachman actress Willie Leacox drummer Laura Leighton actress Aldo Leopold environmentalist Meridel LeSueur journalist John L. Lewis labor leader E. J. Lindquist educator Joanna Lund author Stuart Margolin actor, director Glenn L. Martin aviator, manufacturer Jerry Mathers actor Elsa Maxwell columnist Frederick L. Maytag founder maytag C. W. McCall singer Edwin Thomas Meredith publisher Glenn Miller band leader, musician Clark Mollenhoff journalist Michelle Monaghan actress Kate Mulgrew actress Charles Alan Murray author Conrad Nagel actor Harriet Nelson actress Alan Nourse author Robert Noyce inventor Chuck Offenburger columnist Harriett Parsons producer Edwin Perkins inventor kool-aid Ed Pololak football player Richard "Dick" Proeneke author, naturalist Nathan M. Pusey educator Herbert Quick author David Rabe playwright Frances Rafferty actress Harry Reasoner television journalist Donna Reed actress George Reeves actor Sage Rosenfels football player Lawrence "Sul" Ross confederate army general, texas governor Brandon Routh actor Lillian Russell singer Robert Schuller evangelist Jean Seberg actress Jessie Field Shambaugh educator, founder 4-H clubs Loren Shriver astronaut Hugh Sidey journalist Riley Smith actor Tracie Spencer singer Wallace Stegner author Brad Steiger author Mark Steines television host Ruth Suckow author Billy Sunday baseball player, evangelist Michael Talbott actor Kevin Tapani baseball player Kent Taylor actor Sada Thompson actress James Van Allen astrophysicist Abigail Van Buren columnist Mona Van Duyn author Michelle Vieth actress Nellie Verne Walker sculptor Henry A. Wallace u. s. vice president Marcia Wallace actress Robert James Waller author Brian Wansink author Kurt Warner football player Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins singer John Wayne actor Joseph Wilcots cinematographer Andy Williams singer Meredith Willson composer Elijah Wood actor Grant Wood artist Hank Worden actor Larry Zack artist Is someone missing from this list?
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