List of people from Iowa
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This is a list of notable people who were born in or closely associated with the state of Iowa. Persons not born in Iowa are marked with §.
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[edit] A
- Dudley W. Adams
- John T. Adams
- Julie Adams
- Trev Alberts
- William B. Allison
- Lew Anderson
- Rudolph Martin Anderson
- Cap Anson
- Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Herbert W. Armstrong
- Tom Arnold (born 1959) - actor
- John Vincent Atanasoff
[edit] B
- John O. Bailey
- Bil Baird
- Nathaniel B. Baker
- Alvin Baldus
- Hal C. Banks
- Jill Banner
- Roger Barkley
- Bob Barr
- Douglas Barr
- Lansing Hoskins Beach
- Bennett Bean
- Carl L. Becker
- Bix Beiderbecke
- William W. Belknap
- Alfred S. Bennett
- Duane Benson
- Shawn Bentler
- Matt Bentley
- Christian Beranek
- Leo Beranek
- Bill Bergan
- S. Torriano Berry
- Eddie Berlin
- Jay Berwanger
- Stanley Biber
- Buffalo Bill
- Leo Binz
- Richard Pike Bissell
- Black Hawk (chief)
- Gordon Blake
- Donald G. Bloesch
- Isabel Bloom
- Mike Blouin
- Lisa Bluder
- Mike Boddicker
- Bill Bogaard
- Tommy Bolin
- Norman Borlaug
- Rob Borsellino
- Ryan Bowen
- Thomas M. Bowen
- Charles Bowers
- Lara Flynn Boyle
- Neville Brand
- Terry E. Branstad
- Aaron Brant
- Charles Wesley Brashares
- Titus Bronson
- Billy Aaron Brown
- Greg Brown (folk musician) - soul-folk singer-songwriter
- Mace Brown
- Bill Bryson (born 1951) - author
- Matt Bullard
- Ambrose Burke
- Jerry Burke
- Joseph A. A. Burnquist
- Jim Burt (sportscaster)
- Marion LeRoy Burton
- Harlan J. Bushfield
- Frank M. Byrne
[edit] C
- Ashley Lyn Cafagna
- Marjorie Cameron
- Macdonald Carey (1913–1994) - actor
- Chris Carney
- Wallace Carothers
- Allan Carpenter
- Sabin Carr
- Emma Carroll
- Johnny Carson (1925–2005) - entertainer
- Jordan Carstens
- Louise Carver
- Frank T. Cary
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Norton P. Chipman
- Tom Churchill
- Bernard A. Clarey
- Dallas Clark
- Laurel Blair Salton Clark
- Rush Clark
- Scott Clemmensen
- Samuel Cody
- Harris Coggeshall
- King Cole (baseball)
- Chris Collins (ice hockey)
- Stephen Collins (born 1947) - actor on 7th Heaven
- Nick Collison
- John W. Colloton
- Martin Cone
- Edwin H. Conger
- Maurice Connolly
- Paul Conrad
- Ed Conroy
- George Cram Cook
- Jack Coombs
- Frank Cordaro
- Sarah Corpstein
- John M. Corse
- Ernie Courtney
- Paul Coverdell
- Thomas Jefferson Cowie
- Shawn Crahan
- Roger Craig
- Joe Crail
- Coe I. Crawford
- Francis X. Cretzmeyer
- Jim Crotty
- Frank Cuhel
- Mariclare Culver
- Henry J. B. Cummings
- Samuel Curtis
[edit] D
- Diane D'Aquila
- Bill Daily (born 1928) - actor
- Dick Dale (singer)
- Muriel Frances Dana
- Jack Daniels (politician)
- Geof Darrow
- Dana Davis (actress)
- Rebecca Fjelland Davis
- Stuart Davis (musician)
- Darren Daye
- Lee De Forest
- Jordan De Jong
- Henry Clay Dean
- Don DeFore
- W. Edwards Deming
- Don Denkinger
- Dave Despain
- Lester J. Dickinson
- Justin Diercks
- Charles Hall Dillon
- David M. Dobson
- Claire Dodd
- Grenville M. Dodge
- Ralph Edward Dodge
- Ellen Dolan
- Russell S. Doughten
- Nicholas Downs
- Bobby Driscoll
- Randy Duncan
- Lloyd Dunn
- Samuel Grace Dunn
- Kenneth W. Durant
- John Durbin
[edit] E
- Morgan Earp
- Warren Earp
- Abastenia St. Leger Eberle
- Zales Ecton
- Paul Eells
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Cal Eldred
- Eugene Burton Ely
- Hope Emerson
- Michael Emerson
- Norman A. Erbe
- Linda Evans
- Frank F. Everest
[edit] F
- Terry Farell (born 1963) - actress
- William Frawley (1887–1966) - actor
- James Fee
- Victor Feguer
- Chris Fehn
- Margaret Feldner
- Bob Feller (born 1918) - Baseball Hall of Fame
- Romaine Fielding
- Joseph Fitz
- Margarita Fischer
- Matt Fish
- Bridget Flanery
- Jack Fleck
- Frank Jack Fletcher
- Joe Frisco
- Rich Folkers
- Ben Foster (actor)
- Jon Foster
- Judith Ellen Foster
- William Frawley
- John T. Frederick
- Joan Freeman
- Bruce French
[edit] G
- Jetseta Gage
- Robert Gallery
- George Gallup
- Viola Garfield
- Jim Garrison
- David Garst
- Roswell Garst
- Michael Gartner
- Harry Gaspar
- James Lorraine Geddes
- John Getz
- Edward H. Gillette
- Fred Glade
- Stephen Gleason
- Tana Goertz
- Dan Goldie
- Johnny Gosch (born 1969) - missing paperboy
- Frank Gotch
- Al Gould
- Rick Graf
- Fred Grandy (born 1948) - actor, congressman
- Chuck Grassley
- Dick Green
- George Greene §
- James W. Grimes
- Dan Grimm
- Harold R. Gross
- Janet Guthrie
[edit] H
- Mike Haight
- Leslie Hall
- Scott Halpin
- Halston
- Jack Halloran
- Adam Haluska
- Jack Hamilton
- Milo Hamilton
- Ryan Hannam
- Bob Hansen
- Juanita Hansen
- Robert Hansen
- William L. Harding
- Tom Harkin (born 1939) - U.S. Senator
- Bob Harlan
- James Harlan (senator)
- Hill Harper
- Frank Hatton (US politician)
- James H. Hawley
- Merle Hay
- Frank Hayes (unionist)
- Peter Hedges
- Stephen P. Hempstead
- John Hench
- David B. Henderson
- Dorothy Hennessey
- Gwen Hennessey
- Ron Hennessey
- John Hennessy
- Chad Hennings
- William Peters Hepburn
- Francis J. Herron
- Phil Hester (comics)
- James C. Hickman
- David Anthony Higgins (born 1961) - actor
- David Hilker
- Harriet Hilliard (1909–1994) - actress; wife of Ozzie Nelson
- David C. Hilmers
- Kirk Hinrich
- Herbert E. Hitchcock
- Terry Hoage
- Bill Hoffer
- Fred Hoiberg
- Judd Holdren
- Ducky Holmes
- Elmer G. Homrighausen
- Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) - 31st President of the United States
- Frank O. Horton
- Ralph Houser
- Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
- Mary Beth Hurt
- Toby Huss
- Dick Hutcherson
- Libbie Hyman
[edit] I
[edit] J
- Kip Janvrin
- Roger Jepsen
- Donald Johanos
- Dorothy M. Johnson
- Edwin S. Johnson
- Nicholas Johnson
- Royal C. Johnson
- Zach Johnson
- Craig Jones
- George W. Jones
- Gordon Jones
- Kathryn Joosten
- Joey Jordison
- Duane Josephson
- Patty Judge
- Jerry Junkins
[edit] K
- Nate Kaeding
- Danielle Kahle
- MacKinlay Kantor
- Bradley Kasal
- John A. Kasson
- Hazel Keener
- James M. Kelly
- Percy R. Kelly
- John H. Kemble
- Dave Keuning
- Hugh Kidder
- Kerry Killinger
- Angela Jia Kim
- Rebecca Ann King
- Steve King
- Nile Kinnick
- Samuel J. Kirkwood
- Philip J. Klass
- Bradford Knapp
- Corina Knoll
- Jon Koncak
- Ted Kooser
- Dan Koppen
- Kyle Korver
- Mitch Krebs
- Gary Kroeger
- Ashton Kutcher (born 1978) - actor
[edit] L
- Doug LaFollette
- Raef LaFrentz
- Roswell Lamson
- Ann Landers (1918–2002) - columnist
- Harry Langdon
- Patty Larkin
- Joe Laws
- Elmer Layden
- Jim Leach
- Cloris Leachman (born 1926) - actress
- Frederick Leadbetter
- William P. Leahy
- Norman Lear
- Laura Leighton
- Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) - ecologist, forester, and environmentalist
- Alexander Levi
- John Lewis (1880–1969) - labor leader
- Margaret Lindsay
- Ron Livingston (born 1968) - actor
- Al Lohman
- Babe London
- Nia Long
- Mathias Loras
- Kevin Love
- Herschel C. Loveless
- Larry Lujack
- Tiny Lund
- Mike Lynch
- Raymond J. Lynch
- Sue Lyon
[edit] M
- Larry Mac Duff
- Archer MacMackin
- Hanford MacNider
- Maryann Mahaffey
- Dennis Mahony
- Stuart Margolin
- Martin Burns
- Bernard Masterson
- Jerry Mathers (born 1948) - actor
- David Maxwell (academic)
- Elsa Maxwell
- Jesse May
- Wiley Mayne
- F. L. Maytag
- Dan McCarney
- Al McCoy
- Greg McDermott
- William John McGee
- George McGill
- Sean McLaughlin
- William H. McMaster
- Cal McVey
- Stu Mead
- Carl Meinberg
- Michael Joseph Melloy
- Sebastian Menke
- William Menster
- Russel Merrill
- Samuel Merrill
- Loren Meyer
- Hugh Millen
- Glenn Miller (1904–1944), American jazz musician and band leader
- Samuel Freeman Miller
- Ted Monachino
- Michelle Monaghan
- Jordan Monroe
- Frank A. Moore
- Karen Morley
- Carol Morris
- Phil Morris
- Michael Mosley
- Dow Mossman
- Kate Mulgrew (born 1955) - actress
- Richard L. Murphy
- Virginia A. Myers
[edit] N
- Nancy Naeve
- Conrad Nagel
- Harriet Nelson
- Carman A. Newcomb
- Jim Nicholson
- Bruce Nissen
- Ken Nordine
- Lance Norris
- Robert Noyce
- Michael Nunn
[edit] O
- Patrick O'Bryant
- Brian O'Connor
- Gerald Francis O'Keefe
- George Olmsted
- Eric Christian Olsen (born 1977) - actor
- Kay A. Orr
- Kyle Orton
- Charles Osborne
- Beverley Owen
[edit] P
- Clyde E. Palmer
- Daniel David Palmer
- Francis W. Palmer
- Rose Marie Pangborn
- Oran H. Pape
- Sara Paretsky
- Charles Fox Parham
- Anthony Parker
- Clair Cameron Patterson
- Neva Patterson
- Allen E. Paulson
- Claude Payton
- Sally Pederson
- Paul Peek
- Mary Beth Peil
- Nat Pendleton
- Tom Pepper
- Edwin Perkins
- Roger Perry
- Pete Peterson
- Roger Peterson (pilot)
- Lori Petty
- John Robinson Pierce
- Chris Pirillo
- Hiram Price
- Ed Podolak
- George Pomutz
- Tom Purtzer
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- David Rabe
- Frances Rafferty
- Randy Rahe
- Josh Rand
- Harry Reasoner
- Donna Reed (1921–1986) - actress
- Dani Reeves
- George Reeves
- George C. Remey
- Walter E. Reno
- Kevin Rhomberg
- Alfred C. Richmond
- Bill Riley, Sr.
- Clifford Roberts
- James B. A. Robertson
- Billy Robinson (aviator)
- Shawna Robinson
- Otto Frederick Rohwedder
- James Root
- Raymond Roseliep
- Joseph Rosenfield
- Brandon Routh (born 1979) - actor
- Coleen Rowley
- Alexander Rummler
- Arthur Russell
- Lillian Russell
- George Ryan
[edit] S
- Mark Salter
- Ezekiel S. Sampson
- Daniel Schaefer
- Peter Schickele (born 1935) - composer and musical parodist
- Ron Schipper
- Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Robert H. Schuller
- Aloysius Schulte
- Dick Schultz
- Jean Seberg (1938–1979) - actress
- Brad Seely
- Edward Robert Sellstrom
- William Shannahan
- Phil Shafer
- Gene Sherman (sportscaster)
- Randy Shilts
- Paul Shorey
- Chuck Shramek
- Loren Shriver
- Lee Paul Sieg
- Brian Smith
- Gerald W. Smith
- Hiram Y. Smith
- Mary Louise Smith
- Neal Smith
- Riley Smith (born 1978) - actor
- Virginia Smith
- Warren Allen Smith
- Clement Smyth
- William Smyth
- Neta Snook
- Harvey Sollberger
- Phyllis Somerville
- Hartzell Spence
- Kirk Speraw
- Edwin O. Stanard
- William G. Steiner
- Mark Steines
- Keith H. Steinkraus
- George F. Stewart
- George Stone
- Ramo Stott
- Alvin Straight
- Chris Street
- Jeff Streeter
- Stephen Stucker
- Bob Stull
- Billy Sunday
- Roderick Dhu Sutherland
- Al Swearengen
- Brett Szabo
[edit] T
- Joseph Taggart
- Michael Talbott
- Kevin Tapani
- Corey Taylor
- Morgan Taylor
- Richard R. Taylor
- Sara Taylor
- Kenneth W. Thompson
- Sada Thompson
- William Thompson
- William George Thompson
- Mick Thomson
- John Tomkins
- William Tubby
[edit] U
[edit] V
- James Van Allen
- William Vandever
- Oswald Veblen
- Carl Van Vechten
- Kristie VerMulm
- Michelle Vieth
- Nedra Volz
[edit] W
- John Henry Waddell
- Ted Waitt
- Nellie Walker
- Joseph Frazier Wall
- Henry A. Wallace (1888–1965) - U.S. Vice President
- Marcia Wallace (born 1942) - actress
- Will Walling
- Adam Walsh
- Brian Wansink (born 1960) - Cornell University Professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
- Everett Warner
- Kurt Warner (born 1971) - two-time NFL MVP
- Fitz Henry Warren
- Kiersten Warren
- Tionne Watkins
- James F. Watson
- John Wayne (1907–1979) - actor
- James Weaver
- Randy Weaver
- Irving Weber
- Matthew G. Whitaker
- John White
- Jim Whitesell
- Peggy Whitson
- Casey Wiegmann
- Doreen Wilber
- J. Remington Wilde
- Tom Wilkinson
- Andy Williams
- Roy Lee Williams
- William Appleman Williams (1921–1990) - historian
- William Williamson
- Meredith Willson - playwright; wrote The Music Man
- James Falconer Wilson
- JoAnn Wilson
- Mortimer Wilson
- Sid Wilson
- Wally Wingert
- Charles E. Winter
- William P. Wolf
- Elijah Wood (born 1981) - actor
- Grant Wood
- Joey Woody
- Hank Worden
- Carleton H. Wright
[edit] Y
- Marshal Yanda
- Harry E. Yarnell
- David Yost
- Ed Yost (1919 – 2007) - hot-air balloon pioneer
[edit] Z
[edit] Groups from Iowa
- Cherry Sisters
- McCaughey septuplets (born 1997)
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