People of Iowa
Adrian Constantine (Cap) Anson |
Marshalltown |
1851-1922 |
Baseball player, baseball manager |
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William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
Scott County |
1846-1917 |
Frontiersman, showman |
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Robert William Andrew Feller |
Van Meter |
1918- |
Baseball player |
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George Horace Gallup |
Jefferson |
1901-1984 |
Statistician, public opinion analyst |
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James Norman Hall |
Colfax |
1887-1951 |
Author |
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Herbert Clark Hoover |
West Branch |
1874-1964 |
U.S. President |
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MacKinlay Kantor |
Webster City |
1904-1977 |
Author |
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Glenn Miller |
Clarinda |
1904-1944 |
Bandleader |
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Lillian Russell |
Clinton |
1861-1922 |
Singer, actress |
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William Ashley (Billy) Sunday |
Ames |
1862-1935 |
Baseball player, evangelist |
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James Alfred Van Allen |
Mount Pleasant |
1914- |
Astrophysicist |
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Henry Agard Wallace |
Adair County |
1888-1965 |
U.S. Vice President |
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John Wayne |
Winterset |
1907-1979 |
Actor |
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Margaret Wilson |
Traer |
1882-1976 |
Author |
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Grant Wood |
Near Anamosa |
1892-1942 |
Artist |
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Source:
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, Copyright 1996.
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