Notable People from Iowa

Jack Lewis

United States Marine (1924-2009)

Diane E. Griffin

American infectious disease virologist

B. J. Palmer

American chiropractor

Victor Hopkins

American cyclist

Frank Monroe Hawks

American aviator

Robert J. Kern

American film editor (1885-1972)

Lloyd Thurston

American politician (1880-1970)

Eleanor Painter Strong

American opera singer

William Appleman Williams

American historian (1921-1990)

A. G. Daniells

American Seventh-day Adventist minister (1858–1935)

Louise Carter

American actress (1875-1957)

Carroll Lane Fenton

American scientist (1900-1969)

Hanford MacNider

United States Army general (1889-1968)

Wilmatte Porter Cockerell

American entomologist, botanist, scientific collector and teacher (1870-1957)

Joseph A. Green

United States general (1881–1963)

Bob Fitch

American athlete and coach (1919-2003)

Rex Taylor

screenwriter (1889–1968)

Sylvester C. Smith

American politician (1858–1913)

Craig MacGregor

American bassist (1949–2018)

Norman Shetler

American puppeteer and pianist (1931–2024)

James Hedges

American politician (1938–2024)

James R. Bennett

American politician (1940-2016)

Katharine Budd

American architect

Kate Morgan

American housemaid who died under mysterious circumstances, and is thought by locals to be the Ghost of the Hotel del Coronado

Junius Henderson

American scientist (1865-1937)

Gail Jefferson

American conversation analyst (1938–2008)

Florence Hale

American actress (1887-1945)

Guy Usher

actor (1883-1944)

Fanny Gates

American physicist

Franklin Edgerton

linguist (1885-1963)

Jack Coombs

American baseball player and coach

Richard Dudman

American journalist (1918-2017)

Lyle Tuttle

American tattoo artist (1931-2019)

Peggy Gilbert

American musician (1905–2007)

Thomas Gifford

American writer (1937-2000)

Virgil Frye

American actor (1930-2012)

Will Kirk Kaynor

American politician (1884-1929)

Swen Swenson

American actor

Linda Hayes

American actress (1918-1995)

Jessie Wilson Manning

American author, lecturer

Arthur Davison Ficke

American writer and poet (1883–1945)

Don Perkins

American football player (1938–2022)

Edward Kimble Valentine

Union Army officer (1843-1916)

John Russell

American screenwriter (1885-1956)

Dick Dickinson

American actor (1895-1956)

Daniel Schaefer

United States Marine (1936-2006)

Frederick Manfred

novelist

Nathan Post

Governor of American Samoa (1881–1938)

Solomon Andrew Layton

American architect (1864–1943)

Dave Gunther

American basketball player-coach