Notable People from Iowa

Gene Fraise

American politician

Keith Knudsen

American rock musician (1948–2005)

Samuel W. Koster

US Army general (1919–2006)

Adeline De Walt Reynolds

American actress (1862-1961)

Joseph C. Miller

historian

T. Cooper Evans

American politician (1924–2005)

B. J. Palmer

American chiropractor

Robert J. Kern

American film editor (1885-1972)

Richard Dudman

American journalist (1918-2017)

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

Virgil Frye

American actor (1930-2012)

Wilmatte Porter Cockerell

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

Junius Henderson

American scientist (1865-1937)

Byron Barr

American actor (1917-1966)

Swen Swenson

American actor

Gail Jefferson

American conversation analyst (1938–2008)

Stanley L. Greigg

American politician (1931–2002)

Peggy Gilbert

American musician (1905–2007)

Florence Hale

American actress (1887-1945)

Guy Usher

actor (1883-1944)

James Westphal

American astronomer (1930–2004)

Franklin Edgerton

linguist (1885-1963)

Jack Coombs

American baseball player and coach

James Vincent Casey

Catholic archbishop (1914–1986)

Lyle Tuttle

American tattoo artist (1931-2019)

Thomas Gifford

American writer (1937-2000)

Dick Dickinson

American actor (1895-1956)

Thomas Braden

American journalist (1917–2009)

Will Kirk Kaynor

American politician (1884-1929)

Linda Hayes

American actress (1918-1995)

Daniel Schaefer

United States Marine (1936-2006)

Fanny Gates

American physicist

Bob Walkup

American politician

Frederick Manfred

novelist

Jessie Wilson Manning

American author, lecturer

Dave Gunther

American basketball player-coach

Don Perkins

American football player (1938–2022)

Arthur Davison Ficke

American writer and poet (1883–1945)

John Russell

American screenwriter (1885-1956)

Del Tenney

American actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (1930-2013)

Solomon Andrew Layton

American architect (1864–1943)

Nathan Post

Governor of American Samoa (1881–1938)

Herbert W. Armstrong

American evangelist (1892-1986)

R. Bruce Horsfall

American painter and illustrator (1869–1948)

Arthur A. Neu

American politician in Iowa (1933-2015)

Loras Joseph Watters

Catholic bishop (1915–2009)

Harry J. Middleton

American journalist (1921-2017)

Alfred Washington Adson

Doctor (1887–1951)