Biographical Records
Notable People from Iowa
1,585 notable figures born in Iowa, showing page 32 of 32, ranked by historical prominence.
W. L. Mooty
1906 - 1992
politicianlawyer
Kenneth Watson
1921 - 2023
nuclear physicistoceanographerphysicist
Spike Nelson
1906 - 1998
American football coachmilitary officer
M. D. Donsker
1924 - 1991
university teachermathematician
Edwin N. Clark
1902 - 1982
military personnellawyer
Charles R. Scott
1905 - 1983
lawyerjudge
Donald L. Campbell
1904 - 2002
chemist
Dick Nesbitt
1907 - 1962
American football player
Denny Myers
1905 - 1957
American football coachAmerican football playermilitary officer
George Cobb
1865 - 1926
baseball player
Cliff Knox
1902 - 1965
baseball player
C. Maxwell Stanley
1904 - 1984
peace activistcivil engineerengineer
Byron G. Allen
1901 - 1988
journalistpolitician
Thomas R. Limerick
1903 - 1938
criminal
Paul Cain
1902 - 1966
novelistwriterscreenwriter
Mary Clem
1905 - 1979
computerstatisticianmathematician
Jennifer Jacobs
1901
journalist
Ernest L. Parker
1864 - 1934
politician
Ephraim Douglass Adams
1865 - 1930
pedagoguehistorian
Walter L. Voegtlin
1904 - 1975
Harriet Parsons
1906 - 1983
producerfilm producerfilm director
Carroll Newton Smith
1909 - 1992
entomologist
Lulu Johnson
1907 - 1995
research fellowhistorian
Gladys Black
1909 - 1998
ornithologistnurse
Harley A. Wilhelm
1900 - 1995
metallurgistchemist
Elmer Beach
1861 - 1950
American football playerlawyer
Edward Parsons Smith
1860 - 1930
politician
John Gideon Searle
1901 - 1978
businessperson
J. Schuyler Long
1869 - 1933
writer
Shankar Vaidya
1928 - 2014
poetwriter
Jean Sala Breitenstein
1900 - 1986
lawyerjudge
Wayne D. Bennett
1927 - 2015
politician
Jack Saltzgaver
1903 - 1978
baseball player
Jack Schroeder
1925 - 2017
politicianlawyer
David M. Stanley
1928 - 2015
politicianlawyer