Biographical Records
Notable People from Iowa
1,585 notable figures born in Iowa, showing page 8 of 32, ranked by historical prominence.
Fred L. Turner
1933 – 2013
managerbusinessperson
Steve Darrell
1904 – 1970
television actoractor
Louise Carver
1869 – 1956
stage actoractor
Albert Henry Krehbiel
1873 – 1945
painter
David Bergland
1935 – 2019
politician
Thomas C. Power
1839 – 1923
politician
Lesley Woods
1910 – 2003
film actortelevision actorstage actor
Buren R. Sherman
1836 – 1904
juristgovernorpolitician
Harold D. Schuster
1902 – 1986
film editordirectorfilm director
Lois Meredith
1897 – 1967
stage actoractor
Edward Kimball
1859 – 1938
film actorstage actoractor
Paul McCracken
1915 – 2012
university teachereconomist
Robert D. Blue
1898 – 1989
juristgovernorpolitician
Judd Holdren
1915 – 1974
television actoractor
Muriel Frances Dana
1916 – 1997
film actoractor
Daniel F. Steck
1881 – 1950
politicianlawyer
Hobart Muir Smith
1912 – 2013
herpetologistuniversity teacherzoologist
L. J. Dickinson
1873 – 1968
politicianlawyer
Claude Payton
1882 – 1955
actor
Norm Breyfogle
1960 – 2018
visual artistcomics artistillustrator
Fred Clarke
1872 – 1960
baseball player
Bud Day
1925 – 2013
soldieraircraft pilotmilitary officer
Lawrence Donald Soens
1926 – 2021
Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Herschel C. Loveless
1911 – 1989
governorpoliticianmayor
C. A. Robins
1884 – 1970
governorpoliticianphysician
Ilo Wallace
1888 – 1981
politician
Norman A. Erbe
1919 – 2000
prosecutorjuristgovernor
Alan E. Nourse
1928 – 1992
science fiction writernovelistchildren's writer
Mamah Borthwick
1869 – 1914
linguisttranslatorlibrarian
Robert W. Grow
1895 – 1985
military personnel
Althea Sherman
1853 – 1943
scientific illustratorornithologistartist
Frank Troeh
1882 – 1968
sport shooter
Eugenio Sanz-Orozco Mortera
1880 – 1936
Catholic priest
Emmett Lynn
1897 – 1958
television actoractor
Alfred Marshall Bailey
1894 – 1978
ornithologistzoologist
William L. Harding
1877 – 1934
juristgovernorpolitician
Don C. Edwards
1861 – 1938
politician
James B. A. Robertson
1871 – 1938
juristgovernorpolitician
Robert Watts
1923 – 1988
video artistperformance artistsculptor
Dick Clark
1928 – 2023
university teacherpolitician
Charles E. Winter
1870 – 1948
politicianlawyerjudge
Donald Johanos
1928 – 2007
conductor
Patty Waters
1946 – 2024
jazz musicianmusiciansinger
Remington Kellogg
1892 – 1969
cetologistpaleontologistzoologist
T. J. Bass
1932 – 2011
science fiction writernovelistphysician writer
Eugene Stoermer
1934 – 2012
ecologistlimnologistbotanist
Will Walling
1872 – 1932
film actoractor
James H. Hawley
1847 – 1929
prosecutorjuristgovernor
Mahlon DeLong
1938 – 2024
university teacherneurologist
Royal C. Johnson
1882 – 1939
military officerpoliticianlawyer