Notable People from Nebraska

Dwight W. Burney

American politician (1892-1987)

Donald McGinley

American politician (1920-2005)

Charles F. McLaughlin

American politician (1887-1976)

Clifford Dwight Waldo

American political scientist (1913–2000)

Hilyard M. Brown

art director (1910-2002)

Glenn Cunningham

American politician (1912-2003)

Sagan Lewis

American actress

Willis Wagner Wirth

American entomologist (1916–1994)

Charles Hartwell Bonesteel, Jr.

United States Army General

Howard Browne

American writer (1908-1999)

Cyril J. O'Donnell

American professor

Charley Havlat

American soldier of Czech descent (1910-1945)

Betty Clements

American physician (1918-1965)

George Baker Cummins

American mycologist (1904–2007)

Joe Rogers

American politician

Val Peterson

American diplomat (1903-1983)

Chuck Hayward

American actor (1920–1998)

Doris Buffett

American philanthropist

Phillip Hart Weaver

American politician (1919-1989)

Ben Plucknett

American discus thrower (1954–2002)

George F. Sprague

American geneticist and maize researcher

Neil Judd

American archaeologist (1887-1976)

Laurie Smith Camp

United States federal judge (1953-2020)

Ted Mapes

American actor (1901-1984)

Grant Sullivan

actor-turned-Realtor (1924-2011)

Donald O. Clifton

American doctor of educational sciences, professor of educational psychology (Univ. of Nebraska), entrepreneur (1924-2003)

George Balch Wilson

American composer

Junior Raglin

American musician (1917–1955)

Martha Greenhouse

American actress (1921-2013)

Juliet Stuart Poyntz

American suffragist, trade unionist and communist

Lenka Peterson

American actress (1925–2021)

Helen Caldwell

American writer (1904-1987)

Charlie Green

American jazz trombonist (1900–1936)

Dennis Patrick O'Neil

Auxiliary Bishop of San Bernardino

Harry C. Ingles

United States Army major general (1888–1976)

Peter Hoagland

American politician (1941–2007)

Arthur Harris

American polo player (1890-1968)

Hartley Burr Alexander

American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet and iconographer (1873-1939)

George E. Hyde

American anthropologist

Virginia Dwyer

American actress (1919-2012)

Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski

American archaeologist (1910-2007)

Thomas Munro

philosopher of art (1897–1974)

Cliff Clevenger

American politician

William A. Mueller

sound engineer (1901-1992)

Evelle J. Younger

Californian Attorney General

John H. Reese

American writer

Susan Buffett

American activist (1932-2004)

Joe Stecher

American professional wrestler (1893-1974)

L. Taylor Hansen

American writer (1897–1976)

Johnny Hopp

American baseball player (1916-2003)