MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES

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		MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES


	Famous Hoosiers George Ade humorist, Kentland Leon Ames actor, Portland Anne Baxter actress, Michigan City Larry Bird basketball player, French Lick Bill Blass fashion designer, Fort Wayne Hoagy Carmichael songwriter, Bloomington James Dean actor, Marion Eugene V. Debs Socialist leader, Terre Haute Theodore Dreiser writer, Terre Haute Bernard F. Gimbel merchant, Vincennes Virgil Grissom astronaut, Mitchell Alfred Bertram Guthrie author, Bedford Phil Harris actor, band leader, Linton John Milton Hay statesman, Salem James R. Hoffa labor leader, Brazil Michael Jackson singer, Gary Buck Jones actor, Vincennes David Letterman TV host, comedian, Indianapolis Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals, Indianapolis Carole Lombard actress, Fort Wayne Shelley Long actress, Fort Wayne Marjorie Main actress, Acton James McCracken tenor, Gary John Cougar Mellencamp singer,songwriter, Seymour Joaquin Miller poet, Liberty Andrew J. Moyer inventor, Star City Paul Osborn playwright, Evansville Cole Porter songwriter, Peru Ernest Taylor Pyle journalist, Dana J. Danforth Quayle vice president, Indianapolis James Whitcomb Riley poet, Greenfield Ned Rorem composer, Richmond Red Skelton comedian, Vincennes Rex Stout mystery writer, Noblesville Booth Tarkington author, Indianapolis Twyla Tharp dancer, choreographer, Portland Forrest Tucker actor, Plainfield Harold C. Urey physicist, Walkerton Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. author, Indianapolis Jessamyn West author, North Vernon Wendell Willkie lawyer, Elwood Wilbur Wright inventor, Millville Willis Van Devanter Supreme Court justice, Marion Famous Iowans Bess Streeter Aldrich author, Cedar Falls Bix Beiderbecke jazz musician, Davenport Norman Borlaug plant pathologist, geneticist, Cresco Donald L. Campbell inventor, Clinton Wallace Hume Carothers inventor, Burlington Johnny Carson TV entertainer, Corning William Buffalo Bill Cody scout, Scott Cty Gardner Cowles Jr. publisher, Algona Lee DeForest inventor, Council Bluffs Simon Estes bass-baritone, Centerville William Frawley actor, Burlington George H. Gallup poll taker, Jefferson Susan Glaspell writer, Davenport Herbert Hoover U.S. president, West Branch Ann Landers columnist, Sioux City Cloris Leachman actress, Des Moines William D. Leahy fleet admiral, Hampton John L. Lewis labor leader, Lucas Glenn L. Martin aviator, manufacturer, Macksburg Elsa Maxwell writer, Keokuk Glenn Miller bandleader, Clarinda Harriet Nelson actress, Des Moines Nathan M. Pusey educator, Council Bluffs David Rabe playwright, Dubuque Harry Reasoner TV commentator, Dakota City Donna Reed actress, Denison Lillian Russell soprano, Clinton Wallace Stegner author, critic, Lake Mills Billy Sunday evangelist, Ames James A. Van Allen space physicist, Mount Pleasant		Abigail Van Buren columnist, Sioux City Henry A. Wallace statesman, Adair Cty John Wayne actor, Winterset Andy Williams singer, Wall Lake Meredith Willson composer, Mason City Grant Wood painter, Anamosa Famous Kansans Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle actor, Smith Center Clarence D. Batchelor political cartoonist, Osage City Gwendolyn Brooks poet, Topeka Walter P. Chrysler auto manufacturer, Wamego Clark M. Clifford secretary of defense, Fort Scott John Steuart Curry painter, Dunavant Bob Dole politician, Russell Amelia Earhart aviator, Atchison Milton S. Eisenhower educator, Abilene Carl A. Hatch politician, Kirwin Dennis Hopper actor, Dodge City William Inge playwright, Independence Walter Johnson baseball pitcher, Humboldt Buster Keaton comedian, Piqua Emmett Kelly clown, Sedan Stan Kenton jazz musician, Wichita Harold Lloyd actor, Burchard Edgar Lee Masters poet, Garnett Hattie McDaniel actress, Wichita William C. Menninger psychiatrist, Topeka Gordon Parks film director, Fort Scott Zasu Pitts actress, Parsons Charles Buddy Rogers actor, Olathe Damon Runyon journalist, Manhattan Barry Sanders football player, Wichita Eugene W. Smith photojournalist, Wichita William E. Stafford poet, Hutchinson John Cameron Swayze news commentator, Atchison Vivan Vance actress, Cherryvale William Allen White journalist, Emporia Charles E. Whittaker jurist, Troy Famous Idahoans Joe Albertson grocery chain founder T. H. Bell educator Gutzon Borglum Mt. Rushmore sculptor, Bear Lake Carol R. Brink author Frank F. Church senator Fred Dubois senator Vardis Fisher author, Annis Harmon Killebrew baseball player, Payette Ezra Pound poet, Hailey J. R. Simplot industrialist Robert E. Smylie political leader Henry Spalding missionary, Lapwai Valley Frank Steunenberg governor Picabo Street skier, Triumph Lana Turner actress, Wallace Famous Kentuckians Muhammad Ali boxer, Louisville Alben W. Barkley vice president, Graves Cty Louis D. Brandeis jurist, Louisville John Mason Brown critic, Louisville Kit Carson scout, Madison Cty Champ Clark politician, Anderson Cty Rosemary Clooney singer, Maysville Irvin S. Cobb humorist, Paducah Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy, Fairview Irene Dunne actress, Louisville Crystal Gayle singer, Paintsville David W. Griffith film producer, Oldham Cty Casey Jones locomotive engineer, Cayce Abraham Lincoln U.S. president, Hodgenville Brian Littrell singer, Lexington Loretta Lynn singer, Butchers Hollow Bill Monroe songwriter, Rosine Carry Amelia Nation temperance leader, Garrard Cty	Patricia Neal actress, Packard Kevin Richardson singer, Lexington Wiley B. Rutledge jurist, Cloverport Diane Sawyer broadcast journalist, Glasgow Allen Tate poet and critic, Winchester Hunter Thompson writer, Louisville Frederick M. Vinson jurist, Lousia Robert Penn Warren author, Guthrie Famous Louisianians Louis Armstrong musician, New Orleans Geoffrey Beene fashion designer, Haynesville Truman Capote writer, New Orleans Kitty Carlisle singer, actress, New Orleans Van Cliburn concert pianist, Shreveport Michael De Bakey heart surgeon, Lake Charles Fats Domino musician, New Orleans Louis Moreau Gottschalk pianist, composer, New Orleans Bryant Gumbel TV newscaster, New Orleans Lillian Hellman playwright, New Orleans Al Hirt trumpeter, New Orleans Mahalia Jackson gospel singer, New Orleans Dorothy Lamour actress, New Orleans Jerry Lee Lewis singer, Ferriday Huey P. Long politician, Winnfield Wynton Marsalis musician, New Orleans Jelly Roll Morton jazz musician, composer, New Orleans Huey Newton black activist, New Orleans Paul Prudhomme chef, Opelousas Cokie Roberts journalist, New Orleans Kordell Stewart football player, Marrero Ray Walston actor, New Orleans Edward Douglas White jurist, Lafourche Parish Famous Mainers Walter Van Tilburg Clark writer, East Oreland Cyrus Curtis publisher, Portland Dorothea Dix civil rights reformer, Hampden Dustin Farnum actor, Hampton Beach John Ford film director, Cape Elizabeth Melville Fuller jurist, Augusta Marsden Hartley painter, Lewiston Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet, Portland Sarah Orne Jewett author, South Berwick Stephen King writer, Portland Linda Lavin actress, Portland Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor, Sangerville Edna St. Vincent Millay poet, Rockland Marston Morse mathematician, Waterville Frank Munsey publisher, Mercer Walter Piston composer, Rockland George Palmer Putnam publisher, Brunswick Kenneth Roberts historical author, Kennebunk Edwin Arlington Robinson poet, Head Tide Margaret Chase Smith politician, Skowhegan Percy Lebaron Spencer inventor, Howland Francis & Freelan Stanley inventors, Kingfield John Hay Whitney publisher, Ellsworth

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