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Famous North Carolinians
Braxton Bragg soldier, Warrenton
Robert C. Byrd, politicianNorth Wilkesboro
David Brinkley TV newscaster, Wilmington
Howard Cosell sportscaster, Winston-Salem
Elizabeth Hanford Dole public official, Salisbury
James B. Duke industrialist, Durham
Donna Fargo country music, Mount Airy
Roberta Flack singer, Black Mountain
Ava Gardner actress, Smithfield
Richard Gatling inventor, Hertford County
Billy Graham evangelist, Charlotte
Kathryn Grayson singer, actress, Winston-Salem
Andy Griffith actor, Mount Airy
Jesse Helms politician, Monroe
O. Henry writer, Greensboro
Andrew Johnson U.S. president, Raleigh
Charles Kuralt TV journalist, Wilmington
Dolley Payne Madison first lady, Guliford County
Ronni Milsap country music singer, Robinsville
Thelonious Monk pianist, Rocky Mount
Edward R. Murrow commentator, Greensboro
Floyd Patterson boxer, Waco
Richard Petty auto racer, Level Cross
James K. Polk U.S. president, Mechlenburg
William Sydney Porter author, Greensboro
Soupy Sales comedian, Wake Forest
Earl Scruggs bluegrass musician, Flint Hill
Randy Travis musician, Charlotte
John Scott Trotter orchestra leader, Charlotte
Thomas Clayton Wolfe author, Asheville
Famous North Dakotans
Dr. Robert H. Bahmer U.S. archivist
Elizabeth Bodine humanitarian
Dr. Anne Carlsen educator
Ronald N. Davies jurist
Angie Dickinson actress, Kulm
Ivan Dmitre artist
John Bernard Flannagan sculptor, Fargo
Phyllis Frelich actress, Devils Lake
William H. Gass writer and philosopher, Fargo
Rev. Richard C. Halverson U.S. Senate chaplain
Phil D. Jackson basketball player, coach
Dr. Leon O. Jacobson researcher, educator, Sims
Harold K. Johnson army general
Louis L'Amour author, Jamestown
Peggy Lee singer, Jamestown
William Lemke representative
Marquis de Mores cattleman
Casper Oimoen skier
Arthur Peterson radio and TV actor
Cliff Fido Purpur hockey player, coach
James Rosenquist painter, Grand Forks
Eric Sevareid TV commentator, Velva
Ann Sothern actress, Valley City
Dorothy Stickney actress Dickinson
Edward K. Thompson editor
Era Bell Thompson editor
Tommy Tucker band leader, Souris
Lawrence Welk band leader, entertainer, Strasburg
Larry Woiwode writer
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Famous Ohioans
Neil Alden Armstrong astronaut,
Wapakoneta
George Bellows painter, lithographer, Columbus
Willard H. Bennett inventor, Findlay
Ambrose Bierce journalist, Meigs County
Albert J. Beveridge political leader, Highland
Erma Bombeck columnist, humorist, Dayton
Bill Boyd / Hopalong Cassidy actor, Cambridge
William Jennings Bryan U.S. presidential candidate, Salem
William Meriam Burton inventor, Cleveland
Milton Caniff cartoonist, Hillsboro
Nancy Cartwright voice of Bart Simpson, Kettering
John R. Commons economist, Hollansburg
Hart Crane poet, Garrettsville
George Armstrong Custer army officer, New Rumley
Dorothy Dandridge actress, Cleveland
Doris Day singer, actress, Cincinnati
Clarence Seward Darrow lawyer, Kingsman
Ruby Dee actress, Cleveland
Hugh Downs TV broadcaster, Akron
Thomas Alva Edison inventor, Milan
John Evans physician, educator, Waynesville
Clark Gable actor, Cadiz
James Abram Garfield U.S. president, Cuyahoga County
Cass Gilbert architect, Zanesville
Lillian Gish actress, Springfield
John Herschel Glenn astronaut, senator, Cambridge
Ulysses Simpson Grant U.S. president, Point Pleasant
Zane Grey author, Zanesville
Warren Gamaliel Harding U.S. president, Morrow County
Charles Martin Hall inventor, Thompson
Rutherford Hayes U.S. president, Delaware
Benjamin Harrison U.S. president, North Bend
Robert Henri painter, Cincinnati
William Dean Howells author, critic, Martins Ferry
Charles F. Kettering inventor, Loudonville
Kenisaw Mountain Landis first baseball commissioner,
Millville
Maya Lin artist, sculptor, Athens
Dean Martin singer, actor, Steubenville
William McKinley U.S. president, Niles
Toni Morrison author, Lorain
George W. Norris U.S. Senator, Sandusky
Paul Newman actor, Cleveland
Jack Nicklaus golfer, Columbus
Annie Oakley markswoman, Darke County
Norman Vincent Peale clergyman, Bowersville
Roy J. Plunkett chemist, New Carlisle
Tyrone Power actor, Cincinnati
Judith Resnik astronaut, Akron
Eddie Rickenbacker aviator, Columbus
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. historian, Columbus
Donalee L. Tabern inventor, Bowling Green
William Tecumseh Sherman army general, Lancaster
Steven Spielberg director, screenwriter, Cincinnati
Gloria Steinem feminist, Toledo
William H. Taft U.S. president, Cincinnati
Joyce Kimberly Tatro educator, Toledo
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Tecumseh Shawnee Indian
chief, Oldtown
Ted Turner broadcasting, Cincinnati
Lowell Thomas commentator, author, Woodington
James Thurber author, cartoonist, Columbus
Ernest H. Volwiler inventor, Hamilton
Raymond Elwin Weber webmaster, Toledo
Orville Wright inventor, Dayton
Cy Young baseball player, Gilmore
Famous Oklahomans
Johnny Bench baseball player,
Oklahoma City
John Berryman poet, MacAlester
Garth Brooks singer, Tulsa
Jeremy Castle singer, Blanchard
Iron Eyes Cody Cherokee actor
Gordon Cooper astronaut, Shawnee
Ralph Ellison writer, Oklahoma City
James Garner actor, Norman
Owen K. Garriott astronaut, Enid
Vince Gill singer, Norman
Chester Gould cartoonist, Pawnee
Woodrow Wilson Woody Guthrie singer, composer, Okemah
Ike,Taylor, Zac Hanson music, Tulsa
Roy Harris composer, Lincoln Cty
Paul Harvey broadcaster, Tulsa
Van Heflin actor, Walters
Tony Hillerman author, Sacred Heart
Ron Howard actor, director, Duncan
Karl Guthe Jansky engineer, Norman
Ben Johnson actor, Pawhuska
Jennifer Jones actress, Tulsa
Jeane Kirkpatrick diplomat, Duncan
Shannon Lucid astronaut, Bethany
Mickey Charles Mantle baseball player, Spavinaw
Reba McEntire singer, McAlester
Shannon Miller Olympic gymnast, Edmond
Bill Moyers journalist, Hugo
Daniel Patrick Moynihan N.Y. senator, Tulsa
Patti Page singer, Clarence
Brad Pitt actor Shawnee
Tony Randall actor, Tulsa
Oral Roberts evangelist, Ada
Dale Robertson actor, Oklahoma City
Will Rogers humorist, Oologah
Dan Rowan comedian, Beggs
Robert Stemmons whistler, Tulsa
Maria Tallchief ballerina, Fairfax
James Francis Jim Thorpe athlete, Prague
Jeanne Tripplehorn actress, Tulsa
Ted Shackleford actor, Tulsa
Wilma Mankiller Cherokee chief, Tahlequah
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