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Famous Iowans | A partial list of people who were born in, and make Iowa proud.

Julie Adams, actress Sue Lyon, actress Fran Allison, TV personality Stuart Margolin, actor Lew Anderson, entertainer Jerry Mathers, actor Samuel Z. Arkoff, producer Glenn Miller, musician Tom Arnold, actor Michelle Monaghan, actress Jack Bailey, TV personality Constance Moore, actress Bix Beiderbecke, musician Kate Mulgrew, actress Mildred Wirt Benson, writer Conrad Nagel, actor Tommy Bolin, musician Harriet Nelson, actress Lara Flynn Boyle, actress Randi Oakes, actress Bill Bryson, writer Vivienne Osborne, actress Ron Burgundy, news anchor* Neva Patterson, actress MacDonald Carey, actor Donna Reed, actress Johnny Carson, TV personality George Reeves, actor Virginia Christine, actress John Ringling, entertainment executive William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, entertainer Brandon Routh, actor Max Allan Collins, writer Lillian Russell, entertainer Stephen Collins, actor Morgan Sackett, producer Bill Daily, actor Ernest Schoedsack, producer Dick Dale, entertainer Jean , actress Don DeFore, actor Hugh Sidey, writer Adam Devine, actor Chris Soules, The Bachelor personality Claire Dodd, actress Andrew Steele, writer/producer Shawn Johnson East, olympic gymnast personality Phil Stong, writer Simon Estes, singer Corey Taylor, musician William Frawley, actor Kent Taylor, actor Fred Grandy, actor Robin Lord Taylor, actor Roy Halston Frowick, designer Sada Thompson, actress Don Hall, animator Abigail Van Buren, columnist Peter Hedges, writer Nedra Volz, actress Harry Hershfield, radio personality Marcia Wallace, actress Alan J. Higgins, producer John Wayne, actor David Anthony Higgins, actor Patrick Whitesell, talent agent Steve Higgins, TV personality John Whitesell, director/producer , actress Sean Whitesell, writer/producer James T. Kirk, starship captain* Christopher Whitesell, writer Ashton Kutcher, actor Andy Williams, entertainer Priscilla Lane, actress Greg Alan Williams, actor Perry Lafferty, network executive Meredith Willson, composer Ann Landers, columnist Elijah Wood, actor Harry Langdon, entertainer Grant Wood, artist Cloris Leachman, actress Margaret Lindsay, actress *fictional character Ron Livingston, actor Sterling Lord, literary agent IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS STATE HISTORICAL BUILDING  600 E. LOCUST ST.  DES MOINES, IA 50319  IOWACULTURE.GOV