This is a list of notable people who were born in or closely associated with the state of Iowa. Persons not born in Iowa are marked with §.
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A
- Dudley W. Adams §
- John T. Adams
- Julie Adams
- Trev Alberts
- Bess Streeter Aldrich
- William B. Allison §
- Lew Anderson
- Rudolph Martin Anderson
- Cap Anson
- Brynild Anundsen §
- Appanoose - Meskwaki chief
- Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Herbert W. Armstrong
- Tom Arnold
- John Vincent Atanasoff § co-inventor of world's first electronic digital computer
B
- John O. Bailey
- Bil Baird §
- Nathaniel B. Baker §
- Alvin Baldus
- Hal C. Banks
- Jill Banner §
- Antonine Barada (White Horse)
- Roger Barkley
- Steve Barnhart
- Bob Barr
- Douglas Barr
- Steve Bartkowski
- Lansing Hoskins Beach
- Bennett Bean §
- Carl L. Becker
- Bix Beiderbecke
- William W. Belknap §
- Alfred S. Bennett
- Duane Benson
- Shawn Bentler
- Matt Bentley
- Christian Beranek
- Leo Beranek
- Bill Bergan
- S. Torriano Berry §
- Eddie Berlin
- Dan Bern
- Jay Berwanger
- Stanley Biber
- Leo Binz §
- Richard Pike Bissell
- Black Hawk § Sauk chief
- Casey Blake
- Gordon Blake
- Donald G. Bloesch §
- Isabel Bloom §
- Mike Blouin §
- Lisa Bluder
- Mike Boddicker
- Bill Bogaard
- Tommy Bolin
- Norman Borlaug
- Rob Borsellino §
- Ryan Bowen
- Thomas M. Bowen
- Charles Bowers
- Lara Flynn Boyle
- Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
- Neville Brand
- Terry E. Branstad
- Aaron Brant
- Charles Wesley Brashares §
- Titus Bronson §
- Billy Aaron Brown
- Greg Brown
- Mace Brown
- Bill Bryson
- Matt Bullard
- Ambrose Burke
- Jerry Burke
- Joseph A. A. Burnquist
- Martin Burns
- Jim Burt
- Marion LeRoy Burton
- Harlan J. Bushfield
- Mike Butcher
- Frank M. Byrne
C
- Ashley Lyn Cafagna
- Marjorie Cameron
- Macdonald Carey
- Chris Carney
- Wallace Carothers
- Allan Carpenter
- Sabin Carr
- Emma Carroll
- Johnny Carson
- Jordan Carstens
- Louise Carver
- Frank T. Cary §
- Carrie Chapman Catt § founder, League of Women Voters
- Norton P. Chipman §
- Tom Churchill
- Bernard A. Clarey
- Dallas Clark
- Laurel Blair Salton Clark
- Rush Clark §
- Scott Clemmensen
- Buffalo Bill Cody
- Samuel Cody
- Harris Coggeshall
- King Cole
- Chris Collins §
- Stephen Collins
- Nick Collison
- John W. Colloton
- Martin Cone
- Edwin H. Conger §
- Maurice Connolly
- Paul Conrad
- Ed Conroy
- Barclay and Edwin Coppock
- George Cram Cook
- Jack Coombs
- Frank Cordaro
- Sarah Corpstein
- John M. Corse §
- Ernie Courtney
- Paul Coverdell
- Thomas Jefferson Cowie
- Shawn Crahan
- Roger Craig
- Joe Crail
- Coe I. Crawford
- Francis X. Cretzmeyer
- Jim Crotty
- Frank Cuhel
- Mariclare Culver
- Henry J. B. Cummings §
- Billy Cundiff §
- Samuel Curtis §
D
- Diane D'Aquila
- Bill Daily
- Dick Dale
- Muriel Frances Dana
- Jack Daniels
- Geof Darrow
- Dana Davis
- Rebecca Fjelland Davis
- Stuart Davis
- Darren Daye
- Lee De Forest - created first amplifying electron tube
- Jordan De Jong
- Henry Clay Dean
- Don DeFore
- W. Edwards Deming
- Don Denkinger
- Dave Despain
- Lester J. Dickinson
- Justin Diercks
- Charles Hall Dillon §
- David M. Dobson
- Claire Dodd
- Grenville M. Dodge §
- Ralph Edward Dodge
- Ellen Dolan
- Russell S. Doughten
- Nicholas Downs
- Bobby Driscoll
- Randy Duncan
- Lloyd Dunn
- Samuel Grace Dunn
- Kenneth W. Durant
- John Durbin
E
- Morgan Earp
- Warren Earp
- Abastenia St. Leger Eberle
- Zales Ecton
- Paul Eells
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Cal Eldred
- Eugene Burton Ely
- Hope Emerson
- Michael Emerson
- Norman A. Erbe
- Linda Evans
- Frank F. Everest
F
- Terry Farell
- James Fee
- Victor Feguer §
- Chris Fehn
- Margaret Feldner
- Bob Feller
- Romaine Fielding
- Joseph Fitz §
- Margarita Fischer
- Matt Fish
- Bill Fitch
- Bridget Flanery
- Jack Fleck
- Frank Jack Fletcher
- Joe Frisco §
- Rich Folkers
- Ben Foster §
- Jon Foster
- Judith Ellen Foster §
- William Frawley
- John T. Frederick
- Joan Freeman
- Bruce French
G
- Dan Gable
- Jetseta Gage
- Robert Gallery
- George Horace Gallup - inventor of Gallup Poll
- Viola Garfield
- Jim Garrison
- David Garst
- Roswell Garst
- Michael Gartner
- Harry Gaspar
- James Lorraine Geddes §
- John Getz
- Edward H. Gillette §
- Annabeth Gish §
- Fred Glade
- Susan Glaspell
- Stephen Gleason
- Tana Goertz §
- Dan Goldie
- Johnny Gosch
- Frank Gotch
- Al Gould
- Rick Graf
- Fred Grandy
- Chuck Grassley
- Paul Gray §
- Dick Green
- George Greene §
- Edna Griffin §
- James W. Grimes §
- Dan Grimm
- Harold R. Gross
- Janet Guthrie
H
- Mike Haight
- Leslie Hall
- Scott Halpin
- Halston
- Jack Halloran
- Adam Haluska
- Jack Hamilton
- Milo Hamilton
- Ryan Hannam
- Bob Hansen
- Juanita Hansen
- Niels Ebbesen Hansen
- Robert Hansen
- Haldor Johan Hanson
- William L. Harding
- Tom Harkin
- Bob Harlan
- James Harlan §
- Hill Harper
- Frank Hatton §
- Eva Lund Haugen §
- James H. Hawley
- Merle Hay
- Frank Hayes
- Peter Hedges
- Stephen P. Hempstead §
- John Hench
- David B. Henderson §
- Dorothy Hennessey
- Gwen Hennessey
- Ron Hennessey
- John Hennessy §
- Chad Hennings
- William Peters Hepburn §
- Francis J. Herron §
- Phil Hester
- James C. Hickman
- David Anthony Higgins
- David Hilker
- Harriet Hilliard
- David C. Hilmers
- Kirk Hinrich
- Herbert E. Hitchcock
- Terry Hoage
- Bill Hoffer
- Fred Hoiberg §
- Judd Holdren
- Ducky Holmes
- Elmer G. Homrighausen
- Herbert Hoover - 31st President of the United States
- Lou Henry Hoover
- Frank O. Horton
- Ralph Houser
- Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
- Mary Beth Hurt
- Toby Huss
- Dick Hutcherson
- Libbie Hyman
I
J
- Kip Janvrin
- Roger Jepsen
- Donald Johanos
- Dorothy M. Johnson
- Edwin S. Johnson §
- Nicholas Johnson
- Royal C. Johnson
- Shawn Johnson
- Zach Johnson
- Craig Jones
- George W. Jones §
- Gordon Jones
- Kathryn Joosten §
- Joey Jordison
- Duane Josephson
- Patty Judge
- Jerry Junkins
K
- Nate Kaeding
- Danielle Kahle
- MacKinlay Kantor
- Bradley Kasal
- John A. Kasson §
- Hazel Keener
- James M. Kelly
- Percy R. Kelly
- Keokuk
- John H. Kemble
- Charles R. Keyes
- Hugh Kidder
- Kerry Killinger
- Angela Jia Kim §
- Rebecca Ann King
- Steve King
- Nile Kinnick
- Ian Michael Kintzle §
- James T. Kirk
- Samuel J. Kirkwood §
- Philip J. Klass
- Bradford Knapp
- Corina Knoll §
- Jon Koncak
- Ted Kooser - Poet Laureate to Library of Congress, 2004-2005
- Dan Koppen
- Kyle Korver §
- Mitch Krebs
- Gary Kroeger
- Ashton Kutcher
L
- Doug LaFollette
- Raef LaFrentz
- Roswell Lamson
- Ann Landers
- Harry Langdon
- Patty Larkin
- Joe Laws
- Elmer Layden
- Jim Leach
- Cloris Leachman
- Frederick Leadbetter
- William P. Leahy §
- William Daniel Leahy
- Laura Leighton
- Aldo Leopold
- Alexander Levi §
- John Lewis
- Margaret Lindsay
- Ron Livingston
- Al Lohman
- Babe London
- Nia Long §
- Mathias Loras §
- Kevin Love
- Herschel C. Loveless
- Robert Lucas §
- Larry Lujack
- Tiny Lund
- Mike Lynch
- Raymond J. Lynch
- Sue Lyon
M
- Larry Mac Duff
- Archer MacMackin
- Hanford MacNider
- Joe Magrane
- Mahaska
- Maryann Mahaffey
- Dennis Mahony §
- Stuart Margolin
- Bernard Masterson
- Jerry Mathers
- David Maxwell §
- Elsa Maxwell
- Jesse May
- Wiley Mayne
- F. L. Maytag §
- Dan McCarney
- Al McCoy
- Greg McDermott
- William John McGee
- George McGill
- Sean McLaughlin
- William H. McMaster
- Cal McVey
- Stu Mead
- Carl Meinberg
- Michael Joseph Melloy
- Denis Menke
- Sebastian Menke
- William Menster
- Russel Merrill
- Samuel Merrill §
- Loren Meyer
- Hugh Millen
- Glenn Miller
- Samuel Freeman Miller §
- Ted Monachino
- Michelle Monaghan
- Jordan Monroe
- Frank A. Moore §
- Hap Moran
- Karen Morley
- Carol Morris
- Phil Morris
- Michael Mosley
- Dow Mossman
- Kate Mulgrew
- Richard L. Murphy
- Virginia A. Myers §
N
- Nancy Naeve
- Conrad Nagel
- Neapope
- Harriet Nelson
- Carman A. Newcomb §
- Jim Nicholson
- Bruce Nissen
- Ken Nordine §
- Lance Norris
- Bill Northey
- Robert Noyce - co-inventor of integrated circuit
- Michael Nunn
O
- Patrick O'Bryant
- Brian O'Connor §
- Gerald Francis O'Keefe §
- George Olmsted
- Eric Christian Olsen §
- Kay A. Orr
- Kyle Orton
- Charles Osborne
- Beverley Owen
P
- Clyde E. Palmer
- Daniel David Palmer §
- Francis W. Palmer §
- Rose Marie Pangborn §
- Oran H. Pape
- Sara Paretsky
- Charles Fox Parham
- Anthony Parker §
- Clair Cameron Patterson
- Neva Patterson
- Allen E. Paulson
- Claude Payton
- Maria Pearson §
- Sally Pederson
- Paul Peek
- Mary Beth Peil
- Nat Pendleton
- Arthur "Superman" Pennington §
- Tom Pepper
- Edwin Perkins
- Roger Perry
- Pete Peterson §
- Roger Peterson
- Lori Petty §
- John Robinson Pierce
- Chris Pirillo
- Hiram Price §
- Ed Podolak
- George Pomutz §
- Poweshiek
- Tom Purtzer
Q
- Quashquame - Sauk leader
- Howard 'Howdy' Quicksell
R
- David Rabe
- Frances Rafferty
- Randy Rahe
- Josh Rand
- Harry Reasoner
- Donna Reed
- Dani Reeves
- George Reeves
- George C. Remey
- Walter E. Reno
- Kevin Rhomberg
- Alfred C. Richmond
- Bill Riley, Sr.
- Clifford Roberts
- James B. A. Robertson
- Billy Robinson §
- Shawna Robinson
- Otto Frederick Rohwedder
- Raymond Roseliep
- Joseph Rosenfield
- Brandon Routh
- Coleen Rowley
- Alexander Rummler
- Arthur Russell
- Lillian Russell
- George Ryan
S
- Sauganash (Billy Caldwell) §
- George Saling §
- Mark Salter
- Ezekiel S. Sampson §
- Daniel Schaefer
- Peter Schickele
- Ron Schipper §
- Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Robert H. Schuller
- Aloysius Schulte
- Dick Schultz
- Jean Seberg
- Brad Seely
- Edward Robert Sellstrom
- William Shannahan
- Phil Shafer
- Kate Shelley §
- Gene Sherman
- Randy Shilts
- Paul Shorey
- Chuck Shramek
- Loren Shriver
- Lee Paul Sieg
- Brian Smith
- Gerald W. Smith
- Hiram Y. Smith §
- Mary Louise Smith
- Neal Smith
- Riley Smith
- Virginia Smith
- Warren Allen Smith
- Clement Smyth §
- William Smyth §
- Neta Snook §
- Jamie Solinger
- Harvey Sollberger
- Phyllis Somerville
- Hartzell Spence
- Kirk Speraw
- Edwin O. Stanard §
- William G. Steiner
- Mark Steines
- Keith H. Steinkraus §
- George F. Stewart §
- George Stone
- Ramo Stott
- Alvin Straight §
- Chris Street
- Jeff Streeter
- Stephen Stucker
- Bob Stull
- Billy Sunday
- Roderick Dhu Sutherland
- Al Swearengen
- Brett Szabo
T
- Taimah - Meskwaki leader
- Joseph Taggart
- Michael Talbott
- Kevin Tapani
- Corey Taylor
- Morgan Taylor
- Richard R. Taylor
- Sara Taylor
- Kenneth W. Thompson
- Sada Thompson
- William Thompson §
- William George Thompson §
- Mick Thomson
- John Tomkins
- William Tubby
U
V
- James Van Allen - discovered region of charged particles above the Earth named after him
- William Vandever §
- Dennis Van Roekel
- Oswald Veblen
- Carl Van Vechten
- Kristie VerMulm
- Michelle Vieth
- Nedra Volz
W
- John Henry Waddell
- Ted Waitt
- Hynden Walch
- Nellie Walker
- Joseph Frazier Wall
- Henry A. Wallace - U.S. Vice President
- Marcia Wallace
- Will Walling
- Adam Walsh
- Rick Wanamaker
- Brian Wansink
- Everett Warner
- Kurt Warner
- Fitz Henry Warren §
- Kiersten Warren
- Tionne Watkins
- Watseka
- James F. Watson
- John Wayne
- James Weaver §
- Randy Weaver
- Irving Weber
- Susan Werner
- Matthew G. Whitaker
- John White §
- Jim Whitesell
- Peggy Whitson
- Casey Wiegmann
- Doreen Wilber
- J. Remington Wilde
- Tom Wilkinson
- Andy Williams
- Roy Lee Williams
- William Appleman Williams
- William Williamson
- Meredith Willson
- James Falconer Wilson §
- JoAnn Wilson
- Mortimer Wilson
- Sid Wilson
- Wally Wingert
- Charles E. Winter
- Johannes B. Wist §
- William P. Wolf §
- Elijah Wood
- Grant Wood
- Joey Woody
- Hank Worden
- Carleton H. Wright
Y
Z
Groups from Iowa
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