Famous Nebraskans
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in Nebraska or spent some important time in Nebraska.
Grace Abbott, social worker and reformer
Bess Streeter Aldrich, novelist
Hartley Burr Alexander, anthropologist, poet, philosopher, mythologist
Fred Astaire, dancer
George Beadle, Nobel prize-winning scientist
Marlon Brando, actor
William Jennings Bryan, politician, orator, and presidential candidate
Warren Buffett, investor
Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show host
Willa Cather, novelist
Dick Cavett, TV host
Dick Cheney, U.S. vice president
William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody, buffalo hunter, wild west show operator
James Colburn, actor
Edward Creighton, banker and telegraph pioneer
Sandy Dennis, actress
Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, poet, and philosopher of science
Father Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town
Henry Fonda, actor
Gerald Ford, U.S. president
Robert Furnas, Nebraska governor
Nathan Gold, businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist
Coleen Gray, actress
Dwight Palmer Griswold, banker and Nebraska governor
Hall Brothers, founders of Hallmark cards
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, U.S. senator
Phineas Hitchcock, U.S. senator
Larry Jacobson, football player
Moses Kincaid, U.S. senator
Lawrence Klein, Nobel prize-winning economist
Ted Kooser, poet laureate
Charles Lindbergh, aviator
Makhpiya-luta (Red Cloud), Oglala chief
Dorothy McGuire, actress
Val Finch Merriman, Nobel prize-winning physicist
J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day, U.S. secretary of agriculture
John Gneisenau Neihardt, poet
Ben Nelson, Nebraska governor
Nick Nolte, actor
George W. Norris, U.S. senator
James W. Nye, Nevada territorial governor
Margaret O'Brien, actress
Kay Orr, Nebraska governor
Tom Osborne, football coach
John J. Pershing, general
Richard A. "Pete" Petrashek, aka Peter
the Near (Great), magician
Susanne LeFlesche Picotte, first Native American woman doctor
Nathan Roscoe Pound, botanist and ecologist
Andy Roddick, tennis player
Nellie David Tayloe Ross, Wyoming governor and first woman governor in the U.S.
Rueben, a chimpanzee that knows sign language
Mari Sandoz, novelist
Evelyn Genevieve Sharp, aviator
Standing Bear, Ponca chief
Tashunca-uitco (Crazy Horse), Oglala Lakota leader
Robert Taylor, actor
Arthur W. Thompson, auctioneer
Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, aka Bright Eyes, Omaha Indian rights activist
Malcolm X, black leader
Lady Evelyn Brodstone Vestey, member of British royalty
Roger Welsch, folklorist
Daryl Zanuck, movie producer
For a list of 700 famous Nebraskans, go to http://www.nsea.org/700famous.htm.
