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Famous Oregonians
Cecil D. Andrus secretary of the
interior, Hood River
Garner Ted Armstrong evangelist, Eugene
James Beard food expert, Portland
Raymond Carver writer, poet, Clatskanie
Homer Davenport political cartoonist, Silverton
Douglas Engelbart inventor, Portland
Matt Groening cartoonist, Portland
Mark Hatfield senator, Dallas
Joni Huntley track athlete, McMinnville
David Kennerly photographer, Roseburg
Dave Kingman baseball player, Pendleton
Edwin Markham poet, Oregon City
Phyllis McGinley author, Ontario
Linus Carl Pauling chemist, Portland
Jane Powell actress, singer, Portland
Steve Prefontaine track athlete, Coos Bay
John Reed poet, journalist, Portland
Pat Schroeder politician, Portland
Doc Severinsen band leader, Arlington
Norton Simon business executive, Portland
Sally Stanford politician, Baker City
Sally Struthers actress, Portland
Famous Pennsylvanians
Edward Goodrich Acheson inventor,
Washington
Louisa May Alcott author, Germantown
Maxwell Anderson playwright, Atlantic
Samuel Barber composer, West Chester
John Barrymore actor, Philadelphia
Donald Barthelme author, Philadelphia
Stephen Vincent Benet poet, story writer, Bethlehem
Daniel Boone frontiersman, Reading
James Buchanan U.S. president, Mercersburg
Alexander Calder sculptor, Philadelphia
Rachel Carson biologist, author, Springdale
Mary Cassatt painter, Allegheny
George Catlin indian expert, poet, Wilkes-Barre
Henry Steele Commager historian, Pittsburgh
Bill Cosby actor, Philadelphia
Stuart Davis painter, Philadelphia
Walter E. Diemer inventor, Philadelphia
Jimmy Dorsey band leader, Shenandoah
Tommy Dorsey band leader, Mahanoy Plane
Oliver Evans inventor, Philadelphia
W. C. Fields comedian, Philadelphia
Stephen Foster composer, Pittsburgh
Robert Fulton inventor, Lancaster County
Henry George economist, Philadelphia
Martha Graham choreographer, Pittsburgh
Alexander Haig secretary of state, Bala-Cynwyd
William Edward Hanford inventor, Bristol
Marilyn Horne mezzo-soprano, Bradford
Lee Iacocca auto executive, Allentown
Reggie Jackson baseball player, Wyncote
Robinson Jeffers poet, Pittsburgh
Gene Kelly dancer, actor, Pittsburgh
Jim Kelly football player, East Brady
Gelsey Kirkland ballerina, Bethlehem
Stephanie Louise Kwolek inventor, New Kensington
S. S. Kresge merchant, Bald Mount
Mario Lanza actor, singer, Philadelphia
Tara Lipinski figure skater, Philadelphia
George C. Marshall five-star general, Uniontown
George McClellan general, Philadelphia
Margaret Mead anthropologist, Philadelphia
Andrew Mellon financier, Pittsburgh
Tom Mix actor, Mix Run
Hezekiah Niles journalist, Jeffers Ford
Arnold Palmer golfer, Youngstown
Robert E. Peary explorer, Cresson
Man Ray painter, photographer, Philadelphia
Mary Roberts Rinehart author, Pittsburgh
Betsy Griscom Ross flagmaker, Philadelphia
B. F. Skinner psychologist, Susquehanna
John Sloan painter, Loch Haven
Gertrude Stein author, Allegheny
James Stewart actor, Indiana
George R. Stibitz inventor, York
John Updike author, Shillington
Honus Wagner baseball player, Carnegie
Fred Waring band leader, Tyrone
Ethel Waters singer, actress, Chester
Anthony Wayne military officer, Waynesboro
Andrew Wyeth painter, Chadds Ford
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Famous Rhode Islanders
Harry Anderson actor, Newport
George M. Cohan actor, dramatist, Providence
Eddie Dowling actor, stage producer, Woonscocket
Nelson Eddy baritone, actor, Providence
Peter Farrelly writer, director, Cumberland
Jabez Gorham silversmith, Providence
Robert Gray sea captain, Tiverton
Spalding Gray writer, performance artist, Barrington
Bobby Hackett trumpeter, Providence
David Hartman TV newscaster, Pawtucket
Ruth Hussey actress, Providence
Thomas H. Ince film producer, Newport
Van Johnson actor, Newport
Galway Kinnell poet, Providence
Irving R. Levine news correspondent, Pawtucket
H. P. Lovecraft author, Providence
Ida Lewis lighthouse keeper, Newport
Dana C. Munro educator, historian
Matthew C. Perry naval officer, Newport
Oliver Hazard Perry naval officer, South Kingstown
Gilbert Stuart painter, North Kingstown
Stephen Wilcox inventor, Westerly
Jemima Wilkinson religious leader, Cumberland
Leonard Woodcock labor union official, Providence
Famous South Carolinians
Whispering Bill Anderson songwriter,
Columbia
Bernard Baruch statesman, Camden
Mary McLeod Bethune educator, Mayesville
James Godfather Brown singer, Barnwell
Joseph H. Burckhalter inventor, Columbia
James F. Byrnes senator, jurist, Charleston
John C. Calhoun statesman, Calhoun Mills
Joe Frazier prize fighter, Beaufort
Althea Gibson tennis champion, Silver
Dizzy Gillespie jazz trumpeter, Cheraw
DuBose Heyward poet, playwright, author, Charleston
Charlayne Hunter-Gault journalist, Due West
Andrew Jackson U.S. president, Waxhaw
Jesse Louis Jackson civil rights leader, Greenville
Eartha Kitt singer, North
Francis Swamp Fox Marion general, Berkeley County
Robert Evander McNair governor, Cades
Ronald McNair astronaut, Lake City
John Rutledge jurist, Charleston
Strom Thurmond politician, Edgefield
Charles Hard Townes physicist, Greenville
William Westmoreland army chief of staff, Spartanburg
Vanna White TV personality, North Myrtle Bea
Famous South Dakotans
Sparky Anderson baseball manager,
Bridgewater
Tom Brokaw TV newscaster, Webster
John James Exon senator, Geddes
Myron Floren accordionist, Roslyn
Joe Foss governor, 1st Commissioner of the American Football
League, Sioux Falls
Joseph Hansen author, Aberdeen
Crazy Horse Oglala chief
Oscar Howe Sioux artist, Joe Creek
Hubert H. Humphrey senator and vice president, Wallace
David C. Jones U.S. Air Force general, Aberdeen
Roy Braxton Justus cartoonist, Avon
Cheryl Ladd actress, Huron
Ward L. Lambert basketball, Deadwood
Ernest Orlando Lawrence physicist, Canton
Russell Means American Indian activist, Pine Ridge
George McGovern politician, Avon
Dorothy Provine actress, Deadwood
Rain-in-the-Face Hunkpapa Sioux chief
Red Cloud Oglala Sioux chief
Sitting Bull Hunkpappa Sioux chief
Jess Thomas opera singer, Hot Springs
Norm Van Brocklin football player, Parade
Mamie Van Doren actress, Rowena
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Famous Tennesseans
James Agee writer, poet,
Knoxville
Eddy Arnold singer, Henderson
Chet Atkins guitarist, Lutrell
Hattie Caraway first elected woman senator, Bakerville
Jack Garnet Carter miniature golf, Sweetwater
Davy Crockett frontiersman, Green Cty
Jack Curtis screenwriter, Stony Creek
Sam Davis confederate scout, Smyrna
Mark Dean inventor, Jefferson City
David G. Farragut first American admiral, Knoxville
Lester Flatt bluegrass musician, Overton Cty
Tennessee Ernie Ford singer, Bristol
Morgan Freeman actor, Memphis
Abe Fortas jurist, Memphis
Aretha Franklin singer, Memphis
Nikki Giovanni poet, Knoxville
Albert Gore Jr. U.S. vice president, Washington, D.C.
Red Grooms artist, Nashville
Isaac Hayes composer, Covington
Benjamin L. Hooks civil rights activist, Memphis
Barbara Howar broadcaster, writer, Nashville
Cordell Hull secretary of state, Overton Cty
Estes Kefauver legislator, Madisonville
Sandra Locke actress, Shelbyville
Dolly Parton singer, Sevierville
Minnie Pearl singer, comedienne, Centerville
Grantland Rice sportswriter, Murfreesboro
Carl Rowan journalist, Ravenscraft
Wilma Rudolph runner, St. Bethlehem
Sequoia Cherokee scholar, educator
Cybil Shepherd actress, Memphis
Dinah Shore actress, singer, Winchester
Tina Turner singer, Brownsville
Alvin York World War I hero, Pall Mall
Famous Texans
Red Adair fireman oil well fires,
Houston
Alvin Ailey choreographer, Rogers
Mary Kay Ash cosmetics entrepreneur, Hot Wells
Steven Fuller Austin founding father of Texas,
Austinville,VA
Gene Autry singer, actor, Tioga
Kathy Baker actress, Midland
Clyde Barrow outlaw, Telico
Carol Burnett comedienne, San Antonio
Cyd Charisse actress, dancer, Amarillo
Henry Cisneros politician, San Antonio
Denton A. Cooley heart surgeon, Houston
Joan Crawford actress, San Antonio
Robert Dennard inventor, Terrell
Dwight David Eisenhower U.S. president, general, Denison
A. J. Foyt auto racer, Houston
Larry Hagman actor, Fort Worth
Ben Hogan golfer, Dublin
Buddy Holly musician, Lubbock
Howard Hughes industrialist, film producer, Houston
Jack Johnson boxer, Galveston
Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. president, Stonewall
Michael Johnson olympic sports, Dallas
George Jones singer, Saratoga
Janis Joplin blues singer, Port Arthur
Tommy Lee Jones actor, San Saba
Trini Lopez singer, Dallas
Mary Martin singer, actress, Weatherford
Roger Miller singer, songwriter, Fort Worth
Spanky McFarland actor, Fort Worth
Audie Murphy actor, war hero, Kingston
Willie Nelson singer, Abbot
Chester Nimitz admiral, Fredricksburg
Sandra Day O'Connor jurist, El Paso
Roy Orbisonsinger, Vernon
Buck Owens singer, Sherman
Bonnie Parker outlaw, Rowena
H. Ross Perot philanthropist, Texarkana
Katherine Anne Porter author, Indian Creek
Wiley Post aviator, Grand Saline
Dan Rather TV newscaster, Wharton
Robert Rauschenberg painter, Port Arthur
Tex Ritter singer, Murval
Eugene Wesley Gene Roddenberry screenwriter, El Paso
Tabitha Soren TV journalist, San Antonio
Rip Torn actor, director, Temple
Ernest Tubb country music, Crisp
Tommy Tune dancer, choreographer, Wichita Falls
Kathy Whitworth golfer, Monahans
Dooley Wilson actor, musician, Tyler
Babe Didrikson Zaharias athlete, golfer, Port Arthur
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