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Famous Utahns
Maude Adams actress, Salt Lake
City
Frank Borzage film director, producer, Salt Lake City
John M. Browning inventor, Ogden
Butch Cassidy outlaw, Circleville
Barney Clark heart patient, Provo
Laraine Day actress, Roosevelt
Bernard De Voto writer, Ogden
Avard Fairbanks sculptor, Provo
Philo Farnsworth television pioneer, Beaver
Jake Garn senator, Richfield
Anthony Geary actor, Coalville
John Gilbert actor, Logan
Howard A. Jarvis social reformer, Magna
David M. Kennedy government official, Randolph
J. Willard Marriott restaurant, hotel chain founder, Marriot
David McKay religious leader, Huntsville
Peter Skene Ogden fur trader, trapper
Merlin Olsen football player, Logan
Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond singers, Ogden
Ivy Baker Priest U.S. treasurer, Kimberley
Lee Greene Richards painter, Salt Lake City
Richard Richards GOP chairman, Ogden
Roseanne Barr actress, Salt Lake City
Reed Smoot first Mormon elected to U.S. Senate, Salt Lake
City
Virginia Sorensen author, Provo
Mack Swain actor, Salt Lake City
Everett Thorpe painter
Robert Walker actor, Salt Lake City
Marie Windsor actress, Marysville
James Woods actor, Vernal
Loretta Young actress, Salt Lake City
Famous Vermonters
Sherman Adams governor, East Dover
Chester Alan Arthur U.S. president, Fairfield
Orson Bean actor, Burlington
Calvin Coolidge U.S. president, Plymouth
Thomas Davenport inventor, Williamstown
John Deere inventor, Rutland
George Dewey admiral, Montpelier
John Dewey philosopher, educator, Burlington
Stephen A. Douglas politician, Brandon
James Fisk financial speculator, Bennington
Wilbur Fisk clergyman, educator,
Ralph E. Flanders senator, Barnet
Horace A. Tabor silver king, Holland
Justin Morrill politician, Strafford
Richard Morris Hunt architect, Brattleboro
William Morris Hunt painter, Bratleboro
Elisha Graves Otis inventor, Halifax
Moses Pendleton choreographer
Patty Sheehan golfer, Middlebury
Joseph Smith religious leader, Sharon
Ernest Thompson actor, writer
Rudy Vallee singer, band leader, Island Pond
Henry Wells pioneer entrepreneur, Thetford
Brigham Young religious leader, Whitingham
Famous Virginians
Richard Arlen actor,
Charlottesville
Arthur Ashe tennis player, Richmond
Pearl Bailey singer, Newport News
Russell Baker columnist, Loudoun Cty
Warren Beatty actor, Richmond
George Bingham painter, Augusta Cty
Richard E. Byrd polar explorer, Winchester
Willa Cather author, Winchester
Roy Clark country music artist, Meaherrin
William Clark explorer, Caroline Cty
Henry Clay statesman, Hanover Cty
Joseph Cotten actor, Petersburg
Ella Fitzgerald jazz singer, Newport News
William H. Harrison U.S. president, Charles City County
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Patrick Henry statesman,
Hanover Cty
Sam Houston political leader, Rockbridge Cty
Thomas Jefferson U.S. president, Shadwell
Robert E. Lee Confederate general, Stratford
Meriwether Lewis explorer, Ambemarle Cty
Shirley MacLaine actress, Richmond
James Madison U.S. president, Port Conway
John Marshall jurist, Germantown
Cyrus Hall McCormick inventor, Rockbridge Cty
James Monroe U.S. president, Westmoreland
Opechancanough Powhatan leader
John Payne actor, Roanoke
Walter Reed army surgeon, Gloucester Cty
Matthew Ridgway Army Chief of Staff, Fort Monroe
Bill Bojangles Robinson dancer, Richmond
George C. Scott actor, Wise
Sam Snead golfer, Hot Springs
James Jeb Stuart Confederate army officer, Patrick Cty
Thomas Sumter General, Hanover Cty
Zachary Taylor U.S. president, Orange Cty
Nat Turner leader of slave uprising, Southhampton Cty
John Tyler U.S. president, Charles City
Booker T. Washington educator, Franklin Cty
George Washington first U.S. president, Westmoreland
James E. West inventor, Prince Edward Cty
Woodrow Wilson U.S. president, Staunton
Tom Wolfe journalist, Richmond
Famous Washingtonians
Douglas Dorland Anderson
archaeoligist, Olympia
Earl Anthony bowler, Kent
Bob Barker TV host, Darrington
Dyan Cannon actress, Tacoma
Chester F. Carlson inventor, Seattle
Carol Channing actress, Seattle
Kurt Cobain grunge rock icon, Aberdeen
Judy Collins singer, Seattle
Bing Crosby singer, actor, Tacoma
Bob Crosby musician, Spokane
Merce Cunningham choreographer, Centralia
Howard Duff actor, Bremerton
Frances Farmer actress, Seattle
Bill Gates software executive, Seattle
Jimi
Hendrix guitarist, Seattle
Robert Joffrey choreographer, Seattle
Gypsy Rose Lee entertainer, Seattle
Kenny Loggins singer, songwriter, Everett
John Walker Kendall scientist, Bellingham
Hank Ketcham cartoonist, Seattle
John Knowles author, Faumont
Mary McCarthy author, Seattle
Guthrie McClinticproducer, director, Seattle
John McIntire actor, Spokane
Phil Mahre skier, Yakima
Robert Motherwell artist, Aberdeen
Patrice Munsel soprano Spokane
Jimmie Rogers singer, Camas
Francis Scobee astronaut, Cle Elum
Seattle Dwamish Suquamish chief
Smohalla Indian prophet and chief
Adam West actor, Walla Walla
Martha Wright singer, Seattle
Audrey Wurdemann poet, Seattle
Famous West Virginians
George Brett baseball player,
Glendale
Pearl S. Buck author, Hillsboro
Phyllis Curtin soprano, Clarksburg
Joanne Dru actress, Logan
Thomas Stonewall Jackson Confederate general, Clarksburg
John S. Knight publisher, Bluefield
Don Knotts actor, Morgantown
Peter Marshall TV host, Huntington
Kathy Mattea country music, South Charleston Alfred
Moore jurist, Molinosville
Mary Lou Retton gymnast, Fairmont
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Walter Reuther labor
leader, Wheeling
Eleanor Steber soprano, Wheeling
Lewis L. Strauss naval officer and scientist, Charleston
Cyrus Vance government official, Clarksburg
Chuck Yeager test pilot and Air Force general, Myra
Steve Yeager baseball player, Huntington
Famous Wisconsinites
Don Ameche actor, Kenosha
Roy Chapman Andrews naturalist and explorer, Beloit
John Bardeen inventor, Madison
Carrie Catt woman suffragist, Ripon
Ellen Corby actress, Racine
William Defoe actort, Appleton
Tyne Daly actress, Madison
August Derleth author, Sauk City
Jeanne Dixon seer, Medford
Chris Farley actor, Madison
Zona Gale author, Portage
Eric Heiden speed skater, Madison
Woody Herman band leader, Milwaukee
Loretta Sell Hildegarde singer, Adell
Harry Houdini magician, Appleton
Thomas Hulce actor, Whitewater
Pee Wee King singer, Abrams
George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee
Robert La Follette politician, Primrose
Liberace pianist, West Allis
Allen Ludden tv host, Mineral Point
Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee
Frederic March actor, Racine
Jackie Mason comedian, Sheboygan
Charles and John Ringling circus entrepreneurs, Baraboo
Pat O'Brien actor, Milwaukee
Georgia O'Keeffe painter, Sun Prairie
Amy Pietz actress, Oak Creek
Charlotte Rae actress, Milwaukee
William H. Rehnquist jurist, Milwaukee
Gena Rowlands actress, Cambria
Tom Snyder newscaster, Milwaukee
Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee
Thorstein Veblen economist, Cato Township
Orson Welles actor and producer, Kenosha
Laura Ingalls Wilder author, Pepin
Thornton Wilder author, Madison
Charles Winninger actor, Athen
Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Richland Center
Bob Uecker baseball player, Milwaukee
Les Paul musician, Waukesha
Famous Wyomingites
James Bridger trapper, guide and
storyteller
John Colter trader
June Etta Downey educator
Thomas Fitzpatrick mountain man and guide
Curt Gowdy sportscaster, Green River
Tom Horn detective
Isabel Jewell actress
Velma Linford writer
Ted Olson writer
John “Portugee” Phillips frontiersman
Jackson Pollock painter, Cody
Alan K. Simpson senator
Alan Swallow publisher and author
Francis E. Warren first state governor
Chief Washakie chief of the Shoshone
James G. Watt former secretary of the Interior
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