Notable People
- Don A. Allen, member of the California State Assembly and of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1940s and 1950s, born in Atlantic
- Harlan J. Bushfield (1882–1948), Republican U.S. senator and 16th governor of South Dakota
- Frederick C. Loofbourow (1874–1949), Republican U.S. representative from Utah
- Ethel T. Wead Mick (1881–1957), founder of the Masonic girls' organization now known as Job's Daughters
- Ed Podolak (born 1947), professional football player and color commentator for Iowa Hawkeyes football games on WHO radio
- William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), president of the Organization of American Historians
- Lafayette Young (1848–1926), Republican senator from Iowa, state senator, newspaper reporter, editor and owner.
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