Notable People
- Tony Baker, Played in the National Football League, earned a Pro Bowl selection in 1969.
- Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998), influential sociologist at the University of Virginia and former president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
- Tom Billups, American rugby player
- Dr. Wallace Carothers, inventor of Nylon
- James Clarke, Governor of Iowa Territory, founder of the Iowa Patriot newspaper now called The Hawk Eye.
- John Murray Corse, American Civil War General
- Thomas Courtney, Iowa Senator
- Augustus C. Dodge, United States Senate from Iowa
- Henry Dodge (1782–1867) United States Senator from Wisconsin and Governor of Wisconsin Territory
- Wayne Duke, Commissioner of the Big Ten and Big Eight Conferences
- William Frawley, actor, best known as Fred Mertz on the "I Love Lucy" show
- James L. Green, scientist, Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA's Science Mission Directorate
- James Wilson Grimes U.S. Senator noted for being the swing vote in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
- Jack Hamilton, Major League Baseball player from 1962 to 1969
- Frank Hatton, United States Postmaster General and newspaperman
- Bart Howard, composer and writer of the jazz standard "Fly Me to the Moon"
- Jimmie E. Howard (1929–1993) Received the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, the USS Howard is named in his honor.
- James M. Kelly, NASA Astronaut, piloted the Space Shuttle's 2005 Return to Flight
- Jack Kent, Illustrator of famous comic strip, King Aroo
- Aldo Leopold, naturalist and writer
- A. Starker Leopold, author, zoologist, and conservationist
- Everett Lindsay, NFL Football Player
- Steve Macko (1954-1981), baseball player with the Chicago Cubs during the 1979 and 1980 Major League Baseball seasons
- Robert J. Marshall, President of the Lutheran Church in America, 1968-1978.
- Richard Paul Matsch, United States federal judge
- John H. Mickey, 17th governor of Nebraska from 1903 to 1907.
- Paul Molitor member Baseballs Major League's Hall of Fame, played for the Burlington Bees
- Robert Noyce, Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip
- Kay A. Orr, Nebraska Governor and the first Republican woman Governor
- Matt Perisho, Major League Baseball player
- Charles Elliott Perkins (1840–1907) Railroad tycoon Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Perkins Park in Burlington was part of his estate.
- Dr. Edward Stone, Former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Elswyth Thane, romance novelist
- Charles Wachsmuth, Paleontologist
- Kurt Warner, twice named the National Football League MVP
- Robert Watts, Artist
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