Notable People
- Farrah Abraham: TV personality
- Stan Bahnsen: baseball player.
- Thomas Beer: author.
- Christian Beranek: writer/producer
- Gladden Bishop: contender for LDS Church president after Joseph Smith's death.
- Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) 19th century suffragist.
- Phineas F. Bresee (1838–1915) founder of the Church of the Nazarene
- Sam Brown: organizer Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, former Colorado State Treasurer.
- Jonathan Browning: gunsmith.
- Martin Burns: championship wrestler, founder of mail-order "Farmer Burns Scientific School of Wrestling".
- Walter Cassel: opera singer
- Don Chandler (1934– ) NFL football player.
- Lee De Forest: inventor. The "Grandfather of Television".
- Pierre-Jean De Smet: famed Jesuit missionary.
- Grenville Dodge: US Congressman, Civil War General, Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific during construction of the transcontinental railroad.
- John Durbin: actor.
- Frank F. Everest: Air Force general and Commander in Europe during the Cold War.
- Art Farmer: jazz musician.
- Addison Farmer: jazz musician.
- William Harrison Folsom: architect.
- Joan Freeman: actress, co-starred with Elvis in Roustabout.
- Henry Gerhardt: Cedar Valley Most Eligible Bachelor (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier 2010)
- Michael Gronstal (1950– ) former Minority Leader, present Majority Leader Iowa Senate.
- Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen (1931– ) awarded the silver medal in diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
- Clem F. Kimball: Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
- Harry Langdon: silent movie star.
- Jon Lieber: baseball player.
- Carlos Martinez: football player.
- John S. McCain, Jr.: Navy Admiral, father of John S. McCain III
- William Pfaff: journalist.
- Arnold Potter: leader of an LDS splinter group and self-proclaimed Messiah.
- Nathan M. Pusey: educator, former president of Harvard University.
- Sauganash or Billy Caldwell: Potawatomi spokesman, son of William Caldwell.
- Charles Roscoe Savage: photographer.
- Lula Greene Richards: poet
- Hans Schlegel: German astronaut.
- Ernest Schoedsack: film director, including the original King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.
- Coleen Seng: former Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska.
- Jerry Smith, professional golfer
- Ron Stander: boxer, the "Bluffs Butcher" who fought Joe Frazier in 1972 for the heavyweight title.
- Marjabelle Young Stewart: etiquette expert.
- Watseka: niece of Potawatomi Chief, married to Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard and Noel Le Vasseur.
- David Yost: actor, the Power Rangers.
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