Notable Residents
- Brian Anderson, a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the California Angels, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks (with whom he won a World Series in 2001) and Kansas City Royals
- Emy Coligado, an actress best known for her role as Piama on the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle
- Edward S. Ellis, an author best known for writing hundreds of dime novels under his own name and various noms de plume
- Freeman Thorpe, an artist who has 46 works listed in the Smithsonian Institution's Inventory of American Paintings and Sculptures, eight of which (including a painting of Abraham Lincoln) are housed within the United States Capitol
- Platt Rogers Spencer, a calligrapher who invented Spencerian Script, a form of cursive handwriting, and namesake of Spencer Elementary School
- Ransom E. Olds, a pioneer in the automobile industry and namesake of the Oldsmobile and REO brands
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or residents:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)