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- Stephen Kline, artist, photographer.
- Christopher Lewis, co-founder and president of Kids In Need Deserve.
- Dr. Stephen Gleason, advisor to President Clinton and Governor Vilsack.
- Edna Griffin, civil rights activist.
- Laurence W. Lane Jr., magazine publisher and diplomat.
- The McCaughey septuplets, born in 1997 in Des Moines to parents from nearby Carlisle, and the world's first set of septuplets to all survive infancy.
- George W. Webber (1920–2010), president of New York Theological Seminary.
- Lawrence Russell Dewey, U.S. Army general.
- Peter Brafford, co-founder, former CEO and president of *SurfMet Inc.
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