Notable People
- Tom Arnold - actor
- Steve Bales - Apollo 11 flight controller
- Stephen Blumberg - notorious rare book thief
- Walter Day - video game statistician
- Edna Ferber - Novelist who lived in Ottumwa as a child.
- Anne Marie Howard - actress
- Donald Keyhoe - Marine Corps major and aviator, UFO researcher and author
- Dan Knight - Jazz pianist, Steinway Artist, Composer. Pulitzer Prize nominee.
- Herschel Loveless (1911–1989) 34th Governor of Iowa 1957-61, Mayor of Ottumwa 1949-53
- Russell Means - American Indian activist. Attended junior college in Ottumwa
- Karen Morley - actress
- Carol Morris (born 1939) Miss Universe in 1956, actress
- Harry Ostdiek - Major League Baseball player
- Beverley Owen - actress
- Jake Weimer (1873–1928) Major League Baseball player 1903-05
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