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- David Phelps Abbott (1863–1934), magician and author
- Grace Abbott (1878–1939), social worker and child welfare reformer
- Frank W. Cyr (1900–1995), educator, author, and "Father of the Yellow School Bus"
- K. G. William Dahl (1883–1917), Lutheran minister and founder of the Bethphage Inner Mission in Axtell
- Merle Elwin Hansen (1919–2009) farmer and conservationist
- Carmelita Hinton (1890–1983), progressive educator
- Malcolm X (1925–1965), civil rights leader
- Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), botanist, lawyer, and law professor and theorist
- Teresa Scanlan (born 1993), titleholder for Miss America 2011
- Charles Starkweather (1938–1959), spree killer who murdered 11 victims
- Brandon Teena (1972–1993), a female-to-male transsexual whose murder was the basis of the movie Boys Don't Cry
- Virginia Lamp Thomas (born 1957), consultant for the The Heritage Foundation and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
- Lucas Cruikshank created and plays the character of Fred Figglehorn in internet videos
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