Notable Omaha People
- Blackbird, chief
- Big Elk (1770–1846/1853), chief
- Francis M. Cayou, football coach
- Logan Fontenelle (1825–1855), interpreter
- Rodney A. Grant (b. 1959), actor
- Joseph LaFlesche (Iron Eye, ca. 1820—1888), last chief
- Francis La Flesche (1857–1932), first Native American ethnologist
- Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), first female Native American physician
- Susette LaFlesche Tibbles (1854–1903), author and indigenous rights activist
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