Notable Tribal Members and Residents
- Janeen Antoine (Sicangu Lakota), curator, educator, and founder in 1983 of the American Indian Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, grew up on the Rosebud Reservation. Her gallery was one of the first in the nation to feature contemporary American Indian art. It has been an important center in the US for encouraging new work.
- Bob Barker grew up on the reservation, where his mother was a teacher. He became The Price Is Right television show host.
- Benjamin "Ben" Reifel (Rosebud Sioux) (1906-1990), five-term U.S. Congressman, was born near Parmelee. He served in the U.S. Army, worked as a field officer and regional administrator for the BIA, and earned master's and doctoral degrees in public administration from Harvard University. Reifel was elected as US Representative in 1960 and served until his retirement in 1971.
- Yvette Roubideaux (Rosbud Sioux), M.D., M.P.H., is Director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), appointed in 2009 as the first woman to hold the position.
- Chief Sinte Gleska (Brulé Sioux) (1823-1881), a relative of Crazy Horse, was a leading war chief in battles with the Pawnee. He later became a leader of the peace faction and a statesman of the Sioux tribe. In 1868 Spotted Tail signed a treaty with the US ceding Sioux lands along the Republican and the Platte rivers.
- Paul Eagle Star, (1864-1891) (Brulé Sioux). He attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School, enrolling in November 1882 and left the school six years later. He worked in the blacksmith shop at Rosebud Agency in July 1889. Two years later, Eagle Star was recruited and worked under contract to perform in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured in England. He died a few days after breaking his ankle when he fell off a horse in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His interment was at Brompton Cemetery. Eagle Star's casket was exhumed in March 1999 for reburial in Rosebud's Lakota cemetery two months later.
- Chief Iron Shell, who led the Brulé Orphan Band during the Powder River War of 1866-1868.
- Hollow Horn Bear, son of Iron Shell, Sioux leader at the Fetterman Fight. He served as head of Indian police at the Rosebud Agency, and arrested Crow Dog for the murder of Spotted Tail.
- Richard Twiss (1954-2013), founder of Wiconi International ministry.
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