Famous Iowans

BEIDERBECKE, Leon "Bix"

• Jazz Musician

1- PBS: Bix Biography

2- Red Hot Jazz

Jazz before 1930

3- Bix Memorial Society

4- Solid! Musician Bio.

BORLAUG, NORMAN

• Nobel Prize winner

1- Official Nobel Site

2 - Borlaug Intl.

Institute

3- Heritage Foundation

3- Death Notice

BRANSTAD, TERRY

• Governor of Iowa

1- National Governor's Bio.

2- About the Governor

3- 1999 Alumni Award

CARVER, George Washington

• Educator

• Agriculture and Plant Scientist

1- Iowa State

2- Ideafinder

3 - Gale Resources

4 - Central-Carver Museum

5- Greatest Inventors

CARSON, Johnny

• Television Personality

1-Johnny Carson Site

2- Obituary

3- Museum of Broadcast Comm.

CATT, Carrie Chapman

•Suffragist leader

•Efforts led to women's right to vote

1-Girlhood Home

2- Votes for Women

3. Iowa State:

Catt Center

4- Amer. Assn. of University Women

CODY, William F. "Buffalo Bill"

Frontier scout & Wild West showman

1- PBS West

2- WY archives

3 - Buffalo Bill

Historical Center

4 - American West

5- Museum & Grave

CULVER, Chester "Chet"

Former Governor of Iowa

1- Meet Chet: Culver Committee Page

2- Democratic Governor's Bio.

3- Natl. Governor's Assn. Bio.

DEERE, John

• Inventor of steel plow

• Later led to John Deere Co.

1- Deere Co.

2- MIT Site

3- Camp SILOS:

Pioneer Farming

4- Greatest Inventors

DEFOREST, Lee

• Inventor

1- PBS

2- Complete Lee de Forest

3. Hebrew Institute

EISENHOWER, Mamie Doud

First Lady; wife of President & General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1- White House

2- First Ladies Library

3- Eisenhower Presidential Library

4- Birthplace:

Boone, Iowa

ELDRED, Cal

• MLB Player

• b. Center Point, IA

1- St. Louis Cardinals

2- MLB Stats

3-MLB Bio.

4 - ESPN Biography

5 - Hawkeye Sports Bio

6- 2010 Speaker's Bio.

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FELLER, Bob

• Baseball Hall of Fame member • Cleveland Indians (30s, 40s & 50s)

1- Bob Feller Museum

2- Official B. F. Site

3 - ESPN Biography

GABLE, Dan

• Olympic champion wrestler & coach

• All-time leader in NCAA history (titles won)

1- Dan Gable.com

2- Wrestling Museum

3- Hawkeye Sport

HOOVER, Herbert

31st President of the United States

1- White House.gov

2- Presidential Library

3- Miller Center

4- History Empire

JOHNSON, Zach

• Pro Golfer

1- PGA Profile

2- Golf Channel:Photos

3- Elmcrest Country Club

4- InfoPlease Bio.

5- ESPN Bio.

6- Transamerica & Zach sponsor page

JONES, Lolo

• Olympic track & field

1- Olympic Iowans

2- USA Track & Field

3- 2008 Beijing Olympics

KINNICK, Nile

• Iowa Football great

• WW II Casualty

• 1939 Heisman Winner

KIRKWOOD, Samuel

• Governor of Iowa

• Secy. of Interior

1- Iowa History in the U.S. Capitol

2- Kirkwood Statue in U.S. Capitol

3- Congress Biography

4: KCC: Biog.

5: Miller Center

KORVER, Kyle

• NBA Basketball player for Chicago Bulls

1- NBA Profile

2- Chicago Bulls

3- USA Today

4- Kyle Korver Foundation

MILLER, Glenn

• Big Band Leader

• Popular Musician "Swing Era"

1- Glenn Miller

2- Glenn Miller

Orchestra

3- Arlington Cemetery Info

REED, DONNA

• Actress

1- DonnaReed.org

2- Donna Reed Show

TRICE, Jack

• Iowa State's first African American Football Player

1. ISU Alumni

2- ISU Archives

3- Iowa State Daily

article (2007)

4- Black Iowa Exhibit

5- Sesquicentennial Alumni: Trice

VAN ALLEN, James A.

• Space Physicist

1- NASA History

2- American Geophysical Union

3- Univ. of Iowa Alumni

4- What is a Space Scientist?

5- NASA Obituary

WALLACE, Henry A.

•Vice-President under Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Founded Pioneer Hi-Bred

1- Country Home

2- FDR Library

3- U.S. Congress

WARNER, Kurt

• NFL Football Player

1- Retirement

2- NFL Profile

3- MVP Super Bowl XXXIV

4- Premier Speakers

5- Kurt Warner's Foundation Site

WAYNE, John

• Oscar winner - cowboy & combat roles

1- Thinkquest

2- Birthplace: Winterset, Iowa

3- Official Site

4- Infoplease

WHITSON, Peggy

• Astronaut

1- NASA Biography

2- Space.com

Bio. (2007)

3- NASA- Texas Roots

4- NASA Women in Space

5: Astronautix Bio

WOOD, Grant

•Painter

• Leader of Regionalist Art movement

1- Grant Wood Studio

2- Global Gallery Bio.

3- Humanities Web

4- Sullivan Goss Gallery

5- Xroads (VA):Going back to Iowa

6- Art Institute of Chicago: American Gothic