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

CARVER, George Washington

• Educator

• Agriculture and Plant Scientist

1- Iowa State

2- Ideafinder

3 - Gale Resources

4- Greatest Inventors

CARSON, Johnny

• Television Personality

1-Johnny Carson Site

2 - Obituary

3 - Johnny Carson Biography

CATT, Carrie Chapman

•Suffragist leader

•Efforts led to women's right to vote

1-Girlhood Home

2- Votes for Women

3- Amer. Assn. of University Women

CODY, William F. "Buffalo Bill"

Frontier scout & Wild West showman

1- PBS West

2 - Buffalo Bill

Historical Center

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

ATANASOFF, John Vincent

• Co-inventor of the digital computer

1- Vermont.edu

2- Ideafinder

3- Iowa State Univ.

4- J. Atanasoff.com

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

1 - Zachjohnson.com

2 - Zach Johnson - ESPN

KINNICK, Nile

• Iowa Football great

• WW II Casualty

• 1939 Heisman Winner

1- ESPN Biography

2- More info/trivia

3- Hawkeye Sports

4- Heisman Trophy

5- American Hero

6. Hawkeye Insider:

An American Hero

ESTES, Simon

• World-renowned Opera singer

• Bass-Baritone

1- Afrocentric Voices

2 - Simon Estes News Article

3 - Simon Estes Biography

Maytag, Fred L.

Founder of agitator for washing machine

1 - Maytag History

2- Biography from Des Moines Register

3 - Biographical Dictionary of Iowa

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

3 - Donna Reed Biography.com

4 - Donna Reed Obituary

TRICE, Jack

• Iowa State's first African American Football Player

1. ISU Alumni

2- ISU Archives

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- FDR Library

2- U.S. Congress

3 - Henry Wallace Biography

4 - US Senate

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

WILLIAMS, Andy

1 - Biography.com

2 - New York Times Obituary

WHITSON, Peggy

• Astronaut

1- NASA Biography

2- Space.com

Bio. (2007)

3- NASA- Texas Roots

4- NASA Women in Space

5: Astronautix Bio

Meredith Wilson

• Music Man

1 - History of Meredith Wilson

2 - Meredith Wilson Biography

3 - Great Streets.org

4 - All Music.com

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 Gothi