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Famous Alabamians
Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron baseball
player, Mobile
Ralph Abernathy civil rights activist, Linden
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead actress, Huntsville
Hugo LaFayette Black jurist, Harlan
Nat “King” Cole entertainer, Montgomery
Marva Collins educator, Monroeville
Bobby Goldsboro entertainer, Dothan
William Crowford Gorgas army officer, physician, Mobile
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald writer, Montgomery
Lionel Hampton jazz musician, Birmingham
William Christopher Handy composer, Florence
Emmy Lou Harris singer, Birmingham
Kate Jackson actress, Birmingham
Percy Lavon Julian inventor, Montgomery
Helen Adams Keller author, educator, Tuscumbia
Coretta Scott King civil rights leader, Marion
Harper Lee writer, Monroeville
Carl Lewis track athlete, Birmingham
Joe Louis boxer, Lexington
Willie Mays baseball player, Westfield
Jim Nabors actor, Sylacauga
Jesse Owens athlete, Danville
Rosa Parks civil rights activist, Tuskegee
Jimmie Rodgers singer, Geiger
David Satcher surgeon general, Anniston
Waldo L. Semon inventor, Demopolis
George Wallace governor, Clio
William Weatherford (Red Eagle) Creek indian leader
Heather Whitestone Miss America, Dothan
Hank Williams recording artist, Georgiana
Famous Alaskans
Aleksandr
Baranov trader, public official, Russia
Margaret Elizabeth Bell author
Benny Benson designed state flag at age 13, Chignik
Vitus Bering explorer, Denmark
Charles E. Bunnell educator
William A. Egan first state governor
Carl Ben Eielson pioneer pilot
Henry E. Gruennig political leader
B. Frank Heintzleman territorial governor
Walter J. Hickel former governor
Sheldon Jackson educator and missionary, Minaville, NY
Joe Juneau prospector
Austin Lathrop industrialist
Sydney Lawrence painter
John Griffith (Jack) London author, San Francisco, CA
Ray Mala actor
John Muir naturalist, explorer, Scotland
Virgil F. Partch cartoonist
Joe Redington, Sr. sled-dog musher and promoter
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Famous Arizonans
Rex Allen singer, actor, Willcox
Apache Kid Indian outlaw, Arizona Territory
Lynda Carter actress, Phoenix
Cesar Estrada Chavez labor leader, Yuma
Cochise Apache indian chief, Arizona Territory
Geronimo Apache indian chief, Arizona Territory
Barry Goldwater politician, Phoenix
Carl Trumbull Hayden politician, Phoenix
Frank Luke, Jr. WWI fighter ace, Phoenix
Charles Mingus jazz musician and composer, Nogales
Linda Ronstadt singer, Tucson
Kerri Strug gymnast, Tucson
Stewart Udall former Secretary of the Interior, Saint Johns
Louie Espinoza Arizona's first world champion boxer,
Chandler
Michael Carbajal world champion boxer, Phoenix
Famous Arkansans
G. M. (Broncho Billy) Anderson actor,
Little Rock
Maya Angelou author and poet, Saint Louis
Helen Gurley Brown editor, Green Forest
Glen Campbell singer, Delight
Johnny Cash singer, Kingsland
Eldridge Cleaver black activist, Walbaseha
Jay Hanna (Dizzy) Dean baseball player, Lucas
Orval Faubus former governor, Combs
John Gould Fletcher writer, Little Rock
John Grisham author, Jonesboro
John H. Johnson publisher, Arkansas City
Scott Joplin musician, composer, Texarkana
Alan Ladd actor, Hot Springs
Douglas MacArthur 5-star general, Little Rock
Dick Powell actor, Mountain View
Edward Durrell Stone architect, Fayettville
Famous Coloradans
Tim Allen actor, Denver
Zachery Ty Bryan actor, Aurora
M. Scott Carpenter astronaut, Boulder
Lon Chaney actor, Colorado Springs
William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey boxer, Manassa
Ralph Edwards entertainer, Merino
Douglas Fairbanks actor, Denver
Eugene Fodor violinist, Turkey Creek
Gene Fowler writer
Lawrence H. Gipson historian, Greeley
Ruth Handler toy maker, Denver
Erick Hawkins choreographer
Homer Lea soldier, writer
Ted Mack TV host, Greeley
Ouray Ute Indian chief, Colorado Territory
Robert J. Seiwald inventor, Fort Morgan
Byron Raymond White jurist, Fort Collins
Paul Whiteman conductor, Denver
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Famous Nutmeggers
Dean Acheson statesman,
Middletown
Ethan Allan American Revolutionary soldier, Litchfield
Benedict Arnold American Revolutionary general, Norwich
P. T. Barnum showman, Bethel
Henry Ward Beecher clergyman, Litchfield
John Brown abolitionist, Torrington
Samuel Colt inventor, Hartford
Oliver Ellsworth jurist, Windsor
Eileen Farrell soprano, Willimantic
Charles Goodyear inventor, New Haven
Nathan Hale American Revolutionary officer, Coventry
Robert N. Hall inventor, New Haven
Katharine Hepburn actress, Hartford
Collis Potter Huntington financier, Harwinton
Charles Ives composer, Danbury
Edwin H. Land inventor
Annie Leibovitz photographer, Waterbury
John Pierpont Morgan financier, Hartford
Frederick Law Olmsted landscape designer, Hartford
Kenneth H. Olsen inventor, Stratford
Rosa Ponselle soprano, Meriden
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. congressman, New Haven
Benjamin Spock pediatrician, New Haven
Harriet Beecher Stowe author, Litchfield
Noah Webster lexicographer, West Hartford
Famous Delawareans
Valerie Bertinelli actress,
Wilmington
Robert Montgomery Bird playwright, author, New Castle
Henry S. Canby editor, author, Seidel
Annie Jump Cannon astronomer, Dover
Felix Darley artist, Claymont
E. I. du Pont industrialist, Wilmington
Henry Heimlich surgeon, inventor, Wilmington
Wilham Julius Johnson basketball player, Wilmington
Howard Pyle artist, author, Wilmington
John Phillips author, Wilmington
George Read jurist, signer of Declaration of Independence,
New Castle
Caesar Rodney patriot, signer of Declaration of Independence,
Dover
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