Grace Abbott, social
worker, Grand Island
Grover Cleveland Alexander,
baseball pitcher, Saint Paul
Fred Astaire, dancer/actor, Omaha
Max Baer, Boxer, Omaha
Bil Baird, puppeteer, Grand
Island
George Beadle, geneticist, Wahoo
Marlon Brando, actor, Omaha
Warren Buffett, investor, Omaha
Dick Cavett, television
entertainer, Gibbson
Montgomery Clift, actor, Omaha
James Coburn, actor, Laurel
Sandy Dennis, actress, Hastings
Mignon Eberhart, author, Lincoln
Harold Edgerton, inventor, Fremont
Ruth Etting, singer/actress, David
City
Henry Fonda, actor, Grand
Island
Gerald Rudolph Ford, U.S. President, Omaha
Jay W. Forrester, inventor, Climax
Bob Gibson, baseball player, Omaha
Hoot Gibson, actor, Tecumseh
Howard Hanson, composer/conductor, Wahoo
Leland Hayward, producer, Nebraska
City
David Janssen, actor, Naponee
Susette La Flesche, artist, Omaha
Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, Omaha
Frank W. Leahy, football coach, O'Neill
Malcolm X, civil rights advocate, Omaha
Irish McCalla, actress, Pawnee
City
Dorothy McGuire, actress, Omaha
Nick Nolte, actor, Omaha
Roscoe Pound, educator and legal
scholar, Lincoln
Red Cloud, Indian rights advocate
Mari Sandoz, author, Sheridan City
Standing Bear, Indian rights
advocate
Inga Swenson, actress, Omaha
Robert Taylor, actor, Filley
Paul Williams, singer, composer,
actor, Omaha
Don Wilson, announcer, Lincoln
Julie Wilson, singer/actress, Omaha
Darryl F. Zanuck, film producer, Wahoo