List of Famous people born in Iowa, United States of America
Mary Beth Peil
Mary Beth Peil is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of an Obie Award and has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and two Tony Awards.
Mike Johanns
Michael Owen Johanns is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 2009 to 2015. He served as the 38th governor of Nebraska from 1999 until 2005, and was chair of the Midwestern Governors Association in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Secretary of Agriculture, where he served from 2005 to 2007, becoming the fourth Nebraskan to hold that position.
Don Pugsley
James M. Kelly
James McNeal "Vegas" Kelly is a NASA Astronaut and a retired Colonel of the United States Air Force. He twice served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions. James Kelly is not related to Scott Kelly or Mark Kelly
Hynden Walch
Heidi Hynden Walch is an American actress, singer and writer. She is best known for voicing Starfire in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! and Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time. She also voiced Penny Sanchez in ChalkZone, Elsie in Stanley, Yutaka Kobayakawa in Lucky Star, and Viridi in the video game Kid Icarus: Uprising. She is the current voice of the Disney character Alice. She also appeared in live-action productions like the films Groundhog Day and Jerry Maguire and TV series like Law & Order.
Todd Farmer
Todd Farmer is an American screenwriter and actor known for his work in the horror genre. He wrote or co-wrote the story or screenplay for Jason X (2001), The Messengers (2007), My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009), and the action film Drive Angry (2011).
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas Edward Ackerman is an American cinematographer.
Brian Bradley
Shawn Economaki
William Edwin Franklin
William Edwin Franklin is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Dubuque in the state of Iowa from 1987 to 1993, and as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Davenport, also in Iowa, from 1993 to 2006.