List of Famous people born in Wyoming, United States of America

John Howard Pyle

First Name John
Last Name Pyle
Born on March 25, 1906
Died on November 29, 1987 (aged 81)

John Howard Pyle was the ninth governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, serving from 1951 to 1955. He was a Republican. As an opponent of polygamy, he authorized a raid on a Mormon compound. He served as an official in the Eisenhower administration.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Sherman Todd

First Name Sherman
Last Name Todd
Born on April 1, 1904
Died on June 10, 1979 (aged 75)

Sherman Todd was an American film editor and producer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Film Editing for the films The Long Voyage Home and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Todd died in June 1979 in Laguna Beach, California, at the age of 75. His body was cremated.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ashlynn Yennie

First Name Ashlynn
Born on May 15, 1985 (age 40)

Ashlynn Yennie is an American actress from Riverton, Wyoming. She is best known for her role in the 2009 Dutch horror film The Human Centipede and its 2011 sequel. In 2016, Yennie played Ashley in the Showtime TV mini-series Submission.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Thurman Arnold

First Name Thurman
Last Name Arnold
Born on June 2, 1891
Died on November 7, 1969 (aged 78)

Thurman Wesley Arnold was an American lawyer best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. He later served as an Associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was the mayor of Laramie, Wyoming, and then a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement, and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). A few years later, he published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Black Elk

First Name Black
Last Name Elk
Born on December 1, 1863
Died on August 19, 1950 (aged 86)

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk, was a wičháša wakȟáŋ, heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people and educator about his culture. He was a second cousin of the war leader Crazy Horse and fought with him in the Battle of Little Bighorn. He survived the Wounded Knee Massacre and traveled in Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He converted to Catholicism, becoming a catechist and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rapid City opened an official cause for his beatification within the Roman Catholic Church in 2016. However, it is said he renounced the religion for his traditional "pipe religion" on his death bed.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.028525114059448s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.023212194442749s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.023173093795776s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.014520883560181s
t_/blocks/person-card: 5x 0.012533187866211s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0056149959564209s
router_page: 1x 0.00478196144104s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0041139125823975s
headline: 2x 0.002424955368042s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00026702880859375s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00024008750915527s
head-facts: 1x 0.00022101402282715s
qids: 2x 0.00020599365234375s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 3.0040740966797E-5s
related: 1x 3.814697265625E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-04-30 02:30:04)  -----