List of Famous people born in Wyoming, United States of America
John Howard Pyle
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.
Sherman Todd
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.
Ashlynn Yennie
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.
Thurman Arnold
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).
Black Elk
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.