• Grace Abbott
  Grace Abbott
  Grace Abbott was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare. Her elder sister was social worker Edith Abbott....
  
   -- social reformer and social worker.
• Hartley Burr Alexander
  Hartley Burr Alexander
  Hartley Burr Alexander, Ph.D American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer born Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 9, 1873.-Family and early years:...
  
   -- anthropologist, poet, philosopher, educator, and authority on North American Indian mythology.
• Bess Streeter Aldrich
  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  Bess Streeter Aldrich was an American author.Bess Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State Normal School, she taught school at several locations in the west, later returning to Cedar Falls to earn an advanced degree in education...
  
   -- author of the early 1900s who lived in Elmwood, Nebraska.
• Charles Edwin Bessey
  Charles Edwin Bessey
  Charles Edwin Bessey was an American botanist.-Biography:He was born at Milton, Wayne County, Ohio. He graduated in 1869 at the Michigan Agricultural College. Bessey also studied at Harvard University under Asa Gray, in 1872 and in 1875–76. He was professor of botany at the Iowa Agricultural...
  
   -- botanist and chancellor of the University of Nebraska.
• William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States...
  
   -- American political leader.
• Willa Cather
  Willa Cather
  Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...
  
   -- author who grew up in Nebraska and wrote about it.
• William Frederick Cody
  Buffalo Bill
  William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US...
  
  , famous as "Buffalo Bill" -- soldier, buffalo hunter, Army scout, actor, rancher, and showman of the West.
• Edward Creighton
  Edward Creighton
  Edward Creighton was a prominent pioneer businessman in early Omaha, Nebraska. The brother of John A. Creighton, the Creightons were responsible for founding many institutions that were central to the growth and development of Omaha...
  
   -- telegraph pioneer and banker.
• Loren Eisley -- anthropologist, poet, and philosopher of science.
• Edward J. Flanagan
  Edward J. Flanagan
  Father Edward Joseph Flanagan was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the founder of what is arguably the most famous orphanage—Boys Town...
  
   -- founder of Boys Town.
• Robert W. Furnas -- newspaperman, soldier, historian, and politician.
• Nathan J. Gold -- businessman, civic leader, philanthropist, and Nebraska booster.
• Dwight Palmer Griswold
  Dwight Griswold
  Dwight Palmer Griswold was an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of Nebraska from 1940 to 1946 and U.S. Senator from 1952 to 1954. He was a Republican.-Biography:...
  
   -- banker, publisher, and politician.
• Gilbert M. Hitchcock -- founder of the Omaha World-Herald and politician.
• Medal of Honor recipients
• J. Sterling Morton -- founder of Arbor Day, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, legislator, and Territorial Secretary of Nebraska .
• John Gneisenau Neihardt-- poet of the West, historian, philosopher, and friend of the American Indian. Neihardt was named Nebraska Poet Laureate in 1921.
• George William Norris
  George William Norris
  George William Norris was a U.S. politician from the state of Nebraska and a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress...
  
   -- US Congressman from Nebraska .
• John J. Pershing
  John J. Pershing
  John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB , was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I...
  
   -- Commanding General, American Expeditionary Forces, Europe, during World War I and US Army Chief of Staff.
• Nathan Roscoe Pound
  Roscoe Pound
  Nathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator. He was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936...
  
   -- botanist, pioneer ecologist, lawyer, and legal educator.
• Red Cloud
  Red Cloud
  Red Cloud , was a war leader and the head Chief of the Oglala Lakota . His reign was from 1868 to 1909...
  
   -- Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian chief.
• Mari Sandoz
  Mari Sandoz
  Mari Susette Sandoz was a novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher. She was one of Nebraska's foremost writers, and wrote extensively about pioneer life and the Plains Indians, and has been occasionally referred to as Mari S...
  
   -- author, historian, and friend of the Indian.
• Standing Bear
  Standing Bear
  Standing Bear was a Ponca Native American chief who successfully argued in U.S...
  
   -- Ponca Indian chief, Standing Bear v. Crook (1879) declared Indians as citizens under the US constitution and law
• Arthur Weimar Thompson -- auctioneer.
• Susette LaFlesche Tibbles
  Susette LaFlesche Tibbles
  Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, also called Insta Theamba , was a well-known Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska. Susette LaFlesche was a progressive who was a spokesperson for Native American rights. She was of Ponca, Iowa, French and Anglo-American...
  
  -- Omaha Indian, also known as Inshata Theumba (Bright Eyes), speaker and writer for Indian rights.

External links

• Nebraska Hall of Fame website