Famous South Dakotans
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in South Dakota or spent some important time in South Dakota.
Angela Aames, actress
Lyle Alzado, football player
George Amundson, football player
Sparky Anderson, baseball player and coach
Catherine Bach, actress
L. Frank Baum, novelist
Gertrude Bonnin, Sioux writer and activist
Fred Booth, photographer
Tom Brokaw, newscaster
Martha J. Burke (Calamity Jane), cowgirl
Dave Collins, baseball player
Tom Daschel, U.S. senator
Dick Green, baseball player
Carroll Hardy, football player and scout,
also baseball player
Mary Hart, TV host
Garney Henley, football player
Wild Bill Hickock, gunfighter and gambler
Poker Alice Huckert, gambler
Hubert Humphrey, U.S. senator and vice president
Jim Iverson, basketball player
Larry Jacobson, football player
Cheryl Ladd, actress
Ernest Lawrence, scientist who built first cyclotron
Randy Lewis, wrestler
Makhpiya-luta (Red Cloud), Oglala chief
Stanislaus Maudlin, missionary
George McGovern, U.S. senator and presidential candidate
James McLaughlin, Indian agent
Russell Means, Native American leader
Smokey Joe Mendel, sprinter and football player
Billy Mills, long distance runner
Al Neuharth, publisher, founder of USA Today
Bob Oates, sportswriter
Dorothy Provine, actress
Terry Redlin, photographer
Pete Retzlaff, football player
Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president
Clark Swisher, sport coach
Tashunca-uitco (Crazy Horse), Oglala Lakota leader
Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man
Norm Van Brocklin, football player and coach
Mamie Van Doran (Joan Lucille Olander), actress
Adam Vinatieri, football player
Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway computers
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American
activist and actor
