Famous Wyomingites
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in Wyoming or spent some important time in Wyoming.
John Barrasso, U.S. senator
James Bridger, explorer and trapper
Tom Browning, baseball player
John Campbell, Wyoming governor
Joseph Carey, Wyoming governor and U.S. senator
Dick Cheney, U.S. vice president, congressman, and secretary of defense
John Clymer, painter
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, scout and wild west show operator
John Colter, trader
Harrison Ford, actor
Dave Freudenthal, Wyoming governor
Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux leader
Pierre DeSmet, Catholic missionary
June Etta Downey, educator
Frank Emerson, Wyoming governor
Mike Enzi, U.S. senator
Thomas Fitzpatrick, explorer and mountain man
Matthew Fox, actor
John C. Fremont, explorer
Curt Gowdy, sportscaster
Leonard Hobbs, turbo jet engine developer
Tom Horn, detective
Emerson Hough, author
Calamity Jane, frontierswoman
Isabel Jewell, actress
Velma Linford, author
Patricia MacLachlan, children's books author
Melissa Mathison, screenwriter
Thomas Moran, artist
Esther Hobart Morris, first female judge in the U.S.
Bill Nye, humorist
Ted Olson, author
John “Portugee” Phillips, explorer
Jackson Pollock, painter
Annie Proulx, novelist
Red Cloud, Sioux leader
Nellie David Tayloe Ross, Wyoming governor and first woman governor in the U.S.
William B. Ross, Wyoming governor
David Shenk, author
Alan Simpson, U.S. senator
Milward Simpson, U.S. senator
Jedediah Smith, explorer and mountain man; first American to reach California from the East
William Sublette, pioneer
Mike Sullivan, Wyoming governor
Alan Swallow, author and publisher
Craig Thomas, U.S. senator
Willis Van Devanter, U.S. supreme court justice
Malcolm Wallop, U.S. senator
Francis Warren, Wyoming governor and U.S. senator
Chief Washakie, Shoshone chief
James Watt, U.S. secretary of the interior
Owen Wister, novelist
