Supreme Court

  • Justice Hugo L. Black
  • Justice John Blair, Jr.
  • Justice Samuel Blatchford
  • Justice Harold H. Burton
  • Justice James F. Byrnes
  • Justice John Catton
  • Justice Thomas C. Clark
  • Justice John H. Clarke
  • Justice William Cushing
  • Justice William O. Douglas
  • Justice Oliver Ellsworth
  • Justice Stephen J. Field
  • Justice John M. Harlan
  • Justice Robert H. Jackson
  • Justice Joseph E. Lamar
  • Chief Justice John Marshall
  • Justice Thurgood Marshall
  • Justice Stanley Mathews
  • Justice Sherman Minton
  • Justice William H. Moody
  • Justice Willis Van Devanter
  • Justice Samuel Nelson
  • Justice William Paterson
  • Justice Mahlon Pitney
  • Justice Stanley F. Reed
  • Justice Wiley B. Rutledge
  • Justice Potter Stewart
  • Justice Noah H. Swayne
  • Justice Thomas Todd
  • Justice Robert Trimble
  • Justice Frederick M. Vinson
  • Chief Justice Earl Warren
  • Justice Levi Woodbury
  • Justice William B. Woods

Scientists & Inventors

  • Luther Burbank
  • Sir Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
  • Richard M. Hoe (rotory press)
  • Edward Jenner (vaccination)
  • Dr. Charles Mayo
  • Dr. William Mayo (Mayo Clinic)
  • Dr. Karl A. Menninger (psychiatrist)
  • A. A. Michelson (speed of light)
  • Jacques Étienne Montgolfier
  • Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (ballooning)
  • James Watt (steam engine)
  • Steve Wozniak (Apple)

South Dakota Governors

  • Arthur C. Mellette (1889-93)
  • Charles H. Sheldon (1883-97)
  • Andrew E. Lee (1897-1901)
  • Charles N. Herreid (1901-05)
  • Coe Crawford (1907-09)
  • Frank M. Byrne (1913-17)
  • Peter Norbeck (1917-21)
  • William H. McMaster (1921-25)
  • Carl Gunderson (1925-27)
  • Warren Green (1931-33)
  • Thomas Berry (1933-37)
  • Leslie Jensen (1937-39)
  • Harlan Bushfield (1939-43)
  • George T. Mickelson (1949-51)
  • Sigurd Anderson (1951-55)
  • Joseph Foss (1955-59)
  • Archie Gubbrud (1961-65)
  • Frank Farrar (1969-71)
  • George S. Mickelson (1987-93)

Musicians & Composers

Roy Acuff

Eddie Arnold

Ludwig van Beethoven

Nat “King” Cole

Joe Edwards

Duke Ellington

Bobby Hackett

Lionel Hampton

Al Jolson

Jerome Kern

Franz Liszt

Glenn Miller

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Brad Paisley

Giacomo Puccini

Jean Sibelius

John Philip Sousa

Louis Spohr

Richard Tucker

Mel Tillis

Rick Wakeman

Military Leaders

  • Gen. Ethan Allen
  • Gen. “Hap” Arnold
  • Gen. Omar Bradley
  • Gen. James Doolittle
  • Adm. David Farragut
  • Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson
  • Adm. John Paul Jones
  • Gen. Douglas MacArthur
  • Gen. George C. Marshall
  • Gen. George McClellan
  • Audie Murphy
  • Gen. John J. “Blackjack” Pershing
  • Commodore Matthew Perry
  • “Mad Anthony” Wayne

Political Leaders

  • Stephen F. Austin, Texas President
  • Simón Bolívar
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Joseph Brant, Chief of the Mohawks
  • President James Buchanan
  • Winston Churchill, British PM
  • Gov. DeWitt Clinton
  • John Diefenbaker, Canadian PM
  • Senator Robert Dole
  • Senator Sam Ervin, Jr.
  • President Gerald Ford
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • President James Garfield
  • Senator Barry Goldwater
  • President Warren Harding
  • John Hancock
  • Patrick Henry
  • Sam Houston
  • Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey
  • President Andrew Jackson
  • President Andrew Johnson
  • Benito Juárez, Mexican President
  • President William McKinley
  • NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Senator George McGovern
  • President James Monroe
  • President James Polk
  • Att. Gen. Elliot Richardson
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • President Theodore Roosevelt
  • President William Howard Taft
  • Colonel William B. Travis
  • President Harry S Truman
  • President George Washington

 

 

 

Sports Figures

  • Ty Cobb
  • Earle Combs
  • Jack Dempsey
  • Rogers Hornsby
  • Representative Jack Kemp
  • Willie Mays
  • James Naismith
  • Arnold Palmer
  • Branch Rickey
  • Sugar Ray Robinson
  • Honus Wagner
  • Denton True “Cy” Young

Writers

  • Robert Burns
  • Casanova
  • Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • W. E. B. DuBois
  • Edward Gibbon
  • Johann Wolfgang von Göethe
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Felix Salten
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Voltaire
  • Lewis Wallace
  • Oscar Wilde

Actors

Wallace Beery

Ernest Borgnine

Michael Cain

Lon Chaney, Jr.

Richard Dreyfuss

Douglas Fairbanks

W. C. Fields

Glenn Ford

Clark Gable

Oliver Hardy

Buster Keaton

Harold C. Lloyd

Tom Mix

Pat Morita

Fess Parker

Michael “Kramer” Richards

Randolph Scott

Peter Sellers

John Wayne

 

Business Leaders

• Benjamin Abrams (Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.)
• John Jacob Astor
• Walter P. Chrysler
• Andre Citroën
• Samuel Colt (Colt’s Fire-Arms)
• William H. Dow (Dow Chemical)
• Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company)
• King C. Gillette (Gillette Razor)
• William Hesketh Lever (Lever Brothers)
• Sir Thomas Lipton (Lipton Tea)
• Louis B. Mayer (MGM)
• Frederick Maytag (Magtag Appliances)
• J.C. Penney
• George Pullman (Pullman Sleeping Cars)
• Frank C. Rathje (Chicago City Bank & Trust Co.)
• Harlan Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Morris Sachs (Sachs 5th Avenue)
• David Sarnoff (RCA)
• Leland Stanford (Stanford University)
• W. Clement Stone (Aon Corporation)
• Dave Thomas (Wendy’s)
• Jack Warner
• Harry M. Warner
• Samuel Warner (Warner Bros.)
• Thomas J. Watson (IBM)
• Ralph Wilson (Buffalo Bills)
• Darryl Zanuck (20th Century Fox)

Famous Masons

  • Frédréric A. Bartholdi
  • Gutzon Borglum
  • Edwin L. Drake
  • Wyatt Earp
  • Samuel Gompers
  • Harold Lincoln Gray
  • Charles Willson Peale
  • Paul Revere
  • Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Lowell Thomas
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Grant Wood

 

Explorers & Pioneers

  • Roald Amundsen
  • Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.
  • Hiram Bingham III
  • James Bowie
  • Richard Francis Burton
  • Admiral Richard E. Byrd
  • Christopher “Kit” Carson
  • William Clark
  • (Leroy) Gordon Cooper
  • Davy Crockett
  • Senator John Glenn
  • Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom
  • James B. Irwin
  • Meriwether Lewis
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Robert E. Peary
  • Robert Falcon Scott
  • Sir Ernest Shackelton
  • Wally Shirra

 

Entertainers

  • Bud Abbott
  • Gene Autry
  • Mel Blanc
  • William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
  • George M. Cohan
  • Norm Crosby
  • Cecil B deMille
  • Arthur Godfrey
  • Paul Harvey
  • Harry Houdini
  • Burl Ives
  • Emmett Kelly
  • all 7 Ringling Brothers
  • Will Rogers
  • “Red” Skelton
  • Charles “Tom Thumb” Stratton
  • Danny Thomas
  • William Wyler
  • Florenz Ziegfeld (Ziegfeld Follies)