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This list and our pages about each Nebraskan are constantly being updated.
If you have a name or information to add, please
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Famous Nebraskans
listed by the town of their birth.
* = "Honorary Nebraskans" - These people were
born elsewhere but lived in Nebraska or currently live in Nebraska.
Bess Streeter Aldrich * -
author, Elmwood
Dana Altman *
- director, Omaha
Fred Astaire - actor, dancer, Omaha
William Baird - puppeteer
Leslie Brooks - actress
Ward Bond - actor, Benkelman
Marlon Brando - actor, two-time Oscar winner,
Omaha
John Carroll * - Survivor TV contestant,
Omaha
Crystal Carson - actress
Johnny Carson
* - TV variety show host,
Norfolk
Willa Cather - author on pioneer life
Dick Cavett - TV host,
Gibbon, Lincoln
Montgomery Clift - actor,
Omaha
James Coburn - actor,
Laurel
Kenneth Darby - composer, music director
Chip Davis
* - composer, Omaha (born in
Ohio)
Sandy Dennis - actress,
Hastings, Lincoln
David Doyle -
actor, Lincoln
Mary Doyle - actress,
Lincoln
Christopher Duncan - actor
Leslie Easterbrook - actress
George F. Erwin - musician, composer, bandleader
Ruth Etting - actress, singer, David City
Mignon Good Eberhart - mystery writer
Harold Edgerton - Nebraska pioneer in the field of high-speed flash
photography and Oscar winner for MGM short, “Quicker n’ a Wink”
John P. Falter - artist, cover illustrator for Saturday Evening
Post
Joe Feeney - singer
Henry Fonda - actor, Oscar winner,
Grand Island, Omaha
William Fries * - songwriter, singer, ad executive, aka "C.W. McCall",
Omaha
Hoot Gibson - Tekamah
Chuck Glaser - musician, songwriter (The Glaser Brothers)
Jim Glaser - musician, songwriter (The Glaser Brothers)
Tompall Glaser - musician, songwriter (The Glaser Brothers)
Rodney Grant * - actor
Howard H. Hanson - composer, conductor
Leland Hayward
Neil Hefti - composer
Marg Helgenberger
- actress, Emmy winner
Mike Hill - editor, Oscar winner, Omaha
Lew Hunter - screenwriter, Superior -
official site
David Janssen - actor,
Naponee
John Dennis Johnston - actor
Leland Hayward - writer, Nebraska City
Richard Kelton - actor
Don Kirschner - music producer
Terry Kiser - actor, Omaha/Council Bluffs, Iowa
Chris Klein * - actor,
Omaha
Harley Jane Kozak * - actress
Swoosie Kurtz - actress, Tony winner,
Omaha
Warren Littlefield - network executive,
Lincoln
Harold Lloyd - silent screen comedian, Burchard -
visit our store for Harold Lloyd movie posters and photos
Preston Love, Sr. - jazz musician
Jo Ann Marlowe - child actress, "Mildred Pierce"
Holt McCallany * - actor, raised in Nebraska (son of actress
Julie Wilson)
Randy Meisner - musician (The Eagles)
Dorothy McGuire - actress
Gordon MacRae * - actor
Buddy Miles - musician
Wright Morris - writer
Richard A Moores - Cartoonist, producer, writer
John G. Neihardt - poet, historian
Nick Nolte - actor,
Omaha
Lucille Norman - actress, singer
Diane Ogden
* - Survivor TV contestant,
Lincoln
Harry R. Owens - Composer,
author, conductor
Alexander Payne - writer/director, Omaha
Lori Petty
- actress
Louise Pound - writer, literary scholar, champion athlete
Anne Ramsey - actress
Ann Ronell
- composer, lyricist
Thurl Revenscroft
-
voice of Tony the Tiger
Paul Revere * -
musician, Harvard
Mari Sandoz
- novelist, historian, Indian friend
Joan Micklin Silver - director, writer, producer
Paul Girard Smith - writer, actor, director
Julie Sommars - actress,
Fremont
Charles (Skip) Stephenson - comedian, TV show host,
Omaha
Don Stewart
- actor, Omaha
Orville Wayne Stoeber - actor, composer,
Fremont
Hilary Swank - actor, Lincoln
Matthew Sweet - singer, songwriter,
Lincoln
Inga Swenson - actress, singer
Robert Taylor - actor,
Filley
Janine Turner - actress,
Lincoln
Lucky Vanous -
actor, Lincoln
Sandy Veneziano
- production designer
Roger Welsch - poet/CBS television moderator
Paul Williams - songwriter, author,
Bennington
Roger Williams - pianist,
Omaha
Julie Wilson - actress
Irene Worth - actress,
Fairbury
Paula Zahn - TV newscaster,
Omaha
Darryl Zanuck - motion picture producer, studio head,
Wahoo
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