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Prominent People with Nebraska Ties
Grover Cleveland Alexander, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher • Fred Astaire, dancer and actor • Max Baer, boxer • Marlon Brando, Academy Award-winning
actor • William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Representative, Democratic Party nominee for president 1896, 1900, and 1908 • Warren Buffett, investor;
Forbes Magazine’s 2008 Richest Man in the World • Richard N. Cabela, entrepreneur, founder of Cabela’s sporting store • Johnny Carson, comedian • Joba Chamberlain,
Major League Baseball pitcher, Detroit Tigers • Dick Cheney, 46th U.S. Vice-president • Adam DeVine, actor • Brian Duensing, Major League Baseball pitcher, Minnesota
Twins • Henry Fonda, Academy Award-winning actor • Bob Gibson, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals • Alex Gordon, Major League
Baseball All-Star and Gold Glove winner, Kansas City Royals • Amy Heidemann, Karmin lead singer • Marg Helgenberger, actress • Peter Kiewit, contractor, investor
and philanthropist • Jaime King, actress • Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner • Larry the Cable Guy, comedian • Malcolm X, civil
rights leader • Nick Nolte, actor, producer • Alexander Payne, director • Edwin Perkins, inventor of Kool-Aid, philanthropist • Andy Roddick, tennis star, 2003 U.S. Open
Champion • Gale Sayers, Football Hall of Fame running back, Chicago Bears • Elliott Smith, singer-songwriter • Hilary Swank, 2-time Academy Award-winning actress
• Jack Sock, 2014 Wimbledon doubles champion • Gabrielle Union, actress • James Valentine, Maroon 5 guitarist • Tony Watson, Major League Baseball All-Star,
Pittsburgh Pirates • Paula Zahn, Former News anchor for CNN
OMAHA city, Omaha, is less than an hour’s drive
Nebraska’s largest
from Lincoln and has a population of nearly 800,000. Omaha is
home to TD Ameritrade Park, the NCAA College World Series
(left) and the world-renowned Henry Doorly Zoo (middle).
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