Editing Mount Pleasant, Iowa (section)

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* [[Eric Allender]] (born 1956) Computer Scientist
* [[Warren Wallace Beckwith]] (1874–1955) - athlete, husband of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s granddaughter
* [[Belle Coddington]] (1842-1920), American Civil War nurse, teacher in Mount Pleasant
* [[Susan F. Ferree]] (1844-1919), journalist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights activist 
* [[James Harlan (senator)|James Harlan]] (1820–1899) – politician, president of [[Iowa Wesleyan College]]
* [[Mary Eunice Harlan]] (1846–1937) – daughter of James Harlan; wife of [[Robert Todd Lincoln]]
* [[Dana Holgorsen]] – head coach for the [[University of Houston]] football team
* [[Mike Leach (American football coach)]] (1961-2022) - American football coach, popularized the [[Air raid offense]] under [[Hal Mumme]] as the offensive coordinator at [[Iowa Wesleyan University]]
* [[Leigh S. J. Hunt]] (1855–1933) – Superintendent of Schools in the 1880s
* [[Rachelle Keck]] – president of [[Grand View University]] and [[Briar Cliff University]]
* [[Henry Krieger-Coble]] (born 1992)  – NFL tight end
* [[Jessie Wilson Manning]] (1855-?) - author, lecturer
* [[Arabella Mansfield]] (1846–1911) – first female lawyer in the United States
* [[Harry F. Olson]] (1901-1982) - acoustical engineer at RCA Victor 
* [[Carolyn Pendray]] (1881–1958) - first woman elected to the [[Iowa General Assembly]]
* [[Ricky Phillips]] (born 1952) - [[Rock music|rock]] [[bassist]] with [[Styx (band)|Styx]]; formerly with [[The Babys]] and [[Bad English]]
* [[Ab Saunders]] (1851–1883) - Wild west cowboy and outlaw
* [[Frederick A. Shannon]] (1921–1965) – herpetologist
* [[Newton J. Tharp]] (1867–1909) – architect, painter
* [[Fred Truck]] (born 1946) – painter, sculptor
* [[James Van Allen]] (1914–2006) – considered one of the country's foremost space scientists
* [[Christie Vilsack]] (born 1950) – former first lady of [[Iowa]]
* [[Tom Vilsack]] (born 1950) – former Mount Pleasant mayor, former [[governor]] of [[Iowa]], and US Secretary of Agriculture
* [[Chris Voss]] – FBI hostage negotiator, author of [[Never Split the Difference]]
* [[Peggy Whitson]] (born 1960) - retired [[NASA]] Chief Astronaut, holds the record for most cumulative days in space by an American, graduated from [[Iowa Wesleyan University]] in 1981