Editing Lee County, Iowa (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Cleng Peerson]] (1783–1865), pioneer settler in Lee County in 1840<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume09/vol09_3.htm|title=The Sugar Creek Settlement in Iowa|publisher=[[Norwegian-American Historical Association]]|last=Swansen|first=H.F.|pages=Volume IX: Page 38|access-date=May 21, 2011|archive-date=May 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515094449/http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume09/vol09_3.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Richard Proenneke]] (1916–2003), [[naturalist]], subject of books and documentary<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.aloneinthewilderness.com/early_years.html|title= Alone In The Wilderness|publisher=Bob Swerer Productions|access-date=May 21, 2011}}</ref>
*[[William Elliott Whitmore]] (born 1978), singer and songwriter
*[[Mark W. Balmert]], U.S. Navy [[Rear admiral|admiral]]
*[[Brad Bigler]], head men's basketball coach at [[Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs|SMSU]]
*[[Ryan Bowen]], [[NBA]] player
*[[James Duderstadt]], President of the [[University of Michigan]]
*[[Todd Farmer]], writer, actor, and film producer
*[[Bob Fry (golfer)|Bob Fry]], [[professional golfer]]
*[[Kate Harrington (poet)|Kate Harrington]], poet
*[[Thomas M. Hoenig]], [[Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City|chief executive of the Tenth District Federal Reserve Bank, in Kansas City]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kc.frb.org/speechbio/hoenig.cfm|title=Thomas M. Hoenig – Biography|publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City|access-date=May 5, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418011128/http://www.kc.frb.org/speechbio/hoenig.cfm|archive-date=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
*[[Patty Judge]], [[Lieutenant Governor of Iowa|46th lieutenant governor]]
*[[Jerry Junkins]], CEO of [[Texas Instruments, Incorporated]]
*[[Dick Klein (basketball)|Dick Klein]], founder of the [[Chicago Bulls]]
*[[Dennis O'Keefe]], actor, star of films such as ''[[Raw Deal (1948 film)|Raw Deal]]''
*[[James Theodore Richmond]], writer and [[conservation movement|conservationist]]
*[[Aloysius Schulte]], first President of [[St. Ambrose University|St. Ambrose College]]
*[[Walter A. Sheaffer]], founder of the W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company
*[[George Henry Williams]], [[United States Senator]]
* [[Edward P. Alexander]], author, historian, and educator
* [[Herman C. Baehr]], 36th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
* [[William H. Clagett]], politician
* [[Orion Clemens]], first and only secretary of Nevada Territory and brother of Mark Twain
* [[William Lane Craig]], analytic philosopher and Christian apologist
* [[Samuel Ryan Curtis|Samuel Curtis]], military officer
* [[Mary Fels]], philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist
* [[Bud Fowler]], first professional African American baseball player
* [[Nathaniel Lyon Gardner]], botanist, born in Keokuk<ref name=UCB>[http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb3s200523;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00004&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere,%20accessed%2027%20January%202011. "Nathaniel Lyon Gardner, Botany: Berkeley"]. University of California: In Memoriam, 1937.</ref>
* [[Jerry Harrington]], baseball player
* [[James B. Howell]], newspaper editor and U.S. senator, resided in Keokuk<ref>"James B. Howell," ''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 9.'' New York: James T. White and Company, 1899; pg. 450.</ref>
* [[Howard Hughes]], aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director, and philanthropist
* [[Howard R. Hughes, Sr.]], businessman and inventor; father of Howard Hughes
* [[Rupert Hughes]], novelist, screenwriter, film director, historian; uncle of Howard Hughes
* [[Dick Hutcherson]], stock car driver
* [[Ron Hutcherson]], stock car driver
* [[John N. Irwin]], governor of Idaho Territory (1883) and of Arizona Territory (1890–1892)
* [[Edward Kimball]], actor
* [[Lloyd Steel Lourie]], orthodontist
* [[Samuel Taylor Marshall]], lawyer and founder of [[Beta Theta Pi]] fraternity
* [[Elsa Maxwell]], gossip columnist, socialite
* [[Edward Joseph McManus]], U.S. federal judge and lieutenant governor of Iowa (1959–1961)
* [[Grace Medes]],  biochemist
* [[Samuel Freeman Miller]], Supreme Court justice
* [[Conrad Nagel]], actor and a founder of the Academy Awards
* [[Richard Page (musician)|Richard Page]], lead vocalist and bass player for the band Mr. Mister
* [[George Pomutz]], Union Army officer and diplomat
* [[Mike Pyle (American football)|Mike Pyle]], NFL player
* [[Palmer Pyle]], NFL player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/players/palmerpyle/profile?id=PYL332232|title=Palmer Pyle|publisher=[[National Football League|NFL]]|access-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref>
* [[John M. Rankin]], Iowa state legislator and judge
* [[Hugh Thompson Reid|Hugh T. Reid]], Union Army general
*[[Jack Saltzgaver]], Major League Baseball player, New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates
* [[Jeremy Soule]] composer of video game soundtracks<ref name="GBJSoule">{{cite web|url=http://www.giantbomb.com/jeremy-soule/72-17632/|title=Jeremy Soule|publisher=Giant Bomb|access-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Frank Steunenberg]], governor of Idaho (1897–1901)
* [[Ramo Stott]], stock car driver
* [[James Vandenberg]], football quarterback
* [[Don White (racing driver)|Don White]], stock car driver
* [[Verner Moore White]], artist, painted oil of Keokuk presented to President Theodore Roosevelt
* [[Annie Turner Wittenmyer]], social reformer and relief worker