Editing Mason City, Iowa (section)

==Notable people==

*[[Barry Alvarez]], former head football coach and athletic director at [[Wisconsin Badgers football|Wisconsin]]<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/barry-alvarez-wisconsin-most-valuable-coach-us-cellular-mason-city-iowa-high-school-football/1quvxjl69o30p1c2csu09mvpi2| title=Barry Alvarez's greatest accomplishment happened well before his tenure at Wisconsin| publisher=[[The Sporting News]]| date= 9 Sep 2016| access-date= 12 Apr 2024 }}</ref>
*[[Todd Blodgett]], Member of White House staff (Reagan-Bush) 1985–87.Also worked with the FBI.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blodgett |first1=Todd |title=Todd Blodgett's pro-Mohawk comments ruffle Globe-Gazette editor's fur, is fired from nearly-kaput newspaper for second time since 2017 |url=https://northiowatoday.com/2021/12/28/todd-blodgetts-pro-mohawk-comments-ruffle-globe-gazette-editors-fur-is-fired-from-nearly-kaput-newspaper-for-second-time-since-2017/ |access-date=3 January 2023 |agency=NIT |issue=News & Entertainment for Mason City, Clear Lake & the Entire North Iowa Region |publisher=North Iowa Today |date=December 28, 2021 |ref=Todd Blodgett’s pro-Mohawk comments ruffle Globe-Gazette editor’s fur, is fired from nearly-kaput newspaper for second time since 2017}}</ref>
* [[Bil Baird]], [[puppeteer]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BgUcucp3NvUC&q=Bil%20Baird%20%22mason%20city%22&pg=PR3|title=Oddball Iowa: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places|last=Pohlen|first=Jerome|publisher=Chicago Review Press|year=2005|isbn=9781569764671|pages=88}}</ref>
* [[Charles F. Barlow]], pediatric neurologist<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fa.hms.harvard.edu/files/memorialminute_barlow_charles_f.pdf| title= Memorial Minutes: Charles F. Barlow| publisher=[[Harvard Medical School]]| access-date= 12 Apr 2024}}</ref>
* [[Carrie Chapman Catt]], woman's suffrage<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/carriechapmancat00thoe|url-access=registration|quote=mason city.|title=Carrie Chapman Catt: A Voice for Women|last=Thoennes Keller|first=Kristin|publisher=Compass Point Books|year=2006|isbn=9780756509910|pages=[https://archive.org/details/carriechapmancat00thoe/page/21 21]}}</ref>
* [[Don Eddy (baseball)|Don Eddy]], [[MLB]] [[pitcher]], raised in [[Swaledale, Iowa|Swaledale]] but born in Mason City<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eddydo01.shtml|title=Don Eddy Stats|work=Baseball-Reference|accessdate=August 14, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=McAuley|first=Regis|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/18902135/?terms=Don%20Eddy&match=1|title=Don Eddy: A Model Ford for Toros|work=Tucson Daily Citizen|via=Newspapers.com|date=April 4, 1970|accessdate=September 23, 2021}}</ref>
* [[Tanna Frederick]], actress<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://globegazette.com/news/local/garner-iowa-premieres-at-the-avery-theater/article_0cddde89-3ba3-56ed-a6fd-5954d9902463.html|title='Garner, Iowa' premieres at the Avery Theater|last=Bird|first=Laura|date=13 October 2013|work=The Globe Gazette}}</ref>
* [[Walter Burley Griffin]], architect<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/wbgriffin/mason.htm| title=Walter Burley Griffin—Mason City| publisher=[[Thirteen (PBS)]]| access-date=12 Apr 2024}}</ref>
* [[Jodi Huisentruit]], [[anchorwoman]] and [[missing person]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gijG7fSwvjAC&q=Jodi%20Huisentruit%20%22mason%20city%22&pg=PA174|title=The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes|last=Newton|first=Michael|publisher=Facts on File|year=2009|isbn=9781438119144|location=New York, NY|pages=174}}</ref>
* [[Jack Jenney]], jazz musician<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ma1BpsFE1WoC&q=Jack%20Jenney%20%22mason%20city%22&pg=PA355|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz|last=Feather|first=Leonard|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780199729074|pages=355}}</ref>
* [[Tim Lannon]] (born 1951), [[Creighton University]] President<ref>{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Johnson|title=Mason City native Lannon named Creighton president|url=http://www.globegazette.com/news/local/article_87417aaa-bd32-11df-b40d-001cc4c002e0.html|work=[[Globe Gazette|Mason City Globe Gazette]]|date=October 9, 2010|access-date=2010-09-14}}</ref>
* [[Tim Laudner]], [[Major League Baseball]] [[catcher]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/laudnti01.shtml|title=Tim Laudner Stats|publisher=[[Sports Reference LLC]]|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2024-05-09}}</ref>
* [[Sandra Levinson]], executive director and co-founder of the Center for Cuban Studies<ref name="Morain 2007">{{cite news |last1=Morain |first1=Michael |title=Artists color life in Cuba |work=[[Des Moines Register]] |date=28 January 2007|via=ProQuest}}</ref>
* [[Joe Lillard]], [[NFL]] [[running back]]<ref name="all">{{cite news|last=Buehner|first=Kristin|title='He Did It All'|work=[[Globe Gazette]]|date=February 24, 2004|url=http://globegazette.com/news/local/article_fe0f2325-a55b-5567-b76e-7111e97793ff.html|access-date=July 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116135238/http://globegazette.com/news/local/article_fe0f2325-a55b-5567-b76e-7111e97793ff.html|archive-date=January 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Hanford MacNider]] (1889–1968), [[United States Ambassador to Canada|Ambassador to Canada]], [[General (United States)|Brigadier-General]] in the [[United States Army|US Army]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maclafferty-madar.html#RKB1DEU1P|title=The Political Graveyard|publisher=MacNider, Hanford|access-date=2010-12-04}}</ref>
* [[James J. Montague]] (1873–1941), journalist and poet<ref>{{cite web|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/12/17/87697969.pdf|title= James Montague, Versifier, Is Dead|work= [[The New York Times]]|date= 17 Dec 1941|access-date=12 Apr 2024}}</ref>
* [[Sonny Onoo]], [[professional wrestling manager]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://globegazette.com/business/x-t-c-auto-rolls-into-new-westside-location/article_e6b558ff-8810-5084-99fc-3e63d5ccd227.html| title=X.T.C. Auto rolls into new westside location| publisher=[[Globe Gazette]]|date= 10 Feb 2008| access-date=12 Apr 2024}}</ref>
* [[Jack Rule, Jr.]], [[professional golfer]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elliott |first1=Len |first2=Barbara |last2=Kelly |title=Who's Who in Golf |year=1976 |publisher=Arlington House |location=New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-87000-225-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoingolf00elli/page/165 165] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoingolf00elli/page/165 }}</ref>
* [[Scott Sandage]] (born 1964), historian and author<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.born-losers.com/author/author.html|title=Born Losers book website|publisher=Scott Sandage|access-date=2010-12-04}}</ref>
* [[Frank Secory]], [[MLB]] [[left fielder]] and umpire<ref>{{cite book |title=The Sporting News [[Baseball Register]] |year=1964 |pages=378–79 }}</ref>
* [[Ralph Senensky]], television director and writer<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.newspapers.com/article/globe-gazette/92147897/| title=Ralph Senensky Directing Little Theater Production| publisher=Mason City [[Globe Gazette]]| date=5 Jan 1949|access-date=12 Apr 2024}}</ref>
* [[Esther J. Walls]], librarian and international advocate for literacy<ref>{{cite web|url= https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/2020/06/15/esther-walls-the-role-of-a-black-leader/|title=Esther Walls: The Role of a Black Leader|date=June 15, 2020 | publisher=University of Iowa Libraries|access-date=12 Apr 2024}}</ref>
* [[Meredith Willson]], composer and playwright, ''[[The Music Man]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2002|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-937-0|pages=500/1}}</ref>