Editing Ames, Iowa (section)

=== Artists and photographers ===
* [[John E. Buck]], sculptor
* [[Robert Crumb]], cartoonist and musician, the Crumb family moved to Ames in August 1950, for two years<ref name="ameshistoricalsociety-r_crumb">{{cite web |title=R. Crumb |url=http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/residents_r_crumb.htm |website=Famous Ames residents |publisher=AmesHistoricalSociety.org |access-date=24 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822144049fw_/http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/residents_r_crumb.htm |archive-date=2007-08-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Lloyd (soprano)|Margaret Lloyd]], opera singer
* [[Laurel Nakadate]], American video artist, filmmaker and photographer
* [[Velma Wallace Rayness]] (1896–1977), author, painter and artist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS059.html|title=Gerard and Velma Rayness Papers, 1861–1979, undated|publisher=[[Iowa State University]]|access-date=September 15, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320073843/http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS059.html|archive-date=March 20, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Brian Smith (photographer)|Brian Smith]], Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, born July 16, 1959