• James Bridger (1804 - 1881) Trapper, guide and storyteller.
• Joseph M. Carey (1845 - 1924) Mayor of Cheyenne, first U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Wyoming Governor; born in Milton, Delaware.
• Dick Cheney (1941 - ) White House Chief of Staff to President Ford, U.S. congressman, Secretary of Defense and Vice president of the U.S.; grew up in Casper.
• William “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846 - 1917) Founder of Cody, Wyoming and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Nebraska; born in Iowa.
• Curt Gowdy (1919 - ) Sportscaster, TV play-by-play man for AFL, NFL and major league baseball.
• Leonard S. Hobbs (1896 - 1977) Developed the engine for turbo jet airplanes; born in Carbon County.  
• Patricia MacLachlan (1938 - ) Author of children’s books and Newberry Medal for Sarah, Plain and Tall; born in Cheyenne.
• Esther Hobart Morris (1814 - 1902) Helped women receive the right to vote in Wyoming and the nation’s first female judge; born in New York.
• Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) Artist well known for his abstract paintings; born in Cody.
• Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (1876 - 1977) Governor of Wyoming;  born November near St. Joseph, Missouri.

• Jedediah S. Smith (1799 - 1830) Mountain man and first American to get to California from the East.

• Alan K. Simpson (1931 - ) Wyoming senator from 1979-1997.

• Francis E. Warren (1844 - 1929) First state governor.

• James G. Watt (1938 - ) Former secretary of the Interior; born in Lusk.

More Famous People of Wyoming

• John Colter trader
• June Etta Downey educator
• Thomas Fitzpatrick mountain man and guide
• Tom Horn detective
• Isabel Jewell actress
• Velma Linford writer
• Ted Olson writer
• John “Portugee” Phillips frontiersman
• Jackson Pollock painter, Cody
• Alan Swallow publisher and author
• Chief Washakie chief of the Shoshone