Famous People With Wyoming Connections

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Future partner of Harry Longabaugh, this outlaw went to prison in Laramie in 1894 for stealing horses.
Robert Leroy "Butch Cassidy" Parker
A former Pony Express rider, this showman traveled the world with his Wild West Show between 1883 and 1913.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
This businessman started his nationwide dry goods company in Kemmerer in 1902.
James Cash Penney
This world-famous artist, an Abstract Expressionist, was born in Cody in 1912.
Jackson Pollock
This 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling hails from Afton.
Rulon Gardner
A cousin to Crazy Horse, this Oglala Lakota medicine man was born in 1863 in the Powder River Basin.
Black Elk
This trapper and mountain man, subject of a Robert Redford movie, was reinterred in Cody in 1974.
John "Jeremiah" Johnson
At the beginning of his career, this writer passed through Wyoming on the way to the Nevada silver mines in 1861.
Mark Twain
After meeting on the set of The Getaway, this action-film actor married actress Ali McGraw in Cheyenne in 1973.
Steve McQueen
A former resident of Casper, this man served as Vice-President under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009.
Dick Cheney
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Known for his little black moustache, this silent film actor married Cheyenne native Mildred Harris in 1917.
Charlie Chaplin
This record-breaking test pilot served as a flight officer at the Casper Air Base in 1943.
Chuck Yeager
Accused of cannibalism, this notorious Colorado prospector was arrested at Fetterman City in 1883.
Alferd E. Packer
This British Prime Minister, born in 1874, was the nephew of Wyoming rancher Moreton Frewen.
Winston Churchill
This gunfighter and card player served as a guard on Wyoming's Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage shortly before he was shot to death in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876
William "Wild Bill" Hickock
This Irish playwright passed through Cheyenne twice on his 1882 American tour, but declined to detrain either time.
Oscar Wilde
Author of The Sun Also Rises, this writer married his third wife in Cheyenne in 1940.
Ernest Hemingway
Considered the Father of Western Fiction, this author penned The Virginian, a 1902 novel set in Wyoming.
Owen Wister
This sportscaster, born in Green River in 1919, was the longtime host of The American Sportsman.
Curt Gowdy
This U. S. President, born in 1913, was the grandson of Riverton founder Charles King.
Gerald Ford
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