Statistics for Famous People With Wyoming Connections

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A former resident of Casper, this man served as Vice-President under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009.	Dick Cheney	83%
A former Pony Express rider, this showman traveled the world with his Wild West Show between 1883 and 1913.	William "Buffalo Bill" Cody	72%
Known for his little black moustache, this silent film actor married Cheyenne native Mildred Harris in 1917.	Charlie Chaplin	52%
This U. S. President, born in 1913, was the grandson of Riverton founder Charles King.	Gerald Ford	48%
Future partner of Harry Longabaugh, this outlaw went to prison in Laramie in 1894 for stealing horses.	Robert Leroy "Butch Cassidy" Parker	48%
This businessman started his nationwide dry goods company in Kemmerer in 1902.	James Cash Penney	41%
This trapper and mountain man, subject of a Robert Redford movie, was reinterred in Cody in 1974.	John "Jeremiah" Johnson	38%
This Irish playwright passed through Cheyenne twice on his 1882 American tour, but declined to detrain either time.	Oscar Wilde	38%
After meeting on the set of The Getaway, this action-film actor married actress Ali McGraw in Cheyenne in 1973.	Steve McQueen	38%
This British Prime Minister, born in 1874, was the nephew of Wyoming rancher Moreton Frewen.	Winston Churchill	38%
Author of The Sun Also Rises, this writer married his third wife in Cheyenne in 1940.	Ernest Hemingway	34%
This world-famous artist, an Abstract Expressionist, was born in Cody in 1912.	Jackson Pollock	34%
At the beginning of his career, this writer passed through Wyoming on the way to the Nevada silver mines in 1861.	Mark Twain	31%
This 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling hails from Afton.	Rulon Gardner	31%
This record-breaking test pilot served as a flight officer at the Casper Air Base in 1943.	Chuck Yeager	28%
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	28%
This sportscaster, born in Green River in 1919, was the longtime host of The American Sportsman.	Curt Gowdy	21%
Accused of cannibalism, this notorious Colorado prospector was arrested at Fetterman City in 1883.	Alferd E. Packer	14%
Considered the Father of Western Fiction, this author penned The Virginian, a 1902 novel set in Wyoming.	Owen Wister	10%
A cousin to Crazy Horse, this Oglala Lakota medicine man was born in 1863 in the Powder River Basin.	Black Elk	3%