Grand Island, Nebraska Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Notable people== * [[Edith Abbott]], social worker * [[Grace Abbott]], helped draft the [[Social Security Act]] * [[Rick Allen (sportscaster)|Rick Allen]], NASCAR commentator for [[NBC Sports]] * [[Parnelia Augustine]], painter * [[Bil Baird]], puppeteer * [[Bob O. Evans|Bo Evans]], computer pioneer * [[Joe Feeney]], [[tenor]] on ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]'' * [[Henry Fonda]], [[Academy Award]]-winning film actor<ref name=iron>{{cite book | last =Bain | first =David Haward | title =The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West | publisher =Penguin Books | year =2004 | location =New York City, New York | pages =60β2 | isbn =0-14-303526-6}}</ref> * [[Dick Cavett]] * [[Channing Hill]], jockey * [[George J. Marrett]], member Nebraska Aviation Hall of Fame, [[test pilot]] and author *[[G. P. Mix]], two-time [[Lieutenant Governor of Idaho|lieutenant governor of Idaho]] *[[Gertrude Nafe]], teacher, essayist * [[John Parrella]], former [[NFL]] player * [[John Pedersen (arms designer)|John Pedersen]], arms designer * [[Tom Rathman]], former [[NFL]] player * [[Rebecca Richards-Kortum]], bioengineering professor and [[MacArthur Fellow]]<ref>[http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/former-g-i-resident-rebecca-richards-kortum-named-macarthur-genius/article_7cf0d824-81e5-11e6-b4af-cfb166f522cd.html "Former G.I. resident Rebecca Richards-Kortum named MacArthur βGenius{{'"}}.] [http://www.theindependent.com/ ''Grand Island Independent''.] September 23, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2017.</ref> * [[Jeff Richardson (infielder)|Jeff Richardson]], baseball player * [[Eve Ryder]], artist * [[William Henry Thompson]], former U.S. Senator from Nebraska * [[Edgar A. Wedgwood]], sheriff of [[Hall County, Nebraska]] and [[state adjutant general|adjutant general]] of the [[Utah National Guard]]<ref>{{cite news |date=February 1, 1920 |title=Soldier-Lawyer of Utah is Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52014695/soldier-lawyer/ |work=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |location=Salt Lake City, UT |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Soldier-Lawyer of Utah is Dead"}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |date=1890 |title=Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton Counties, Nebraska |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0dv1tm8c&view=2up&seq=728 |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Goodspeed Publishing Co. |via=[[HathiTrust]] |pages=702β703|ref={{sfnRef|''Biographical and Historical Memoirs''}}}}</ref> * [[Simeon Burt Wolbach]], pathologist Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page