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George Attla, North Pole, dog musher who won 10 Fur Rendezvous World Championships.
Balto and Togo, heroic sled dogs.
Carlos Boozer, Juneau, Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player.
Martin Buser, Big Lake, four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Susan Butcher, Fairbanks, four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Rosey Fletcher, formerly of Girdwood, World Cup and Olympic skateboarder.
Scott Gomez, Anchorage, New Jersey Devils hockey player.
Travis Hall, Kenai, Atlanta Falcons football player.
DeeDee Jonrowe, Willow, frequent high finisher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Nina Kemppel, Anchorage, four-time member of the U.S. Olympic cross-country team and winner of 18 national ski championships.
Jesse Klinkenberg, Chignik, NCAA light-middleweight boxing champion, 1958, while at Washington State University.
Trajan Langdon, Anchorage, pro basketball player in Europe.
Tommy Moe, Girdwood, won 1994 Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing and silver medal for super-G.
Scott Parker, Eagle River, Colorado Avalanche hockey player.
Joe Redington Sr., Knik, founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973. (Died in 1999.)
Libby Riddles, Knik, first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1985.
Brian Swanson, Eagle River, Edmonton Oilers hockey player.
Rick Swenson, Two Rivers, five-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Mark Schlereth, Anchorage, former pro football player.
Vern Tejas, Talkeetna, mountain climbing guide.
Reggie Tongue, Fairbanks, Seattle Seahawks football player.
Mao Tosi, Anchorage, Arizona Cardinals football player.
Norman Vaughan, Anchorage, member of Byrd Antarctic expedition 1928-30, sled-dog handler at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher.

POLITICS

William Egan, Valdez and Anchorage, first governor of the state of Alaska; served 1959-66 and 1970-74.
Mike (Maurice) Gravel, Anchorage, U.S. senator 1969-1981.
Ernest Gruening, Juneau, territorial governor 1939-53, U.S. senator 1959-69. (Died in 1974.)
Walter Hickel, Anchorage, governor 1966-69 and 1990-94 and U.S. secretary of interior 1969-70.
Eben Hopson, Barrow, Inupiat leader, founder of the North Slope Borough and founder of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. (Died in 1980.)
Molly Hootch, Emmonak, lead plaintiff in the Anna Tibeluk vs. Lind lawsuit to improve rural schools in Alaska.
Katie John, Mentasta, plaintiff in subsistence lawsuit.
Tony Knowles, Anchorage, governor 1994-2002.
Frank Murkowski, Fairbanks, U.S. senator 1981-2002 and governor 2002-present.
Lisa Murkowski, Anchorage, daughter of Frank Murkowksi and U.S. senator 2003-present.
Emil Notti, Ruby, first president of the Alaska Federation of Natives.
Howard Rock, Point Hope, founder of Tundra Times newspaper, opponent of nuclear testing in Alaska and catalyst for Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. (Died in 1976.)
Ted (Theodore) Fulton Stevens, Anchorage, U.S. senator 1968-present.
Don Young, Fort Yukon, U.S. representative 1972-present.

ARTS

Irene Bedard, Anchorage, actress.
Byron Birdsall, Anchorage, painter.
Tom Bodett, Homer, novelist and voice of Motel 6 commercials.
Ruben Gaines, Anchorage, state's first poet laureaute. Created Chilkoot Charlie character. (Died in 1994.)
Vivica Genaux, Fairbanks, operatic mezzo singer.
John Haines, Richardson, poet.
Sue Henry, Anchorage, mystery writer.
John Hoover, Cordova, carver.
Jack Hudson, Metlakatla, carver.
Jewel, Homer, singer and poet.
Sydney Laurence, Anchorage, painter.
Barbara Lavallee, Anchorage, painter and writer.
Fred Machetanz, Palmer, painter. (Died in 2002.)
Rie Munoz, Juneau, painter.
Gail Niebrugge, Palmer, painter.
Richard Nelson, Sitka, anthropologist and nature writer.
Pamyua, Anchorage, Nammy-winning quartet of singers.
Dana Stabenow, Anchorage, mystery writer.
John Straley, Sitka, mystery writer.
Ray Troll, Ketchikan, painter.
Jon Van Zyle, Birchwood, painter.
Velma Wallis, Fairbanks, author.

HISTORICAL

Robert Atwood, Anchorage, newspaper publisher and civic booster. (Died in 1997.)
Alexander Baranov, Kodiak and Sitka, Russian administrator. (Died in 1819.)
E.T. Barnette, Fairbanks, trader who founded Fairbanks in 1902-03.
Benny Benson, Chignik, designed the Alaska state flag in 1927 while a seventh-grader. (Died in 1972.)
Alfred Hulse Brooks, Fairbanks, chief Alaska geologist (1903-24) of the U.S. Geological Survey. Discovered that the biggest mountain range in Arctic Alaska was separate from the Rocky Mountains; Brooks Range was later named for him. (Died in 1924.)
Joe Crosson, Fairbanks, early Fairbanks pilot. Found the site of Carl Ben Eielson's crash in Siberia in 1930 and in 1935 flew out the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post from Barrow.
Carl Ben Eielson, Fairbanks, pilot. Pioneered air mail service in Alaska after arriving in state as a teacher in 1922. Received Distinguished Flying Cross for the first plane flight over the top of the world, to Spitzbergen, Norway. Died in crash of rescue flight in Siberia, winter of 1929-30. Fairbanks-area Eielson Air Force Base and the visitors center deep in Denali National Park are named for him.
Joe Juneau, Juneau, prospector and namesake. (Died in 1903.)
Robert Marshall, explorer of the Brooks Range.
Russ Merrill, Anchorage, pilot who pioneering air service in the Anchorage area in the 1920s. Found Merrill Pass through mountains west of Cook Inlet. Anchorage's Merrill Field is named for him. Plane went missing in 1929 on a flight to Fairbanks; never found.
Hans Mirow, Nome, pilot who first scheduled regular flights between Anchorage and Nome (1930s). Mirow Air Service became part of Alaska Airlines.
Felix Pedro, Fairbanks, discovered gold along what is now Pedro Creek northeast of Fairbanks and started the area's gold rush in 1902.
Leonhard Seppala, already Alaska's most famous musher when his dog team, led by Togo, carried diphtheria serum the greatest distance in the Nome emergency of 1925.
Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, Skagway, gold-rush swindler. (Died in 1898.)
James Wickersham, Fairbanks and Juneau, pioneer judge, first white man to try to climb Mount McKinley, seven-term territorial delegate to Congress. (Died in 1939.)
Noel Wien, pioneer aviator who made the first flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks and the first round trip between North America and Asia (1929). Two brothers: Ralph died in crash at Kotzebue; airport there is named for him. Sig pioneered year-round flights to the Arctic coast and ran Wien Air Alaska.
Ivan Veniaminov, Russian priest and bishop who in the mid-1800s worked in Sitka and Unalaska, where he created the first written Aleut language, kept the first Alaska weather records and helped build historic churches.

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