page_title: List of people from Iowa
section_title: C
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Iowa / C
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Johnny Carson from the television program The Tonight Show.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who were born in or closely associated with the American state of Iowa. People not born in Iowa are marked with §.
context_section_description: Samuel Calvin, geologist
  Branden Campbell, bassist for Neon Trees
  Donald L. Campbell, chemist
  Marjorie Cameron, actress and occultist
  Macdonald Carey, actor
  Chris Carney, politician
  Wallace Carothers, chemist
  Allan Carpenter, author
  Sabin Carr, athlete
  Tommy Carroll, criminal
  Johnny Carson, television personality
  Jordan Carstens, athlete
  Louise Carver, actress
  Thomas Nixon Carver, economics professor
  Frank T. Cary, businessman
  Landon Cassill, auto racer
  Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragette
  Thomas Cech, chemist and Nobel Laureate
  Matt Chatham, football player
  The Cherry Sisters, vaudevillians
  Norton P. Chipman, politician, judge
  Tom Churchill, broadcaster
  Bernard A. Clarey, admiral
  Dallas Clark, § football player
  Laurel Blair Salton Clark, astronaut
  Rush Clark, politician
  Fred Clarke, baseball Hall of Famer
  Frederick G. Clausen, architect
  Jeff Clement, athlete
  Ron Clements, director and producer
  Scott Clemmensen, athlete
  Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild West showman
  Samuel Cody, aviator
  Harris Coggeshall, athlete
  Danielle Colby
  King Cole, athlete
  Chris Collins, hockey player
  Max Allan Collins, mystery writer
  Stephen Collins, actor
  Nick Collison, basketball player
  John W. Colloton, healthcare executive
  Steven Colloton, federal judge
  Martin Cone, college president
  Edwin H. Conger, diplomat
  Maurice Connolly, politician
  Paul Conrad, political cartoonist
  Ed Conroy, athlete
  George Cram Cook, author
  Jack Coombs, athlete
  Eric Cooper, baseball umpire
  Barclay and Edwin Coppock, followers of John Brown
  Frank Cordaro, activist
  Sarah Corpstein, beauty queen
  John M. Corse, Army general
  Ernie Courtney, athlete
  Paul Coverdell, politician
  Thomas Jefferson Cowie, admiral
  Shawn Crahan, musician
  Roger Craig, football player
  Joe Crail, politician
  Coe I. Crawford, politician
  Francis X. Cretzmeyer, coach
  Jim Crotty, athlete
  Julee Cruise, singer and actress
  Frank Cuhel, athlete
  Mariclare Culver, political figure
  Henry J. B. Cummings, politician
  Billy Cundiff, athlete
  Jack Cunningham, screenwriter
  Samuel Curtis, military officer, politician
caption: Johnny Carson
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