Peter Roget of Thesaurus fame--invented Slide Rule and pocket chessboard) Daniel Webster early American orator & politician) Joseph Farwell Glidden invented 1st coml useable barbed wire) Sir Edmund Barton 1st prime minister of Australia (1900-03)) Thomas A Watson needed by Bell) Ruben Dario national poet of Nicaragua) A.A. Milne author of Winnie-the-Pooh) Oliver Hardy of comedy team Laurel & Hardy) Cary Grant Actor (Arsenic & Old Lace and North by Northwest)) Danny Kaye comedian and Actor and UNICEF) Constance Moore in Sioux City Iowa) Muhammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay) -- boxer)
Peter Roget of Thesaurus fame--invented Slide Rule and pocket chessboard)