Elijah Wood
born 1981 American actor
Ashton Kutcher
born 1978 American actor
Carl Van Vechten
1880–1964 American writer and photographer
Michael Emerson
born 1954 American actor
Ron Livingston
born 1967 American actor
Bobby Driscoll
1937–1968 American actor
Terry Farrell
born 1963 American actress and model
Brooks Wheelan
born 1986 American comedian
John Lipsky
born 1947 Economist
Ben Askren
born 1984 American wrestler and mixed martial artist
Don DeFore
1913–1993 American actor
Riley Smith
born 1978 American actor-model
Jon Koncak
born 1963 American basketball player
Douglas Barr
born 1949 American actor
John Sandford
born 1944 American novelist and journalist
John Hench
1908–2004 Disney artist
Paul Conrad
1924–2010 American political cartoonist and sculptor
Al Eberhard
born 1952 American basketball player
Joseph C. Miller
1939–2019 Historian
Kent Ferguson
born 1963 American diver
Thomas E. Ackerman
born 1948 American cinematographer
Charles R. Eastman
1868–1918 American paleontologist
Brendan Blumer
born 1986 American entrepreneur
George Biskup
1911–1979 Roman Catholic archbishop in the United States
Robert Fletcher
1922–2021 Costume designer
Wes Obermueller
born 1976 American baseball player
Brian Gross
born 1976 American actor
David Jacoby
born 1956 American politician
Dedric Ward
born 1974 American football player
Edward F. Edinger
1922–1998 American psychiatrist, author
Ian Christianson
born 1991 American soccer player
Jessica Heims
born 1998 US para athlete
John C. Babcock
1872–1936 American amateur wrestler
Katherine Porter
1941–2024 American painter (1940s–2024)
Landon Cassill
born 1989 American stock car racing driver
Paul Engle
1908–1991 Poet, fiction writer, academic
Tyler Olson
born 1976 American politician
Charles Herschel Sisam
1879–1964 American mathematician
Chris Gruler
born 1983 American former baseball player, born 1983
James Erwin
born 1974 American writer
John O. Miner
1910–1999 United States admiral
Rob Bruggeman
born 1986 American football player
Ronald Wallace
born 1945 American poet
Also called Cedar Rapids home
RH Rob Hogg
born 1967 American politician
Wally Horn
born 1933 American politician
Denise Stapley
born 1971 American television personality
Allyson Hovda
born 1991 Miss Iowa Teen USA 2009
Dorthe J. Flick
1922–2020 Early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
Doug Lane
born 1949 American athletics competitor
Laura McGrane
American literary scholar and academic administrator
Taha Tawil
Palestinian-American imam (fl. 1980s–)