The following are notable people who were born in, raised in, or have lived for a significant period of time in the U.S. state ofNebraska.
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Chief Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908), civil rights leader and at the fore of the petition to stay on traditional homelands post-removal as documented in The Trial of Standing Bear;[1] in this trial the state was led to recognize that Native Americans are human beings
Buffalo Bill Cody (1845–1917), iconic western figure; lived in Nebraska (born in Iowa Territory) while working as a scout for the5th Cavalry; on July 17, 1876, at War Bonnet Creek, while dressed in his Wild West stage clothing, he killed and scalped Chief Yellow Hair (Cheyenne), claiming it a revenge for Custer; took up residence in Scout's Rest Ranch in 1886
Jay Keasling (born 1964), synthetic biology pioneer
Francis La Flesche (1857–1932), first Native American anthropologist; author
Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), first person to receive federal aid for education; firstAmerican Indian woman to become a "western medicine" physician in the United States
Max Mathews (1926–2011), wrote first computer music program
Victor Mills (1897–1997), chemical engineer, inventor of the modern disposable diaper
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