Pottawatomie County, USA
1. Jim Thorpe (1888)
Athlete
Native American star of football, baseball, and the Olympics in the 1910s and 1920s. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and the College Football...
2. Tony Hillerman (1925)
Novelist
An American writer of detective novels with southwestern settings, he most famously penned the Leaphorn and Chee books, which follow the adventures of the Navajo Tribal Police. His most famous...