List of people from Rapid City, South Dakota

Main article: Rapid City, South Dakota

See also: Rapid City

The following is a list of people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Rapid City, South Dakota, and its surrounding metropolitan area, including Meade County, South Dakota, and Pennington County, South Dakota.

• James Abourezk, Born in Wood, SD, US Representative and Senator
• Maxine Asher, Born in Chicago, Ill., head of the controversial American World University, formerly based in Rapid City
• Ellis Yarnal Berry, Born in Larchwood, IA, newspaper publisher and US Representative
• Joseph H. Bottum, Born in Faulkton, SD, former US Senator
• Moses Brings Plenty, Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, a Lakota Sioux actor
• Francis H. Case, Born in Everly, IA, former columnist for the Rapid City Journal, member of the US Representative
• Charles J. Chaput, Born in Concordia, Kan., fourth Roman Catholic bishop of Rapid City
• Dave Collins, former Major League Baseball player and coach
• Levi L. Conant, Born in Littleton, Mass., former professor at the South Dakota School of Mines
• Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux tribe
• Blase Joseph Cupich, Born in Omaha, Neb., fifth Catholic bishop of Rapid City
• Ella Cara Deloria, Born in North Dakota, anthropologist
• Harold Joseph Dimmerling, Born in Braddock, Pa., third Catholic bishop of Rapid City
• John Dutton, football player
• David Dyson, born in Rapid City, bassist and record producer
• Mark Ellis, Major League Baseball player, attended Stevens High School
• Richard E. Ellsworth, United States Air Force Born in Erie, Pa., commander stationed near Rapid City for whom Ellsworth Air Force Base is named
• Layne Flack, born in Rapid City, a professional poker player
• Harry Gandy, Born in Churubusco, Ind., former member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota
• Paul Goble, Born in Heslemere, England, award winning author and illustrator of children's books residing in Rapid City
• Dick Green, Born in Sioux City, IA. Resides in Rapid City, Second Baseman for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics for 11 years in the 60's and 70's.
• Becky Hammon, former resident of Rapid City, player for the Women's National Basketball Association's New York Liberty. Played for Russian women's Olympic basketball team in 2008.
• Carroll Hardy, from Sturgis, South Dakota, former major league baseball player
• Aaron J. Hartje, born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, award-winning media designer, including several Keystone Press Association honors from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. Recent work includes design work for Green Bay Packers media coverage.
• Carole Hillard, resident of Rapid City, later lieutenant governor of South Dakota
• Jeremy Hinzman, born in Rapid City, Iraq War soldier turned war resister, seeking refugee status in Canada
• Michael Owen Jackels, Roman Catholic bishop
• John K. Konenkamp, Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., member of the South Dakota Supreme Court, former deputy state's attorney in Rapid City
• Randy Lewis, 2-time NCAA wrestling champion, 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist
• Kerry Ligtenberg, born in Rapid City, later became a major league baseball pitcher
• William Tibertus McCarty, Born in Crawford Co., Pa., second Catholic bishop of Rapid City
• Alice McCoy, member of the South Dakota State Legislature from Pennington County
• Valentine McGillycuddy, former mayor of Rapid City and dean of the South Dakota School of Mines
• Walter Dale Miller, Born in Viewfield, SD, former governor of South Dakota, retired to a rand near New Underwood, South Dakota
• Shams Ul Huda Shams, Born in Afghanistan, South Dakota School of Mines alumnus, former president of the Afghan Social Democratic Party
• Thomas Patten Stafford, Born in Weatherford, Okla., astronaut and United States Air Force general, formerly assigned to Ellsworth Air Force Base
• John Stariha, Born in Austria, first Roman Catholic bishop of Rapid City
• Jim Sykes, born in Rapid City, radio journalist, producer, and Alaskan politician
• Karen Thurman, born in Rapid City, Democratic political activist and former U.S. House Representative (D-FL)
• Adam Vinatieri, born in Yankton, S.D., placekicker for the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots
• Gerald W. Wolff, former resident, historian of the American West and Indian tribes
• Korczak Ziolkowski, from Keystone, sculptor of Crazy Horse Memorial in Pennington County
• Brandon Claussen - a Major league baseball pitcher with the Washington Nationals, was born in Rapid City on May 1, 1979. [1] Left in his youth for New Mexico. Graduated from Goddard High School in Roswell, N.M.