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Brock Lesnar
Brock Edward Lesnar is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, amateur wrestler and professional American football player. As a wrestler, he is best known for his time with WWE. Lesnar had three previous tenures with the company from 2000 to 2004, 2012 to 2020, and again from 2021 to 2026. Lesnar is the only person to have won the primary heavyweight championships of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Thomas P. Stafford
American astronaut (1930–2024)
James Abourezk
American politician (1931–2023)
Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Native American entertainer (1936–2007)
James Abdnor
American congressman for South Dakota (1923-2012)
Larry Pressler
U.S. politician
Chan Gurney
American politician (1896–1985)
Frank Farrar
American politician (1929–2021)
Seth Bullock
(1849-1919) American lawman, businessman
Phil Graham
American newspaper publisher (1915-1963)
Harvey Wollman
Governor of South Dakota (1935–2022)
Doug Hegdahl
US navy sailor
Jim Weaver
American politician
Ron Hagerthy
American actor
Ola Mildred Rexroat
American aviator
Royal C. Johnson
American politician (1882-1939)
Harvey Dunn
painter (1884-1952)
Richard F. Kneip
American politician (1933-1987)
John C. Waldron
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1900–1942)
James Paul Johnson
American politician
Patrick Henry Brady
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Donald Lester Jackson
American politician (1910-1981)
Troy Meink
United States Secretary of the Air Force
Eugene Luther Vidal
American commercial aviation pioneer and Olympic decathlete (1895-1969)
Tim Giago
American Oglala Lakota journalist (1934–2022)
Richard Barrett Lowe
Educator and governor of American Samoa and Guam
Dell L. Dailey
former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office
Marcella LeBeau
Lakota nurse, activist, military veteran and politician
Cleve Abbott
American sports coach, athletics administrator, educator (1894–1955)