Charles "Chuck" Yeager, pilot/veteran - confirmed to have been the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound in level flight
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Don Knotts, actor/comedian - popular entertainer
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Mary Lou Retton, athlete/gymnast - won several medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - military leader/educator
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Pearl S. Buck, author - first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Carl Donald Keith, inventor/engineer/chemist - inventor of the three-way catalytic converter, still used on automobiles to help dramatically reduce pollution
