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Aleksandr Andreyevich
Baranov (1746 -
1819) A fur trader from
Russia who became the first
governor of Russian America
and founded present-day
Sitka.
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E. L. “Bob” Bartlett
(1904 - 1968) Congressman
for Alaska that fought for
Alaskan statehood; grew up
in Fairbanks.
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Benny Benson,
designed state flag at age
13.
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Vitus Jonassen Bering
(1681 - 1741) Navigator that
explored Alaska for Russia
and discovered that Siberia
and North America were
separate continents.
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Susan Butcher (1956
- ) 4-time winner of
Iditarod Trail race
(1986-88,90); lives near
Eureka.
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William Allen Egan
(1914 - 1984) He was the
first governor of Alaska;
born in Valdez.
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Jewel (1974 - )
Singer and musician
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Carl Ben Eielson
(1897 - 1929) This pilot
made the first Alaska
airmail flight in 1924.
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Elizabeth Wanamaker
Peratrovich (1911 -
1958) A Native Alaskan who
fought for Native rights in
Alaska. She gave a speech
in 1945 to the state
legislature that led to a
law banning discrimination
against Natives; born in
Petersburg.
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Libby Riddles (1956
- ) The first woman to win
the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog
Race in 1985.
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Leonhard Seppala
(1877 - 1966) Dogsled racer
who rushed medicine to Nome
in 1925 and helped to
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Margaret Elizabeth
Bell author
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Benny Benson
designed state flag at age
13, Chignik
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Charles E. Bunnell
educator
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Henry E. Gruennig
political leader
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B. Frank Heintzleman
territorial governor
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Walter J. Hickel
former governor
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Sheldon Jackson
educator and missionary,
Minaville, NY
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Joe Juneau
prospector
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Austin Lathrop
industrialist
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Sydney Lawrence
painter
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John Griffith (Jack)
London author, San
Francisco, CA
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Ray Mala actor
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John Muir
naturalist, explorer,
Scotland
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Virgil F. Partch
cartoonist
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Joe Redington, Sr.
sled-dog musher and promoter
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Famous People of Alaska 