Brothers Circus Matt Bentley, professional wrestler for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Marquis Childs, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Muriel Frances Dana, child actress who appeared in silent films Angela Dohrmann, actress, television personality Robert Drouet, actor and playwright Pat Flanagan, sportscaster for Major League Baseball in Chicago Judith Ellen Foster, lecturer, lawyer, temperance leader, early feminist Dale Gardner, NASA astronaut Artemus Gates, World War I hero, banker, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air during World War II Salvatore Giunta, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Col. David Hilmers, former NASA Astronaut Robert Bruce Horsfall, artist Bernhard M. Jacobsen, Congressman William S. Jacobsen, Congressman David Johnson, running back, University of Northern Iowa and Arizona Cardinals David Joyce, lumber baron, industrialist W. H. D. Koerner, artist Otto Kraushaar, educator, 6th president of Goucher College Chancy Lamb, lumber baron, industrialist Cynthia Leonard, suffragist, writer, mother of Lillian Russell, lived in Clinton Raymond J. Lynch, attorney, administrative law judge Larry Mac Duff, football player, head coach, and defensive coordinator Denise McCann, American-Canadian musician, wife of Randy Bachman of Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, born in Clinton James C. McGloon, Illinois state legislator Beth Marion, B-movie actress of the 1930s Peggy Moran, film actress, married film director Henry Koster George Nelson, former NASA astronaut Stephen Paddock, mass shooter, perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting Allen E. Paulson, businessman, developed the Gulfstream executive jet Ken Ploen, football player Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, Canadian Football Hall of Fame Dan Roushar, American Football Coach, currently with the New Orleans Saints Lillian Russell, singer and actress in comic operas George Shadid, Illinois legislator Duke Slater, football player College Football Hall of Fame who became a judge George Stone, Major League Baseball AL batting title champion William Theisen, founder of Godfather's Pizza William G. Thon, Illinois state representative and lawyer John Delbert Van Allen, dry goods merchant, department store owner Krista Voda, sportscaster, Fox Sports, SPEED Channel Colonel Russell W. Volckmann West Point graduate, leader of guerrilla resistance in the Philippines LaMetta Wynn, first African-American elected as mayor of an Iowa municipality W. J. Young, lumber baron, industrialist Notable businesses, past and present Gray & Lunt, 1857, saw mills and lumber concerns C. Lamb (lumber), c. 1857–1868, saw mills and lumber concerns Claussen, Thornburg & Smith, c. 1866, a small sash and door factory Curtis, Hemingway & Co., Charles