“If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.”
| Andrew Carnegie, Businessman (1835) |
| Shelagh Delaney, Playwright (1939) |
| Bob Ehrlich, Politician (1957) |
| Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician (1957) |
| Martin Feldstein, Economist (1939) |
| Jerry Ferrara, Actor (1979) |
| Helen Gahagan, Actress (1900) |
| Joe Gibbs, Coach (1940) |
| Charlaine Harris, Author (1951) |
| Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1881) |
| Roald Dahl, Novelist (1990) |
| Laurence Harvey, Actor (1973) |
| Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author (1950) |
| Charles Kettering, Inventor (1958) |