Famous Farmers List

George Washington was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the United States Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation and remains the supreme law of the land. Washington was unanimously elected President by the electors in both the 1788–1789 and 1792 elections.

Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. has led an extraordinary life marked by notable accomplishments in politics and philanthropy. Raised in a modest peanut farming family, his upbringing was steeped in the values of hard work and community service. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, where he showcased exceptional leadership skills, Carter served in the navy until his father's death in 1953, which compelled him to return home and take over the family peanut business. Carter's political journey began with his election to the Georgia Senat

Thomas Jefferson, one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States, was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. Raised in a well-to-do family with six sisters and one brother, he was afforded an excellent education, studying under notable figures like Reverend James Maury and William Small. His intellectual curiosity drove him to explore a wide variety of subjects, from philosophy and mathematics to horticulture and mechanics. This love for learning paved the way for his future roles as a statesman, architect, and inventor. Jefferson's political career began in earnest

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. He had humble Midwestern roots and made his mark on American history through decisive leadership during the 20th century. Born in Missouri in 1884, Truman’s early life reflected the rural values of hard work and integrity. Farming and small-business ownership instilled in him empathy for everyday Americans, a trait that defined his presidency. His political career began with his election as a county.

James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump. Prior to becoming Secretary of Energy, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015. Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned to become president. Perry is the longest-serving governor in Texas history. Perry was elected governor of Texas three times and is the fourth governor of Texas (afte

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union. Born in the colonial Carolinas to a Scotch-Irish family in the decade before the American Revolutionary War, Jackson became a frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson R

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland "and of the dominions thereto belonging" from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic. Cromwell was born into the middle gentry to a family descended from the sister of King Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell. Little is known of the first 40 years of his life, as only four of his personal letters survive along with a summary of a speech that he deliver

Wilford Brimley, born on September 27, 1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an iconic figure in the American film and television industry. His humble beginnings began with work as a ranch hand, wrangler, and blacksmith, a far cry from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. His authenticity and hardworking spirit led him to his first acting role in the mid-1960s, thus commencing a prolific career that spanned over five decades. Brimley's distinct voice and rugged appearance quickly set him apart, making him a favorite for roles that required a no-nonsense, down-to-earth character. Among his most famo

Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), was a Canadian serial killer who was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women. Arrested in 2002, he was the subject of a lengthy investigation that yielded evidence of numerous other murders. Pickton was charged with the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by the Crown in 2010. Pickton was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years – the longest sentence for murder under Canadian law.During the trial's first d

Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, diplomat and member of the Republican Party who has served as the United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom since February 2018. Brownback previously served as the Secretary of Agriculture of Kansas (1986–93), as the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district (1995–96), as a United States Senator from Kansas (1996–2011) and the 46th Governor of Kansas (2011–18). He also ran for the Republican nomination for President in 2008. Born in Garnett, Kansas, Brownback grew

William Caleb Yarborough (March 27, 1939 – December 31, 2023) was an American NASCAR Winston Cup driver and owner. He won three consecutive championships in 1976, 1977, and 1978. Yarborough was one of the preeminent stock car drivers from the 1960s to the 1980s, also competing in IndyCar events. A special Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II model was named after him.

Jiroemon Kimura (木村 次郎右衛門, Kimura Jirōemon, 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian. On December 28, 2012, at age 115 years and 253 days, he became the oldest verified male. He surpassed Christian Mortensen (who died in 1998) in age. Kimura reached 116 years and 54 days old at his death on June 12, 2013, in a hospital in Kyōtango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. He was the last verified living man born in the 19th century.

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. Monroe was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party and the last president of the Virginia dynasty. His presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings. He is known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, which opposed European colonialism in the Americas. He also served as governor of Virginia, a U.S. Senator, and the U.S. ambassador to France and Britain.

Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams AO FAHA FRSA (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian humanist, social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual, and farmer. He hosts the ABC program Late Night Live on Radio National four nights weekly and writes a weekly column for The Weekend Australian. Adams has worked in advertising and film production, serving on non-profit boards like Wikileaks and Greenpeace Australia.

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and governor of Tennessee (1839–1841). Polk was a protégé of Andrew Jackson and an advocate of Jacksonian democracy. He is known for expanding U.S. territory during the Mexican–American War, including the annexation of the Republic of Texas, the Oregon Territory, and the Mexican Cession.

Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician. He serves as the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate and the senior U.S. Senator from Iowa. He is in his seventh term in the Senate, having first been elected in 1980. Grassley was a member of the Republican Party. He served eight terms in the Iowa House of Representatives (1959–1975) and three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1981). He held three terms as Senate Finance Committee Chairman during periods of Republican Senate majority.

William Alexander Spinks Jr. (1865–1933) was an American professional carom billiards player in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known as W. A. Spinks or Billy Spinks. He won multiple Pacific Coast Billiards Championships and competed as a world champion contender. He co-invented modern billiard cue chalk in 1897 with William Hoskins. He spent much of his professional career as a Californian.

Jody David Scheckter (born 29 January 1950) is a South African former motor racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980 and won the Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari.

William Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958) is a retired American musician. He was the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Berry played guitar, bass guitar, and piano for songwriting and R.E.M. albums. After seventeen years with the band, Berry left music to become a farmer, maintaining a low profile and making sporadic reunions with R.E.M.

Fred Thomas "Tommy" Burks (May 22, 1940 – October 19, 1998) was a farmer and Democratic Party politician in Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 to 1978 and in the Tennessee State Senate from 1978 until his assassination in 1998.

Will Allen (born February 8, 1949) is an American urban farmer based in Milwaukee and a retired professional basketball player.

Glenn Strange was an American actor. He appeared in "Gunsmoke," "Mission to Moscow," and "The Lone Ranger."

Sathyan Anthikad is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist. He is best known for family dramas in Malayalam cinema. Sathyan created many successful films, often working with Sreenivasan as the scriptwriter. His debut was the 1982 film Kurukkante Kalyanam. Popular films include T. P. Balagopalan M.A. (1986), Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam (1986), Gandhinagar 2nd Street (1986), Nadodikkattu (1987), Pattanapravesham (1988), Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu (1988), Varavelpu (1989), Artham (1989), Mazhavilkavadi (1989), and Kalikkalam (1990).

Wendell Erdman Berry was an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He was an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and received The National Humanities Medal. Berry served as the Jefferson Lecturer in 2012 and was a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

Jonathan Benjamin "JB" Gill is an English singer and farmer. He was a former member of the boy band JLS, where they achieved second place on The X Factor in 2008. They sold over 10 million records worldwide before disbanding in December 2013.

Ramón González Valencia (May 24, 1851 – October 3, 1928) was a Colombian conservative, military officer, and statesman. He participated in the civil wars of 1876, the Colombian Civil War of 1895, and the Thousand Days War.

Victor Davis Hanson was born September 5, 1953. He is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. Hanson comments on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for outlets like National Review and The Washington Times. He holds the position of professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno. He is also the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush.

George Augustus Waggaman lived from 1782 to March 31, 1843. He served as a United States Senator from Louisiana. Born in Caroline County, Maryland, he studied law and was admitted to the bar there in 1811. During the War of 1812, he served under General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. Waggaman settled in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, starting his legal practice in 1813. He acted as attorney general for the third district of Louisiana in 1813 and served as judge of the third judicial circuit court in 1818.

William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an American politician and judge in the early 19th century. He served as United States Secretary of War and United States Secretary of the Treasury before running for president in the 1824 election. Crawford was born in Virginia and moved to Georgia at a young age. After studying law, he won election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1803. He aligned with the Democratic-Republican Party and U.S. Senator James Jackson. In 1807, the Georgia legislature elected him to the United States Senate.

Thomas Parr (c. 1482/1483 – 1635) was an Englishman who reportedly lived for 152 years. He is often known as Old Parr or Old Tom Parr. A portrait of Parr hangs at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. The inscription states, "Thomas Parr died at the age of 152 years 9 months." Another inscription reads: "The old old very old man or Thomas Parr, son of John Parr of Winington in the Parish of Alberbury who was born in 1483 in Rayne of King Edward IV being 152 years old in 1635." The portrait was once part of the Leighton family's collection at Loton Park.

Jose Manuel Cayetano Marroquín Ricaurte (August 6, 1827 – September 19, 1908) was a Colombian political figure and the 27th President of Colombia.

Frank Noah Proffitt was an Appalachian old time banjoist. He helped popularize the song "Tom Dooley." Proffitt inspired musicians in the 1960s and 1970s to play the banjo. He was born in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee. He grew up in the Reese area of Watauga County, North Carolina, where he worked various jobs and lived on a farm with his wife and six children. Proffitt worked as a carpenter and in a spark plug factory. He is known for his carpentry skill; his fretless banjos and dulcimers were homemade. In 1937, Frank Proffitt met folksong collector Frank.

Roscoe Holcomb (born Roscoe Halcomb September 5, 1912 – died February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. He was a prominent figure in Appalachian folk music. Holcomb inspired the term "high, lonesome sound," coined by folklorist John Cohen. This term is now used to describe bluegrass singing, though Holcomb did not strictly perform bluegrass.

Mark Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (11 November 1933 – 30 December 2004) was an English photographer and illustrator.

Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959) is a Bolivian politician and cocalero activist. He has served as President of Bolivia since 2006. He is widely regarded as the country's first president from an indigenous population. His administration focused on reducing poverty and fighting the influence of the United States and multinational corporations in Bolivia. As a socialist, he heads the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. He was born to Aymara subsistence farmers in Isallawi, Orinoca Ca

Timothy Alan Huelskamp (born November 11, 1968) was the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2017. Huelskamp is a member of the Republican Party and was rated the least bipartisan member of the House during the 114th Congress by The Lugar Center - McCourt school Bipartisan Index. Before entering Congress, he represented the 38th District of the Kansas Senate from 1997 until 2011. Huelskamp was known for strong social conservatism and chaired the House Tea Party Caucus starting in February 2015. He ran for re-election in 2016 but lost.

Elias Charles Disney lived from February 6, 1859, to September 13, 1941. He was the father of Roy and Walt Disney.

Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844 – November 24, 1929) was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and was the first Governor of Wyoming. Warren was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War and the last veteran of that conflict to serve in the U.S. Senate.

John Proctor may refer to several individuals, including John Proctor (Salem witch trials) (1632–1692), who was hanged after being falsely accused and convicted for witchcraft. Other references include John Proctor (historian) (1521–1558), English schoolmaster John Proctor (inventor) (1804–1822), American inventor John Proctor (FBI agent) (1926–1999), American FBI agent John Proctor (MP) (1520?–1558/59), English politician John Proctor (bobsleigh) (born 1950), American bobsledder John E. Proctor (1844–1944), American politician in Florida Jack Proctor (1871–1893), and English footballer.

Sir Ewan Forbes of Craigievar, 11th Baronet (September 6, 1912 – September 12, 1991) was a Scottish nobleman, general practitioner, and farmer. He was christened Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill due to an intersex condition at birth and officially registered as the youngest daughter of John, Lord Sempill. After an uncomfortable upbringing, he began living as a man in 1945 during his medical career. He formally re-registered his birth as male in 1952, adopting the name "Ewan Forbes-Sempill", and married a month later. In 1965, he stood to inherit his elder brother's baronetcy.

Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is an American domestic terrorist convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. Before incarceration, he held various jobs, including farmer, grain elevator manager, real estate salesman, and ranch hand. He met his co-conspirator Timothy McVeigh during a brief time in the U.S. Army, which ended in 1989 when he requested a hardship discharge after less than one year of service. In 1994 and 1995, Nichols conspired with McVeigh to plan and prepare the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah.

Dave Winters (R-Shirland) served as an Illinois State Representative for the 68th district from 1995 to 2012.

Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis CBE (born October 17, 1935) is an English dairy farmer. He co-created the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place on his farm in Pilton, Somerset.

Leonard Leroy Boswell (January 10, 1934 – August 17, 2018) was an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district from 1997 to 2013, which was based in Des Moines. Boswell was a member of the Democratic Party. In 2012, he lost reelection to the 4th district incumbent Tom Latham, who ran against him after redistricting. Boswell left Congress in January 2013.

Angus Buchan is a Christian Author and Evangelist based in South Africa.

Cheryl Rogowski is an American farmer from Pine Island, New York. She started farming in 1983 when the Onion Harvest Festival was reestablished and she was crowned Princess. In 1984, while in her early twenties, she received 5,000 acres from her father. She grew broom corn, sunflowers, zinnias, chili peppers, and ground cherries. She started a community-supported agriculture program in 1998, growing from 12 to 156 members. She sells produce at farmers' markets and participates in El Puente CSA for low-income people. She supports English lessons for migrant workers, mentors Future Farmers of America students, and helps others.

Jethro Tull is a British band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967. The band’s name references Jethro Tull, an 18th-century farmer and inventor of the seed drill, honoring the agricultural revolution in Britain. Their music was not antiquated. The group blended rock, folk, and jazz elements, earning international acclaim. They became one of the most successful and enduring bands of their era. Ian Anderson served as the band’s frontman and only consistent member, driving creative work behind the group.

Abraham Bedford Venable (November 20, 1758 – December 26, 1811) was a representative and senator from Virginia. He was the uncle of congressman Abraham Watkins Venable.

William Cobbett (March 9, 1763 – June 18, 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist, and member of parliament born in Farnham, Surrey. Cobbett believed reforming Parliament, including abolishing "rotten boroughs," would reduce the poverty of farm laborers. He sought to end borough-mongers, sinecurists, and "tax-eaters" (corrupt bureaucrats). He opposed the Corn Laws, which taxed imported grain. While he was initially a loyal supporter of King and Country, he later pushed for radicalism that helped pass the Reform Act 1832.