Rough Rider Award
The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award is an award presented by the governor of the state of North Dakota. It is bestowed upon prominent North Dakotans.Recipients
Note: date in parentheses indicates date of award
- Lawrence Welk, entertainer
- Dorothy Stickney, actress
- Ivan Dmitri, artist
- Roger Maris, athlete
- Eric Sevareid, journalist
- General Harold K. Johnson, military service
- Dr. Anne H. Carlsen, educator
- Edward K. Thompson, journalist
- Dr. Robert Henry Bahmer, archivist
- Louis L'Amour, author
- Bertin C. Gamble, entrepreneur, founder of Gamble-Skogmo
- Casper Oimoen, athlete
- Peggy Lee, entertainer
- Harold Schafer, entrepreneur
- Era Bell Thompson, journalist
- Dr. Leon Orris Jacobson, physician
- Elizabeth Bodine, humanitarian
- Clifford "Fido" Purpur, athlete
- Phyllis Frelich, actress
- General David C. Jones, military service
- Ronald N. Davies, judge
- Phil Jackson, athlete
- Larry Woiwode, author
- Angie Dickinson, actress
- Reverend Richard C. Halverson, minister
- Brynhild Haugland, legislator
- Admiral William A. Owens, military service
- Carl Ben Eielson, pioneer aviator
- Warren Christopher, public servant
- Bobby Vee, entertainer
- Chester "Chet" Reiten, entrepreneur
- Thomas J. Clifford, educator
- Sister Thomas Welder, educator
- Harry J. Pearce, business leader
- William C. Marcil, business leader
- Woodrow W. Keeble, World War II and Korean War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient
- Doug Burgum, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Ronald D. Offutt, Agribusiness Leader and Philanthropist, founder of RDO Equipment Company
- Louise Erdrich, author
- Herman Stern, humanitarian, social and economic activist, businessman, visionary and director of the North Dakota Winter Show, Holocaust rescuer
- Gerald W. VandeWalle, judge
- John D. Odegard, aviation pioneer
- Clint Hill, Secret Service agent
