The people represented (in roughly west to east coast) are:

Denzel WASHINGTON
OLYMPIA Dukakis (Washington)
EUGENE O'Neill (Oregon)
Busby BERKELEY (California)

Luther BURBANK (California)
Joe MONTANA
HELENA Rubinstein (Montana)
CASPER the Friendly Ghost (Wyoming)

OGDEN Nash (Utah)
River PHOENIX (Arizona)
John DENVER (Colorado)
Otto von BISMARCK (North Dakota)

PIERRE Trudeau (South Dakota)
Abraham LINCOLN (Nebraska)
NORMAN Rockwell (Oklahoma)
Stella DALLAS (Texas)

Tracy AUSTIN (Texas)
Whitney HOUSTON (Texas)
MINNESOTA Fats
Ed AMES (Iowa)

Janis JOPLIN (Missouri)
Dolley MADISON (Wisconsin)
Dusty SPRINGFIELD (Illinois)
Bo JACKSON (Mississippi)

Robert LANSING (Michigan)
Nathan DETROIT (Michigan)
GARY Hart (Indiana)
INDIANA Jones

TENNESSEE Williams
SELMA Diamond (Alabama)
MONTGOMERY Clift (Alabama)
Christopher COLUMBUS (Ohio)

Harriet Beecher STOWE (Vermont)
TROY Donahue (New York)
Godfrey CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts)
Dionne WARWICK (Rhode Island)

Burt LANCASTER (Pennsylvania)
FREDERICK Douglass (MAryland)
VIRGINIA Woolf
Sir Walter RALEIGH )North Carolina)

CHARLOTTE Bronte (North Carolina)
GEORGIA O'Keefe
Tony ORLANDO (Florida)