List of people from Denver
This is a list of famous people who were born in, lived in, or are commonly associated with Denver, Colorado.
Denver natives
- Tim Allen – comedian and actor[1]
- Victor Amaya – professional tennis player[2]
- India.Arie – Neo-Soul singer[3]
- Philip Bailey – R&B lead singer with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Chauncey Billups – starting point guard for the NBA's New York Knicks
- Sierra Boggess – stage actress
- Joseph Castanon – actor
- Duane "Dog" Chapman – bounty hunter[4]
- Beth Chapman – bounty hunter
- Lyssa Chapman – bounty hunter
- Mary Coyle Chase – playwright, author of Harvey
- Mark Cooney – NFL linebacker for the Green Bay Packers
- Ashly DelGrosso – professional dancer who appeared on Dancing with the Stars
- John Desmond – architect[5]
- Tomory Dodge – painter
- John Dolan – writer[6]
- Jess E. DuBois – artist, passionate about Indian art
- Jack Earle – silent film actor and sideshow performer, known for his massive height[7]
- John Eisenhower – son of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Douglas Fairbanks – actor, screenwriter, director and producer
- David Fincher – music video and film director
- John Grahame – NHL goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes
- Rodolfo Gonzales – Chicano Movement activist [now deceased]
- Pam Grier – actress
- Hanna R. Hall – actress[8]
- Roy Halladay – Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Pat Hingle – actor
- Virgil Jester – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Robert H. Johnson – Wyoming state senator, born in Denver in 1916
- Jonathan Kaye – professional golfer
- Joe Klopfenstein – NFL tight end for the St. Louis Rams
- Arnold Kramish (1923–2010), nuclear physicist on the Manhattan Project who was almost killed in a radioactive explosion.[9]
- Daniel M. Lewin – mathematician and entrepreneur who died on American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Jacqueline Madera – Miss Colorado USA 2006
- Tom Martino – consumer advocate and syndicated talk radio host
- L.H. Musgrove – outlaw lynched by a vigilante committee on November 23, 1868
- James D. Parriott – writer, director, & producer
- Trey Parker – creator of South Park television show
- Joseph C. Phillips – actor and political commentator
- Dean Reed – actor and singer-songwriter
- Gary Richard – NFL defensive back for the Green Bay Packers
- AnnaSophia Robb – actress
- Jerry Robertson – NASCAR driver
- Paul Romer – economist, major contributor to new growth theory
- Reese Roper – singer-songwriter
- Karl Rove – former Deputy White House Chief of Staff to George W. Bush
- Michael Ruffin – professional basketball player in the NBA
- 2 Cold Scorpio – professional wrestler
- Alan K. Simpson – Republican politician who served from 1979–97 as a United States Senator from Wyoming
- Isaac Slade – member of the band, The Fray (band)
- Jill Sobule – singer-songwriter
- Stephen Stohn – Canadian television producer (Degrassi franchise)
- Tom Tancredo – former Republican congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives
- The Fray – rock band
- Eve Torres – WWE Diva and model; 2007 WWE Diva Search Winner
- Jan-Michael Vincent – actor
- Frank Welker, famed cartoon voice actor[10]
- LenDale White – NFL running back, played for the University of Southern California
- Kip Winger – Lead singer and bass guitarist of the glam metal band Winger.
- Ace Young – pop-music singer-songwriter, American Idol finalist[11]
- John Fante – author
- (Calais Campbell), professional football player (nil) Defensive End for the Arizona Cardinals
Born elsewhere, raised in Denver
These people were raised in Denver in their childhood years but were born elsewhere.
- Madeleine Albright- former United States Secretary of State, born in Prague, graduated from Kent Denver High School
- Stan Brakhage – avant-garde filmmaker, raised in Denver, graduated from South High School
- Neal Cassady – the beat generation icon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Leland Chapman – bounty hunter, born in Groom, Texas
- Duane Lee Chapman Jr – bounty hunter, born in Pampa, Texas
- Don Cheadle – born in Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from East High School
- Ted Conover – journalist and author, born in Okinawa, Japan
- Judy Collins – folk singer, born in Seattle, Washington, graduated from East High School
- Donnette Thayer – songwriter, singer, graduated from East High School
- Madhuri Dixit – Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon, born in Mumbai, India
- Bill Frisell – jazz guitarist and composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- John Grant – folk/rock musician
- Pam Grier – born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attended East High School in Denver
- Joe Guese – guitarist of The Click Five, born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Vance Kirkland- artist, born in Ohio
- Hattie McDaniel – actress, born in Wichita, Kansas
- Pat Oliphant – editorial cartoonist, born in Adelaide, Australia
- Mamie Eisenhower – former First Lady, born in Boone, Iowa.
- Golda Meir – former Prime Minister of Israel, lived in Denver for a time as a teenager. Born in Kiev, Ukraine
- Michael Ray Richardson – former NBA All-Star point guard, born in Lubbock, Texas, graduated from Manual High School
- Dianne Reeves – Jazz vocalist, winner of 4 Grammy awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, graduated from George Washington High School. Born in Detroit, Michigan
- Matt Stone – creator of South Park television show, born in Houston, Texas, raised in Littleton (south of Denver)
- Lenora Mattingly Weber – writer, born in Missouri
- OneRepublic-band. Ryan Tedder born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is not known where the other members were born but Zach Filkins spent a majority of his early life in Spain and Brent Kutzle and Eddie Fisher are both from Orange County. Drew Brown (OneRepublic), however is from Broomfield, Colorado.
- Michael Winslow – comedian, born in Spokane, Washington, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School
Denver transplants
These people lived in Denver as an adult, but were born and reared elsewhere.
- Charles Adams, United States military officer and foreign minister[12]
- Roseanne Barr – comedienne and actress, moved to Denver after high school, worked as a waitress, and got her start doing stand-up at comedy clubs in Denver
- Anthony R. Barringer – geophysicist and inventor
- Emily Gibson Braerton – V.P. Daughters of the American Revolution, raised in Council Grove, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas
- Molly Brown – survivor of Titanic accident, born in Hannibal, Missouri
- Carlotta Walls LaNier- One of the Little Rock Nine group of African American students to first enter integrated schools, born Little Rock, Arkansas
- George Elbert Burr – early 20th century American artist, known for landscape paintings of the Rocky Mountains
- Jerome B. Chaffee – Colorado Senator, born in Cambria, New York, raised in Adrian, Michigan, founded Denver
- Marshall Colt - Actor and clinical psychologist, born and reared in New Orleans; former Denver resident; now living in San Diego
- Madhuri Dixit – Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon. Dixit was born in Mumbai, India
- Lindsey Durlacher – wrestler, born in Evanston, Illinois
- John Elway – NFL Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos 1983–98. Born in Port Angeles, Washington
- Frank Freyer – 14th Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy
- John Frullo – CPA formerly at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Denver, member of the Texas House of Representatives, originally from Rock Springs, Wyoming
- John Hickenlooper – Governor of Colorado, former mayor of Denver, born in Narberth, Pennsylvania
- Jason Hirsh – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Frances Wisebart Jacobs – philanthropist, born in Kentucky, raised in Ohio, moved to Denver and founded a number of charities.
- William Larimer, Jr. – founder of Denver, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Bat Masterson – lawman, gunfighter, gambler, journalist, born in Canada
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson – U.S. politician, born in County Carlow, Ireland, raised in New York City and Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Arthur Roy Mitchell – Cowboy and western painter, originally from Trinidad, Colorado, spent his last two years of life in Denver, where he is interred.
- Federico Peña, born in Laredo, Texas; mayor of Denver (1983–1991); United States Secretary of Transportation (1993–1997); United States Secretary of Energy (1997–1998)
- Condoleezza Rice – born in Birmingham, Alabama; National Security Advisor (2001–2005); United States Secretary of State (2005–2009)
- Andrew J. Rogers (1828–1900) – represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1863–1867, and served as Denver's police commissioner after moving here in 1892.[13]
- Joe Sakic – National Hockey League centre for the Colorado Avalanche. Born in Burnaby, British Columbia
- Shannon Sharpe – former NFL player for the Denver Broncos, sports commentator, CBS, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mark Schlereth – former NFL Pro Bowl offensive guard for the Denver Broncos
- Soapy Smith – Denver crime boss from 1885–96.[14] born in Coweta County, Georgia
- Manick Sorcar – artist, engineer, and entrepreneur
- John Warne – bassist of the Christian rock band Relient K
- Wellington Webb – mayor of Denver (1991—2003)
Other people associated with Denver
Fictional Denverites
See also
References
- ^ Soylent Communications. "Tim Allen". http://www.nndb.com/people/279/000025204/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ ATP Tennis. "Victor Amaya". Archived from the original on February 25, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060225164519/http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/playerprofiles/default2.asp?playernumber=A044. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ America Online. "India Arie". http://music.aol.com/artist/indiaarie/475170/main. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Duane Chapman". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1738062/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ 2theadvocate.com | News | Architect Desmond dies — Baton Rouge, LA
- ^ [1] Dolan's entry at the New Zealand Book Council's directory
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Jack Earle". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247325/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Hanna R. Hall". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355632/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ Hoffman, Jascha. "Arnold Kramish, Expert on Nuclear Intelligence, Dies at 87", The New York Times, July 15, 2010. Accessed July 15, 2010.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Frank Welker". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919798/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ FOX Network. "Ace Young". Archived from the original on May 28, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060528185733/http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/ace_young/. Retrieved June 2, 2006.
- ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- ^ Andrew Jackson Rogers, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 2, 2007.
- ^ The Soapy Smith Preservation Trust. "Soapy in Denver". http://www.soapysmith.net/page2.html/. Retrieved June 29, 2006.