List of people from Flagstaff, Arizona
This is a listing of notable people who were born in, or have lived in, Flagstaff, Arizona. People whose only association with Flagstaff is attending, playing at, or coaching at Northern Arizona University should not be listed. For people who attended NAU see List of Northern Arizona University alumni.
Sports
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Guor Marial (Independent Olympic Athlete) – London 2012 Men's Marathon
- Trent Bray – professional football player
- Tracy Grose – professional soccer player, college soccer coach
- Donnie Hickman – professional football player
- Kyle Lobstein – professional baseball pitcher
- Guor Marial – marathon runner
- Eric McCain – professional football player[1]
- Max Settlage – pair figure skater
Literature
- Harvey Butchart – author, mathematician
- Ann Cummins – author
- Diana Gabaldon – author[2]
Arts and entertainment
- Ted Danson – actor
- Andy Devine – actor
- James Neilson – director
- Katie Pavlich – journalist, author
- Klinton Spilsbury – actor
- R. Carlos Nakai – Native American flautist
Politics
Henry Fountain Ashurst
- Henry F. Ashurst – one of Arizona's first two Senators
- Bruce Babbitt – former governor, and former United States Secretary of the Interior[3]
- Paul Gosar – House of Representatives
- Ann Kirkpatrick – House of Representatives
- Ned Norris Jr. – chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation
- Adam Perez Diaz – the first Hispanic elected to the Phoenix City Council and the first Hispanic to serve as Vice-Mayor of Phoenix. President Bill Clinton appointed Diaz to the National Council on Aging.
- Rick Renzi – House of Representatives
- John Verkamp – state representative
Science and medicine
- William J. Breed – geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, author
- Edwin H. Colbert – paleontologist, author
- Grady Gammage – educator, president ASU and NAU
- E. S. Gosney – eugenicist
- Percival Lowell – astronomer, businessman, author
- Harold Masursky – geologist, astronomer
- Dale Shewalter – educator, outdoorsman
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker – geologist, one of the founders of the field of planetary science, co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
- Earl C. Slipher – astronomer, Mayor of Flagstaff
- Vesto Slipher – astronomer
- Clyde Tombaugh – astronomer, discoverer of Pluto
Military
- Amir Mirza Hekmati – U.S. Marine held prisoner by Iran for spying while visiting his grandmother
References
- "CFL.ca bio". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- "From science to fiction". Northern Arizona University. May 2012. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- "Bruce Babbitt Dossier". The National Center for Public Policy Research. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
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