List of people from Flagstaff, Arizona
This is a listing of notable people who were born in, or have lived in, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Athletics
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Guor Marial (Independent Olympic Athlete) - London 2012 Men's Marathon
- Mike Adras - college basketball coach
- Hank Anderson - college basketball coach
- Trent Bray - professional football player
- Bill Callahan - professional football coach
- Brad Childress - professional football coach
- Jamie Dixon - college basketball coach
- Karl Dorrell - college football coach
- Tracy Grose - professional soccer player, college soccer coach
- Chuck Heater - college football coach
- Donnie Hickman - professional football player
- Ben Howland - college basketball coach
- Tom Jurich - professional football player, college athletic director
- Rudy Lavik - college basketball coach
- Kyle Lobstein - professional baseball pitcher
- Guor Marial - marathon runner
- Eric McCain - professional football player
- Aaron McCreary - college baseball, basketball and football coach
- Jack Murphy - college basketball coach
- Willard Reaves - professional football player
- Andy Reid - professional and college football coach
- Max Settlage - pair figure skater
- Mike Shanahan - professional and college football coach
- Charli Turner Thorne - college basketball coach
Literature
- Harvey Butchart - author, mathematician
- Ann Cummins - author
- Diana Gabaldon - author
- Jim Simmerman - poet
Movies/television/media
- Ted Danson - actor
- Andy Devine - actor
- James Neilson - director
- Katie Pavlich - journalist, author
- Klinton Spilsbury - actor
Music/arts
Henry Fountain Ashurst
Politics
- Henry F. Ashurst - one of Arizona's first two Senators
- Bruce Babbitt - former governor, and former United States Secretary of the Interior[1]
- Paul Gosar - House of Representatives
- Ann Kirkpatrick - House of Representatives
- Ned Norris Jr. - chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation
- 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
- Clara Lovett - educator, president of NAU
- 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
Miscellaneous
- Amir Mirza Hekmati - U.S. Marine held prisoner by Iran for spying while visiting his grandmother
References
- ↑ "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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