List of people from Flagstaff, Arizona

This is a listing of notable people who were born in, or have lived in, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Athletics

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

• R. Carlos Nakai - Native American flautist

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

1. "Bruce Babbitt Dossier". The National Center for Public Policy Research. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2014.