List of people from Tucson, Arizona
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This is a listing of notable people who were born in, or have lived in, Tucson, Arizona. For people whose only connection with the city is attending the University of Arizona, see: List of University of Arizona people. Coaches of University of Arizona athletic teams should not be included either.
Athletics
- George Arias – baseball player[1]
- Dave Baldwin – major league baseball player, writer, artist[2]
- Michael Bates – National Football League (NFL) player, sprinter, and 1992 Olympian[3]
- Stanley Berryhill – NFL player[4]
- Chad Beyer – cyclist[5]
- Craig Bjornson – baseball player and coach[6]
- Nat Borchers – soccer player[7]
- Alex Bowman – NASCAR driver[8]
- Henry Brauner – soccer player[9]
- Bryce Cotton – basketball player[10]
- Dominick Cruz – mixed martial artist[11]
- Lum Davenport – baseball player[12]
- Ike Davis – baseball player
- Chris Duncan – baseball player[13]
- Shelley Duncan – baseball player[14]
- Sean Elliott – basketball player[15]
- Cole Ford – football player[16]
- Jim Grabb – tennis player[17]
- J. J. Hardy – baseball player[18]
- Ron Hassey – baseball player[2]
- Gary Hayes – football player
- Alex Kellner – born in Tucson, baseball player[2]
- Walt Kellner – born in Tucson, baseball player[2]
- Mike Kellogg – football player
- Ian Kinsler – baseball player[19]
- Chris Knierim – pairs figure skater[20]
- Hank Leiber – baseball player[21]
- Eddie Leon – born in Tucson, baseball player[2]
- Lafayette Lever – basketball player[22]
- Caitlin Leverenz – Olympic swimmer, born in Tucson, attended Sahuaro High School[23]
- Pete McCaffrey – basketball player
- Roger McCluskey – National Sprint Car Hall of Fame racer[24]
- Alice Greenough Orr – rodeo star, originally from Montana[25]
- Tom Pagnozzi – baseball player
- Allen Pitts – Canadian Football League player
- Bijan Robinson – NFL running back for the Atlanta Falcons[26]
- Sam Sacksen – 2008 Beijing Olympic modern pentathlete[27]
- Anthony Shumaker – baseball player
- Tommy Silva – soccer player[28]
- Michael Smith – NFL running back[29]
- Brad Steinke – Emmy award-winning sportscaster[30]
- Kerri Strug – Olympic gold-medalist gymnast[31]
- Donny Toia – soccer player[32]
- Alex Verdugo – baseball player[33]
- Roman Bravo Young – freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, two-time NCAA champion for Penn State University[34]
- Win Young – Olympic medalist in diving[35]
Business
- Leopoldo Carrillo – Mexican-American entrepreneur, early founder of Tucson[36]
- Arturo Moreno – entrepreneur, owner of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim[37]
- Jeff Rein – chairman and chief executive officer of Walgreens[38]
- Robert Sarver – entrepreneur, principal owner of Phoenix Suns[39]
- Robert Stewart – co-founder of GMA Network
Law and order
- Eugene O'Dunne – jurist on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore[40]
- Clay Pell – lawyer
Literature
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- Edward Abbey – author[41]
- Sue Alexander – children's author[42]
- Jon Anderson – poet[43]
- Byrd Baylor – essayist and children's author[44]
- Michael Blake – author[45]
- Charles Bowden – author[46][47]
- Ray Bradbury – author[48]
- Erskine Caldwell – playwright
- Max Cannon – author and creator of the comic strip Red Meat[49]
- Mitch Cullin – author[50]
- Charles G. Finney – author[51]
- Frances Gillmor – folklorist, scholar and novelist
- Andrew Greeley – author, scholar and Roman Catholic priest
- Brenda Hillman – poet, translator
- Barbara Kingsolver – novelist
- Joseph Wood Krutch – author[52]
- Todd Miller – journalist[53]
- Tom Miller – travel writer[54]
- Gary Paul Nabhan — author and ethnobotanist
- Adam Rex – children's writer and illustrator
- Stacey Richter – author
- Richard Shelton – poet, author
- Richard Siken – poet, painter, filmmaker[55]
- Leslie Marmon Silko – author[56]
- Susan Sontag – author, critic and public intellectual[57]
- Luci Tapahonso – poet laureate of the Navajo Nation
- Ron Terpening – author and professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Arizona
- David Foster Wallace – author
- Peter Wild – poet, author and professor of English at the University of Arizona
- Ofelia Zepeda – poet laureate of Tucson, author
- Tom Zoellner – nonfiction author
Movies, television, and media
- Rex Allen – actor, musician[58]
- Max Amini – stand-up comedian[59]
- Hailey Baldwin – model[60][61]
- Mika Boorem – actress[62]
- Lynn Borden – actress and 1957 Miss Arizona[63]
- Roy Brown – actor
- Brooke Burke – model, TV host[64]
- Aaron Chang – photographer[65]
- Kaylee DeFer – actress[66]
- Barbara Eden – actress[67]
- Pablo Francisco – stand-up comedian[68]
- Savannah Guthrie – television personality[69]
- Dan Hicks – sportscaster[70]
- Michael Horse – actor, jeweler, painter[57]
- Pat Hughes – baseball announcer
- Dominic Janes – actor[57]
- Cord Jefferson – screenwriter, director, journalist[71]
- Ben Patrick Johnson – journalist, model, voice-over artist
- Brad Johnson – actor, former Marlboro Man[72]
- Daniel Kennedy – actor[73]
- Gavin MacIntosh – child/teen actor, model[74]
- Taryn Manning – actress[72]
- Clare McNulty – actress[75]
- George Meyer – Simpsons producer and writer[76]
- Bentley Mitchum – actor
- Burt Mustin – actor
- Noel Neill – actress[77]
- Sierra Teller Ornelas – filmmaker and screenwriter[78]
- Larry Pine – actor[72]
- Timothy Reckart – Oscar-nominated filmmaker[79]
- Garry Shandling – comedian and actor[57]
- Tommy Shannon – musician, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble[80]
- W. Eugene Smith – photographer[81]
- Frederick Sommer – photographer[57][82]
- Martin Spanjers – actor[83]
- Sally Todd – model, actress
- Amber Valletta – actress
- Janet Varney – actress[84]
- Kate Walsh – actress[57][85]
- Lou Waters – newscaster
- Nick Young – actor[86][87]
- Parker Young – model, actor
Music, arts
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- Panteha Abareshi – multidisciplinary visual artist[88]
- Madeline Heineman Berger – music and arts promoter[89]
- Duane Bryers – painter, illustrator and sculptor[90]
- Joey Burns – musician[91]
- Joseph Byrd – musician[92][93]
- Luis Coronel – singer, musician
- Jason DeCorse – musician, member of Greyhound Soul[94]
- John Convertino – musician
- James Pringle Cook – Western landscape painter[95]
- Ted DeGrazia – artist
- John Denver – singer, musician[96]
- Daniel Martin Diaz – artist and musician[97]
- Maynard Dixon – artist[98]
- Duane Eddy – musician, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[99]
- Howe Gelb – musician[100]
- Greg Ginn – musician, founder of Black Flag and SST Records[101]
- Lalo Guerrero – "father of Chicano music"[102]
- Cord Jefferson – writer and film director[103]
- Ulysses Kay – composer
- Katie Lee – folk singer, writer, photographer
- Dan Levenson – old-time musician[104]
- Bob Log III – musician[105]
- Linda McCartney – photographer, musician[106]
- Arizona Muse – model[107]
- Dennis F. Parker – musician, recording engineer
- Raymond Pettibon – artist
- Signe Pierce – multidisciplinary artist
- Rainer Ptacek – composer, musician[108]
- Linda Ronstadt – singer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Ivan and Jane Rosenquist – art gallerists[109]
- Barry Sadler – singer-songwriter[110]
- Pat The Bunny Schneeweis – folk-punk artist[111]
- Sara Tea – musician and DJ
- Randy "R Dub!" Williams – DJ and radio host[112]
- Mark Wystrach – musician
Politics
- Andy Biggs – U.S. representative for Arizona[113]
- J. W. Buchanan – Arizona state senator, member of the Arizona House of Representatives
- Dean Burch – Republican National Committee chairman, 1964–1965; chairman, FCC[114]
- James B. Burkholder – peace activist and retired U.S. Army officer[115]
- Richard Carmona – U.S. Surgeon General[116]
- Tony Carrillo – Arizona state legislator
- Juan Ciscomani – U.S. representative for Arizona[117]
- James N. Corbett – former mayor of Tucson[118]
- Eli Crane – U.S. representative for Arizona[119]
- Terri Cruz – community organizer and political activist[120]
- Dennis DeConcini – U.S. senator
- Randy Fine – U.S. representative for Florida[121][122]
- Gabby Giffords – U.S. representative for Arizona[123][124]
- Adelita Grijalva – U.S. representative for Arizona; daughter of Raul Grijalva[125]
- Raul Grijalva – U.S. representative for Arizona; father of Adelita Grijalva[126]
- Alma Hernandez – member of the Arizona House of Representatives[127]
- Don Hummel – politician, former Tucson mayor, businessman[128]
- Mark Kelly – U.S. senator, former astronaut[129]
- Laura Loomer – far-right political activist and white nationalist[130]
- Kyrsten Sinema – U.S. senator for Arizona[131][132]
- Robert C. Strong – U.S. diplomat
- Mark Udall – U.S. senator from Colorado, former member of the House[133]
- Mo Udall – U.S. representative for Arizona[134]
- Stewart Udall – U.S. Secretary of Interior and U.S. representative[135]
- Tom Udall – U.S. senator from New Mexico[136]
Science and medicine
- David Arnett – astronomer
- Bart Bok – astronomer[137][138]
- Frank Borman – astronaut, orbited the Moon on Apollo 8[139]
- A. E. Douglass – astronomer, dendrochronologist
- Tom Gehrels – planetary scientist
- Emil Haury – archaeologist[140]
- Rashad Khalifa – biochemist and founder of United Submitters International[141]
- Gerard Kuiper – planetary scientist[142]
- Brian A. Larkins – molecular biologist
- William Rathje – archaeologist, Garbage Project director[143]
- Peter M. Rhee – physician[144][145]
- Elizabeth Roemer – astronomer[146]
- Peter Smith – scientist, principal investigator of Phoenix Project
- Andrew Weil – doctor who promotes integrative medicine[147]
- Wieslaw Z. Wisniewski – astronomer
Military
- Thad Allen – U.S. Coast Guard admiral[148]
- Frank L. Culin Jr. – United States Army major general[149]
- José de Urrea – Mexican general
Crime
- Robert John Bardo – convicted murderer and stalker of actress and model, Rebecca Schaeffer[150]
- Joseph Bonanno – mobster[151]
- Jared Lee Loughner – convicted mass murderer who perpetrated the 2011 Tucson shooting[152]
- Stephen Paddock – mass shooter who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting[153]
- Charles Schmid – killer[154]
Religion
- William M. Branham – minister
- Eusebio Kino – pioneer missionary and explorer[155][156]
Miscellaneous
- John Dossey – mathematician
- Margaret Sanger – birth control activist; feminist; founder of Planned Parenthood[157][158]
- María Urquides – educator, "mother of bilingual education"[159][160]