List of personalities of the city of Denver

The list of personalities in the city of Denver includes people who were born in Denver , the capital of the US state of Colorado , as well as those who worked in Denver without being born here. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Denver Born Personalities

To 1900

Paul Rader (1879–1938), preacher, hymn poet and pioneer of radio evangelism
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (1883–1939), film actor, director, screenwriter and producer
George Alexander Parks (1883–1984), politician
Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), actress and director
Paul Whiteman (1890–1967), orchestra leader and band leader
Margaret Titcomb (1891–1982), librarian, historian and ethnologist
Joseph Walker (1892–1985), cameraman
Curt P. Richter (1894–1988), psychologist and behaviorist
Teller Ammons (1895–1972), politician
Edward Eagan (1897-1967), sportsman
Theodora Kroeber Quinn (1897–1979), ethnologist and author
Robert Bischoff (1899–1945), film editor
Mary Colston Kirk (1899–1990), jazz musician
James Smith McDonnell (1899–1980), aircraft designer and businessman

1901 to 1920

John A. Carroll (1901-1983), politician
John B. Goodman (1901–1991), art director and production designer
Charles W. Morris (1901–1979), semiotic and philosopher
Harold M. Skeels (1901-1970), psychologist
Junius F. Brown (1902–1970), gestalt psychologist, perception researcher and social psychologist
Charles F. Brannan (1903–1992), lawyer and politician
Mary Chase (1907-1981), writer
Eddie Tolan (1908–1967), sprinter and Olympic champion
Jerry Livingston (1909–1987), songwriter and composer
James R. Webb (1909–1974), screenwriter
Marie Osborne (1911-2010), film actress
Johnny Mauro (1910–2003), racing driver and Ferrari importer
Glenn Morris (1912–1974), track and field athlete
Bill Finger (1914–1974), comic book writer
Stephen McNichols (1914–1997), politician
Ruth Handler (1916–2002), founder of the American toy company Mattel
Paul Quinichette (1916–1983), jazz tenor saxophonist
Artie Shapiro (1916-2003), jazz bassist
Glenn Langan (1917–1991), actor
Keith Andrews (1920–1957), racing driver
Hal Anger (1920–2005), electrical engineer and biophysicist

1921 to 1940

Harold M. Agnew (1921-2013), physicist
Charles Gates junior (1921–2005), businessman and philanthropist
Harold Lester Johnson (1921-1980), astronomer
Mark Roberts (1921-2006), actor
William C. Cramer (1922–2003), politician
John Eisenhower (1922–2013), military, diplomat and author
George Roche Evans (1922–1985), Auxiliary Bishop in Denver
Teala Loring (1922-2007), film actress
Gordon Mitchell (1923–2003), body builder and actor
Donald William Montrose (1923-2008), fourth Bishop of Stockton, California
Silkirtis Nichols (born 1923), actor
Jack O'Neill (1923-2017), entrepreneur
Pat Hingle (1924–2009), actor
Barbara Bates (1925–1969), actress
Shirley Hufstedler (1925–2016), lawyer and politician
George Marsaglia (1924–2011), mathematician and computer scientist
David Brion Davis (1927-2019), historian
Barbara Rush (born 1927), actress
Jerome Biffle (1928–2002), track and field athlete
Wayde Preston (1929–1992), actor
Matthew Meselson (* 1930), geneticist, biologist and chemist
R. Stephen Berry (1931-2020), chemist and professor of physical chemistry
Alan K. Simpson (born 1931), politician
Freddy Rodriguez (1931-2020), jazz musician
John Leonard Swigert (1931-1982), astronaut
Gerald Paul Carr (1932-2020), astronaut
Jack Gilbert Graham (1932–1957), mass murderer
Robert T. Herres (1932-2008), US Air Force general and manager
Jody Reynolds (1932–2008), rockabilly singer, guitarist and songwriter
John Searle (* 1932), philosopher
John Browning (1933-2003), pianist
Debra Paget (born 1933), actress
Ann E. Todd (1933-2020), actress
John Lewis Hall (* 1934), physicist
David E. Zweifel (* 1934), diplomat
Jim Mitchell (≈1935–2016), guitarist
Roger Edward Reynolds (1936-2014), Medievalist
Chuck Berghofer (* 1937), musician
Don Bonker (* 1937), politician
Robert Moran (* 1937), composer
Dean Reed (1938–1986), actor, singer, screenwriter and director
Swain Wolfe (* 1939), writer and filmmaker
Hank Brown (born 1940), politician

1941 to 1960

John De Andrea (* 1941), sculptor
Don Grusin (* 1941), pianist and keyboard player
Ron Pinkard (born 1941), actor
Wayne Carson (1942-2015), country musician
Paul Sharits (1943–1993), artist and filmmaker
William Robert Casey (* 1944), mining engineer and diplomat
Donna Haraway (* 1944), natural science historian, biologist, and professor
Jan-Michael Vincent (1945–2019), actor
Jeremy Rifkin (* 1945), economist and publicist
John Allen Paulos (* 1945), mathematics professor
Tom Tancredo (* 1945), politician
Connie Willis (* 1945), science fiction writer
John Michael Lounge (1946-2011), astronaut
L. Neil Smith (born 1946), science fiction author
Jane Lubchenco (* 1947), marine biologist
Stephen Mosko (1947–2005), composer, conductor and music teacher
Ralph Walker Nickless (born 1947), Roman Catholic Bishop of Sioux City
William Pell (1947-2003), opera singer
Rex Weyler (* 1947), American-Canadian ecologist, author, journalist and Greenpeace activist
David W. Ball (born 1949), writer
Thomas Bopp (1949-2018), astronomer
Eugene Fodor (1950-2011), violinist
Karl Rove (born 1950), Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House and advisor to George W. Bush
Philip Bailey (* 1951), funk, soul and R&B artist
Leigh Kennedy (born 1951), writer
Tim Allen (born 1953), actor and stand-up comedian
Michael J. Anderson (born 1953), actor
Duane Chapman (born 1952), bounty hunter
John Davis (born 1953), film producer
Gottfried Fischer (* 1953), Austrian linguist, language critic and linguist
Ed Perlmutter (* 1953), politician
Victor Amaya (* 1954), tennis player
Greg Harris (born 1955), politician
Paul Romer (* 1955), economist
Bill Ritter (* 1956), politician
Rick Davis (born 1958), football player
Mark Sink (* 1958), photographer
Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), photo artist
Marti Epstein (* 1959), composer

1961 to 1980

Jill Sobule (* 1961), singer, songwriter and film actress
David Fincher (born 1962), director, producer and actor
Dennis McGrane (* 1962), ski jumper
April Dawn Heinrichs (* 1964), soccer player
Carin C. Tietze (* 1964), actress
Chris Eigeman (* 1965), actor, director and screenwriter
Scott Lowell (born 1965), actor
Beth Chapman (1967–2019), bounty hunter and reality TV actress
John Gunther (* 1966), saxophonist, composer and band leader
Neil Gorsuch (* 1967), lawyer, federal judge, candidate for the Supreme Court
Alison Dunlap (* 1969), cyclist and world champion
Shane Endsley (* 1969), jazz musician and composer
Corey Harris (* 1969), blues and reggae guitarist, singer and songwriter
Brandy Ledford (born 1969), actress
Toddy Walters (born 1969), actress
Dian Bachar (born 1970), actor
Jonathan Kaye (* 1970), professional golfer
Daniel M. Lewin (1970–2001), mathematician, computer scientist
Buzz Calkins (* 1971), racing car driver
Jaques Lazier (* 1971), racing car driver
Frankie O'Dell (born 1971), poker player
Jeffrey Pierce (born 1971), actor
Stevie Johnston (born 1972), boxer
Tanner Foust (* 1973), racing driver
Jonathan Vaughters (* 1973), former racing cyclist, today's cycling official
John Grahame (* 1975), ice hockey goalkeeper
Chauncey Billups (born 1976), basketball player
Roy Halladay (1977-2017), baseball player
Scott Nydam (born 1977), racing cyclist
Amanda Aardsma (born 1979), actress
Ryan Lott (* 1979), singer and multi-instrumentalist, stage name: Son Lux
Meredeth Quick (* 1979), squash player
Mike Alvarado (* 1980), professional boxer
Shannon Lucio (born 1980), actress
Kirk Knuffke (* 1980), jazz musician

From 1981

Brian Rast (born 1981), poker player
TJ Miller (* 1981), actor and comedian
Isaac Slade (* 1981), lead singer, songwriter and pianist
Kristen Renton (born 1982), actress
Scott Beck (* 1984), screenwriter, film producer and director
Hanna R. Hall (* 1984), actress
Rajeev Ram (born 1984), tennis player
Eve Torres (* 1984), dancer, model and wrestler
Annaleigh Ashford (born 1985), actress and singer
Brandon Crombeen (born 1985), ice hockey player
Tyler Polumbus (born 1985), football player
Ben Bishop (* 1986), ice hockey goalkeeper
Calais Campbell (born 1986), American football player
Colin Stranahan (* ≈1986), jazz musician
Kristin Cavallari (* 1987), actress and model
Jessica Rothe (* 1987), actress
Anikka Albrite (* 1988), porn actress
Doug DeMuro (born 1988), YouTuber
Steven Christopher Parker (born 1989), actor
Neofytos Sakellaridis-Mangouras (* 1989), Greek cyclist
Summer Cook (* 1991), triathlete
Ariel Gebhardt (* 1991), national volleyball player
Miki Ishikawa (* 1991), actress and singer
Nick Shore (born 1992), ice hockey player
Jaelene Hinkle (* 1993), soccer player
AnnaSophia Robb (* 1993), actress
Phillip Lindsay (* 1994), football player
Jaccob Slavin (* 1994), ice hockey player
Brendan Lemieux (* 1996), ice hockey player
Joseph Castanon (born 1997), actor
Troy Terry (born 1997), ice hockey player
Birk Irving (* 1999), freestyle skier

Famous Denver residents

Frank Damrosch (1859–1937), German-American conductor and music educator
Alma Bridwell White (1862–1946), founder of the Methodist Pentecostal Union Church and founder and bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church
Rice W. Means (1877-1949), politician
Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), businessman and politician
Horace Henderson (1904–1988), jazz pianist, arranger and band leader
Josef Korbel (1909–1977), Czechoslovak diplomat
Hilde Berger (1914–2011), resistance fighter against National Socialism
Philip F. Anschutz (* 1939), billionaire
Marshall Bell (born 1942), actor
Michael A. Russ (* 1945), photographer, photo designer and director
Dianne Reeves (* 1956), jazz singer and songwriter
Paul Wylie (born 1964), figure skater
Douglas Emerson (born 1974), actor

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