List of people from Denver

The list of personalities in the city of Denver contains people who were born in Denver, the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Denver without being born here. Both sections are each arranged chronologically by year of birth. The list is not exhaustive.

Born in Denver personalities

To 1900

• Douglas Fairbanks senior (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 conductor and band leader
• Joseph Walker (1892-1985), cinematographer
• Curt P. Richter (1894-1988), psychologist and ethologist
• Teller Ammons (1895-1972), politician
• Edward Eagan (1897-1967), sportsman
• Robert Bischoff (1899-1945), editor
• James Smith McDonnell (1899-1980), aircraft designer and businessman

1901-1920

• John A. Carroll (1901-1983), politician
• John B. Goodman (1901-1991), Art Director and Production Designer
• Charles W. Morris (1901-1979), philosopher and semiotician
• Harold M. Skeels (1901-1970), psychologist
• Junius F. Brown (1902-1970), a 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 gold medalist
• Jerry Livingston (1909-1987), songwriter and composer
• James R. Webb (1909-1974), Writer
• Marie Osborne (1911-2010), film actress
• Johnny Mauro (1910-2003), racing driver and Ferrari importer
• Glenn Morris (1912-1974), 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

1921-1940

• Harold M. Agnew (1921-2013), Physicist
• Charles Gates Jr. (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
• Gordon Mitchell (1923-2003), body builder and actor
• Donald William Montrose (1923-2008), fourth bishop of Stockton in California
• Silkirtis Nichols (* 1923), actor
• Pat Hingle (1924-2009), actor
• Teala Loring (1924-2007), film actress
• Barbara Bates (1925-1969), actress
• Shirley Hufstedler ( born 1925 ), lawyer and politician
• George Marsaglia (1925-2011), mathematician and computer scientist
• Barbara Rush ( * 1927), actress
• Jerome Biffle (1928-2002), Athlete
• Wayde Preston (1929-1992), actor
• Matthew Meselson ( born 1930 ), geneticist, biologist and chemist
• R. Stephen Berry ( born 1931 ), a chemist and professor of Physical Chemistry
• Alan K. Simpson ( born 1931 ), politician
• John Leonard Swigert (1931-1982), astronaut
• Gerald Paul Carr ( born 1932 ), astronaut
• Jack Gilbert Graham (1932-1957), a mass murderer
• Robert T. Herre (1932-2008), General in the U.S. Air Force and managers
• Jody Reynolds (1932-2008), rockabilly singer, guitarist and songwriter
• John Searle ( b. 1932 ), philosopher
• Debra Paget ( born 1933), actress
• John Lewis Hall ( b. 1934 ), Physicist
• Chuck Berghofer ( born 1937 ), musician
• Don Bonker ( b. 1937 ), politician
• Robert Moran ( born 1937 ), composer
• Dean Reed (1938-1986), actor, singer, screenwriter and director
• Hank Brown ( born 1940 ), politician

1941-1960

• John De Andrea (* 1941), sculptor
• Don Grusin ( born 1941 ), pianist and keyboard player
• Ron Pinkard (* 1941), actor
• Wayne Carson ( b. 1942 ), country musician
• Jeremy Rifkin ( born 1943 ), sociologist, economist and journalist
• Paul Sharits (1943-1993), artist and filmmaker
• Donna Haraway (1944 ), science historian, biologist, and Professor
• Jan- Michael Vincent ( born 1944 ), actor
• John Allen Paulos ( born 1945 ), professor of mathematics
• Tom Tancredo (* 1945), politician
• Connie Willis ( born 1945 ), science fiction writer
• John Michael Lounge (1946-2011), astronaut
• L. Neil Smith ( born 1946 ), science fiction author
• Jane Lubchenco ( born 1947 ), a marine biologist
• Ralph Walker Nickless ( b. 1947 ), Roman Catholic bishop of Sioux City
• Rex Weyler ( born 1947 ), American- Canadian ecologist, author, journalist and Greenpeace activist
• David W. Ball ( born 1949 ), writer
• Thomas Bopp ( b. 1949 ), 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 ( born 1951 ), funk, soul and R & B Artists
• Leigh Kennedy ( b. 1951 ), writer
• Tim Allen ( born 1953 ), actor and stand-up comedian
• Michael J. Anderson ( born 1953 ), actor
• Duane Chapman ( born 1953 ), a bounty hunter
• John Davis ( born 1953 ), film producer
• Gottfried Fischer ( * 1953 ), Austrian linguist, language critic and language nurses
• Ed Perlmutter ( born 1953 ), politician
• Victor Amaya (born 1954 ), tennis player
• Greg Harris ( born 1955 ), politician
• Bill Ritter ( born 1956 ), politician
• Rick Davis (born 1958 ), football player
• Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), photo artist
• Marti Epstein ( born 1959 ), composer

1961-1980

• Jill Sobule ( born 1961 ), singer, songwriter and actress
• David Fincher (born 1962 ), film director, producer and actor
• Dennis McGrane (born 1962 ), ski jumpers
• Carin C. Tietze (born 1964 ), actress
• Chris Eigeman (* 1965), actor, director and screenwriter
• Scott Lowell (born 1965 ), actor
• Alison Dunlap (born 1969 ), cyclist and World Champion
• Shane Endsley (born 1969 ), jazz musician and composer
• Corey Harris (born 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 (born 1970 ), professional golfer
• Daniel M. Lewin (1970-2001), computer
• Buzz Calkins ( b. 1971 ), race car driver
• Jaques Lazier (born 1971 ), race car driver
• Jonathan Vaughters (born 1973 ), former racing cyclist, today's cycling officer
• John Grahame ( born 1975 ), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Chauncey Billups (born 1976 ), basketball player
• Roy Halladay ( born 1977 ), baseball player
• Amanda Aardsma ( born 1979 ), actress
• Shannon Lucio ( born 1980 ), actress
• Kirk Knuffke ( born 1980 ), jazz musician

From 1981

• Isaac Slade ( b. 1981 ), lead singer, songwriter and pianist
• Kristen Renton ( b. 1982 ), actress
• Hanna R. Hall ( born 1984 ), actress
• Eve Torres ( born 1984 ), dancer, model and professional wrestler
• Brandon Crombeen ( born 1985 ), ice hockey player
• Ben Bishop ( born 1986 ), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Kristin Cavallari (* 1987), actress and model
• Steven Christopher Parker ( * 1989), actor
• Neophytos Sakellaridis - Mangouras (* 1989), German, Greek cyclists
• AnnaSophia Robb (* 1993), actress
• Joseph Castanon (* 1997), actor

Famous residents of Denver

• 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 bandleader
• Josef Korbel (1909-1977), Czechoslovakian diplomat
• Hilde Berger (1914-2011), resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Philip F. Anschutz ( born 1939 ), billionaire
• Marshall Bell ( born 1942 ), actor
• Michael A. Russ ( born 1945 ), Photographer, designer and director
• Dianne Reeves ( born 1956 ), jazz singer and song writer
• Paul Wylie (born 1964 ), figure skater
• Douglas Emerson ( born 1974 ), actor