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

Henry Fountain Ashurst

Henry F. Ashurst - one of Arizona's first two Senators
Bruce Babbitt - former governor, and former United States Secretary of the Interior^[3]
Paul Gosar - House of Representatives
Ann Kirkpatrick - House of Representatives
Ned Norris Jr. - chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation
Adam Perez Diaz - the first Hispanic elected to the Phoenix City Council and the first Hispanic to serve as Vice-Mayor of Phoenix. President Bill Clinton appointed Diaz to the National Council on Aging.
Rick Renzi - House of Representatives
John Verkamp - state representative

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

Amir Mirza Hekmati - U.S. Marine held prisoner by Iran for spying while visiting his grandmother

↑ "CFL.ca bio". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
↑ "From science to fiction". Northern Arizona University. May 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
↑ "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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