List of people from Prescott, Arizona
The people below were all born in, resident of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Prescott, Arizona.
- Henry F. Ashurst, first Arizona senator following statehood
- Coles Bashford, lawyer, governor of Wisconsin
- Ken Bennett, state senator, Arizona secretary of state
- Big Nose Kate, Wild West companion of Doc Holliday
- Bret Blevins, comic-book artist
- Michael Broggie, historian and author
- William Mansfield Buffum, merchant and member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature
- Robert Burnham, Jr., astronomer
- John G. Campbell, Scottish-born politician
- Thomas Edward Campbell, second governor of Arizona
- Paul. G. Comba, computer scientist and asteroid hunter
- Virginia Lee Corbin, silent film actress
- Rosemary DeCamp, actress
- John Denny, baseball player[1]
- Josephine Earp, wife of lawman Wyatt Earp
- Dorothy Fay, actress
- Alan Dean Foster, science-fiction author
- Ana Frohmiller, county treasurer, gubernatorial candidate
- Barry Goldwater, United States Senator and 1964 Republican Presidential nominee
- Morris Goldwater, Arizona territorial and state legislator, mayor of Prescott, and businessman.
- Paul Gosar, member of the House of Representatives
- Don Imus, radio personality
- John W. Kieckhefer, businessman
- John Kinney, outlaw and founder of the John Kinney Gang (rivals of Billy the Kid's Lincoln County Regulators)
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia, mayor of New York City[2]
- Cody Lundin, survival expert, author, and co-star of the Discovery Channel series Dual Survival
- Wayman Mitchell, preacher
- Mollie Monroe, Wild West figure
- Kayla Mueller, human rights activist, humanitarian aid worker taken captive by ISIL while working with Medecine sans frontiere
- Buckey O'Neill, mayor of Prescott, sheriff, newspaper editor, miner, and Rough Rider[3]
- Archbishop Peter D. Robinson, United Episcopal Church of North America, rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church
- William C. Rodgers, controversial environmentalist
- William B. Ruger, firearms manufacturer
- Nat Russo, fantasy fiction author, spent childhood and teen years in Prescott; graduated Prescott High School in 1988[4]
- Holly Sampson, adult film actress
- Alvie Self, musician in Rockabilly Hall of Fame
- Frederick Sommer, photographer[5]
- Dick Sprang, comic-book artist
- Brian Stauffer, award-winning illustrator
- Sam Steiger, former U.S. Congressman and former Mayor of Prescott, 1999–2001
- Piper Stoeckel, Miss Arizona 2012
- Richard Longstreet Tea, Civil War soldier
- J. R. Williams, who drew the mid-20th century comic strips Out Our Way and The Worry Wart, spent most of his life on a ranch near Prescott
References
- ↑ Reichler, Joseph L., ed. (1979) [1969]. The Baseball Encyclopedia (4th ed.). New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
- ↑ Roberts, Sam (February 8, 2010), "Way Back Machine : If Not for Bias in Ariz., N.Y. Might Be Good for Organ Grinders", New York Times, retrieved February 8, 2010
- ↑ "William Owen "Bucky" O'Neill". Arlington National Cemetery. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
- ↑ "PHS grad charts with fantasy novel 'Necromancer Awakening'". www.prescottaz.com/. Retrieved July 3, 2014.
- ↑ "List of Famous People from Arizona". The Free Resource. Archived from the original on June 5, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
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