List of people from Orlando, Florida
This is a list of notable people natives and residents of Orlando, Florida:
A
- AK1200 - musician/record producer
- Maurice Allen (golfer) - professional golfer
- Cody Allen - MLB pitcher
- Kiradech Aphibarnrat - professional golfer
- Chucky Atkins - National Basketball Association player
- Adam Scherr - WWE professional wrestler
B
- Lance Bass - singer, member of boy band 'N Sync
- Billy Beane - MLB player and executive
- Giselle Bellas - singer-songwriter
- Suzy Berhow - animator, member of Game Grumps
- Kerlin Blaise - NFL player
- Blood on the Dance Floor - punk rock band
- Stephanie Borowicz - Pennsylvania State Representative
- Wayne Brady - actor, singer, comedian, and television personality
- Jenn Brown - sportscaster
- Lynda Lyon Block - American murderer known as the first woman executed in Alabama
- Delta Burke - television and film actress
C
- Caskey - rapper
- Talia Castellano - 13-year-old YouTuber who died from cancer in 2013
- Ha Ha Clinton-Dix - professional football player
- Choo-Choo Coleman - MLB catcher 1961-66
D
- Johnny Damon - MLB outfielder[1]
- Marquis Daniels - professional basketball player
- DJ Magic Mike - Miami Bass artist
- Sarah E. Daniels - actress[2]
- Darryl Dawkins - professional basketball player
- Juan Debiedma - professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player
- Paul DeJong - MLB infielder
- Howie Dorough - member of Backstreet Boys
- Ericka Dunlap - Miss America 2004
- Buddy Dyer - mayor of Orlando
E
- Buddy Ebsen - actor[3]
- Charles McArther Emmanuel - son of Liberian leader Charles Taylor[4][5]
F
- Joey Fatone - singer and member of boy band 'N Sync
G
- GlokkNine - rapper
- Zack Greinke - MLB pitcher[6]
- Eric Griffin (born 1990) - basketball player for Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli Basketball Premier League[7]
H
- Sally Hogshead - author and professional speaker[8]
- Glenda Hood - mayor of Orlando 1993–2003
- Rod Houison - musician, producer, and sound engineer
- Jack Hughes - Number one pick of the New Jersey Devils in the 2019 NHL Draft
- Quinn Hughes - hockey player for Vancouver Canucks
- Zora Neale Hurston - black author, anthropologist, and filmmaker
I
- Augustus Invictus - politician
J
- Chris Johnson - former NFL running back
- Davey Johnson - MLB player and manager
K
- Brian Kendrick - professional wrestler
- Jack Kerouac - author, poet and painter
- Chad Kessler - All-American football player
L
- Michael Lockley - professional football player
- Audrey Long - actress
M
- Stacey Mack - former NFL running back played for Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans
- Tony McCoy - professional football player
- Charlotte McKinney - model and actress
- A.J. McLean - member of the Backstreet Boys
- Brad Miller - Philadelphia Phillies infielder
- Mandy Moore - actress
- Jan Mulder – pianist, composer, and conductor
N
- Naomi - wrestler
- Nate Newton - professional football player
- Tim Newton - professional football player
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg - Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and geneticist
O
- Sean O'Neal - actor
- Rob Oppenheim (born 1980) - professional golfer
P
- Robert Pierre - Christian singer/songwriter
- A. J. Pierzynski - MLB catcher[9]
R
- Dot Richardson - softball Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Famer
S
- Tyra Sanchez - drag performer, winner of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race
- Warren Sapp - professional football player[10]
- Chuck Schuldiner - "godfather of death metal", frontman of the metal band Death
- Derrick Sharp - American-Israeli professional basketball player
- Sleeping with Sirens - rock band
- Wesley Snipes - film actor and producer
- Smilez and Southstar - rap duo
- Scott Stapp - rock musician
- Miriam Stockley - South African-born British singer
- Amar'e Stoudemire - professional basketball player
T
- Antonio Tarver - professional boxer
- There For Tomorrow - rock band
- Daniel Tosh - comedian, host of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central
- Trivium - heavy metal band
V
- Jayy Von Monroe - rock musician and ex-lead singer of Blood in the Dance Floor
W
- Turner Ward - MLB player and coach
- Chris Warren - professional basketball player[11]
- Jemile Weeks - MLB infielder
- Cosmo Wilson - concert lighting designer
- Paul Wilson - MLB pitcher
References
- "Johnny Damon Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5918550/
- Boedeker, Hal. "Orlando star Buddy Ebsen gets TCM tribute". Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- "Ex-prisoner: Taylor's son laughed at torture Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine." CNN. September 30, 2008.
- Weimar, Carrie. "Liberian torture case traces back to Orlando." St. Petersburg Times. February 6, 2007.
- "Zack Greinke Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- Gordon, Mark. "Mesmerizing Appeal". Entrepreneurs. Business Observer. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
- "A. J. Pierzynski Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- "Warren Carlos Sapp". databaseFootbal.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- "Chris Warren". The Official Site of the Ole Miss Rebels. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
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