Notable People from Colorado

William D. Smith

United States Navy admiral (1933–2020)

Mike Elliott

American cross-country skier (1942–2024)

Rex Holman

American actor

Joe R. Baldonado

Medal of Honor recipient (1930-1950)

Skeeter Werner Walker

American alpine skier (1933-2001)

Don Bonker

American politician (1937–2023)

Stephen L. Mosko

American composer

Theodore Conrad

American bank teller who stole $215,000 (equivalent to $1.72 million in 2022) in cash from the vault of a Cleveland bank in July 1969 then fled and was never captured

Doug Berndt

figure skater (1949–1995)

David Roberts

climber, mountaineer, and author (1943-2021)

Joe Bertram

American politician (1957-2020)

Monte Johnson

American football player (1951-2021)

John Stearns

American baseball player and coach

Brett Tuggle

American musician (1951–2022)

Neil King Jr.

American journalist and author (1959–2024)

T. J. Cunningham

American football player (1972-2019)

Bob McGraw

American baseball player

Johnny Lindell

American baseball player

Sandy Ward

American film and television actor

Haskell Robert Sadler

American musician

Tom Hughes

American baseball player (1884-1961)

Harold Varner McIntosh

American computational physicist

Odette L. Shotwell

American organic chemist (1922-1998)

Roger Lawrence Williams

American historian

Robert Davine

musical artist

Ralph Glaze

American football player and coach, baseball player and coach, basketball coach, track coach (1882-1968)

Edwin Nelson

American politician (1881-1961)

Chester Howard West

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1888-1935)

Roger Dashen

American physicist

Bert Niehoff

American baseball player and coach (1884-1974)

Robert Ray

American artist

Robert F. Kane

U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 1984–1985

Richard Dickerson

American politician

Katy Rodolph

American alpine skier (1930-1994)

John Burritt

American biathlete (1934–2015)

Jerre Stockton Williams

United States federal judge (1916–1993)

James Gilhula

American swimmer (1912–1962)

Elmer F. Bennett

American lawyer (1917-1989)

Leland Curtis

American artist, mountaineer, skier, environmentalist and Antarctic explorer (1897-1989)

Bruce R. Kennedy

American businessman

Carol Springer

American political activist

John Robert Moore

American biographer and bibliographer

Daniel B. Sparr

United States federal judge

Ike Davis

American baseball player (1895-1984)

Charles McKimson

American animator (1914-1999)

Eyvin Andersen

Danish organist, violist, and composer

Edwin Blake Payson

American botanist (1893-1927)

Bob Howsam

American sports executive

Terry Drinkwater

Radio and television news reporter and correspondent (1936-1989)

Walker David Miller

United States federal judge (1939-2013)