Biographical Records
Notable People from Colorado
677 notable figures born in Colorado, showing page 13 of 14, ranked by historical prominence.
Lenny Metz
1899 – 1953
baseball player
John C. Champion
1923 – 1994
film producerfilm directornovelist
John S. Toll
1923 – 2011
physicist
Ike Davis
1895 – 1984
baseball player
Harold Walter
1901 – 1962
industrialist
Jim Francisco
1937 – 2018
politician
Margaret Curry
1898 – 1986
social worker
Nick Perito
1924 – 2005
songwriterconductorcomposer
Paul Bannai
1920 – 2019
politician
Edwin Blake Payson
1893 – 1927
botanistbotanical collector
Ila Mae McAfee
1897 – 1995
painter
Justin Lassen
1981 – 2021
record producercomposer
Paul Zanolini
1898 – 1989
amateur wrestler
John Chynoweth Burnham
1929 – 2017
historian of scienceuniversity teacherpsychiatrist
Charles McKimson
1914 – 1999
animator
Wayne Knox
1927 – 2019
politicianteacher
Dick Soash
1941 – 2019
farmerpolitician
Grant Bowler
1907 – 1968
baseball player
Glenn E. Coolidge
1902 – 1962
politician
Gladys Caldwell Fisher
1907 – 1952
sculptor
Frank Waters
1902 – 1995
novelistwriter
William J. LeVeque
1923 – 2007
mathematician
Fletcher Martin
1904 – 1979
watercoloristmuralistpainter
Earl T. Newbry
1900 – 1995
politician
Burton Frasher
1888 – 1955
postcard publisherphotographer
David D. Barrett
1892 – 1977
soldier
Elmer F. Bennett
1917 – 1989
lawyer
Harry B. Combs
1913 – 2003
aviation writeraviation pioneeraircraft pilot
Tom Hughes
1884 – 1961
baseball player
Buzz Murphy
1895 – 1938
baseball player
Bill Kelly
1905 – 1931
American football player
Albert Mooney
1906 – 1986
military flight engineer
Robert Winslow
1916 – 1994
American football playerhead coach
Henry Hobson
1891 – 1983
Anglican priest
Jack Orrison
1909 – 1988
film actortelevision actoractor
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
1983 – 2019
opera singercomposer
Franklin Folsom
1907 – 1995
archaeologisthistorianwriter
Paulina Peavy
1901 – 1999
artistpainter
Van Johnson
1927 – 1959
Formula One driverengineer
Edward H. Forney
1909 – 1965
military personnel
Harold McCracken
1894 – 1983
writer
Frederick Libby
1892 – 1970
military officermilitary personnel
Bert Andrews
1901 – 1953
journalist
Robert Bischoff
1899 – 1945
film editor
Miriam Gideon
1906 – 1996
music educatorcomposer
Ambrosio Guillen
1929 – 1953
military personnel
Rathvon M. Tompkins
1912 – 1999
military personnel
Basil James
1920 – 1998
jockey
Ben Dreith
1925 – 2021
baseball playerAmerican football official
David Seals
1947 – 2017
novelist