Notable People from Colorado

Gordon Wren

American ski jumper (1919–1999)

Rodolfo Gonzales

Mexican-American civil rights leader

Francis Carpenter

American actor (1910-1973)

Wayne R. Grisham

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1923-2011)

Paul Sharits

American filmmaker (1943–1993)

Morgan Jones

American silent film actor (1879-1951)

John Edgar Chenoweth

American politician (1897-1986)

Ralph Lawrence Carr

29th Governor of Colorado, United States (1887-1950)

Jack Earle

American actor (1906-1952)

George Alexander Parks

American engineer and 5th Governor of Alaska Territory (1883-1984)

John David Vanderhoof

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1922-2013)

Emily Howell Warner

American aviator

Xavier Atencio

American animator (1919-2017)

Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

American writer

Horace Lunt

American Slavicist (1918–2010)

Carey McWilliams

American journalist, non-fiction writer

Buddy Werner

American alpine skier (1936–1964)

Carmen De Rue

American actress (1908-1986)

Jack Gilbert Graham

American mass murderer (1932–1957)

Lawrence H. Gipson

American writer (1880–1971)

Harold Patten

American politician (1907-1969)

John B. Goodman

art director (1901-1991)

Robert P. Higgins

American zoologist and ecologist (1932–2022)

Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

Drone strike victim (1995–2011)

Charles Jasper Bell

American politician (1885-1978)

Betty May

American actress (1904-1949)

Dolores LaChapelle

American mountaineer

Gavin Arthur

American astrologer and sexologist (1901–1972)

William Coors

American brewer

Chris McNeill

American ski jumper (1954-2011)

Bob Doll

American basketball player (1919–1959)

Hannah Marie Wormington

American archaeologist (1914–1994)

Bill Jessup

American football player (1929-2015)

Louis O. Kelso

American lawyer and economist

Raymond O. Barton

United States general (1889–1963)

Maxine Elliott Hicks

American actress (1904-2000)

William Lee Knous

American jurist (1889–1959)

Frank H. Ono

U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (1923–1980)

Mark W. Hannaford

American politician (1925-1985)

Glen Gondrezick

American basketball player (1955–2009)

Lester Vail

American actor (1899-1959)

Joe Mondragon

Woody Herman's Band Member (1946) , In 50's :Gerry Mulligan , Shorty Rogers , Shelly Manne , Chet Baker , Russ Freeman ecc.

Thomas Wilson

Scottish composer (1927-2001)

Roy Porter

American musician (1923-1998)

Lewis B. Patten

American writer

Frederick Charles Lincoln

American ornithologist

Paul Gebhard

American anthropologist and sexologist (1917-2015)

Jack Hively

American film editor and director (1910-1995)

James W. Plummer

American aerospace engineer (1920–2013)

Anne Parrish

American children's writer (1888–1957)