Notable People from Colorado

Francis Carpenter

American actor (1910-1973)

Chuck E. Weiss

American singer (1945–2021)

Raymond P. Kogovsek

American politician (1941-2017)

Pat Frink

American basketball player (1945-2012)

Morgan Jones

American silent film actor (1879-1951)

Wayne R. Grisham

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1923-2011)

Gordon Wren

American ski jumper (1919–1999)

John Edgar Chenoweth

American politician (1897-1986)

Ralph Lawrence Carr

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

Paul Sharits

American filmmaker (1943–1993)

Xavier Atencio

American animator (1919-2017)

George Alexander Parks

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

Jack Earle

American actor (1906-1952)

John David Vanderhoof

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1922-2013)

Carey McWilliams

American journalist, non-fiction writer

Allie Light

American film director and film producer

Horace Lunt

American Slavicist (1918–2010)

Lawrence H. Gipson

American writer (1880–1971)

Buddy Werner

American alpine skier (1936–1964)

Carmen De Rue

American actress (1908-1986)

John B. Goodman

art director (1901-1991)

Jack Gilbert Graham

American mass murderer (1932–1957)

Harold Patten

American politician (1907-1969)

Charles Jasper Bell

American politician (1885-1978)

Robert P. Higgins

American zoologist and ecologist (1932–2022)

Betty May

American actress (1904-1949)

Dolores LaChapelle

American mountaineer

Gavin Arthur

American astrologer and sexologist (1901–1972)

Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

Drone strike victim (1995–2011)

Hannah Marie Wormington

American archaeologist (1914–1994)

Louis O. Kelso

American lawyer and economist

William Coors

American brewer

Bill Jessup

American football player (1929-2015)

John C. Bailar, Jr.

American chemist

Raymond O. Barton

United States general (1889–1963)

Maxine Elliott Hicks

American actress (1904-2000)

William Lee Knous

American jurist (1889–1959)

Jack Lipson

actor (1901-1947)

Glen Gondrezick

American basketball player (1955–2009)

Bob Doll

American basketball player (1919–1959)

Paul Gebhard

American anthropologist and sexologist (1917-2015)

Roy Porter

American musician (1923-1998)

Chris McNeill

American ski jumper (1954-2011)

Joe Mondragon

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

Frank H. Ono

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

Lester Vail

American actor (1899-1959)

Anne Parrish

American children's writer (1888–1957)

Frederick Charles Lincoln

American ornithologist

Lewis B. Patten

American writer

William Charles Anderson

United States Air Force officer and author (1920–2003)