Notable People from Washington

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

Bing Crosby

American singer and actor (1903–1977)

Chris Cornell

American musician (1964–2017)

George Stigler

American economist (1911–1991)

Robert Lucas

American economist (1937–2023)

George H. Hitchings

Nobel Prize-winning American physician

Adam West

American actor (1928-2017)

Rachel Corrie

American anti-war and human rights activist

Carol Channing

American actress (1921–2019)

Bob Barker

American game show host (1923–2023)

Layne Staley

American rock musician (1967–2002)

Richard Brautigan

American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1935–1984)

Alice Augusta Ball

African American chemist (1892–1916)

Chuck Jones

American animator and filmmaker (1912–2002)

Richard F. Gordon

American astronaut (1929–2017)

Dick Scobee

American astronaut

Mary McCarthy

American writer (1912–1989)

Gary Kildall

American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)

Frances Farmer

American actress (1913–1970)

Philip Abelson

US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)

Mike Enzi

American politician (1944–2021)

Chuck Close

American artist (1940–2021)

Mark Lanegan

American singer (1964–2022)

Minoru Yamasaki

American architect (1912–1986)

Susan Peters

American actress (1921–1952)

Steven Hill

American actor (1922-2016)

Kevin McCarthy

American actor (1914–2010)

Michael S. Hart

American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011)

Jon Brower Minnoch

heaviest ever recorded human (1941-1983)

Merce Cunningham

American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)

Chester Carlson

American physicist (1906-1968)

Jim Rohn

American motivational speaker

Janis Paige

American actress (1922–2024)

Bruce Bennett

American actor (1906–2007)

Gypsy Rose Lee

American burlesque performer, actress and author (1911–1970)

Robert Motherwell

American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker (1915–1991)

Ella Raines

American actress (1920-1988)

Robert Stroud

American inmate and ornithologist (1890-1963)

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach (1891–1976)

Ann Reinking

American dancer, choreographer and actress (1949-2020)

Henry M. Jackson

American politician (1912–1983)

Constance Cummings

American actress (1910–2005)

David Eddings

American novelist (1931–2009)

John McIntire

American character actor (1907-1991)

Tom Foley

American politician from Washington (1929–2013)

Edward Chamberlin

American economist (1899–1967)

Clifton James

American actor (1920-2017)

Kerwin Mathews

American actor (1926–2007)

Barbara La Marr

American actress and screenwriter (1896-1926)