# List of people from Paradise Valley, Arizona

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## Arts

* Erma Bombeck – humorist
* Charles Boyer – actor
* Erskine Caldwell – writer
* Glen Campbell – musician
* Max Cavalera – musician
* Alice Cooper – singer
* Calico Cooper – dancer, actor, and singer
* Sheryl Cooper – dancer and dance instructor
* Clive Cussler – writer
* Boyé Lafayette De Mente – author, journalist
* Hugh Downs – broadcaster
* Yvonne Lime Fedderson – philanthropist, founder of Childhelp, former actress
* Hunter Gomez – actor
* Rob Halford – singer/songwriter
* Jenna Jameson – adult film actress
* Bil Keane – cartoonist
* Cris Kirkwood – musician
* Stevie Nicks – singer
* Leslie Nielsen – actor
* Dave Pratt – radio personality
* Paolo Soleri – architect
* Emma Stone – actress
* Dick Van Dyke – actor
* Asher Angel – actor

## Business

* Michael Bidwill – businessman, prosecutor, and football executive. The principal owner, chairman, and president of the Arizona Cardinals
* Derrick Hall – business executive, President & CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks
* Bruce Halle – founder and chairman of Discount Tire; richest man in Arizona with net worth of $4.2 billion
* Geordie Hormel – heir to Hormel Foods Corp.
* Thelma Keane – businesswoman, wife of Bill Keane
* Charles Keating – businessman and figure in the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal
* Peter Sperling – businessman
* Don Stewart – head of Don Stewart Ministries/Association
* Robert Sarver – businessman and Former Owner of Phoenix Suns

## Military

* Betty Tackaberry Blake – last surviving member of the first training class of Women Airforce Service Pilots, who with her husband George Blake, built the first house in Paradise Valley.

## Politics

* Doug Ducey - politician, businessman
* Barry Goldwater - U.S. Senator and 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee.
* G. Gordon Liddy - Watergate Scandal, Nixon appointee
* Sandra Day O'Connor - former Justice of the US Supreme Court
* Dan Quayle - Vice President of the United States (1989–1993), United States Senator from Indiana (1981–1989), and U.S. Representative of Indiana's 4th congressional district (1977–1981)
* William Rehnquist - Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

## Science

* Paul Davies - physicist and author
* Professor Robley D. Evans - nuclear medicine pioneer, winner of the 1990 Enrico Fermi Award

## Sport

* Muhammad Ali - boxer
* Charles Barkley - basketball player
* Devin Booker - basketball player
* Steve Bush - football player
* Keith Carney - ice hockey defenseman
* Vinnie Del Negro - NBA coach
* Jermaine Dye - baseball player
* Jeff Fassero - baseball player
* Larry Fitzgerald - football player
* Mark Grace - baseball player
* Jeff Hornacek - basketball player, NBA coach
* Jason Kidd - basketball player, NBA coach
* Randy Johnson - baseball pitcher
* Nikolai Khabibulin - ice hockey goaltender
* Miguel Montero - baseball player
* Steve Nash - basketball player
* Shaquille O'Neal - basketball player
* Jesse Owens - sprinter
* Michael Phelps - swimmer
* Tom Sneva - auto racer
* Terrell Suggs - football player
* Mike Tyson - boxer
* Kurt Warner - football player
* Matt Williams - baseball player
* Kerry Wood - baseball pitcher