# List of people from Tucson, Arizona

This is a listing of notable people who were born in, or have lived in, Tucson, Arizona. For people whose only connection with the city is attending the University of Arizona, see: List of University of Arizona people. Coaches of University of Arizona athletic teams should not be included either.

## Athletics

* George Arias – baseball player
* Dave Baldwin – major league baseball player, writer, artist
* Michael Bates – National Football League (NFL) player, sprinter, and 1992 Olympian
* Stanley Berryhill – NFL player
* Chad Beyer – cyclist
* Craig Bjornson – baseball player and coach
* Nat Borchers – soccer player
* Alex Bowman – NASCAR driver
* Henry Brauner – soccer player
* Bryce Cotton – basketball player
* Dominick Cruz – mixed martial artist
* Lum Davenport – baseball player
* Ike Davis – baseball player
* Chris Duncan – baseball player
* Shelley Duncan – baseball player
* Sean Elliott – basketball player
* Cole Ford – football player
* Jim Grabb – tennis player
* J. J. Hardy – baseball player
* Ron Hassey – baseball player
* Gary Hayes – football player
* Alex Kellner – born in Tucson, baseball player
* Walt Kellner – born in Tucson, baseball player
* Mike Kellogg – football player
* Ian Kinsler – baseball player
* Chris Knierim – pairs figure skater
* Hank Leiber – baseball player
* Eddie Leon – born in Tucson, baseball player
* Lafayette Lever – basketball player
* Caitlin Leverenz – Olympic swimmer, born in Tucson, attended Sahuaro High School
* Pete McCaffrey – basketball player
* Roger McCluskey – National Sprint Car Hall of Fame racer
* Alice Greenough Orr – rodeo star, originally from Montana
* Tom Pagnozzi – baseball player
* Allen Pitts – Canadian Football League player
* Bijan Robinson – NFL player
* Sam Sacksen – 2008 Beijing Olympic modern pentathlete
* Anthony Shumaker – baseball player
* Michael Smith – NFL running back
* Brad Steinke – Emmy award-winning sportscaster
* Kerri Strug – Olympic gold-medalist gymnast
* Donny Toia – soccer player
* Alex Verdugo – baseball player
* Roman Bravo Young – freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, two-time NCAA champion for Penn State University
* Win Young – Olympic medalist in diving

## Business

* Leopoldo Carrillo – Mexican-American entrepreneur, early founder of Tucson
* Arturo Moreno – entrepreneur, owner of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
* Jeff Rein – chairman and chief executive officer of Walgreens
* Robert Sarver – entrepreneur, principal owner of Phoenix Suns
* Robert Stewart – co-founder of GMA Network

## Law and order

* Clay Pell – lawyer
* Eugene O'Dunne – jurist on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore

## Literature

* Edward Abbey – author
* Sue Alexander – children's author
* Jon Anderson – poet
* Byrd Baylor – essayist and children's author
* Michael Blake – author
* Charles Bowden – author
* Ray Bradbury – author
* Erskine Caldwell – playwright
* Max Cannon – author and creator of the comic strip Red Meat
* Mitch Cullin – author
* Charles G. Finney – author
* Frances Gillmor, folklorist, scholar and novelist
* Andrew Greeley – author, scholar and Roman Catholic priest
* Brenda Hillman - poet, translator
* Barbara Kingsolver – novelist
* Joseph Wood Krutch – author
* Todd Miller – journalist
* Tom Miller – travel writer
* Gary Paul Nabhan — author and ethnobotanist
* Adam Rex – children's writer and illustrator
* Stacey Richter – author
* Richard Shelton – poet, author
* Richard Siken - poet, painter, filmmaker
* Leslie Marmon Silko – author
* Susan Sontag – author, critic and public intellectual
* Luci Tapahonso – poet laureate of the Navajo Nation
* David Foster Wallace – author
* Peter Wild – poet, author and professor of English at the University of Arizona
* Ofelia Zepeda – poet laureate of Tucson, author
* Tom Zoellner – nonfiction author

## Movies, television, and media

* Tommy Shannon – Musician Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
* Rex Allen – actor, musician
* Hailey Baldwin – model
* Mika Boorem – actress
* Lynn Borden – actress and 1957 Miss Arizona
* Roy Brown – actor
* Brooke Burke – model, TV host
* Aaron Chang – photographer
* Kaylee DeFer – actress
* Barbara Eden – actress
* Pablo Francisco – stand-up comedian
* Savannah Guthrie – television personality
* Dan Hicks – sportscaster
* Michael Horse – actor, jeweler, painter
* Pat Hughes – baseball announcer
* Dominic Janes – actor
* Cord Jefferson - screenwriter, director, journalist
* Ben Patrick Johnson – journalist, model, voice-over artist
* Brad Johnson – actor, former Marlboro Man
* Daniel Kennedy – actor
* Gavin MacIntosh – child/teen actor, model
* Taryn Manning – actress
* George Meyer – Simpsons producer and writer
* Clare McNulty – actress
* Bentley Mitchum – actor
* Noel Neill – actress
* Sierra Teller Ornelas – filmmaker and screenwriter
* Larry Pine – actor
* Timothy Reckart – Oscar-nominated filmmaker
* Garry Shandling – comedian and actor
* W. Eugene Smith – photographer
* Frederick Sommer – photographer
* Martin Spanjers – actor
* Sally Todd – model, actress
* Janet Varney – actress
* Kate Walsh – actress
* Lou Waters – newscaster
* Nick Young – actor
* Parker Young – model, actor

## Music, arts

* Panteha Abareshi – multidisciplinary visual artist
* Madeline Heineman Berger – music and arts promoter
* Duane Bryers – painter, illustrator and sculptor
* Joey Burns – musician
* Joseph Byrd – musician
* Luis Coronel – singer, musician
* John Convertino – musician
* James Pringle Cook – Western landscape painter
* Jason DeCorse – musician, member of Greyhound Soul
* Ted DeGrazia – artist
* John Denver – singer, musician
* Daniel Martin Diaz – artist and musician
* Maynard Dixon – artist
* Duane Eddy – musician, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
* Howe Gelb – musician
* Greg Ginn – musician, founder of Black Flag and SST Records
* Lalo Guerrero – father of Chicano music
* Cord Jefferson - writer and film director
* Ulysses Kay – composer
* Katie Lee – folk singer, writer, photographer
* Dan Levenson – old-time musician
* Bob Log III – musician
* Linda McCartney - photographer, musician
* Arizona Muse – model
* Dennis F. Parker – musician, recording engineer
* Raymond Pettibon – artist
* Signe Pierce (born 1988) – multidisciplinary artist
* Rainer Ptacek – composer, musician
* Linda Ronstadt – singer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
* Ivan and Jane Rosenquist - art gallerists
* Barry Sadler – singer-songwriter
* Pat The Bunny Schneeweis – folk-punk artist
* Sara Tea - musician and DJ
* Mark Wystrach – musician

## Politics

* Dean Burch – Republican National Committee chairman, 1964–1965; chairman, FCC
* J. W. Buchanan - Arizona state senator, member of the Arizona House of Representatives
* James B. Burkholder – peace activist and retired U.S. Army officer
* Richard Carmona – U.S. Surgeon General
* Tony Carrillo – Arizona state legislator
* James N. Corbett – former Mayor of Tucson
* Dennis DeConcini – U.S. Senator
* Randy Fine – Florida state politician
* Gabby Giffords – former U.S. Representative
* Raul Grijalva – U.S. Representative
* Alma Hernandez - Member of the Arizona House of Representatives
* Don Hummel – politician, former Tucson mayor, businessman
* Mark Kelly – U.S. Senator, former astronaut
* Laura Loomer – far-right political activist and white nationalist
* Kyrsten Sinema – U.S. Senator
* Robert C. Strong – U.S. diplomat
* Mark Udall – U.S. Senator from Colorado, former member of the House
* Mo Udall – Congressman
* Stewart Udall – politician, U.S. Secretary of Interior
* Tom Udall – U.S. Senator from New Mexico

## Science and medicine

* David Arnett – astronomer
* Bart Bok – astronomer
* Frank Borman – astronaut, orbited the Moon on Apollo 8
* A. E. Douglass – astronomer, dendrochronologist
* Tom Gehrels – planetary scientist
* Emil Haury – archaeologist
* Rashad Khalifa – biochemist and founder of United Submitters International
* Gerard Kuiper – planetary scientist
* William Rathje – archaeologist, Garbage Project director
* Peter M. Rhee – physician
* Elizabeth Roemer – astronomer
* Peter Smith – scientist, principal investigator of Phoenix Project
* Andrew Weil – doctor who promotes integrative medicine
* Wieslaw Z. Wisniewski – astronomer

## Military

* Thad Allen – U.S. Coast Guard admiral
* Frank L. Culin Jr. – United States Army major general
* José de Urrea – Mexican general

## Crime

* Robert John Bardo – convicted murderer and stalker of actress and model, Rebecca Schaeffer
* Terri Cruz (1927–2017), American community organizer
* Jared Lee Loughner – convicted mass murderer who perpetrated the 2011 Tucson shooting
* Joseph Bonanno – mobster
* Stephen Paddock – mass shooter who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting
* Charles Schmid – killer

## Religion

* William M. Branham – minister
* Eusebio Kino – pioneer missionary and explorer

## Miscellaneous

* Margaret Sanger – Birth control activist; feminist; founder of Planned Parenthood
* María Urquides – educator, "Mother of Bilingual Education"