# List of people from Scottsdale, Arizona

This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Scottsdale, Arizona.

## Art

* Kevin Geary (born 1952) – English portrait and abstract artist
* Bil Keane - Cartoonist
* Rotraut Klein-Moquay - Visual artist
* Reg Manning - Editorial Cartoonist
* Dale Messick - Cartoonist

## Athletics

* Max Aaron (born 1992) – 2013 National Champion at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships
* Chance Adams (born 1994) - professional baseball player
* Kyle Allen - professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
* Muhammad Ali – heavyweight champion boxer
* Mark Andrews - professional football player for the Baltimore Ravens
* Brian Bannister – professional baseball pitcher
* Charles Barkley (born 1963) – basketball player for Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, and Houston Rockets, also TV commentator
* Chad Beyer – professional cyclist
* Amanda Blumenherst (born 1986) – professional golfer
* Pat Burrell – professional baseball player
* Jocko Conlan, Hall of Fame baseball umpire
* Ike Davis (born 1987) - professional baseball player for New York Mets
* Robelyn Garcia – professional basketball player, professor
* Luis Gonzalez – professional baseball player
* Mark Grace – professional baseball player
* Max Homa (born 1990) – professional golfer on the PGA Tour
* Helen Hull Jacobs – champion tennis player
* Ruth Jessen – professional golfer
* Jakob Junis (born 1992) - baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
* Paul Konerko – professional baseball player
* Olga Korbut - Olympic gymnast
* Tom Lehman – professional golfer
* Meadowlark Lemon – basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters
* Sydney Leroux – soccer player
* Kevin Long – professional baseball coach
* Auston Matthews – professional ice hockey player
* Jim Palmer – professional baseball pitcher, member MLB Hall of Fame
* Mike Pollak – professional football player
* Jeremy Roenick – professional hockey player
* Matisse Thybulle (born 1997) - professional basketball player
* Brady Tkachuk – professional hockey player
* Matthew Tkachuk – professional hockey player
* Jeremy Wolf (born 1993) - American-Israeli baseball player on the Israel National Baseball Team
* Jesse Ylönen – professional hockey player

## Entertainment

* Erika Alexander – actress
* Rex Allen – actor, singer and songwriter
* Jules Asner – actress, model
* Brie Bella - wrestling WWE
* Nikki Bella - wrestling WWE
* Sandra Bernhard – actress, comedian
* Drew Binsky - travel vlogger and blogger
* Lynda Carter – actress, title role on Wonder Woman
* Joan Ganz Cooney – producer, founder of Children's Television Workshop
* Brady Corbet – actor
* Andy Devine – actor
* Barbara Eden – actress
* Dennis Farina – actor
* Kade Gottlieb – also known as Gottmik, drag queen, television personality, Rupaul's Drag Race
* Gregg Groothuis – professional wrestler
* Sammi Hanratty – actress
* Barbara Harris – actress
* Dale Hellestrae – professional football player
* Catherine Hicks – actress
* Kalani Hilliker – dancer, reality television personality, Dance Moms, Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition
* Earl Hindman – actor
* Jenna Jameson – porn star
* Brad Johnson – actor, model
* Marilyn Kagan - actress, psychotherapist
* Tanner Maguire – actor
* Frankie Muniz – actor
* Tyler Niknam – Twitch streamer
* David Spade – actor
* Steven Spielberg – Oscar-winning film director
* Emma Stone – Oscar-winning actress
* Dick Van Dyke – actor, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins
* Sofia Wylie – actress, singer, and dancer, Andi Mack
* Ismael Khalid — influencer and streamer

## Music

* Billy Preston - singer (died in Scottsdale)
* Dierks Bentley – singer
* David Ellefson – musician
* Joseph Adam Jonas – singer, part of the Jonas Brothers
* Nils Lofgren – musician, songwriter
* Bret Michaels – singer/songwriter, musician, member of Poison
* Stevie Nicks – singer
* Jerry Riopelle – musician, record producer
* The Summer Set – pop rock band
* Chronic Future – alternative rock band

## Literature

* Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - author
* Diana Gabaldon – author of the Outlander series
* Clarence Budington Kelland - author
* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – author
* Stephenie Meyer – author of the Twilight series
* Barbara Park – author of children's books
* Glendon Swarthout - author

## Politics

* Cesar Estrada Chavez – political activist
* Herb Drinkwater – Mayor of Scottsdale from 1980 to 1996
* Joe Foss – leading Marine fighter ace in World War II, Governor of South Dakota, first commissioner of the American Football League
* Barry Goldwater – former U.S. Senator and 1964 presidential candidate
* G. Gordon Liddy – Watergate Scandal, chief operationist
* John McCain – former U.S. Senator, 2000 and 2008 presidential candidate
* Tony Nelssen – Elected city councilman from 2006 to 2010, and the only councilman of the city to die in office
* Sandra Day O'Connor – U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* Winfield Scott – Legislator, Chaplain, and Town namesake

## Miscellaneous

* Ron Evans – astronaut
* Hadas Gold (born 1988) – media and business reporter
* Jacob Gold – financial planner
* Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Psychiatrist, Pioneer in near-death studies
* Frank Luke – fighter ace of World War I
* Bob Parsons – entrepreneur, founder of Go Daddy
* Elliott Roosevelt - Brigadier General, son of FDR
* Frank Lloyd Wright – architect