page_title: Arvada, Colorado
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Arvada, Colorado / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: The watertower in Olde Town Arvada
context_page_description: Arvada is a Home Rule Municipality in Jefferson and Adams counties, a part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census the population was 106,433, and in 2019 the estimated population was 121,272, ranking Arvada as the seventh most populous municipality in Colorado. The Olde Town Arvada historic district is 7 miles northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
context_section_description: Notable individuals who were born in or have lived in Arvada include guitarist Roc Hillman (who played in the Jimmy Dorsey and Kay Kyser bands during the big band era) and novelist Clive Cussler, Joe King, baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, and Isaac Slade of the rock band The Fray, and professional golfer and U.S. Olympic track and field gold medalist Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
caption: The water tower situated in Olde Town Arvada
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