List of people from Flagstaff, Arizona

This is a listing of notable people who were born in, or have lived in, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Athletics



 * Mike Adras - college basketball coach
 * Hank Anderson - college basketball coach
 * Trent Bray - professional football player
 * Bill Callahan - professional football coach
 * Brad Childress - professional football coach
 * Jamie Dixon - college basketball coach
 * Karl Dorrell - college football coach
 * Tracy Grose - professional soccer player, college soccer coach
 * Chuck Heater - college football coach
 * Donnie Hickman - professional football player
 * Ben Howland - college basketball coach
 * Tom Jurich - professional football player, college athletic director
 * Rudy Lavik - college basketball coach
 * Kyle Lobstein - professional baseball pitcher
 * Guor Marial - marathon runner
 * Eric McCain - professional football player
 * Aaron McCreary - college baseball, basketball and football coach
 * Jack Murphy - college basketball coach
 * Willard Reaves - professional football player
 * Andy Reid - professional and college football coach
 * Max Settlage - pair figure skater
 * Mike Shanahan - professional and college football coach
 * Charli Turner Thorne - college basketball coach

Literature

 * Harvey Butchart - author, mathematician
 * Ann Cummins - author
 * Diana Gabaldon - author
 * Jim Simmerman - poet

Movies/television/media

 * Ted Danson - actor
 * Andy Devine - actor
 * James Neilson - director
 * Katie Pavlich - journalist, author
 * Klinton Spilsbury - actor

Music/arts

 * R. Carlos Nakai - Native American flautist



Politics

 * Henry F. Ashurst - one of Arizona's first two Senators
 * Bruce Babbitt - former governor, and former United States Secretary of the Interior
 * Paul Gosar - House of Representatives
 * Ann Kirkpatrick - House of Representatives
 * Ned Norris Jr. - chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation
 * Adam Perez Diaz - the first Hispanic elected to the Phoenix City Council and the first Hispanic to serve as Vice-Mayor of Phoenix. President Bill Clinton appointed Diaz to the National Council on Aging.
 * Rick Renzi - House of Representatives
 * John Verkamp - state representative

Science and medicine

 * William J. Breed - geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, author
 * Edwin H. Colbert - paleontologist, author
 * Grady Gammage - educator, president ASU and NAU
 * E. S. Gosney - eugenicist
 * Clara Lovett - educator, president of NAU
 * Percival Lowell - astronomer, businessman, author
 * Harold Masursky - geologist, astronomer
 * Dale Shewalter - educator, outdoorsman
 * Eugene Merle Shoemaker - geologist, one of the founders of the field of planetary science, co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
 * Earl C. Slipher - astronomer, Mayor of Flagstaff
 * Vesto Slipher - astronomer
 * Clyde Tombaugh - astronomer, discoverer of Pluto

Miscellaneous

 * Amir Mirza Hekmati - U.S. Marine held prisoner by Iran for spying while visiting his grandmother