List of people from Colorado

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Colorado is located in the central western United States, or the "Mountain Region".

This is a list of people from the state of Colorado, whether they lived, were born, or were raised there.

Coloradans have been prominent in many fields, including literature, entertainment, art, music, politics, and business. This list attempts to maintain biographical notability of significant Coloradans, and to organize historically important men and women hailing from Colorado.

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[edit] Actors and entertainers

  • Frank Welker (born in Denver) – Notable voice over artist for various cartoons and films.

[edit] Artists

[edit] Athletes

Pro Football Hall of Fame member and former Denver Broncos star John Elway now resides in Englewood.
  • Earl W. Bascom (lived in Colorado) – Rodeo champion and Hall of Famer, invented and made rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle and rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging, called the "Father of Modern Rodeo," lived on the White Bear Ranch in Northwest Colorado in the late 1920s, married a cousin of Jack Dempsey.[10]
  • Vincent Jackson (born and raised In Colorado Springs) Wide Receiver for the San Diego Chargers(attended Widefield High School).
  • Bob Sapp[Born In Colorado Springs]American kickboxer[attended Mitchell High School]

[edit] Business and community leaders

Horace Tabor, a prospector, businessman, and politician.
  • William Bent (lived near present-day La Junta) – Along with his three brothers, William Bent developed the first trade empire in the Colorado Region at Bent's Fort in 1833. As tensions grew between white settlers and Native Americans Bent became a peace negotiator for both sides as his wives were Indian and he befriended the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.[12]
  • Horace Tabor (lived in Leadville) – Horace Austin Warner Tabor a.k.a. "Silver Dollar Tabor'" and "The Bonanza King of Leadville", was an American prospector, businessman, and politician.[16]

[edit] Explorers and pioneers

  • Texas Jack Omohundro (lived and died in Leadville) – Frontier scout, actor, and cowboy.
  • Jack Swigert (born in Denver) – Swigert was an astronaut aboard Apollo 13, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and eventual winner of the Sixth Congressional District. Swigert died of bone cancer before he could take his oath of office.

[edit] Literary figures

  • Connie Willis (Lives in Greeley, Colorado) – An American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s.

[edit] Military leaders

[edit] Musicians

  • John Denver (real name Henry Deutschendorf Jr., lived in Aspen) – Late singer, guitarist, & songwriter. Winner of a Grammy Award (1997) and a posthumous Grammy Hall of Fame Award (1998). Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1996). Named the official Poet Laureate of the State of Colorado (1977), with his song "Rocky Mountain High," which was named as one of the state's official songs.[26]
  • Flobots (formed in Denver) – Hip hop band. Best known for the song Handlebars from their album Fight With Tools. The Flobots also serve as board members on the non-profit organization Flobots.org, a community organization that encourages participation in voter registration, community projects, encouraging children to develop musical skills, bringing music to the public schools, and more. Flobots.org was founded before the band attained any fame.[27]

Woven Hand:[citation needed] Lives in Elktooth, Colorado. Best known album Mosaic. Primary songwriter/member David Eugene Edwards (Know for his work with 16 Horsepower,also from Colorado.)

16 Horsepower:[citation needed] Moved to Denver from California and helped originate the "Denver sound." Influenced Devotchka. David Eugene Edwards also apart of Woven Hand.

Five Iron Frenzy:[citation needed] Formed in Denver. Major band in the Ska movement during the mid 90s to early 21st century.

  • India.Arie (born as India Arie Simpson in Denver) – Singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer. Winner of two Grammy Awards (2003, nominated sixteen times). Her three released albums have all hit Billboard's Top 40 Albums chart and have been certified by the RIAA as either Platinum or Multi-Platinum sellers.
  • Paul Whiteman (born in Denver) – Considered the "King of Jazz." After selling two million records with "The Japanese Sandman", Whiteman added to his fame by being one the first nationally broadcast jazz musicians. Whiteman is remembered for his ability to fuse jazz and classical in hits like Rhapsody in Blue and Whispering . After founding the Whiteman Award competition, he was made music director of the NBC Blue Network (now referred to as ABC).[29]
  • Yonder Mountain String Band (based in Nederland, Colorado) – Bluegrass jam band whose fan base has been fueled primarily through live performances since their inception in 1998. Their fourth, and self-titled, 2006 studio album is their first release with a major label.[30]

[edit] Political and popular leaders

  • Laurie Anderson (lived in Boulder) Avant Gard performer/musician, communications expert, published author.
  • Casimo Barela (lived in Colorado) – Known as a highly respected legislator whose career in the Colorado Senate spanned 25 continuous years. Casimo Barela also was a member of Colorado’s Constitutional Convention of 1875. Elected from Las Animas County, Barela was instrumental in ensuring the bi-lingual printing of Colorado laws.[32]
  • William B. Ebbert (lived in Rocky Ford, Pueblo, and Cortez) – Served in Colorado General Assembly, 1889–1890 (Republican); 1907–1908 (Democrat); 1911–1912 (Democrat). Rancher, farmer, poet, and Civil War veteran. Authored legislation to require meat inspection prior to slaughter. Battled Anti-Saloon League during the 1910 Assembly campaign in Montezuma. Active in local agricultural causes. Served in various leadership posts in the legislature. Ran for Speaker of the Assembly in 1911. Author of "On Colorado's Fair Mesas" (1897). Died in 1927 in Cortez.
  • Condoleezza Rice In 1967, the family moved to Denver, Colorado. She attended St. Mary's Academy, a private all-girls Catholic high school in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. After studying piano at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Rice enrolled at the University of Denver, where her father both served as an assistant dean and taught a class called "The Black Experience in America." Dean John Rice opposed institutional racism, government oppression, and the Vietnam War.
  • Mike Rosen (Colorado resident for 30 years); prominent Colorado political talk show host; has often subbed for nationally syndicated talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh.

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[edit] Visual artists

  • Robert Adams (lived in Colorado) – Photographer of the western landscape. Uses the images to express the relationship between Man and the environment. Has received two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, the McArthur Foundation's "genius" Grant, and has worked on the permanent collections of several museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[36]
  • Earl W. Bascom (lived in Colorado) – Artist, sculptor known as the "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists", a cousin to western artist Frederic Remington, lived and worked in Northwest Colorado during the late 1920s.
  • Krystle Garth (lived in Jefferson County) known for expressive animal art, mainly horses. Her later work focuses on portraiture. She works in a variety of media including graphite, ink, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel. She has had her work displayed in various galleries in Colorado, illustrated children's books, and her own books of poetry, sketched on city sidewalks and has become internationally known. She will eventually be attending medical school, where she will learn "the art of surgery."

[edit] Other prominent or notable people

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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