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^{[citation needed]}
Hank Anderson - college basketball coach^{[citation needed]}
Trent Bray - professional football player^{[citation needed]}
Bill Callahan - professional football coach^{[citation needed]}
Brad Childress - professional football coach^{[citation needed]}
Jamie Dixon - college basketball coach^{[citation needed]}
Karl Dorrell - college football coach^{[citation needed]}
Tracy Grose - professional soccer player, college soccer coach^{[citation needed]}
Chuck Heater - college football coach^{[citation needed]}
Donnie Hickman - professional football player^{[citation needed]}
Ben Howland - college basketball coach^{[citation needed]}
Tom Jurich - professional football player, college athletic director^{[citation needed]}
Rudy Lavik - college basketball coach^{[citation needed]}
Kyle Lobstein - professional baseball pitcher^{[citation needed]}
Guor Marial - marathon runner^{[citation needed]}
Eric McCain - professional football player^[1]
Aaron McCreary - college baseball, basketball and football coach^{[citation needed]}
Jack Murphy - college basketball coach^{[citation needed]}
Willard Reaves - professional football player^{[citation needed]}
Andy Reid - professional and college football coach^{[citation needed]}
Max Settlage - pair figure skater^{[citation needed]}
Mike Shanahan - professional and college football coach^{[citation needed]}
Charli Turner Thorne - college basketball coach^{[citation needed]}

Henry F. Ashurst - one of Arizona's first two Senators^{[citation needed]}
Bruce Babbitt - former governor, and former United States Secretary of the Interior^[3]
Paul Gosar - House of Representatives^{[citation needed]}
Ann Kirkpatrick - House of Representatives^{[citation needed]}
Ned Norris Jr. - chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation^{[citation needed]}
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.^{[citation needed]}
Rick Renzi - House of Representatives^{[citation needed]}
John Verkamp - state representative^{[citation needed]}

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

Amir Mirza Hekmati - U.S. Marine held prisoner by Iran for spying while visiting his grandmother^{[citation needed]}

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^ "From science to fiction". Northern Arizona University. May 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
^ "Bruce Babbitt Dossier". The National Center for Public Policy Research. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2014.