FAMOUS NATIVES

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People listed are almost always native to the state. We do (on occasion) include those that have either lived within a state for most of their adult life, or have made a significant contribution to the state in their personal endeavors.

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Verna Aardema author
James "Jim" Abbott baseball player
Spencer Abraham politician
Talbert Abrams photographer, "father of aerial photography"
Anthony Adams football player
Pepper Adams musician
Joseph Alessi musician
Nelson Algren author
Geri Allen pianist, producer
Ron Allen playwright
Tim Allen actor (born in CO)
Mathias Alten artist
Irene Osgood Andrews women's rights advocate
Katherine Alice "K.A." Applegate author
Curtis Armstrong actor
Robert Armstrong actor
Dorothy Ashby harpist, composer
Billy Manual Ashley baseball player
Robert Ashley composer
Robert Asprin author
Paul Assenmacher baseball player
Steve Avery baseball player

Jason Babin football player
Jason Bacashihua hockey player
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann chemist
James Anthony Bailey circus showman, co-founder ringling brothers, barnum and bailey circus
Liberty Hyde Bailey horticulturist, botanist
Ray Stannard Baker journalist, author
Jim Bakker televangelist
Frank Dwight Baldwin major general u.s. infantry, medals of honor recipient (2)
Neal Ball baseball player
Jim Ballantine hockey player
Hank Ballard singer
Michael Barone political analyst, journalist
Theodore Baskin musician
Florence Knoll Bassett architect, furniture designer
Shane Battier basketball player
Daniel "Buzz" Bazuin football player
Rex Beach author, playwright
Norman Bel Geddes theatrical, industrial designer
Marcus Belgrave trumpeter
Kristen Bell actress
John Bellairs author
Johnny Benson auto racer
Ray Bentley football player
August "Augie" Bergamo baseball player
Elizabeth Berkley actress
Sandra Bernhard actress
Jerome "The Bus" Bettis football player
Owen Bieber labor leader
Mike Binder screenwirter, director
George David Birkhoff mathematician
Eric Bischoff president world championship wrestling
Melvin Bissell inventor
Andrew Blackbird ottawa indian tribe leader, historian
Harry Blackstone, Jr. magician
Earl Blaik football coach
Selma Blair actress
Michael Bloomfield astronaut
William Edward Boeing aviation pioneer
Sonny Bono singer, actor
Alfonso Boone football player
Michael "Mike" Bordick baseball player
Dave Borkowski baseball player
Stephen "Steve" Boros, Jr. baseball player, coach
Frank Bowerman baseball player
Robert John Braidwood archaeologist, anthropologist
J Harlen Bretz geologist
Don Brewer musician
Lyman James Briggs engineer, physicist
Christie Brinkley model
Collier "P.J." Brown basketball player
Jesse Brown u.s. secretary veterans affairs
Montaque "Monty" Brown football player, wrestler
Olympia Brown suffragist
Prentiss M. Brown politician
Wilber Marion Brucker politician
Jerry Bruckheimer film, television producer
Robert "Bob" Buhl baseball player
Ralph J. Bunche u.s. diplomat, nobel laureate
Walter Burkemo golfer
Leo Burnett founder leo burnett worldwide
Kenny Burrell musician
Ellen Burstyn actress
David Burtka actor
Timothy Busfield actor, director
Dan Bylsma hockey player
Donald Byrd musician
Tracy Byrd boxer