List of famous people from Phoenix, including photos when available. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. Some of the people below are celebrities born in Phoenix, while others are simply notable locals. If you're from Phoenix you might already know that these prominent figures are also from your hometown, but some of the names below may really surprise you. This list includes people who were born and raised in Phoenix, as well as those who were born there but moved away at a young age.
List people range from John Churchill to Matt MacDonald.
If you want to answer the questions, "Which famous people are from Phoenix?" or "Which celebrities were born in Phoenix?" then this list is a great resource for you.
Lynda Carterage 66 - Lynda Carter is an American actress, songwriter, and gay rights activist known for being Miss World USA in 1972 and as the star of the TV series Wonder Woman from 1975 to 1979.
Michelle Branchage 34 - Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy ...more
Meghan McCainage 33 - Meghan Marguerite McCain is an American columnist, author and blogger. She is a daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain and Cindy Hensley McCain. McCain first received media attention in 2007 for ...more
Chelsea Kaneage 29 - Chelsea Kane Staub is an American actress and singer professionally known as Chelsea Kane since December 2010. She is known for her role as Stella Malone in the Disney Channel sitcom television ...more
Matt Dallasage 35 - Matthew Joseph "Matt" Dallas is an American actor, best known for playing the title character on the ABC Family series Kyle XY.
Steven Smithage 59 - Steven Lee Smith, is an American technology executive and NASA astronaut.
Jonathan Rauchage 57 - Jonathan Charles Rauch is an American author, journalist and activist. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch worked at the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina, for the National ...more
Samuel Bernsteinage 48 - Samuel Bernstein is an award winning screenwriter, director and author who grew up all over the world, living in Cairo, Honolulu, Austin, Phoenix, Albuquerque, New York City, Los Angeles, and ...more
Ted Sarandosage 53 - Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000. With more than 20 years' experience in home entertainment, Ted is recognized in the industry as an innovator in film acquisition ...more
Lizz Taylerage 27 - Lizz Tayler is a pornographic actress.
Elena Reidage 36 - Elena A. Reid is an American boxer and mixed martial artist. She is a former WIBA and IFBA Flyweight Champion and fights under the nickname Baby Doll.
Rileah Vanderbiltage 38 - Rileah Elizabeth Vanderbilt is an American actress and producer.
Chalmers JohnsonDied at 79 (1931-2010) - Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973, and ...more
Shawn OsborneDied at 35 (1976-2011) - Shawn McGrath was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Shawn Osborne. He is best known for his stint with World Wrestling Entertainment as a developmental talent, ...more
Tony Richards Tony Richards, is an American musician and drummer. He was the original drummer of shock metal band W.A.S.P. from 1982 till 1984. Richards played for various bands in his early career before ...more
Disco Machineage 48 - Michael Mondragon is an American former professional wrestler better known under the ring name Disco Machine . He was one of the six founders of the Southern Californian independent promotion, ...more
Judy Kayeage 69 - Judy Kaye is a Tony Award–winning American singer and actress. She has appeared in stage musicals, plays, and operas. Kaye has been in long runs on Broadway in the musicals The Phantom of the ...more
The Boogeymanage 53 - Martin "Marty" Wright is an American professional wrestler who wrestles under the ring name The Boogeyman.
Kirby Dickage 65 - Kirby Dick is a film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter.
Susan Johnsonage 47 - Susan Johnson is a film producer.
Robert Simondsage 54 - Robert Bruce Simonds, Jr. is an American film producer and the Chairman and CEO of movie studio STX Entertainment. His over thirty Hollywood studio movies have generated well in excess of $6 ...more
Bob StumpDied at 76 (1927-2003) - Robert Lee "Bob" Stump was a U.S. Congressman from Arizona. He served as a member from the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1983 and then later a member of the Republican Party until the ...more
Z-Tripage 45 - Zach Sciacca, better known as Z-Trip, is an American DJ and producer. He is best known as a pioneer of the mashup movement and an award-winning global DJ. His skill as a world-class DJ has also ...more
Sidney Preston OsbornDied at 64 (1884-1948) - Sidney Preston Osborn was the 1st Secretary of State of Arizona, and later the seventh Governor of Arizona and is, as of 2015, the only governor of Arizona to be elected to four consecutive ...more
Heather FarrDied at 28 (1965-1993) - Heather Farr was an American professional golfer. Farr won three state championships at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a member of the National High School Sports Hall of ...more
Charles Carreonage 62 - Charles Hernan Carreon is an American trial attorney best known for his involvement in a legal dispute between The Oatmeal webcomic and content aggregator FunnyJunk. He currently represents ...more
Ashley Ellyllonage 33 - Ashley "Ellyllon" Jurgemeyer is an American pianist, keyboardist and songwriter for the band Orbs and was the former pianist of the symphonic black metal band Abigail Williams and of
Hank LeiberDied at 82 (1911-1993) - Henry Edward Leiber was an American professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1933 to 1942 with the New York Giants and Chicago Cubs.
Samantha Ponderage 32 - Samantha Sainte-Claire Ponder is an American sportscaster from Phoenix, Arizona who is currently a reporter/host for ESPN college football and basketball sideline reporter. Ponder is best known ...more
Mario Martinezage 65 - Mario Martinez is a contemporary abstract painter. He is a Native American artist who is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from New Penjamo, the smallest of six Yaqui settlements, in Arizona. ...more
Zola Jesusage 28 - Zola Jesus is the stage name of Nika Roza Danilova, an American singer-songwriter. She has released three EPs and five full-length albums that combine electronic, industrial, classical, goth, ...more
Karl T. Hirschage 47 - Karl T. Hirsch is a film director, editor and producer, a screenwriter and an actor.
Josh Hansenage 36 - Joshua Randolph Hansen is an American-born Puerto Rican international football player who currently plays for the Puerto Rico Islanders of the North American Soccer League.
Brad Evansage 32 - Bradley Ray "Brad" Evans is an American soccer player who currently plays as a defender for Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer and the United States men's national team. Born ...more
Jeannette Wallsage 57 - Jeannette Walls is an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, ...more
Michael Gavinage 31 - Michael Gavin is an American soccer player, currently without a team.
Mandy Brunoage 36 - Mandy Bruno is an American Emmy-nominated actress.
Joan Ganz Cooneyage 88 - Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television producer. She is one of the founders of the Children's Television Network, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show ...more
Carolyn MorrisDied at 71 (1925-1996) - Carolyn E. Morris was a female pitcher who played from 1944 through 1946 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 7 in, 157 lb., Morris batted and threw ...more
Kevin Longage 51 - Kevin Richard Long is a former minor league baseball player and the current hitting coach for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He formerly held the same post with the New York Yankees ...more
Kevin Thomasage 39 - Marvin Kevin Thomas is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was a standout high school football player at Rio Mesa High School in Oxnard, California and a ...more
Michael Carbajalage 50 - Michael Carbajal is an American five-time world boxing champion of Mexican descent. His nickname was "Little Hands Of Stone," after his favorite boxer,"Hands Of Stone"
Rachele Brooke Smithage 30 - Rachele Brooke Smith is an American actress and dancer. Her dance talent has been featured in films such as Center Stage: Turn It Up, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, and Burlesque.
Byron Evansage 51 - Byron Nelson Evans is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles defense of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He played college football at ...more
Darryl Morrisonage 46 - Darryl Lamon Morrison is a former American football safety in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Arizona and was drafted in ...more
