List of people from Alaska
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Artis the Spoonman
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Rex Beach
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Carlos Boozer
Susan Butcher
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Mario Chalmers
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Robert Crawford
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Jimmy Doolittle
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William Duncan
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Wyatt Earp
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Mike Gravel
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Ernest Gruening
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Wally Hickel
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Robin Hobb
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Sheldon Jackson
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Kevin Johansen
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Levi Johnston
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Joseph Juneau
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Gunnar Kaasen
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Jewel Kilcher
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Sydney Laurence
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Lance Mackey
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Holly Madison
Ray Mala
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Andre Marrou
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Drew Meekins
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Tommy Moe
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Lisa Murkowski
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William Oefelein
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Bristol Palin
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Sarah Palin
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Peter the Aleut
Valerie Plame
Amerie Rogers
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Larry Sanger
Curt Schilling
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Mark Schlereth
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Molly Smith
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Soapy Smith
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Steve Smith
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Ted Stevens
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Robert Stroud
Nate Thompson
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Archie Van Winkle
This is a list of notable people from Alaska. This list includes individuals who were born in Alaska, grew up there, retired there, or in any other fashion lived there even if for only a brief period of time (such as infancy, during one or more of the many gold rushes during the late 19th century and early 20th century, or as a result of rapid military influx and outflux from 1940 onward).
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
- Key to table entries:
- Name
- Year born
- Year died
- Communities lived in Alaska
- Noted for
A
John Luther Adams | 1953 | living | Fairbanks | classical music composer |
Syun-Ichi Akasofu | 1930 | living | Fairbanks | geophysicist, aurora researcher, recently a participant in climate change debate |
Christian Allen | 1976 | living | Eagle River | video game designer |
Alvin Eli Amason | 1948 | living | Fairbanks, Kodiak | painter, sculptor |
Artis the Spoonman | 1948 | living | Kodiak | street musician, subject of the song by Soundgarden |
B
Casey Bailey | 1991 | living | Anchorage | NHL player for the Toronto Maple Leafs |
Laird Barron | 1970 | living | Palmer | sled dog racer, writer |
Rex Beach | 1877 | 1949 | Nome, Rampart | writer; one of many participants in the Nome Gold Rush and related events who became famous elsewhere (see below for other examples) |
Marty Beckerman | 1983 | living | Anchorage | writer |
Irene Bedard | 1967 | living | Anchorage | actress; voice actor for Pocahontas |
Chad Bentz | 1980 | living | Juneau, Seward | major league baseball pitcher |
Bill Berry | 1926 | 1979 | Fairbanks | painter, cartoonist |
Lydia Black | 1925 | 2007 | Fairbanks, Kodiak | anthropologist, linguist |
Annalee Blysse | romance novelist | |||
Tom Bodett | 1955 | living | Homer | writer, commentator, voice actor |
Carlos Boozer | 1981 | living | Juneau | power forward for the Chicago Bulls who won an Olympic Bronze medal |
Lincoln Brewster | 1971 | living | Fairbanks, Homer | musician, singer-songwriter |
Justin Buchholz | 1983 | living | Fairbanks | mixed martial artist |
Kira Buckland | 1987 | living | Anchorage | animation voice actress |
Martin Buser | 1958 | living | Big Lake | sled dog racer |
Jon Butcher | 1950 | living | Clear | guitarist and songwriter best known for fronting 1980s band Jon Butcher Axis |
Susan Butcher | 1954 | 2006 | Fairbanks, Wrangell Mountains | sled dog racer, four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
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Marian Call | 1982 | living | Anchorage, Juneau | singer-songwriter |
Matt Carle | 1984 | living | Anchorage | NHL hockey player |
Chad Carpenter | living | Eagle River, Wasilla | cartoonist, creator of Tundra | |
William F. Cassidy | 1908 | 2002 | Nome | U.S. Army lieutenant general |
Shawn Chacón | 1977 | living | Anchorage | Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher |
Mario Chalmers | 1986 | living | Anchorage | Miami Heat point guard who won the 2011 3-point contest |
Valentina Chepiga | 1962 | living | Anchorage | IFBB professional bodybuilder |
Callan Chythlook-Sifsof | 1989 | living | Aleknagik, Girdwood | snowboarder, 2010 Olympics team member, Alaska Native activist |
Corey Cogdell | living | Anchorage | American trapshooter, two-time Olympic bronze medal winner in the Women's Trap | |
Daryn Colledge | 1982 | living | North Pole | Miami Dolphins football player |
Ty Conklin | 1976 | living | Anchorage | former professional hockey player |
Robert Crawford | 1899 | 1961 | Fairbanks | early singer-songwriter, composer of "The U.S. Air Force" |
Aaron Cunningham | 1986 | living | Anchorage | San Diego Padres outfielder |
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Nora Marks Dauenhauer | 1927 | living | Juneau | writer |
T. Neil Davis | 1932 | living | Fairbanks, North Pole | geophysicist, writer |
Dale DeArmond | 1914 | 2006 | Juneau, Ketchikan, Pelican, Sitka | printmaker |
R. N. DeArmond | 1911 | 2010 | Juneau, Ketchikan, Pelican, Sitka | historian, journalist, writer |
Mahala Ashley Dickerson | 1912 | 2007 | Anchorage, Wasilla | lawyer, civil rights activist, mother of bodybuilder Chris Dickerson |
Traci Dinwiddie | 1973 | living | Anchorage | actress |
Jimmy Doolittle | 1896 | 1993 | Nome | World War II general and hero |
Brandon Dubinsky | 1986 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player |
William Duncan | 1832 | 1918 | Metlakatla | Anglican lay missionary, brought a group of Tsimshian Indians from Canada to Annette Island, founding Metlakatla |
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Kate Earl | 1981 | living | Anchorage, Chugiak | singer-songwriter |
Wyatt Earp | 1848 | 1929 | Nome | frontier law officer of the American West; lived in Nome prior to and during the height of its gold rush, operating the Dexter Saloon |
Carl Ben Eielson | 1897 | 1929 | Fairbanks | pioneering aviator |
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Dana Fabe | 1951 | living | Anchorage | first female associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court |
Claire Fejes | 1920 | 1998 | Fairbanks | artist, writer |
Corey Flintoff | 1946 | living | Fairbanks | National Public Radio correspondent |
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Vivica Genaux | ca. 1969 | living | Fairbanks | opera singer |
Ray Genet | 1931 | 1979 | Talkeetna | Mountaineer, guide |
Katherine Gottlieb | ca. 1952 | living | Anchorage, Old Harbor, Seldovia | president of Southcentral Foundation, MacArthur Fellow |
Mike Gravel | 1930 | living | Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula | U.S. Senator of Pentagon Papers fame |
Kelsey Griffin | 1987 | living | Eagle River | basketball player with the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA |
Ernest Gruening | 1887 | 1974 | Juneau | journalist, writer, territorial governor, U.S. Senator |
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John Haines | 1924 | 2011 | Big Delta, Fairbanks | poet, former Alaska poet laureate |
Benjamin Haldane | 1874 | 1941 | Metlakatla | photographer |
Travis Hall | 1972 | living | Soldotna | San Francisco 49ers football player |
Walter Harper | 1892 | 1918 | Tanana | made the first recorded ascent of Mount McKinley |
Richard Harris | 1833 | 1907 | Juneau | gold prospector, co-founder of Juneau |
Ernestine Hayes | 1945 | living | Juneau | writer |
Willie Hensley | 1941 | living | Kotzebue, Anchorage | advocate for Alaska Native rights |
Herman of Alaska | 1756 | 1837 | Kodiak Island | Orthodox saint |
C. "Rusty" Heurlin | 1895 | 1986 | Barrow, Ester, Valdez | painter |
Wally Hickel | 1919 | 2010 | Anchorage | industrialist, twice governor, U.S. Secretary of the Interior |
Robin Hobb | 1952 | living | Kodiak | fantasy fiction writer |
Sam Hoger | 1980 | living | Eagle River | mixed martial artist |
Anna Kathryn Holbrook | 1956 | living | Fairbanks | television actress |
Sven Holmberg | 1969 | living | Fairbanks | film and television actor |
Rick Holmstrom | 1965 | living | Fairbanks | blues guitarist and singer-songwriter |
Steve Holt | living | Kenai | guitarist and backing vocalist for 36 Crazyfists |
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Nathan Jackson | 1938 | living | Ketchikan | artist specializing in carving totem poles |
Sheldon Jackson | 1834 | 1909 | Sitka | pioneering Presbyterian missionary, educator, reindeer herder |
Kevin Johansen | 1964 | living | Fairbanks | Latin rock musician |
Michelle Johnson | 1965 | living | Anchorage | actress |
Levi Johnston | 1990 | living | Wasilla | former partner of Bristol Palin and celebrity news personality |
Marie Smith Jones | 1918 | 2008 | Anchorage, Cordova | last speaker of the Eyak language |
DeeDee Jonrowe | 1953 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Willow | sled dog racer |
Joseph Juneau | 1836 | 1899 | Juneau | gold prospector, co-founder and namesake of Juneau |
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Gunnar Kaasen | 1882 | 1960 | Nome | sled dog racer |
Peter Kalifornsky | 1911 | 1993 | Kenai Peninsula | ethnographer, writer |
Seth Kantner | living | Kobuk Valley, Kotzebue | writer | |
Joan Arend Kickbush | 1926 | 2006 | Anchorage | painter |
Jewel Kilcher | 1974 | living | Homer | singer-songwriter, actress |
Jeff King | 1956 | living | McKinley Park | sled dog racer |
Sara King | 1982 | living | Fairbanks | writer |
Chris Kuper | 1982 | living | Anchorage | Denver Broncos offensive guard |
Natalie Kusz | 1962 | living | memoirist | |
Randy Kutcher | 1960 | living | Anchorage | major league baseball outfielder |
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Trajan Langdon | 1976 | living | Anchorage | retired basketball player, most notably the Cleveland Cavaliers and CSKA Moscow |
Austin E. Lathrop | 1865 | 1950 | Anchorage, Cordova, Fairbanks, Valdez | businessman, one of the strongest Alaskan opponents of statehood |
Sydney Laurence | 1865 | 1940 | Anchorage, Valdez, Talkeetna | landscape painter |
Ernest Leffingwell | 1875 | 1971 | Flaxman Island | explorer and geologist |
Hilary Lindh | 1969 | living | Juneau | alpine ski racer |
Segundo Llorente | 1906 | 1989 | Alakanuk, Anchorage, Bethel, Cordova, Fairbanks, Kotzebue, Sheldon Point | Jesuit priest, elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1960, becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature; also a widely published writer on Alaska in his native Spain |
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Fred Machetanz | 1908 | 2002 | Palmer, Unalakleet | painter |
Dick Mackey | living | Coldfoot | sled dog racer, early winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race | |
Lance Mackey | 1970 | living | Fairbanks, Fox | sled dog racer, four time Yukon Quest and four time Iditarod winner |
Holly Madison | 1979 | living | Craig | model, television personality |
Ray Mala | 1906 | 1952 | Candle | actor, cinematographer |
Andre Marrou | 1938 | living | Anchorage, Homer | the third Libertarian to be elected to a U.S. state legislature (all from Alaska to that point), later became the party's vice presidential and presidential nominee |
Robert Marshall | 1901 | 1939 | Wiseman | wilderness activist, writer; wrote Arctic Village about his experiences in Wiseman |
Bristol Marunde | 1982 | living | Fairbanks | mixed martial artist |
Jesse Marunde | 1979 | 2007 | Glennallen | strongman competitor |
Carl McCunn | 1946 | 1981 | Anchorage | photographer, adventurer; committed suicide when stranded in the wilderness in northern Alaska |
Mel McDaniel | 1942 | 2011 | Anchorage | country music singer-songwriter |
Linious "Mac" McGee | 1897 | 1988 | Anchorage, Seward | pioneering aviator |
Drew Meekins | 1985 | living | Juneau | pairs figure skater |
Russel Merrill | 1894 | 1929 | Anchorage, Ketchikan | pioneering aviator |
Dan Mintz | 1981 | living | Anchorage | comedian, writer, and actor |
Shane Mitchell | 1964 | living | Anchorage | playwright, director, and actor |
Tommy Moe | 1970 | living | Girdwood, Palmer, Wasilla | skier, gold medal winner at the 1994 Winter Olympics |
Patricia Monaghan | 1946 | 2012 | poet, writer | |
Kelly Moneymaker | 1970 | living | Fairbanks | singer, most notably with Exposé |
Shannyn Moore | 1970 | living | Homer | blogger, political activist |
James Morrison | 1954 | living | Anchorage | actor, 24 |
Joshua Morrow | 1974 | living | Juneau | actor, singer |
Margaret Murie | 1902 | 2003 | Fairbanks | "grandmother of the conservation movement" |
Lisa Murkowski | 1957 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Wrangell | U.S. Senator who was reelected as a write-in candidate in 2010 |
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Jacob Netsvetov | 1802 | 1864 | Atka, Sitka | Orthodox saint |
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William Oefelein | 1965 | living | Anchorage | astronaut |
Laurie Olin | 1938 | living | landscape architect | |
Norman Olson | 1946 | living | Nikiski | militia activist |
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Dorothy Page | 1921 | 1989 | Wasilla | co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
Bristol Palin | 1990 | living | Wasilla | daughter of Sarah and Todd Palin, former contestant on Dancing with the Stars |
Sarah Palin | 1964 | living | Eagle River, Skagway, Wasilla | youngest and first female governor, 2008 Republican nominee for U.S. vice president |
Todd Palin | 1964 | living | Dillingham, Wasilla | husband of Sarah Palin, champion snowmobile racer |
Annie Parisse | 1975 | living | Anchorage | actress |
Virgil Partch | 1916 | 1984 | St. Paul | cartoonist |
Elizabeth Peratrovich | 1911 | 1958 | Juneau, Ketchikan, Klawock, Petersburg, Sitka | civil rights activist |
Peter the Aleut | ca. 1815 | Kodiak | Orthodox saint | |
Emmitt Peters | 1940 | living | Ruby | sled dog racer, early winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
Valerie Plame | 1963 | living | Anchorage | |
Kirsten Powers | 1969 | living | Fairbanks | blogger, political commentator |
Chanel Preston | 1985 | living | Fairbanks | pornographic actress |
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Marjorie Rambeau | 1889 | 1970 | Nome | actress |
Kikkan Randall | 1982 | living | Anchorage | cross-country skier |
Sean Rash | 1982 | living | Anchorage | professional tenpin bowler |
Joe Redington | 1917 | 1999 | Knik | sled dog racer, co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
Robert Campbell Reeve | 1902 | 1980 | Anchorage, Valdez | pioneering aviator |
Wilds P. Richardson | 1861 | 1929 | Valdez | Army officer, headed Alaska Roads Commission |
Tex Rickard | 1870 | 1929 | Juneau, Nome | Old West figure, boxing promoter; lived in Nome during the height of its gold rush, served on the first city council |
Libby Riddles | 1956 | living | Shaktoolik, Teller | sled dog racer, first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
Libby Roderick | ca. 1958 | living | Anchorage | journalist, singer-songwriter, writer |
Amerie Rogers | 1981 | living | Anchorage | pop singer |
Mia Rose | 1987 | living | Sutton | pornographic actress |
Paul Rosenthal | 1942 | living | Juneau | violinist, founder of the Sitka Summer Music Festival |
Bob Ross | 1942 | 1995 | North Pole | painter |
Peter Trimble Rowe | 1856 | 1942 | Sitka | Episcopal bishop |
Jason Ryznar | 1983 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player |
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Larry Sanger | 1968 | living | Anchorage | co-founder of Wikipedia |
Curt Schilling | 1966 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player |
Daniel Schlereth | 1986 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player |
Mark Schlereth | 1966 | living | Anchorage | professional football player, analyst for ESPN |
Brian Schmidt | 1967 | living | Anchorage | astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics |
Mitch Seavey | living | Seward, Sterling | sled dog racer | |
Charles John Seghers | 1839 | 1886 | Juneau, Nulato, Sitka | pioneering Catholic missionary |
Ronald Senungetuk | 1933 | living | Fairbanks, Homer, Wales | silversmith, sculptor |
Leonhard Seppala | 1877 | 1967 | Fairbanks, Nome | sled dog racer, key musher in the 1925 serum run to Nome |
Tom Sexton | 1940 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks | Alaska poet laureate |
Don Simpson | 1943 | 1996 | Anchorage | film producer |
Jamie Smith | ca. 1965 | living | Fairbanks | cartoonist, printmaker |
Molly Smith | living | Douglas | theater director | |
Soapy Smith | 1860 | 1898 | Skagway | con artist, gangster |
Steve Smith | 1985 | living | Anchorage | St. Louis Rams football player |
Dana Stabenow | 1952 | living | Anchorage, Seldovia | writer |
Darby Stanchfield | 1971 | living | Kodiak, Unalaska | television actress |
Ted Stevens | 1923 | 2010 | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Girdwood | longest-serving U.S. Senator from Alaska and from Republican Party |
John Strohmeyer | 1924 | 2010 | Anchorage | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; professor at University of Alaska Anchorage, author of Extreme Conditions |
John F. A. Strong | 1856 | 1929 | Iditarod, Juneau, Katalla, Nome, Skagway | founder of what is now Juneau Empire, territorial governor |
Robert Stroud | 1890 | 1963 | Juneau | convicted killer known as "The Birdman of Alcatraz" |
Stephen Sundborg | living | president of Seattle University | ||
Rick Swenson | 1950 | living | Manley Hot Springs, Two Rivers | sled dog racer |
Jim Sykes | 1950 | living | Anchorage, Palmer, Talkeetna | Green Party politician |
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Khleo Thomas | 1989 | living | Anchorage | actor, rapper |
Lowell Thomas, Jr. | 1923 | living | Anchorage, Talkeetna | son of and collaborator with Lowell Thomas; bush pilot, film maker, lecturer, politician, writer |
Morris Thompson | 1939 | 2000 | Fairbanks, Tanana | Alaska Native leader, business executive |
Nate Thompson | 1984 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player |
Ray Troll | living | Ketchikan | artist, musician |
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Rachel Uchitel | 1975 | living | Anchorage | media personality; her father was an Anchorage business magnate of the 1970s and 1980s who founded Anchorage's cable television system |
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Archie Van Winkle | 1925 | 1986 | Juneau, Ketchikan | Korean War hero |
Paul Varelans | 1969 | living | Fairbanks | mixed martial artist |
Norman D. Vaughan | 1905 | 2005 | Eagle River, Trapper Creek | explorer, dog musher |
Joe Vogler | 1913 | 1993 | Fairbanks, Kodiak | gold miner and secessionist advocate, became folk hero following his murder |
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Jujiro Wada | ca. 1872 | 1937 | Barrow, Fairbanks, Nome | adventurer |
Velma Wallis | 1960 | living | Fairbanks, Fort Yukon | writer |
Nathan West | 1978 | living | Anchorage | actor |
Mr. Whitekeys | 1947 | living | Fairbanks, Spenard | writer, musician, commentator, satirist |
James Wickersham | 1857 | 1939 | Eagle, Fairbanks, Juneau | judge and congressional delegate in the district and territory, made an early recorded ascent of Mount McKinley, compiled an important early bibliography of Alaska |
Noel Wien | 1899 | 1977 | pioneering aviator | |
Dave Williams | 1979 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player |
Barrett Willoughby | 1959 | writer | ||
Charles Wood | 1916 | 1978 | Iditarod, Kodiak | singer and actor in Broadway musicals |
Roger L. Worsley | 1937 | living | Anchorage | educator; vice-chancellor University of Alaska Anchorage, 1978 to 1985 |
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S. Hall Young | 1847 | 1927 | Fairbanks, Fort Wrangel | Presbyterian missionary, wilderness companion of John Muir |
People associated with Alaska
- Edward Albee (born 1928), the main person responsible for building the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez to the status it has currently achieved
- Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930), U.S. Army officer who conducted a famous expedition of Alaska's interior in 1885, largely through the Copper and Tanana River drainages
- Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), frequently passed through Alaska in his travels
- Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918), whose 19th-century published history of Alaska, part of a larger series, formed an important foundation for later study of Alaskan history
- Alexander Baranof (1746-1819)
- Vitus Bering (1681-1741), made the first recorded European sighting of Alaska
- Hale Boggs (1914-1972), member of the U.S. House from Louisiana, who disappeared on a flight in Alaska along with freshman colleague Nick Begich while helping Begich campaign for reelection
- Jackson Browne (born 1948), stated in a 1980s interview that he was conceived in Alaska, while his father was stationed there in the U.S. military
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (1886-1945), military commander of Alaska early in World War II
- Sydney Chapman (1888-1970), mathematician and geophysicist; Advisory Scientific Director of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska from 1951 until his death, where he was largely responsible for building the programs and reputation of the Institute in its early years
- James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer whose voyages included several trips along Alaska's coastline
- William Healey Dall (1845-1927), biologist, hydrographer; explored interior Alaska, charted the Aleutians. America's pre-eminent authority on Alaska 1866-1900
- Brad Davis (born 1955), played briefly for the Anchorage Northern Knights before going on to a long career with the Dallas Mavericks, both as a player and in other capacities
- Edna Ferber (1885-1968), friend of Ernest Gruening; following the success of Giant, was convinced by Gruening to write Ice Palace as a tool to promote Alaskan statehood
- Joseph Hazelwood (born 1946), captain of the Exxon Valdez when it ran aground and spilled oil in 1989
- Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), captain of the USRC Corwin and USRC Bear when they were the only law enforcement presence north of Sitka
- Eric Holmback (1924-1965), a professional wrestler of the 1950s and 1960s known as "Yukon Eric," was billed (declared by the promoter and/or ring announcer as hailing) from Fairbanks. Other wrestlers, such as Jay York (who was also briefly a member of the rock group Delaney & Bonnie) and King Kong Bundy (while wrestling in Texas during the early 1980s), also portrayed wrestling personas associated with Alaska.
- Michio Hoshino (1952-1996), photographer.
- Jack London (1876-1916), writer
- Christopher McCandless (1968-1992), hiker, ad hoc adventurer
- John Muir (1838-1914), writer, explorer, naturalist; made and wrote about several trips to Alaska; explored Glacier Bay
- Wiley Post (1898–1935), aviator who died in a plane crash in Alaska along with Will Rogers (see below) while making a flight through the territory
- Ralph Regula (born 1924), longtime member of the U.S. House representing Canton, Ohio, the hometown of William McKinley. Regula devoted much of his career to preserving McKinley's legacy, and maintained a decades-long effort in Congress to prevent the renaming of Mount McKinley to its native name Denali.
- Will Rogers (1879–1935), actor and humorist, died in a plane crash in Alaska along with Wiley Post while making a flight through the territory
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958), due to influence from Gold Rush migration across the North Country, Service became Alaskans' most well-loved poet, despite actually living in the Yukon Territory.
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), frequently passed through Alaska in his travels
- Timothy Treadwell (1957-2003), bear enthusiast
- Naomi Uemura (1941-1984), adventurer, mountain climber, died while attempting a solo ascent of Mount McKinley
- Bradford Washburn (1910-2007), mountaineer, geographer
- Cal Worthington (1920–2013), purchased Anchorage dealership Friendly Ford in 1976 and renamed it Cal Worthington Ford, which his company still owns and operates along with other Anchorage dealerships. He has been a ubiquitous figure on Anchorage television for decades, as well as the subject of parodies and other cultural depictions originating from Alaska.
See also
Elected officials
- List of Governors of Alaska
- List of lieutenant governors of Alaska
- List of mayors of Anchorage, Alaska
- List of mayors of Cordova, Alaska
- List of mayors of Fairbanks, Alaska
- List of mayors of Juneau, Alaska
- List of Speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives
- List of United States Senators from Alaska
- United States congressional delegations from Alaska
Others
- List of Alaskan aviators
- List of Alaskan Hall of Fame pilots
- List of athletes from Alaska
- List of Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court
References
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