List of Famous people born in Alaska, United States of America
Kelly Moneymaker
Kelly Susan Moneymaker is an American singer, songwriter, and producer.
Hayley DuMond
Chanel Preston
Chanel Preston is an American pornographic actress and the Penthouse magazine Penthouse Pet for March 2012. She entered the adult film industry in 2010.
Morgan Kibby
Morgan Grace Kibby, also known by the stage name White Sea, is an American actress, singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. She has been an actress in 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd from 1999 to 2002. She has fronted The Romanovs and has collaborated and toured with M83. In recent years she has developed a solo project called White Sea, releasing an EP The Frontier and an album In Cold Blood (2014). After the release of In Cold Blood, she began regularly releasing singles throughout 2015 and 2016 under a new maxim—to release music independent of EPs or albums. She also composed the score of Eva Husson's movie, Bang Gang in 2016.
Vincent K. Brooks
Vincent Keith Brooks is a retired United States Army general who last commanded United States Forces Korea, United Nations Command, and ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command. He previously served as the commanding general of United States Army Pacific and prior to that as the commanding general of Third Army. Brooks was the United States Central Command Deputy Director of Operations during the War in Iraq, and frequently briefed the media, which raised his public profile. He also served as the Chief of Army Public Affairs The Pentagon. He was the deputy commander of 1st Cavalry Division in Baghdad during the 2006–2008 "surge" and upon returning to the United States became the commanding general of the same division. He later was commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division. Brooks assumed command in Korea on April 30, 2016 and was succeeded by Robert B. Abrams in November 2018, and he retired on January 1, 2019.
Velma Wallis
Velma May Wallis is a Native American writer of Gwich'in Athabascan Indian descent. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Jennifer Lyons in the 1984 romantic comedy film Blame It on Rio.
Lindsey Holmes
Lindsey S. Holmes is a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 26th District since 2006. She was a registered Democrat until she changed parties and joined the Alaska House Majority Coalition on January 12, 2013. Holmes declined to run for another term in 2014.
Dan Sullivan
Daniel Albert Sullivan is an American businessman and politician and a member of the Republican Party from the state of Alaska who served as the Mayor of Anchorage from 2009 to 2015 and on the Anchorage Assembly from 1999 to 2008. The son of Anchorage's longest-serving mayor, George M. Sullivan, he was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in the 2014 election but he and incumbent Governor Sean Parnell were defeated by the ticket of Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott.
Ray Mala
Ray Mala was a prominent Native American Hollywood actor. He was one of Hollywood's Native American movie actors along with other Native American actors Lillian St. Cyr, Jesse Cornplanter, Chief Yowlachie, William Eagle Shirt, and Will Rogers who also had successful careers during that time. Mala's career peaked in the 1930s and he was best known for his lead role in Republic Pictures' 14-part serial Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936) following his feature role in MGM's Eskimo, directed by Woody Van Dyke. He was named a "Top Ten Alaskan" by TIME Magazine in 2009.