List of Famous people born in Arizona, United States of America
Michelle Branch
Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums: The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with Santana for "The Game of Love".
Blake Martinez
Blake Edmon Martinez is an American football inside linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He attended Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona before attending Stanford University on a scholarship. At Stanford, he was a two-year starter at linebacker for the Cardinal where he was named to the first-team All-Pac-12 team in 2015. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
Matthew Tkachuk
Matthew Tkachuk is an American professional ice hockey winger and alternate captain for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tkachuk was selected sixth overall at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft by the Flames.
Tracy Cortez
Tracy Cortez is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Jessi Colter
Mirriam Johnson, known professionally as Jessi Colter, is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaborations with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings, and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa".
Camden Pulkinen
Camden Pulkinen is an American figure skater. He is the 2017 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, two-time JGP Austria champion, and 2018 U.S. national junior champion. He finished within the top six at the 2018 World Junior Championships. He is the former world record holder for the junior men's short program.
Paris Dennard
Paris Perrial Dennard is an American conservative political speaker. He previously worked in the Administration of President George W. Bush, the Republican National Committee (RNC), and has appeared as a conservative commentator on many national outlets including CNN and NPR, and is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Paul Silas
Paul Theron Silas is an American former professional basketball player and former NBA head coach.
Alex Bowman
Alex Michael Bowman is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE for Hendrick Motorsports. He owns a Dirt Midget team named Alex Bowman Racing.
Dallas Braden
Dallas Lee Braden is a former American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics from 2007 through 2011. Listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and 185 pounds (84 kg), he both threw and batted left-handed.