List of Famous people born in Colorado, United States of America

Paul Samuel 'Pops' Whiteman was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violist.

Christopher Alan Broderick is an American musician, best known as the former guitarist of the American heavy metal band Megadeth. He is also formerly the lead guitarist and keyboardist for Jag Panzer, appearing on four of Jag Panzer's albums The Age of Mastery, Thane to the Throne, Mechanized Warfare and Casting the Stones before moving on to Megadeth, replacing Glen Drover. Before joining Megadeth and while still in Jag Panzer, he was also a touring guitarist for Nevermore between 2001 and 2003 and then again between 2006 and 2007. He is now the lead guitarist for Act of Defiance, which he formed with fellow ex-Megadeth bandmate, Shawn Drover.

Jacqueline Alice Irene Newlin, professionally known as Alice Day, was a film actress who began her career as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.

Enid Markey was an American actress of theater, film, and television. She originated the role of Jane in films, playing the character twice in 1918. Her career extended into the 1960s.

Erskine Sanford was an American actor on the stage, radio and motion pictures. Long associated with the Theatre Guild, he later joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company and appeared in several of Welles's films, including Citizen Kane (1941), in which he played Herbert Carter, the bumbling, perspiring newspaper editor.

Joseph Walker, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who worked on 145 films during a career that spanned 33 years.

Bernard McConville was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 92 films between 1915 and 1946. He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles County, California.

Gene Fowler was an American journalist, author, and dramatist.

Herman Shumlin was a prolific Broadway theatrical director and theatrical producer beginning in 1927 with the play Celebrity and continuing through 1974 with a short run of As You Like It, notably with an all-male cast. He was also the director of two movies, including Watch on the Rhine (1943), which he first directed and produced on Broadway in 1941.

June Mathis was an American screenwriter. Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. Mathis is best remembered for discovering Rudolph Valentino and writing such films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and Blood and Sand (1922).