List of Famous people born in Idaho, United States of America
Taysom Hill
Taysom Shawn Hill is an American football quarterback and utility player for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars.
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. As the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
Elizabeth Prelogar
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar is an American attorney currently serving as solicitor general of the United States. She became solicitor general on October 28, 2021. She served as acting solicitor general from January 20, at the start of the Biden Administration, until President Biden sent her nomination to the U.S. Senate on August 11, 2021, when the terms of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 prevented her from serving while the nomination is before the Senate.
Bryan Harsin
Bryan Dale Harsin is an American football and head coach at Auburn University. Prior to leading the Auburn Tigers, he coached the Boise State University Broncos from the 2014 season through the 2020 season. He began his head coaching career at Arkansas State University for the 2013 season. Harsin was the co-offensive coordinator at the University of Texas for two seasons. Before leaving for Texas in 2011, Harsin was an assistant at Boise State for ten seasons, the last five as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Bowe Bergdahl
Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl is a United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan after he deserted.
Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul Sturtevant is an American actor and producer. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won several awards, including the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2014), Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film (2013), and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. This made him one of only two actors to win the latter category three times, since its separation into comedy and drama. He has also won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television three times, more than any other actor in that category. He reprised the role of Pinkman six years after the end of the series in the 2019 Netflix film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, earning further critical acclaim.
Jan Broberg Felt
Jan Broberg Felt is an American actress, singer and dancer.
Jerramy Stevens
Jerramy Ryan Stevens is a former American football tight end.
Leighton Vander Esch
Leighton Vander Esch is an American football linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Boise State University.
Torrie Wilson
Torrie Anne Wilson is an American model, fitness competitor, blogger, actress and professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in World Wrestling Entertainment under her real name Torrie Wilson.