List of Famous people born in Idaho, United States of America
James F. Reilly
James Francis Reilly II is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. He flew on three space shuttle missions: STS-89, STS-104 and STS-117.
Brandon Molale
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.
Mike Simpson
Michael Keith Simpson is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in the 1998 elections, succeeding Mike Crapo. Simpson previously served as an Idaho State Representative (1984–1998) and was Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives from 1992 to 1998.
Carolyn Talcott
Carolyn Talcott is an American computer scientist known for work in formal reasoning, especially as it relates to computers, cryptanalysis and systems biology. She is currently the program director of the Symbolic Systems Biology group at SRI International.
Kaitlyn Farrington
Kaitlyn Brooke Farrington is an American former professional snowboarder who grew up on a cattle ranch near Bellevue, Idaho, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She won the gold medal in the women's half-pipe competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Prior to her Olympic debut, she competed in the 2010 European Winter X Games and won the gold medal.
Frank Shrontz
Frank Anderson Shrontz is an American corporate executive and former government official. He is the former CEO and chairman of the Boeing Company.
Daniel B. Cathcart
Daniel B. Cathcart was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was born in Idaho and died in Los Angeles, California.
Georgia Coleman
Georgia V. Coleman was an American diver. She competed in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics and won one gold, one bronze and two silver medals. Domestically she collected 11 AAU titles.
David H. Bieter
David Harold Bieter is an American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Boise from 2004 to 2020. He is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. According to The New York Times, he was the only Basque-speaking mayor in the United States as of 2012.