List of Famous people born in New Mexico, United States of America
Bryce Alford
Bryce Michael Alford is an American professional basketball player for S.L. Benfica of Portugal's Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (LPB). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. He set school records for the most three-point field goals made in a game, season, and career. He earned first-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 as a senior in 2016–17.
Forrest Goodluck
Forrest Goodluck is a Native American actor. He is best known for playing Hugh Glass's son Hawk in the 2015 film The Revenant, and for his supporting role as Adam Red Eagle, a two-spirit teenager sent to a conversion therapy camp, in the 2018 British-American film The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Goodluck most recently guest-starred in the Netflix miniseries, The Liberator, which was released on Veterans Day, November 11, 2020.
Shawnacy Barber
Shawnacy Campbell "Shawn" Barber is a Canadian track and field athlete specialising in the pole vault. He is the former world champion in pole vault having won the event with a height of 5.90 m at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing. Barber also became a Pan American Games champion in winning the 2015 edition of the Games with a height of 5.80 m. Barber won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as well.
Ken Giles
Kenneth Robert Giles is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays.
Scott Tipton
Scott Randall Tipton is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district. In November 2010, he defeated three-term Democratic incumbent John Salazar, to whom he lost by a wide margin in 2006. A Republican, he was previously a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In 2020, Tipton lost renomination to Republican primary challenger Lauren Boebert in what was considered a major upset.
Madolyn Smith Osborne
Madolyn Smith is an American former actress. She is known for her roles in the films Urban Cowboy (1980), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), and Funny Farm (1988).
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike.
Jeff Bhasker
Jeff Bhasker, also known as Billy Kraven and U.G.L.Y., is an American record producer, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. He collaborated with rapper and producer Kanye West on the albums 808s & Heartbreak, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Watch the Throne. He has won Grammy Awards for the songs "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, "All of the Lights" by Kanye West, "We Are Young" by Fun., and "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson. Bhasker received the 2016 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for co-producing Mark Ronson's album Uptown Special and producing Nate Ruess's album Grand Romantic.
Greg Baldwin
Gregory Dean Baldwin is an American actor and voice actor. He often serves as a voice double for actor Mako Iwamatsu.
Angela Magaña
Angela Magaña is an American mixed martial artist who formerly competed in the Straw-weight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is also known for competing on The Ultimate Fighter 20 for Team Melendez.