List of Famous people born in Washington, United States of America
Sig Hansen
Sigurd Jonny "Sig" Hansen is an American captain of the fishing vessel F/V Northwestern. Since 2005, Hansen has been featured in each season of the documentary television series Deadliest Catch, serving also as technical advisor for the production.
Colin O'Brady
Colin Timothy O'Brady is an American professional endurance athlete, motivational speaker and adventurer. He is a former professional triathlete, representing the United States on the ITU Triathlon World Cup circuit, racing in 25 countries on six continents from 2009–2015.
Jordan Morris
Jordan Perry Morris is an American soccer player who plays for EFL Championship side Swansea City, on loan from Major League Soccer side Seattle Sounders, as a winger or forward. He also plays for the United States national team. He grew up on Mercer Island, Washington and joined the Sounders youth academy before playing college soccer at Stanford University.
Jimmie Rodgers
James Frederick Rodgers was an American singer. Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles, Hot Country and Western Sides, and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts; in the 1960s, Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary music.
Bob Ferguson
Robert Watson Ferguson is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 18th Attorney General of Washington. A Democrat, he was elected in 2012 and re-elected in 2016 and 2020. Prior to serving as Attorney General, Ferguson was a member of the King County Council.
Jason Terry
Jason Eugene Terry is an American former professional basketball player and current coach. He currently serves as an assistant coach for the Arizona Wildcats. He played 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a combo guard and is nicknamed "The Jet". With the Dallas Mavericks, Terry won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2009 and an NBA championship in 2011. As of March 2020, Terry has made the seventh-most three-point field goals in NBA history.
Ryan Moore
Ryan David Moore is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the PGA Tour. He had a highly successful amateur career, winning the NCAA Individual Championship, the U.S. Amateur Public Links, and the U.S. Amateur in 2004. Since turning professional in 2005 he has won five titles on the PGA Tour as of the 2016 season and earned rankings inside the top thirty in the world.
John Brotherton
John Brotherton is an American actor. He is most known for playing Jared Banks on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and Matt Harmon on Netflix's Fuller House.
Sinitta
Sinitta Malone, known professionally as Sinitta, is an American-born British singer, songwriter, television personality, dancer, actress and record producer. She initially found commercial success in the mid-1980s with the single "So Macho" and had several other hits during the decade. In the 2000s, she became known for television appearances, including Loose Women, The Xtra Factor and This Morning. She took part in the ITV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2011. Her net worth in 2016 was estimated to be £7million.
Gary Larson
Gary Larson is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995, though in September 2019 his website alluded to a "new online era of 'The Far Side.'" On July 8, 2020, Larson released three comics, his first in 25 years. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies.