List of Famous people born in Washington, United States of America
Janis Paige
Janis Paige is an American actress and singer. Paige is considered to be one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Heather Boushey
Heather Marie Boushey is an American economist. She is the president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She has also worked as an economist at the Center for American Progress and the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee.
Allison H. Eid
Allison Hartwell Eid is a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit who previously served as the 95th Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Maiara Walsh
Maiara Kylior Walsh is a Brazilian-American actress and singer. She played Ana Solis on the sixth season of the ABC show Desperate Housewives, Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and Simone Sinclair on the ABC Family series Switched at Birth.
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She has performed as a vocalist on a number of film soundtracks. She has won two Grammy Awards, in 1983 for the Joe Cocker duet "Up Where We Belong" and in 1988 for the Bill Medley duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". Warnes is also noted for her close collaborations with Leonard Cohen.
Jim Lemley
Jim Lemley is an American film and television producer based in Paris best known for his work on the action-thriller film Wanted.
Vic Wild
Victor Ivan "Vic" Wild is an American-born Russian snowboarder.
Rebecca Corry
Rebecca Corry is an American comedian, writer, and actress.
Casey Urlacher
Casey Urlacher is an American politician and former football player. He has been the mayor of Mettawa, Illinois since 2013. Urlacher previously played football in the Arena Football League for two seasons for the Chicago Rush and Nashville Kats. He is the brother of former National Football League linebacker Brian Urlacher.
Maurice Smith
Maurice L. Smith is a retired American kickboxer and mixed martial artist. In kickboxing, he held the WKC world light heavyweight championship, the WKA world heavyweight championship, and the ISKA world heavyweight championship. In mixed martial arts, he held the Heavyweight championship in Battlecade Extreme Fighting and the UFC, and became a member of the UFC Hall of Fame in 2017. A professional competitor since 1980, Smith has formerly competed in kickboxing for the companies All Japan Enterprise and K-1, Pancrase, RINGS, PRIDE, Strikeforce, International Fight League and RFA.