List of Famous people born in Washington, United States of America
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.
Jimmy Wong
James Franklin Wong is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his 2011 music video, "Ching Chong: Asians in the Library Song" and for his role as Ted in the web series Video Game High School. In 2017, he and YouTuber Meghan Camarena co-hosted the video game themed variety show Polaris Primetime, which was created as part of Disney's "D|XP" programming block on Disney XD.
KJ Sawka
Kevin Joseph "KJ" Sawka, better known by his stage name KJ Sawka, is an American musician, record producer, and DJ. He plays drums in the bands Pendulum and Destroid.
John Edward Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University.
Michelle Harrison
Michelle Harrison is an American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Nora Allen in the CW series The Flash, as well as the feature film Hit n' Strum.
Pamela Roylance
Tobi Vail
Tobi Celeste Vail is an American independent musician, music critic and feminist activist from Olympia, Washington. She was a central figure in the riot grrl scene—she coined the spelling of "grrl"—and she started the zine Jigsaw. A drummer, guitarist and singer, she was a founding member of the band Bikini Kill. Vail has collaborated in several other bands figuring in the Olympia music scene. Vail writes for eMusic.
Randy Fullmer
Randall Wyn Fullmer is an American businessman and former executive for The Walt Disney Company. After a successful eighteen-year career at Walt Disney Feature Animation, Fullmer launched his own business, Wyn Guitars, through which he handcrafts bass guitars of his own design, often in close collaboration with the intended instrument owners.
Alma Bennett
Alma Bennett (born Alma Long; April 9, 1904 – September 16, 1958 was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 64 films between 1919 and 1931.
Gregory C. Johnson
Gregory Carl "Ray J" Johnson, , is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and NASA astronaut. He spent his military career in both, the United States Navy and the Navy Reserve. Johnson was the Pilot on Space Shuttle mission STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.