List of Famous people with last name Nelson

Philip Nelson is an American football quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Tyka Evene Nelson is an American singer. She is the daughter of jazz musician John L. Nelson (1916–2001) and Mattie Della Shaw (1933–2002), and the sister of Prince (1958–2016). In addition, she has seven half-siblings.

Steven Nelson is an American football cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oregon State.

Marc K. Nelson is an American singer and songwriter. His mother was the late American singer Phyllis Nelson, best known for the songs "I Like You" and "Move Closer". He was an original member of Boyz II Men while still attending Philadelphia's High School of Performing Arts. However, Nelson left the group to pursue a solo career before they released their first album.

Jamarcus Jermaine "J. J." Nelson is an American football wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He has also played for the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers.

Paula Carlene Nelson is an American country music singer and disc jockey. She is the daughter of country music singer and musician Willie Nelson.

Maximo Nelson is a professional baseball pitcher who is currently free agent. Nelson played for Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball from 2008 to 2012.

Kirsten Nelson is an American actress and director best known for her role as police chief Karen Vick on the TV series Psych.

Ian Michael Nelson is an American actor. He played the teen version of were-wolf Derek Hale in the television series Teen Wolf, Eric Palmer in the drama film The Judge, and Andy in the Hulu series There's...Johnny!.

Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Other honors include the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.