• Tim Allen - comedian and actor
• Victor Amaya - professional tennis player
• India.Arie - Neo-Soul singer[3
• Philip Bailey - R&B lead singer with Earth, Wind & Fire
• Chauncey Billups - starting point guard for the NBA's Denver Nuggets
• Sierra Boggess - stage actress
• Joseph Castanon - actor
• Duane "Dog" Chapman - bounty hunter
• Beth Chapman - bounty hunter
• Mary Coyle Chase - playwright, author of Harvey
• Ashly DelGrosso - professional dancer who appeared on Dancing with the Stars
• John Desmond - architect
• John Dolan - writer
• Jack Earle - silent film actor and sideshow performer, known for his massive height
• John Eisenhower - son of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Douglas Fairbanks - actor, screenwriter, director and producer
• David Fincher - music video and film director
• John Grahame - NHL goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes
• Rodolfo Gonzales - Chicano Movement activist [now deceased
• Hanna R. Hall - actress
• Roy Halladay - Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Pat Hingle - actor
• Joe Klopfenstein - NFL tight end for the St. Louis Rams
• Daniel M. Lewin - mathematician and entrepreneur who died on American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001 attacks
• Jacqueline Madera - Miss Colorado USA 2006
• Tom Martino - consumer advocate and syndicated talk radio host
• James D. Parriott - writer, director, & producer
• Joseph C. Phillips - actor and political commentator
• Dean Reed - actor and singer-songwriter
• AnnaSophia Robb - actress
• Jerry Robertson - NASCAR driver
• Reese Roper - singer-songwriter
• Karl Rove - former Deputy White House Chief of Staff to George W. Bush
• Michael Ruffin - professional basketball player in the NBA
• 2 Cold Scorpio - professional wrestler
• Alan K. Simpson - Republican politician who served from 1979-97 as a United States Senator from Wyoming
• Isaac Slade - member of the band, The Fray (band)
• Jill Sobule - singer-songwriter
• Stephen Stohn - Canadian television producer (Degrassi)
• Tom Tancredo - Republican congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives
• The Fray - rock band
• Eve Torres - actress and model, currently working for WWE as a backstage interviewer and occasional wrestler
• Jan-Michael Vincent - actor
• Frank Welker, famed cartoon voice actor
• LenDale White - NFL running back, played for the University of Southern California
• Kip Winger - Lead singer and bass guitarist of the glam metal band Winger.
• Ace Young - pop-music singer-songwriter, American Idol finalist
• Bird Millman O’Day (October 20, 1890[1] – August 5, 1940) born Jennadean Engleman in Cañon City, Colorado, was the most celebrated female high-wire performer of all time. During the “Golden Age of the American Circus,” she was a premiere attraction with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Born elsewhere, raised in Denver

These people were raised in Denver in their childhood years but were born elsewhere.

• Joe Guese - guitarist of The Click Five, born in Omaha, Nebraska
• Neal Cassady - the beat generation icon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Leland Chapman - bounty hunter, born in Pampa, Texas
• Duane Lee Chapman Jr - bounty hunter, born in Pampa, Texas
• Don Cheadle - born in Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from East High School
• Ted Conover - journalist and author, born in Okinawa, Japan
• Judy Collins - folk singer, born in Seattle, Washington, graduated from East High School
• Donnette Thayer - songwriter, singer, graduated from East High School
• Madhuri Dixit - Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon, born in Mumbai, India
• Bill Frisell - jazz guitarist and composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Pam Grier - born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attended East High School in Denver
• Vance Kirkland- artist, born in Ohio
• Hattie McDaniel - actress, born in Wichita, Kansas
• Pat Oliphant - editorial cartoonist, born in Adelaide, Australia
• Mamie Eisenhower - former First Lady, born in Boone, Iowa.
• Golda Meir - former Prime Minister of Israel, lived in Denver for a time as a teenager. Born in Kiev, Ukraine
• Dianne Reeves - Jazz vocalist, winner of 4 Grammy awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, graduated from George Washington High School. Born in Detroit, Michigan
• Matt Stone - creator of South Park television show, born in Houston, Texas, raised in Littleton (south of Denver)
• Lenora Mattingly Weber - writer, born in Missouri

Denver transplants

These people lived in Denver as an adult, and were born and raised elsewhere.

• Charles Adams, United States military officer and foreign minister1
• Carmelo Anthony - professional basketball player for Denver Nuggets, formerly of Syracuse University, born in New York City
• Anthony R. Barringer - geophysicist and inventor
• Molly Brown - survivor of Titanic accident, born in Hannibal, Missouri
• George Elbert Burr - early 20th century American artist, known for landscape paintings of the Rocky Mountains
• Jerome B. Chaffee - Colorado Senator, born in Cambria, New York, raised in Adrian, Michigan, founded Denver
• Madhuri Dixit - Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon. Dixit was born in Mumbai, India
• John Elway - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos from 1983-98, owner of the Colorado Crush, Arena Football League. Born in Port Angeles, Washington
• John Hickenlooper - current mayor of Denver, born in Narberth, Pennsylvania
• Frances Wisebart Jacobs - philanthropist, born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, moved to Denver in later life and founded a number of charities based in Denver
• William Larimer, Jr. - founder of Denver, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
• Bat Masterson - lawman, gunfighter, gambler, journalist, born in Canada
• Thomas MacDonald Patterson - U.S. politician, born in County Carlow, Ireland, raised in New York City and Crawfordsville, Indiana
• Federico Peña, Denver attorney and Mayor from 1983-91, born in Laredo, Texas. He went on to serve as Secretary of Transportation and Energy in President Bill Clinton's Presidential Cabinet (1993-1997)
• Wellington Webb - former mayor of Denver
• Condoleezza Rice - US Secretary of State 2005- , born in Birmingham, Alabama
• Andrew J. Rogers (1828-1900) - represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1863-1867, and served as Denver's police commissioner after moving here in 1892.2
• Joe Sakic - National Hockey League centre for the Colorado Avalanche. Born in Burnaby, British Columbia
• Shannon Sharpe - former NFL player for the Denver Broncos, sports commentator, CBS, born in Chicago, Illinois
• Mark Schlereth - former NFL Pro Bowl offensive guard for the Denver Broncos
• Soapy Smith - Denver crime boss from 1885-96.3 born in Coweta County, Georgia
• John Warne - bassist of the Christian rock band Relient K
• Roseanne Barr - comedienne and actress, moved to Denver after high school, worked as a waitress, and got her start doing stand-up at comedy clubs in Denver

Other people associated with Denver