List of people from Alaska

Flag of Alaska Location of Alaska in the United States Artis the Spoonman Rex Beach Carlos Boozer Susan Butcher Callan Chythlook-Sifsof Mario Chalmers Robert Crawford Jimmy Doolittle William Duncan Wyatt Earp Mike Gravel Ernest Gruening Wally Hickel Robin Hobb Sheldon Jackson Kevin Johansen Levi Johnston Joseph Juneau Gunnar Kaasen Jewel Kilcher Sydney Laurence Lance Mackey Holly Madison Ray Mala Andre Marrou Drew Meekins Tommy Moe Lisa Murkowski William Oefelein Bristol Palin Sarah Palin Peter the Aleut Valerie Plame Amerie Rogers Larry Sanger Curt Schilling Mark Schlereth Molly Smith Soapy Smith Steve Smith Ted Stevens Robert Stroud Nate Thompson Archie Van Winkle

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John Luther Adams | 1953 | living | Fairbanks | classical music composer

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Syun-Ichi Akasofu | 1930 | living | Fairbanks | geophysicist, aurora researcher, recently a participant in climate change debate
Baked Alaska | 1987  | living | Anchorage | white supremacist
Christian Allen | 1976 | living | Eagle River | video game designer
Alvin Eli Amason | 1948 | living | Fairbanks, Kodiak | painter, sculptor
Artis the Spoonman | 1948 | living | Kodiak | street musician, subject of the song by Soundgarden
Peter J. Aschenbrenner | 1948 | living | Fairbanks | author self-help legal books
Lena Atti | 1926 | 2020 | Kwigillingok | artist expert at traditional grass weaving

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Tony Barnette | 1983 | living | Anchorage | MLB player for the Texas Rangers

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Laird Barron | 1970 | living | Palmer | sled dog racer, writer
Rex Beach | 1877 | 1949 | Nome, Rampart | writer; one of many participants in the Nome Gold Rush and related events who became famous elsewhere (see below for other examples)
Marty Beckerman | 1983 | living | Anchorage | writer
Irene Bedard | 1967 | living | Anchorage | actress; voice actor for Pocahontas
Mark Begich | 1962 | living | Anchorage | U.S. Senator from 2009 to 2015, Mayor from 2003 to 2009, son of Nick Begich Sr. and brother of Tom Begich
Tom Begich | 1960 | living | Anchorage | Former Minority Leader of the Alaska Senate, son of Nick Begich Sr. and brother of Mark Begich
Benny Benson | 1913 | 1972 | Chignik, Unalaska, Seward, Ugaiushak Island, Kodiak | designer of the Flag of Alaska
Chad Bentz | 1980 | living | Juneau, Seward | major league baseball pitcher
Bill Berry | 1926 | 1979 | Fairbanks | painter, cartoonist
Lydia Black | 1925 | 2007 | Fairbanks, Kodiak | anthropologist, linguist
Annalee Blysse |  |  |  | romance novelist
Tom Bodett | 1955 | living | Homer | writer, commentator, voice actor
Carlos Boozer | 1981 | living | Juneau | power forward for the Chicago Bulls who won an Olympic Bronze medal
Lincoln Brewster | 1971 | living | Fairbanks, Homer | musician, singer-songwriter
Justin Buchholz | 1983 | living | Fairbanks | mixed martial artist
Kira Buckland | 1987 | living | Anchorage | animation voice actress
David Bullock | 1993 | living | Anchorage | American tech entrepreneur and media executive
Martin Buser | 1958 | living | Big Lake | sled dog racer
Jon Butcher | 1950 | living | Clear | guitarist and songwriter best known for fronting 1980s band Jon Butcher Axis
Susan Butcher | 1954 | 2006 | Fairbanks, Wrangell Mountains | sled dog racer, four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

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Marian Call | 1982 | living | Anchorage, Juneau | singer-songwriter

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Matt Carle | 1984 | living | Anchorage | NHL hockey player
Chad Carpenter |  | living | Eagle River, Wasilla | cartoonist, creator of Tundra
William F. Cassidy | 1908 | 2002 | Nome | U.S. Army lieutenant general
Shawn Chacón | 1977 | living | Anchorage | Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher
Mario Chalmers | 1986 | living | Anchorage | Miami Heat point guard who won the 2011 3-point contest
Valentina Chepiga | 1962 | living | Anchorage | IFBB professional bodybuilder
Quinn Christopherson |  | living | Anchorage  | singer-songwriter
Callan Chythlook-Sifsof | 1989 | living | Aleknagik, Girdwood | snowboarder, 2010 Olympics team member, Alaska Native activist
Corey Cogdell | 1986 | living | Anchorage | trapshooter, two-time Olympic bronze medal winner in the Women's Trap
Daryn Colledge | 1982 | living | North Pole | Miami Dolphins football player
Ty Conklin | 1976 | living | Anchorage | former professional hockey player
Robert Crawford | 1899 | 1961 | Fairbanks | early singer-songwriter, composer of "The U.S. Air Force"
Aaron Cunningham | 1986 | living | Anchorage | San Diego Padres outfielder

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Nora Marks Dauenhauer | 1927 | 2017 | Juneau | writer

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T. Neil Davis | 1932 | 2016 | Fairbanks, North Pole | geophysicist, writer
Dale DeArmond | 1914 | 2006 | Juneau, Ketchikan, Pelican, Sitka | printmaker
R. N. DeArmond | 1911 | 2010 | Juneau, Ketchikan, Pelican, Sitka | historian, journalist, writer
Mahala Ashley Dickerson | 1912 | 2007 | Anchorage, Wasilla | lawyer, civil rights activist, mother of bodybuilder Chris Dickerson
Traci Dinwiddie | 1973 | living | Anchorage | actress
Buckwheat Donahue | 1951 | 2019 | Nome | folklorist
Jimmy Doolittle | 1896 | 1993 | Nome | World War II general and hero
Brandon Dubinsky | 1986 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player
William Duncan | 1832 | 1918 | Metlakatla | Anglican lay missionary, brought a group of Tsimshian Indians from Canada to Annette Island, founding Metlakatla

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Kate Earl | 1981 | living | Anchorage, Chugiak | singer-songwriter

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Carl Ben Eielson | 1897 | 1929 | Fairbanks | pioneering aviator

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Dana Fabe | 1951 | living | Anchorage | first female associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court

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Claire Fejes | 1920 | 1998 | Fairbanks | artist, writer
Rosey Fletcher | 1975 | living | Anchorage | Olympic snowboarder
Corey Flintoff | 1946 | living | Fairbanks | National Public Radio correspondent

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Vivica Genaux | 1969 | living | Fairbanks | opera singer

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Ray Genet | 1931 | 1979 | Talkeetna | mountaineer, guide
Scott Gomez | 1979 | living | Anchorage | Florida Panthers hockey player
Katherine Gottlieb | ca. 1952 | living | Anchorage, Old Harbor, Seldovia | president of Southcentral Foundation, MacArthur Fellow
John Gourley | 1981 | living | Willow | musician, lead singer of Portugal. The Man
Mike Gravel | 1930 | 2021 | Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula | U.S. Senator of Pentagon Papers fame
Kelsey Griffin | 1987 | living | Eagle River | basketball player for multiple teams in both the WNBA and Australian WNBL; also played for the Australia national team
Max Gruenberg | 1943 | 2016 | Juneau | member of the Alaska House of Representatives
Ernest Gruening | 1887 | 1974 | Juneau | journalist, writer, territorial governor, U.S. Senator

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John Haines | 1924 | 2011 | Big Delta, Fairbanks | poet, former Alaska poet laureate

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Benjamin Haldane | 1874 | 1941 | Metlakatla | photographer
Travis Hall | 1972 | living | Soldotna | San Francisco 49ers football player
Walter Harper | 1892 | 1918 | Tanana | made the first recorded ascent of Denali
Richard Harris | 1833 | 1907 | Juneau | gold prospector, co-founder of Juneau
Ernestine Hayes | 1945 | living | Juneau | writer
Ruthy Hebard | 1998 | living | Fairbanks | WNBA basketball player with the Chicago Sky
Willie Hensley | 1941 | living | Kotzebue, Anchorage | advocate for Alaska Native rights
Herman of Alaska | 1756 | 1837 | Kodiak Island | Orthodox saint
C. "Rusty" Heurlin | 1895 | 1986 | Barrow, Ester, Valdez | painter
Wally Hickel | 1919 | 2010 | Anchorage | industrialist, twice governor, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Robin Hobb | 1952 | living | Kodiak | fantasy fiction writer
Sam Hoger | 1980 | living | Eagle River | mixed martial artist
Anna Kathryn Holbrook | 1956 | living | Fairbanks | television actress
Sven Holmberg | 1918 | 2003 | Fairbanks | film and television actor
Rick Holmstrom | 1965 | living | Fairbanks | blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
Steve Holt |  | living | Kenai | guitarist and backing vocalist for 36 Crazyfists

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Sheldon Jackson | 1834 | 1909 | Sitka | pioneering Presbyterian missionary, educator, reindeer herder
Lydia Jacoby | 2004 | living | Anchorage, Seward[1] | swimmer, 2020 Summer Olympics team member[2][3]
Kevin Johansen | 1964 | living | Fairbanks | Latin rock musician
Michelle Johnson | 1965 | living | Anchorage | actress
Levi Johnston | 1990 | living | Wasilla | former partner of Bristol Palin and celebrity news personality
Jennifer Jolly | 1971 | living | Kenai | consumer technology journalist and TV broadcaster
Marie Smith Jones | 1918 | 2008 | Anchorage, Cordova | last speaker of the Eyak language
DeeDee Jonrowe | 1953 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Willow | sled dog racer
Joseph Juneau | 1836 | 1899 | Juneau | gold prospector, co-founder and namesake of Juneau

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Gunnar Kaasen | 1882 | 1960 | Nome | sled dog racer

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Peter Kalifornsky | 1911 | 1993 | Kenai Peninsula | ethnographer, writer
Seth Kantner |  | living | Kobuk Valley, Kotzebue | writer
Joan Arend Kickbush | 1926 | 2006 | Anchorage | painter
Jewel Kilcher | 1974 | living | Homer | singer-songwriter, actress
Jeff King | 1956 | living | McKinley Park | sled dog racer
Sara King | 1982 | living | Fairbanks | writer
Tyler Kornfield | 1991 | living | Anchorage | Olympic cross-country skier
Michael E. Krauss | 1934 | 2019 | Fairbanks | linguist
Cy Kuckenbaker |  | living |  | filmmaker
Chris Kuper | 1982 | living | Anchorage | Denver Broncos offensive guard
Natalie Kusz | 1962 | living |  | memoirist
Randy Kutcher | 1960 | living | Anchorage | major league baseball outfielder

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Trajan Langdon | 1976 | living | Anchorage | retired basketball player, most notably the Cleveland Cavaliers and CSKA Moscow

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Austin E. Lathrop | 1865 | 1950 | Anchorage, Cordova, Fairbanks, Valdez | businessman, one of the strongest Alaskan opponents of statehood
Sydney Laurence | 1865 | 1940 | Anchorage, Valdez, Talkeetna | landscape painter
Ernest Leffingwell | 1875 | 1971 | Flaxman Island | explorer and geologist
Hilary Lindh | 1969 | living | Juneau | alpine ski racer
Segundo Llorente | 1906 | 1989 | Alakanuk, Anchorage, Bethel, Cordova, Fairbanks, Kotzebue, Sheldon Point | Jesuit priest, elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1960, becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature; also a widely published writer on Alaska in his native Spain

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Fred Machetanz | 1908 | 2002 | Palmer, Unalakleet | painter

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Dick Mackey |  | living | Coldfoot | sled dog racer, early winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Lance Mackey | 1970 | 2022[4] | Fairbanks, Fox | sled dog racer, four time Yukon Quest and four time Iditarod winner
Edna Ahgeak MacLean | 1944  | living | Utqiaġvik, Sitka, Anchorage, Fairbanks  | an Iñupiaq linguist, anthropologist and educator specializing in the preservation and revitalization of the Iñupiaq language.
Holly Madison | 1979 | living | Craig | model, television personality
Ray Mala | 1906 | 1952 | Candle | actor, cinematographer
Andre Marrou | 1938 | living | Anchorage, Homer | the third Libertarian to be elected to a U.S. state legislature (all from Alaska to that point), later became the party's vice presidential and presidential nominee
Edward Marsden | 1869 | 1932 | Saxman, Metlakatla, Sitka | Tsimshian Presbyterian missionary and activist, first Alaska Native to be ordained
Robert Marshall | 1901 | 1939 | Wiseman | wilderness activist, writer; wrote Arctic Village about his experiences in Wiseman
Bristol Marunde | 1982 | living | Fairbanks | mixed martial artist
Jesse Marunde | 1979 | 2007 | Glennallen | strongman competitor
Carl McCunn | 1946 | 1981 | Anchorage | photographer, adventurer; committed suicide when stranded in the wilderness in northern Alaska
Mel McDaniel | 1942 | 2011 | Anchorage | country music singer-songwriter
Linious "Mac" McGee | 1897 | 1988 | Anchorage, Seward | pioneering aviator
Drew Meekins | 1985 | living | Juneau | pairs figure skater
Russel Merrill | 1894 | 1929 | Anchorage, Ketchikan | pioneering aviator
Dan Mintz | 1981 | living | Anchorage | comedian, writer, and actor
Tommy Moe | 1970 | living | Girdwood, Palmer, Wasilla | skier, gold medal winner at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Patricia Monaghan | 1946 | 2012 |  | poet, writer
Kelly Moneymaker | 1970 | living | Fairbanks | singer, most notably with Exposé
Shannyn Moore | 1970 | living | Homer | blogger, political activist
James Morrison | 1954 | living | Anchorage | actor, 24
Joshua Morrow | 1974 | living | Juneau | actor, singer
Margaret Murie | 1902 | 2003 | Fairbanks | "grandmother of the conservation movement"
Frank Murkowski | 1933 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Wrangell | U.S. Senator from 1981 to 2002, Governor from 2002 to 2006, father of Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski | 1957 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Wrangell | U.S. Senator who was reelected as a write-in candidate in 2010, daughter of Frank Murkowski

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Jacob Netsvetov | 1802 | 1864 | Atka, Sitka | Orthodox saint

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William Oefelein | 1965 | living | Anchorage | astronaut

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Laurie Olin | 1938 | living |  | landscape architect
Norman Olson | 1946 | living | Nikiski | militia activist

* Rashard Odomes (born 1996), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League

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Dorothy Page | 1921 | 1989 | Wasilla | co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

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Bristol Palin | 1990 | living | Wasilla | daughter of Sarah and Todd Palin, former contestant on Dancing with the Stars
Sarah Palin | 1964 | living | Eagle River, Skagway, Wasilla | youngest and first female governor, 2008 Republican nominee for U.S. vice president
Todd Palin | 1964 | living | Dillingham, Wasilla | ex-husband of Sarah Palin, champion snowmobile racer
Rudy Pankow | 1998 | living | Ketchikan, Alaska | actor, most notably on the Netflix original, Outer Banks.
Virgil Partch | 1916 | 1984 | St. Paul | cartoonist
William Paul | 1885 | 1977 | Tongass Village, Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau | Native rights activist, first Alaska Native attorney
Mary Peltola | 1973 | living | Anchorage | U.S. Representative, former Member of the Alaska House of Representatives
Elizabeth Peratrovich | 1911 | 1958 | Juneau, Ketchikan, Klawock, Petersburg, Sitka | civil rights activist
Peter the Aleut |  | ca. 1815 | Kodiak | Orthodox saint
Emmitt Peters | 1940 | 2020 | Ruby | sled dog racer, early winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Pat Pitney | 1965 | living | Fairbanks, Juneau | president of the University of Alaska system, 1984 Olympic gold medalist
Valerie Plame | 1963 | living | Anchorage |
Kirsten Powers | 1969 | living | Fairbanks | blogger, political commentator
Chanel Preston | 1985 | living | Fairbanks | pornographic actress

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Kikkan Randall | 1982 | living | Anchorage | Olympic gold medalist cross-country skier

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Sean Rash | 1982 | living | Anchorage | professional tenpin bowler
Joe Redington | 1917 | 1999 | Knik | sled dog racer, co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Robert Campbell Reeve | 1902 | 1980 | Anchorage, Valdez | pioneering aviator
Wilds P. Richardson | 1861 | 1929 | Valdez | Army officer, headed Alaska Roads Commission
Tex Rickard | 1870 | 1929 | Juneau, Nome | Old West figure, boxing promoter; lived in Nome during the height of its gold rush, served on the first city council
Libby Riddles | 1956 | living | Shaktoolik, Teller | sled dog racer, first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Libby Roderick | ca. 1958 | living | Anchorage | journalist, singer-songwriter, writer
Amerie Rogers | 1981 | living | Anchorage | pop singer
Paul Rosenthal | 1942 | living | Juneau | violinist, founder of the Sitka Summer Music Festival
Peter Trimble Rowe | 1856 | 1942 | Sitka | Episcopal bishop
Jason Ryznar | 1983 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player

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Larry Sanger | 1968 | living | Anchorage | co-founder of Wikipedia

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Curt Schilling | 1966 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player
Daniel Schlereth | 1986 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player
Mark Schlereth | 1966 | living | Anchorage | professional football player, analyst for ESPN
Brian Schmidt | 1967 | living | Anchorage | astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
Mitch Seavey | 1959 | living | Seward, Sterling | sled dog racer
Charles John Seghers | 1839 | 1886 | Juneau, Nulato, Sitka | pioneering Catholic missionary
Ronald Senungetuk | 1933 | 2020 | Fairbanks, Homer, Wales | silversmith, sculptor
Leonhard Seppala | 1877 | 1967 | Fairbanks, Nome | sled dog racer, key musher in the 1925 serum run to Nome
Tom Sexton | 1940 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks | Alaska poet laureate
Don Simpson | 1943 | 1996 | Anchorage | film producer
Peter Simpson | 1871 | 1947 | Metlakatla, Sitka | Native rights activist and boatbuilder
Jamie Smith | ca. 1965 | living | Fairbanks | cartoonist, printmaker
Molly Smith |  | living | Douglas | theater director
Soapy Smith | 1860 | 1898 | Skagway | con artist, gangster
Steve Smith | 1985 | living | Anchorage | professional football player
Dana Stabenow | 1952 | living | Anchorage, Seldovia | writer
Darby Stanchfield | 1971 | living | Kodiak, Unalaska | television actress
Ben Stevens | 1959 | living | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Girdwood | Chief of Staff to the Governor of Alaska, Alaskan State Senate President
Ted Stevens | 1923 | 2010 | Anchorage, Fairbanks, Girdwood | longest-serving U.S. Senator from Alaska, Pres. pro tempore of U.S. Senate, father of Ben Stevens.
John Strohmeyer | 1924 | 2010 | Anchorage | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; professor at University of Alaska Anchorage, author of Extreme Conditions
John F. A. Strong | 1856 | 1929 | Iditarod, Juneau, Katalla, Nome, Skagway | founder of what is now Juneau Empire, territorial governor
Robert Stroud | 1890 | 1963 | Juneau | convicted killer known as "The Birdman of Alcatraz"
Stephen Sundborg | 1943 | living |  | president of Seattle University
Jeremy Swayman | 1998 | living | Anchorage | ice hockey goaltender
Rick Swenson | 1950 | living | Manley Hot Springs, Two Rivers | sled dog racer
Jim Sykes | 1950 | living | Anchorage, Palmer, Talkeetna | Green Party politician

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Khleo Thomas | 1989 | living | Anchorage | actor, rapper

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Phoebe Thomas  | 2004  | living | Kenai  | Former child
Lowell Thomas Jr. | 1923 | 2016 | Anchorage, Talkeetna | son of and collaborator with Lowell Thomas; bush pilot, film maker, lecturer, politician, writer
Morris Thompson | 1939 | 2000 | Fairbanks, Tanana | Alaska Native leader, business executive
Nate Thompson | 1984 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player
Ray Troll | 1954 | living | Ketchikan | artist, musician
Kelly Tshibaka | 1979 | living | Palmer | Attorney and politician

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Rachel Uchitel | 1975 | living | Anchorage | media personality; her father was an Anchorage business magnate of the 1970s and 1980s who founded Anchorage's cable television system

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Archie Van Winkle | 1925 | 1986 | Juneau, Ketchikan | Korean War hero

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Paul Varelans | 1969 | 2021 | Fairbanks | mixed martial artist
Norman D. Vaughan | 1905 | 2005 | Eagle River, Trapper Creek | explorer, dog musher
Joe Vogler | 1913 | 1993 | Fairbanks, Kodiak | gold miner and secessionist advocate, became folk hero following his murder

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Jujiro Wada | ca. 1872 | 1937 | Barrow, Fairbanks, Nome | adventurer

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Velma Wallis | 1960 | living | Fairbanks, Fort Yukon | writer
Nathan West | 1978 | living | Anchorage | actor
Mr. Whitekeys | 1947 | living | Fairbanks, Spenard | writer, musician, commentator, satirist
James Wickersham | 1857 | 1939 | Eagle, Fairbanks, Juneau | judge and congressional delegate in the district and territory, made an early recorded ascent of Mount McKinley, compiled an important early bibliography of Alaska
Noel Wien | 1899 | 1977 |  | pioneering aviator
Lael Wilcox |  | living | Anchorage | ultra-endurance bicycle racer
Dave Williams | 1979 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player
Barrett Willoughby | 1901 | 1959 |  | writer
Charles Wood | 1916 | 1978 | Iditarod, Kodiak | singer and actor in Broadway musicals
Roger L. Worsley | 1937 | living | Anchorage | educator; vice-chancellor University of Alaska Anchorage, 1978–1985
Hugh Wade | 1901 | 1995 |  | first secretary of state of Alaska

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S. Hall Young | 1847 | 1927 | Fairbanks, Fort Wrangel | Presbyterian missionary, wilderness companion of John Muir

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## People associated with Alaska

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* Edward Albee (1928–2016), main person responsible for building the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez to the status it has currently achieved
* Henry Tureman Allen (1859–1930), U.S. Army officer who conducted a famous expedition of Alaska's interior in 1885, largely through the Copper and Tanana River drainages
* Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), frequently passed through Alaska in his travels
* Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), whose 19th-century published history of Alaska, part of a larger series, formed an important foundation for later study of Alaskan history
* Alexander Baranof (1746–1819)
* Vitus Bering (1681–1741), made the first recorded European sighting of Alaska
* Hale Boggs (1914–1972), member of the U.S. House from Louisiana, who disappeared on a flight in Alaska along with freshman colleague Nick Begich while helping Begich campaign for reelection
* Jackson Browne (born 1948), stated in a 1980s interview that he was conceived in Alaska, while his father was stationed there in the U.S. military
* Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886–1945), military commander of Alaska early in World War II
* Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), mathematician and geophysicist; Advisory Scientific Director of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska from 1951 until his death, where he was largely responsible for building the programs and reputation of the Institute in its early years
* James Cook (1728–1779), British explorer whose voyages included several trips along Alaska's coastline
* William Healey Dall (1845–1927), biologist, hydrographer; explored interior Alaska, charted the Aleutians; America's pre-eminent authority on Alaska 1866–1900
* Brad Davis (born 1955), played briefly for the Anchorage Northern Knights before going on to a long career with the Dallas Mavericks, both as a player and in other capacities
* Edna Ferber (1885–1968), friend of Ernest Gruening; following the success of Giant, was convinced by Gruening to write Ice Palace as a tool to promote Alaskan statehood
* Joseph Hazelwood (born 1946), captain of the Exxon Valdez when it ran aground and spilled oil in 1989
* Michael A. Healy (1839–1904), captain of the USRC Corwin and USRC Bear when they were the only law enforcement presence north of Sitka
* Eric Holmback (1924–1965), professional wrestler of the 1950s and 1960s known as "Yukon Eric," was billed (declared by the promoter and/or ring announcer as hailing) from Fairbanks. Other wrestlers, such as Jay York (who was also briefly a member of the rock group Delaney & Bonnie) and King Kong Bundy (while wrestling in Texas during the early 1980s), also portrayed wrestling personas associated with Alaska.
* Michio Hoshino (1952–1996), photographer
* Jack London (1876–1916), writer
* Christopher McCandless (1968–1992), hiker, ad hoc adventurer
* John Muir (1838–1914), writer, explorer, naturalist; made and wrote about several trips to Alaska; explored Glacier Bay
* Wiley Post (1898–1935), aviator who died in a plane crash in Alaska along with Will Rogers (see below) while making a flight through the territory
* Ralph Regula (1924–2017), longtime member of the U.S. House representing Canton, Ohio, the hometown of William McKinley. Regula devoted much of his career to preserving McKinley's legacy, and maintained a decades–long effort in Congress to prevent the renaming of Mount McKinley to its native name Denali.
* Will Rogers (1879–1935), actor and humorist, died in a plane crash in Alaska along with Wiley Post while making a flight through the territory
* Robert W. Service (1874–1958), due to influence from Gold Rush migration across the North Country, Service became Alaskans' most well–loved poet, despite actually living in the Yukon Territory.
* Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962), frequently passed through Alaska in his travels
* Timothy Treadwell (1957–2003), bear enthusiast
* Naomi Uemura (1941–1984), adventurer, mountain climber, died while attempting a solo ascent of Mount McKinley
* Bradford Washburn (1910–2007), mountaineer, geographer
* Cal Worthington (1920–2013), purchased Anchorage dealership Friendly Ford in 1976 and renamed it Cal Worthington Ford, which his company still owns and operates along with other Anchorage dealerships. He has been a ubiquitous figure on Anchorage television for decades, as well as the subject of parodies and other cultural depictions originating from Alaska.

## See also

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* Alaska portal
* United States portal
* Biography portal
* Lists portal

### Elected officials

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* List of governors of Alaska
* List of lieutenant governors of Alaska
* List of mayors of Anchorage, Alaska
* List of mayors of Cordova, Alaska
* List of mayors of Fairbanks, Alaska
* List of mayors of Juneau, Alaska
* List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives
* List of United States senators from Alaska
* United States congressional delegations from Alaska

### Others

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* List of Alaskan aviators
* List of Alaska suffragists
* List of Alaskan Hall of Fame pilots
* List of athletes from Alaska
* List of justices of the Alaska Supreme Court

## References

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1. ^ Helminiak, Jeff (November 22, 2020). “Improving through challenging times: Seward junior swimmer Jacoby wins national title at U.S. Open“. Peninsula Clarion. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
2. ^ OlympicTalk (June 15, 2021). "For the first time, an Alaskan is in line to swim at the Olympics". NBC Sports. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
3. ^ Crouse, Karen (June 21, 2021). "U.S. Swim Team Will Take 11 Teenagers to Tokyo Games". The New York Times. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
4. ^ Hollander, Zaz; Hughes, Zachariah; Bieri, Chris (September 11, 2022). "Alaska mushing legend Lance Mackey, 4-time Iditarod champ, dies at age 52". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved January 2, 2023.

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