- Pete Domenici
Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici (born May 7 1932) is an American politician, currently serving as a Republican Senator from New Mexico. He has served continuously since 1973, the longest tenure in the state's history. On September 7 2006, he cast his 13,000th vote, joining only seven other Senators who have done the same. - Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected. - Martin Chavez
Martin J. Chávez is the current Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico. From 1989 to 1993 he served in the New Mexico State Senate and was elected to his first term as Mayor in 1993. Chávez left office in 1997 to run for Governor of New Mexico as the Democratic candidate, but lost to former Governor Gary Johnson. Chávez defeated Mayor Jim Baca in 2001 to start his second term as mayor. In 2005, Chavez was elected to a third term. - Elyse Sewell
Elyse Sewell, (born June 10, 1982) is an American fashion model based in Hong Kong. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sewell obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico, majoring in biology and Spanish. Her start in modeling came when she entered a reality television modeling competition on the first season of "America's Next Top Model", airing at the time on UPN. Sewell was known on the show as the "edgy pre-med student". - Al Unser
Alfred Unser (born May 29, 1939 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a former American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of Bobby Unser and father of Al Unser, Jr.. He is the second of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times, the fourth of five to have won the race in consecutive years, and is the only person to have both a sibling (Bobby) and child (Al Jr.) as fellow winners. - Johnny Tapia
Johnny Lee Tapia (born February 13, 1967), better known as Johnny Tapia, is an American professional boxer. He has won world titles at Super Flyweight, Bantamweight, and Featherweight. Tapia was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. - Al Unser Jr.
Alfred Unser, Jr. (born April 19, 1962 in Albuquerque, New Mexico), nicknamed "Little Al" or "Al Junior" is an American race car driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. - Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as the teenage doctor "Doogie Howser, M.D." and the womanizing Barney Stinson in "How I Met Your Mother". - Bobby Unser
Robert William "Bobby" Unser (born February 20, 1934 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) was a U.S. automobile racer. He is the brother of Al Unser and Jerry Unser, the father of Robby Unser, and the uncle of Al Unser, Jr. and Johnny Unser. He is one of seven drivers to win the Indianapolis 500 three times, and one of only two to have won the 500 in three different decades (1968, 75, 81). - Juan Cole
John "Juan" Ricardo I. Cole (born October 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. - Keith Jardine
Keith Hector Jardine (born October 31, 1975) is an American mixed martial artist, currently fighting at Light-Heavyweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He made his debut with the organization on The Ultimate Fighter 2, where he was cast as a Heavyweight under coach Rich Franklin. - Robby Unser
Robby Unser (born January 12, 1968 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a former Indy Racing League driver and eight time winner of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. he was the IRL rookie of the year in 1998. Robby made two starts in the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of 5th in 1998. He also finished second twice in the 1998 season, his best IRL finish. His last IRL start came in 2000, his 21st IRL race. He is the son of Bobby Unser and cousin of Al Unser, Jr.. - Freddie Prinze Jr.
Frederick Karl Pruetzel, better known as “Freddie Prinze” was an American actor and stand-up comedian. In his short career he was best known as the star of "Chico and the Man". He was the father of actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. - Bob Foster
Bob Foster (born December 15, 1938) is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico whom many boxing critics consider to be one of the greatest Light Heavyweight world champions in history. As an amateur he won a silver medal at the 1959 Pan American Games. Foster also tried fighting with Heavyweights often, but with very little luck. He was the owner of very long arms, and a very tall boxer, physical attributes which helped him get established as a long standing champion. - Jay Roach
Jay Roach (born 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American film director and producer whose credits include the "Austin Powers" movies, and the hit comedies "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller. Jay Graduated In 1975 From [Eldorado High School] In Albuquerque New Mexico In 1994 he co-wrote with John Rice and Joe Batteer the film "Blown Away" starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. - Benito Martinez
Benito Martinez (born June 28 1971) is an American actor known as police captain (later city councilman) David Aceveda in FX Networks' acclaimed crime drama "The Shield". Additionally, he has voiced Coyote Smith in the video game "Killer7" as well as a number of characters in the PC game Age of Empires III, and played a criminal on Firefly. He also had a featured role as a boxing manager in the critical and commercial hit film Million Dollar Baby. - Mike Judge
Michael Craig Judge (born 17 October 1962 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill". He also wrote and directed the films "Office Space", "Idiocracy", and "Beavis and Butt-head Do America". - Susan Ford
Susan Elizabeth Ford Vance Bales (born July 6,1957, in Washington, D.C.) is an American author, photojournalist, and the chairman of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse. Ford Bales is the youngest child and only daughter of the late U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and his wife Betty. She was one of three people targeted for violence by the Symbionese Liberation Army and had Secret Service protection well before her father became president. - Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan (born Lois Duncan Steinmetz, April 28, 1934) is an American writer and novelist, known primarily for her books for children and young adults. Duncan's parents were the noted magazine photographers Lois Steinmetz and Joseph Janney Steinmetz. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Sarasota, Florida. Duncan started writing and submitting manuscripts to magazines at the age of ten, … - Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez (born June 17, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a prominent Hispanic-American conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is of mixed Mexican American (father) and Anglo American (mother) parentage and was the first Hispanic female nominated to the United States Cabinet. - Gary E. Johnson
Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1 1953) was the Republican governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. He is also a well-known and outspoken opponent of the War on Drugs. From a fairly humble, Lutheran background, Gary Earl Johnson attended the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, with an emphasis on business. It was there that he met his future wife, Dee (1952 - December 22 2006). - Ronnie Lott
Ronald Mandel "Ronnie" Lott (born May 8, 1959) is a former American football player who starred as a cornerback, free safety and strong safety in college football and the NFL. He is most well known for his hard hits on opposing players, rivaling fellow safeties Steve Atwater and Jack Tatum as the hardest hitter of all time. A Pro Bowler at both cornerback and safety, Lott is widely considered one of the best defensive backs in NFL history. - Randy Castillo
Randolpho Francisco Castillo Albuquerque, New Mexico (December 18, 1950 – March 26, 2002) was best known as Ozzy Osbourne's drummer in the 1980s and early 1990s. - Cissy King
Cissy King (born Claire Yvonne King on January 3, 1946), is an American-born singer and dancer best known as a featured performer on "The Lawrence Welk Show" television program. Originally born in Trinidad, Colorado, her father was a geologist employed by an oil company. The family relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico when Cissy was three. An accomplished dancer since she was a toddler, Cissy, along with her brother John, … - Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko , a former professor of English and fiction writing, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, poetry, articles, and filmscripts. She has won prizes, fellowships, and grants from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts and The Boston Globe. She was the youngest writer to be included in The Norton Anthology of Women's Literature , for her short story "Lullaby." Ms. Silko lives in Tucson, Arizona. - Annabeth Gish
Though actress Annabeth Gish is not, as has frequently been reported, related to silent-film legend Lillian Gish (she is decidedly not the never-married Lillian's granddaughter!) , Annabeth does have one thing in common with her famous namesake: she began acting at a very early age, and achieved film stardom before she was 20. Born in Albuquerque, Annabeth moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, when her college-professor dad accepted a position there. - French Stewart
Milton French Stewart (born on February 20, 1964) is an American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun". Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Stewart studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and toured in regional theatre for seven years before breaking into television with the role of Razor Dee, a spaced-out DJ on the final season of "The New WKRP in Cincinnati" in 1992. - Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen (born October 24, 1939) is a Native American poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist. Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Of mixed Laguna, Sioux, Scottish, and Lebanese-American descent, Allen has always most closely identified with the people among whom she spent her childhood and upbringing. - Don Schrader
Don Schrader is a local personality in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is known for his public access television show, his prolific letters to the editor of local publications; The Daily Lobo prints his letters on a regular basis. Schrader usually hand writes these letters on the back of utility bills or other paper items laying around his house. Schrader is also a fixture at Albuquerque city council meetings, … - Sidney M. Gutierrez
Sidney McNeill "Sid" Gutierrez (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) (b. June 27 1951), is a former NASA astronaut. - Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts is a radio sportscaster in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he provides play-by-play for University of New Mexico (UNM) Lobo basketball and football games on KKOB-AM. Roberts began broadcasting Lobo football games in 1966 and Lobo basketball games in 1968, becoming known along the way as "the Voice of the Lobos." For years he hosted "The Mike Roberts Show" and the coaches shows on KKOB-AM and was the sports anchor on KOB-TV, … - Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz (born on May 27, 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American Renaissance. He is one of the most respected and widely read Native American poets. - Frank Goodish
Frank Goodish (June 18, 1946 - July 17, 1988) was a professional wrestler who garnered his greatest fame under the name Bruiser Brody. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Goodish was an All-State football and basketball player at Warren High School, Michigan and played football at West Texas State. - Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com, the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. - Daniel Lentz
Daniel Lentz (born March 10, 1942 (some sources say 1941), Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA) is a composer. Daniel Lentz achieved much notoriety as a musician while quite young — when he was still a student at Brandeis University he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966. This was followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Electronic Music in 1967-68, to be completed in Stockholm, Sweden. - Lauren Sánchez
Wendy Lauren Sanchez (b. December 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) is a news anchor, entertainment reporter, and media personality. - Rahim Alhaj
Rahim AlHaj is an Iraqi oud musician and composer. - Fred Haney
Fred Girard Haney was an American third baseman, manager, coach and executive in Major League Baseball. As a manager, he won two pennants and a world championship with the Milwaukee Braves and, as an executive, he was the first general manager of the expansion Los Angeles Angels of the American League. Indeed, for years Haney was one of the most popular baseball figures in the City of Angels. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Los Angeles, … - Richard Mullane
Richard Michael "Mike" Mullane is a retired USAF officer and a former NASA astronaut. - Ray Rayner
Ray Rayner (b. Ray Rahner on July 23 1919, Queens, New York -d. January 21 2004) was a staple of Chicago children's television in the 1960s and 1970s on WGN-TV. His first role on the station was as Sergeant Pettibone, the host of the "Dick Tracy" show. He joined the cast of "Bozo's Circus" as country bumpkin clown Oliver O. Oliver and also hosted his own long-running "Ray Rayner and His Friends", which featured old cartoons, …
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