- Bob Walkup
Robert E. Walkup (born November 14, 1936, in Ames, Iowa) is the current mayor of Tucson, Arizona. Mayor Walkup is a member of the Republican Party. Walkup was elected to his current position on November 2, 1999 and was re-elected for a second term on November 4, 2003. His term will expire in December 2007. He has a degree in industrial engineering from Iowa State University and served in the U.S. Army. - Brian Anderson
Brian Nikola Anderson (born March 11, 1982 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American baseball player with the Charlotte Knights of the AAA International League. The Charlotte Knights are a minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox; Brian is also a part of their 40-man roster. Brian is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Tucson. - Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American fiction writer. She has written several novels, poems, short stories, and essays, and established the Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change." - Roger Clyne
Roger Meade Clyne is currently the lead singer/songwriter for Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. His previous bands include The Mortals and The Refreshments, the latter of which gained national popularity in the mid 1990s. A third generation Arizonan, songwriter Roger Clyne regularly bares his soul in rock 'n' roll originals that are often tinted with Southwest influences: a verse in Spanish here or a line about a desert landscape there. - Garry Shandling
Garry Shandling (born November 29, 1949) is an American comedian. He is best known for his work in "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show". - J.J. Hardy
James Jerry "J.J." Hardy (born August 19, 1982 in Tucson, AZ) is a starting shortstop in Major League Baseball, who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers. Hardy was selected by the Brewers in the second round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft out of Sabino High School in Tucson, AZ. - Ian Kinsler
Ian Michael Kinsler (born June 22, 1982, in Tucson, Arizona) is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Texas Rangers. - Lalo Guerrero
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero (December 24, 1916 - March 17, 2005), credited as being "the father of Chicano music," was a Mexican-American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist best known for his strong influence on today's Latin artists. - Ken Bennett
Ken Bennett (born 1959) is a Republican politician and businessman currently serving as president of the Arizona Senate. - Pablo Francisco
Pablo Ridson Francisco (born January 5,1974) is an Mexican American stand-up comedian born in Tucson, Arizona now living in Los Angeles. He started his career doing improv in Tempe, Arizona. Pablo was relatively unknown until the late 1990s, when he began appearing on "MADtv" as a featured player. His stand-up act was finally introduced to America at large when he landed his own half-hour comedy special on Comedy Central in 2000. - Tom Miller
Tom Miller is an author primarily known for travel literature. His major works include "The Panama Hat Trail", "On the Border", and "Trading With the Enemy". He has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Smithsonian, Natural History, Rolling Stone, Life, and many other magazines. A Washington, D.C. native, Tom Miller's childhood was full of reading. - Kate Walsh
Kathleen Erin "Kate" Walsh (born October 13 1967) is an American film and television actress, currently known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery (former wife of "Dr. McDreamy"), on the hit ABC series "Grey's Anatomy". - Sean Elliott
Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968 in Tucson, Arizona) is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Elliott played high school basketball at Cholla High School in Tucson, Arizona and played college basketball at the University of Arizona, under the tutelage of Lute Olson, and won the Wooden Award after an exceptional senior season. He was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round in 1989. - Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born August 23, 1934 in Tucson, Arizona, USA) is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie". - Dan Hicks
J. Daniel "Dan" Hicks (born on June 2, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American sportscaster for NBC. His primary duties for the network include play-by-play commentary for golf, but he also does occasional play-by-play commentary for "The AFL on NBC" and Notre Dame football. Hicks was also a play-by-play man for "The NBA on NBC", and "The NFL on NBC", and was a tower announcer for NBC's golf coverage until Dick Enberg left NBC for CBS in 2000, … - Jeff Scurran
Jeffrey Alan Scurran (born July 14, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a American football coach and motivational speaker, best known for his highly successful career as head football coach at Sabino High School and Pima Community College, both in Tucson, Arizona. He recently (February 2007) accepted the head football coaching position at Santa Rita High School, also in Tucson, a school whose varsity football team went 0-10 in the 2006 season. - Michael Bates
Michael Dion Bates (born December 19 1969) is an American former two-sport athlete who gained renown both as a sprinter who won an Olympic bronze medal in the 200-meter dash in 1992, and also as a five-time Pro Bowl standout kick returner in the National Football League. - John Clum
John Philip Clum (September 1 1851 - May 2 1932) was an Indian agent in the Arizona Territory who had the nickname "White Chief of the Apaches". Clum was also the first mayor of Tombstone, Arizona, USA, and founder of the Tombstone Epitaph. - Jason Stanford
Jason John Stanford (born January 23, 1977 in Tucson, Arizona) is a left-handed starting pitcher in the Cleveland Indians organization in Major League Baseball. He is a 1995 graduate of Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Tucson. Stanford attended Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kansas in 1996 and 1997, where he was an Academic All-American. - Pam Reed
Pam Reed is an ultrarunner who resides in Tucson, Arizona. She is the race director for the Tucson Marathon. In 2005, she became the first person to complete a 300-mile run without sleep, breaking Dean Karnazes's then-record of 262 miles. (Karnazes claims to have surpassed her distance later.) She completed the run in slightly less than eighty hours. In 2003, she set the women's record for the USATF 24-hour track run, which she still holds. - Roger McCluskey
Roger McCluskey (b. 24 August, 1930, d. 29 August, 1993) was an American race car driver. He was from Tucson, Arizona. He won the USAC Sprint Car title in 1963 and 1966, the USAC Stock car title in 1969 and 1970. His first USAC Stock Car start resulted in a runner-up finish in Phoenix, Arizona in January 1968, when he drove as a substitute driver for Norm Nelson. McCluskey earned four USAC Midget Car wins, 23 USAC Sprint Car wins, … - Ed Vosberg
Edward John Vosberg (born September 28 1961 in Tucson, Arizona) is a former left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a 10-year career (1986, 1990, 1994-1997, 1999-2002). He played with the San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos in the National League, and the Oakland A's and Texas Rangers in the American League. - Tairia Flowers
Tairia ("Mims") Flowers (born January 9, 1981 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American softball player. She is best known for competing on the Gold medal winning United States National softball team. She played college softball at UCLA, the best program in college softball, having won 10 of the 24 National Championships. - Scott Benzel
Scott Benzel (born in Tucson, Arizona) is an American songwriter, singer and producer whose projects have included Machines of Loving Grace (of which he was frontman and primary songwriter), and Destroy All Monsters, the band led by American artist Mike Kelley. Machines of Loving Grace (later The Machines) was an industrial/post-punk band from Tucson, Arizona. They formed in 1989 as Machines of Loving Grace (named for a Richard Brautigan poem). - Jack Howell
Jack Robert Howell (born August 18, 1961 in Tucson, Arizona), is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. He is currently the field coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Howell played for three different ballclubs during his career, the California Angels (1985-1991, 1996-1997), San Diego Padres (1991), and Houston Astros (1998-1999). He made his Major League Baseball debut on May 20, 1985, and played his final game on July 17, 1999. - Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson catapulted into the national spotlight in 1997 on the success of the hit single, "Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie" and his follow up release, "From Here to Eternity," which became his first #1 hit as an artist. The self-titled debut disc was certified gold and he was recognized as country music's top selling new male artist of 1997 and 1998. - Claudia Ellquist
Claudia Ellquist is a retired attorney and co-chair of both the Arizona Green Party and the Green Party of Pima County. She ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004. Her campaign focused mainly on a four-year moratorium of the death penalty. - Arturo Moreno
Arturo "Arte" Moreno (born August of 1946) is an American billionaire of Mexican decent. On May 15, 2003, made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Anaheim Angels baseball team from the Walt Disney Company - Rashad Khalifa
Rashad Khalifa (November 19, 1935 - January 31, 1990) was an Egyptian biochemist who became a US citizen and took residence in Tucson, Arizona. Khalifa was stabbed to death on January 31st, 1990. - Tom Pagnozzi
Thomas Alan Pagnozzi (born July 30, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona) is a former Major League Baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals. Primarily a catcher, Pagnozzi also made 40 appearances at first base and seven appearances at third base during his 12-season career, which spanned from 1987 to 1998. Initially a backup catcher and utility player for the Cardinals, in 1990 Pagnozzi impressed Cardinals manager Joe Torre enough to move Todd Zeile, … - Joseph Bonanno
Giuseppe "Joseph/Joe" Bonanno (January 18, 1905 - May 12, 2002) was a Sicilian-born American Mafioso who became the boss of one of the infamous "five families" crime families of New York City. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas", a name he hated due to the implication that he was crazy. - Ron Hassey
Ronald William Hassey (born February 27, 1953 in Tucson, Arizona) is a retired Major League Baseball catcher. - Charles Schmid
Charles Howard 'Smitty' Schmid, Jr (July 8, 1942 - March 30, 1975), also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson", was an American serial killer. His crime, profiled in the March 4, 1966 issue of "Life Magazine", inspired "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, and "The Lost," a novel by Jack Ketchum. - Mika Boorem
Mika Sue Boorem (born August 18 1987) is an American actress of Swedish decent. Boorem was born in Tucson, Arizona to Holly Thomas and Benjamin Boorem. She has an older brother, Matt. Boorem began acting in local theater in Arizona, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles with her family, where she attended Lycee Francais. Boorem has become known for starring in the films "Smile" (2005) and "Sleepover" (2004). - Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas (born September 11, 1964 in Tucson, Arizona) is a former professional American football player who played cornerback for nine seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets and Denver Broncos. He went to the Pro Bowl after the 1988 season. - Joy Williams
Joy Williams (born February 11 1944) is an American author of fiction. - Heather McCartney
Heather Louise McCartney, née Heather Louise See, is the biological daughter of Linda McCartney (née Eastman) and Joseph Melville See Jr., an American geologist. McCartney's parents divorced after only eighteen months of marriage, because See had taken off for Africa and expected his wife and daughter to follow. Linda See refused, and sent a letter to her husband stating that she wanted a divorce. - Roy Brown
Roy Thomas Brown (July 8,1932-January 22,2001) was an American television personality, puppeteer, clown and artist best known for playing "Cooky the Cook" on Chicago's long running "Bozo's Circus" and "The Bozo Show." Roy Brown was born in Tucson, Arizona but had lived in the Chicago area since he was a boy. - Kaylee Defer
Kaylee DeFer (born Kaylee Vanni September 23, 1986) is an American actress. DeFer was born in Tucson, Arizona and attended Desert Christian High School. In 2003, she left for Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She has made appearances on television and starred in the Nick Cannon movie "Underclassman". She is in the film "Flicka" (2006) starring Tim McGraw. She also played Hillary Gold in the FOX sitcom "The War at Home" - Walt Kellner
Walter Joseph (Walt) Kellner (born April 26, 1929 in Tucson, Arizona) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1952-53). Kellner batted and threw right handed. His older brother, Alex, also was a major league pitcher. In a two-season career, Kellner had six strikeouts with a 6.43 ERA in three games without a decision.
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