- George Washington
George Washington , August 15,1871 - August 26,1905, was the founder of the town of Centralia, Washington. He born in 1871, in Virginia. He was African-American, and he was rasied by a white couple named Mr. and Mrs. James C. Chochran. When George was young, the Chochrans moved west, first to Ohio, then to Missouri. George became a great rifleman. He taught himself how to read. George was given full rights as a citizen, after Mr. and Mrs.
- Harry Truman
Harry Randall Truman (October 30, 1896 - May 18, 1980) came to brief fame as a resident of the U.S. state of Washington who lived near Mount St. Helens and died in its 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave. He was the owner of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake, not Spirit Lake Lodge as sometimes reported. He became a minor celebrity during the two months of volcanic activity preceding the eruption, …
- Maria Cantwell
Maria E. Cantwell (born October 13, 1958) is the junior United States Senator from the state of Washington and is a member of the Democratic Party.
- Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson (born July 15, 1957 in Pasco, Washington) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for eight seasons for the Seattle Seahawks.
- Patty Murray
Patty Murray (born October 11, 1950) is the Senior United States Senator from Washington. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1992 and has held the position ever since, becoming the first woman to represent Washington in the Senate. She is currently the Senate Majority Conference Secretary, the fourth-highest rank in the caucus. Murray was the chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2001 to 2003, …
- Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born on June 15, 1965 and his lived his entire life in the Ninth District. He grew up in the SeaTac area of South King County and graduated from Tyee High School in 1983. Adam's father, Ben, worked as a baggage handler at SeaTac airport and was active in the local Machinists' Union. He taught Adam the value of community involvement, public service, and participating in our democracy.
- Rick Steves
Rick Steves (born in Edmonds, Washington in 1955) is an American authority on European travel. He is the host of a public television series and a public radio travel show and the author of many travel guidebooks
- Jim McDermott
James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott (born December 28 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is the current U.S. Representative for. The 7th District includes most of Seattle and Vashon Island and portions of Shoreline, Tukwila, SeaTac, and Burien. McDermott is a member of the Democratic Party. He serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and is a member of the House Progressive Caucus. McDermott was born in Chicago, Illinois.
- Jay Inslee
Jay Robert Inslee (born February 9, 1951) is an American politician, currently serving as U.S. Representative from Washington's 1st congressional district (north of Seattle, including parts of King, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties). He is a Democrat. He lives on Bainbridge Island. He married his wife Trudi on August 27, 1972. Born in Seattle, Washington, he graduated from Seattle's Ingraham High School and the University of Washington (B.A., …
- Slade Gorton
Thomas Slade Gorton III (born January 8 1928) is an American politician. A Republican, he was a U.S. Senator from Washington state from 1981 until 1987, and then from 1989 until 2001. He held both of the state's Senate seats in his career and was defeated for reelection twice as an incumbent; in 1986 by Brock Adams, and in 2000 by Maria Cantwell.
- Brian Baird
Brian Norton Baird (born March 7 1956) is an American politician. Brian Baird has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing. He attended the University of Utah and the University of Wyoming, completing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Dr. Baird is the former chairman of the Department of Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and a licensed clinical psychologist.
- John Miller
John Ripin Miller (born 23 May 1938), an American politician, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Republican. Miller did not run for re-election in 1992. Prior to being elected congressman, he was active in state and municipal governments, …
- Ehren Watada
Ehren Watada is a First Lieutenant (1LT) of the United States Army who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit's assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him party to war crimes. At the time he refused to deploy, he was assigned to duty with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, …
- Dave Reichert
David George Reichert (born August 29 1950) is an American politician and the former sheriff of King County, Washington. He has served since 2005 as Republican congressional representative of (map).
- Doc Hastings
Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings (born February 7, 1941), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the Washington's 4th congressional district. Hastings won his seventh term in the election held November 7, 2006.
- Rick Larsen
Richard Ray "Rick" Larsen (born June 15, 1965), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the. Born in Arlington, Washington, he attended Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Minnesota, earning a Master's Degree in Public Affairs. Before being elected to the House, he served as a Snohomish County Councilman and as Chair of the Snohomish County Council.
- Fred Hutchinson
Frederick Charles Hutchinson was an American pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball. Stricken with fatal lung cancer at the zenith of his managerial career as leader of the pennant-contending Cincinnati Reds, he was commemorated one year after his death when his brother, Dr. William Hutchinson, created the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as a division of the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, in the Hutchinsons’ native city of Seattle, Washington.
- Bobby Brown
DR. Robert William Brown, M.D. (born October 25 1924 in Seattle, Washington) is a former third baseman and executive in professional baseball who served as president of the American League from 1984 to 1994. He also was a physician who successfully studied for his medical degree during his eight-year (1946-52, 1954) career as a player with the New York Yankees.
- Jennifer Dunn
Jennifer Blackburn Dunn (born July 29, 1941), American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing the Eighth Congressional District of Washington. Born in Seattle, Washington, Dunn grew up in the suburb of Bellevue. She attended the University of Washington and Stanford University, earning business degress. After graduation, she worked as a systems engineer.
- Tom Robbins
Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1936 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina) is an American author. His novels are complex, often wild stories with strong social undercurrents, a satirical bent, and obscure details. His novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1976) was made into a movie in 1993 directed by Gus Van Sant.
- Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 - September 1, 1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator for Washington State from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle
- Tom Foley
Thomas Stephen Foley (born March 26 1929 in Spokane, Washington) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, having served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and ambassador to Japan. He served in the United States Congress from 1965 to 1995. His thirty-year career in Congress was notable for its length and for his steady climb up the ranks of the Congressional and party leadership.
- John Elway
John Albert Elway, Jr. (born June 28, 1960 in Port Angeles, Washington) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Denver Broncos from 1983 through 1998. He holds many college and some professional records, was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is the only quarterback to have started in five Super Bowls.
- Drew Bledsoe
Drew McQueen Bledsoe (born February 14, 1972) is a former National Football League quarterback known best for his almost eight years of starting for the New England Patriots. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he was perceived to be the face of the Patriots franchise. Bledsoe, an All-American for the Washington State Cougars and former #1 overall draft pick in the 1993 NFL Draft, announced his retirement from the sport on April 11, 2007.
- Nicholas Kulish
Nicholas Kulish (born August 1975 in Washington, D.C.) is a journalist who has been a member of the editorial board of "The New York Times" since September 2005. He will begin reporting for the "Times" as Berlin bureau chief in the late summer of 2007. Kulish was previously a reporter in the Washington bureau of the "Wall Street Journal". In 2007, Kulish published a novel, "Last One In." Settling in Washington, D.C., …
- Bob Barker
Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award-winning American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's "The Price Is Right" since September 4, 1972, making it the longest-running daytime game show in television history.
- George Nethercutt
George R. Nethercutt, Jr. (born October 7, 1944) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005, representing the Fifth Congressional District of Washington. Born in Spokane, Washington, and a graduate of North Central High School, Nethercutt earned a B.A. in English from Washington State University and a law degree from Gonzaga University. He worked as a clerk for Alaskan federal Judge Raymond Plummer.
- Richard Wright
Richard Wright, American politician, was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 2006. He ran as a Democrat in the. The seat is currently held by Republican Doc Hastings. Wright was one of three Democrats vying for the party's nomination in 2004, and was defeated by Sandy Matheson, who lost the general election with 37% of the vote. Wright won the 2006 Democratic primary, and lost the election to Doc Hastings, receiving 40% of the vote.
- Bev Harris
Bev Harris is an American activist and founder of Black Box Voting Inc., a national nonpartisan, nonprofit elections watchdog group opposed to voting machines. She helped popularized the term Black Box Voting, while authoring a book of that title. She first gained national prominence in 2002 when she discovered that Senator Hagel of Nebraska owned a large share of ES&S, a major voting machine manufacturer of the machines that counted the majority of votes in Nebraska.
- Dennis Erickson
Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947, in Everett, Washington) is the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils football team. He has been the head coach of six college football programs and two NFL franchises.
- Linda Smith
Linda Smith (born July 26 1950 in La Junta, Colorado) is a member of the Republican Party who represented Washington's Third Congressional District from 1995 to 1999 in the United States House of Representatives. Smith grew up in Vancouver, Washington. She became the manager of a number of independent tax offices in Southern Washington.
- Brian Urlacher
Brian Keith Urlacher (born May 25, 1978) is an American football player for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Urlacher, a five-time Pro Bowl player, has established himself as one of the NFL's most productive linebackers. He is regarded as one of the best defensive players in the NFL, winning the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award in 2000 and the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2005, …
- Mike Price
Mike Price (born 1946) is an American football coach, currently the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He formerly coached at Washington State University, Weber State University, and the University of Alabama, where he was fired before coaching a game.
- Norm Maleng
Norm Maleng (1939 - May 24, 2007) was the King County, Washington prosecuting attorney for 28 years and one of Washington's judicial leaders. Maleng was born in Acme, Washington, and grew up on a dairy farm. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1960, then served as an officer in the military. He obtained his law degree in 1966 from the University of Washington Law School, was elected as prosecutor in 1978, and was re-elected seven times.
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a Republican politician. She was born in Salem, Oregon on May 22 1969. She has represented in the United States House of Representatives since January 2005. McMorris Rodgers defeated Democrat Don Barbieri in the 2004 Congressional elections and in 2006 defeated Democratic rancher Dr. Peter Goldmark.
- Warren G. Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905-May 20, 1989) was a United States Senator of the Democratic Party from Washington from 1944 until 1981. Magnuson also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the First Congressional District of Washington from 1937 to 1944. Magnuson, who was of Norwegian and Swedish parentage, was born in Moorhead, Minnesota.
- Adam Eaton
Adam Thomas Eaton (born November 23, 1977 in Seattle, Washington) is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies.
- Rick White
Richard Alan White (born November 6, 1953) is an American politician, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Republican, earning close ties with the Christian Coalition. White was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended prestigious Dartmouth College and studied abroad at the University of Paris.
- Geoff Jenkins
Geoff Jenkins (born July 21, 1974 in Olympia, Washington) is an outfielder in professional baseball who has played solely for the Milwaukee Brewers since 1998.
- Tim Lincecum
Timothy LeRoy Lincecum (born June 15, 1984 in Bellevue, Washington) is a professional baseball pitcher who plays for the San Francisco Giants. His first Major League Baseball start took place on a nationwide ESPN broadcast on the evening of May 6th, 2007. At 5'11" in height and weighing 160, Lincecum bats left and throws right. Lincecum pitched for Liberty Senior High School and the University of Washington before becoming a professional.