List of people from Paradise Valley, Arizona

This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Arts

• Asher Angel – actor ^[1]
• Erma Bombeck – humorist
• Charles Boyer – actor ^[2]
• Erskine Caldwell – writer
• Glen Campbell – musician
• Max Cavalera – musician
• Alice Cooper – singer
• Calico Cooper – dancer, actor, and singer
• Sheryl Cooper – dancer and dance instructor
• Clive Cussler – writer
• Boyé Lafayette De Mente – author, journalist ^[3]
• Hugh Downs – broadcaster
• Yvonne Lime Fedderson – philanthropist, founder of Childhelp, former actress
• Hunter Gomez – actor ^[4]
• Rob Halford – singer/songwriter ^[5]
• Jenna Jameson – adult film actress
• Bil Keane – cartoonist
• Cris Kirkwood – musician ^[5]
• Stevie Nicks – singer ^[5]
• Leslie Nielsen – actor
• Dave Pratt – radio personality
• Paolo Soleri – architect
• Emma Stone – actress
• Dick Van Dyke – actor

Business

• Michael Bidwill – businessman, prosecutor, and football executive. The principal owner, chairman, and president of the Arizona Cardinals
• Derrick Hall – business executive, president & CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks
• Bruce Halle – founder and chairman of Discount Tire; richest man in Arizona, with net worth of $4.2 billion
• Geordie Hormel – heir to Hormel Foods Corp.
• Thelma Keane – businesswoman, wife of Bill Keane
• Charles Keating – businessman and figure in the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal
• Robert Sarver – businessman and former owner of Phoenix Suns ^[6]
• Peter Sperling – businessman
• Don Stewart – head of Don Stewart Ministries/Association ^[7]

Military

• Betty Tackaberry Blake – last surviving member of the first training class ^[8] of Women Airforce Service Pilots, who with her husband George Blake, built the first house in Paradise Valley

Politics

• Doug Ducey – politician, businessman
• Barry Goldwater – U.S. senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee
• G. Gordon Liddy – Watergate Scandal, Nixon appointee
• Sandra Day O'Connor – former justice of the US Supreme Court
• Dan Quayle – vice president of the United States (1989–1993), United States Senator from Indiana (1981–1989), and U.S. representative of Indiana's 4th congressional district (1977–1981)
• William Rehnquist – chief justice of the US Supreme Court

Science

• Paul Davies – physicist and author
• Professor Robley D. Evans – nuclear medicine pioneer, winner of the 1990 Enrico Fermi Award ^[9]

Sport

• Muhammad Ali – boxer
• Charles Barkley – basketball player
• Devin Booker – basketball player ^[10]
• Steve Bush – football player
• Keith Carney – ice hockey defenseman
• Vinnie Del Negro – NBA coach
• Jermaine Dye – baseball player
• Jeff Fassero – baseball player
• Larry Fitzgerald – football player
• Mark Grace – baseball player
• Jeff Hornacek – basketball player, NBA coach
• Randy Johnson – baseball pitcher ^[11]
• Nikolai Khabibulin – ice hockey goaltender
• Jason Kidd – basketball player, NBA coach ^[12]
• Miguel Montero – baseball player
• Steve Nash – basketball player
• Shaquille O'Neal – basketball player
• Jesse Owens – sprinter
• Michael Phelps – swimmer ^[13]
• Tom Sneva – auto racer
• Terrell Suggs – football player
• Mike Tyson – boxer
• Kurt Warner – football player
• Matt Williams – baseball player
• Kerry Wood – baseball pitcher

References

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3. "Boye Lafayette De Mente". Arizona Authors Association. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
4. "National Parents of the Year 2007". Parents Day. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
5. Leatherman, Benjamin (August 6, 2014). "The 15 Biggest Rock Stars Who Live in Arizona". Phoenix New Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
6. name=SarverHeart>University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center: "The Sarver Family" Retrieved November 30, 2017.
7. Anglen, Robert (May 4, 2009). "Don Stewart: A life in pursuit of God's reward". The Arizona Republic . Retrieved December 18, 2009.
8. "Betty C.G.T. Blake". Veteran Tributes. Veteran Tributes, Gulfport, MS. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
9. "Professor Robley D. Evans, nuclear medicine pioneer, dies". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. January 10, 1996. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
10. Ankus, Justin (September 4, 2021). "Devin Booker House: Phoenix Oasis". www.urbansplatter.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
11. "Randy Johnson's House Pictures". Celebrity House Pictures. Archived from the original on December 5, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
12. "'If You Want to Be Great, You Have to Work': Jason Kidd Counters His Critics". Bleacher Report. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
13. "Michael Phelps to Live in $2.53 Million Arizona Home After Retirement". Bleacher Report. August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2016.