This is a list of prominent people who were born in or lived for a significant period of time in U.S. state of Wyoming.
The arts Acting
Burnu Acquanetta (1921–2004), actress and model; born in Cheyenne Jim Beaver (born 1950), actor; born in Laramie Jim J. Bullock (born 1955), actor; born in Casper Darren Dalton (born 1965), actor; born in Powell Mickey Daniels (1914–1970), actor; born in Rock Springs Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor; raised in Crowheart Jesse Garcia (born 1982), actor; born in Rawlins Mildred Harris (1901–1944), actress; born in Cheyenne Cecilia Hart (1948–2016), actress; born in Cheyenne Kirby Heyborne (born 1976), actor; born in Evanston Isabel Jewell (1907–1972), actress; born in Shoshoni Michael Pearlman (born 1972), actor; lives in Jackson Jim Siedow (1920–2003), actor; born in Cheyenne Wally Wales (1895–1980), actor; born in Sheridan Aaron Wiederspahn (1972), actor/producer; raised in Torrington Larry Wilcox (born 1947), actor; raised in Rawlins. Internet Movie Database.
Literature
Craig Arnold (born 1967), poet; teaches at the University of Wyoming; lives in Laramie C. J. Box (born 1958), author of the Joe Pickett series of novels Maxwell Struthers Burt (1882–1954), novelist James A. "Jim" Corbett (1933–2001), writer, philosopher, and human-rights activist; born in Casper Gretel Ehrlich (born 1946), novelist Joe Clifford Faust (born 1957), novelist Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight; lives in Jackson Hole Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954), writer W. Michael Gear (born 1955), writer Dan Hausel (born 1949), author of several geology books in Wyoming Grace Raymond Hebard (1861–1936), western history writer whose findings regarding Sacajawea and Esther Hobart Morris tend to be challenged by contemporary historians Craig A. Johnson (born 1961), author of the Walt Longmire mysteries; lives in Ucross George Clayton Johnson (1929–2015), co-author of the novel Logan's Run; born in Cheyenne Theodore Judson (born 1951), science-fiction writer Patricia MacLachlan (1938–2022), children's book writer; her book Sarah, Plain and Tall won the Newbery Medal; born in Cheyenne Rodger McDaniel (born 1948), legislator, attorney, pastor, author of Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins: The Suicide of Senator Lester Hunt; from Cheyenne Kyle Mills (born 1966), writer; lives in Jackson Hole Florabel Muir (1889–1970), newspaper reporter and columnist; born in Rock Springs Edgar Wilson Nye (1850–1896), journalist and humorist; postmaster of Laramie City in the Wyoming Territory Todd Parr (born 1962), children's book writer, artist, children's television show producer; grew up in Rock Springs E. Annie Proulx (born 1935), writer; author of the short story "Brokeback Mountain"; lives in Wyoming Chip Rawlins (born 1949), non-fiction writer, outdoorsman; lives in Laramie Tracy Ringolsby (born 1951), sports writer, born and lives in Cheyenne, fifth generation David Romtvedt, Poet Laureate of Wyoming Owen Wister (1860–1938), writer of Western novels
Music Scott Avett (born 1976), musician; member of The Avett Brothers; born in Cheyenne John Perry Barlow (1947–2018), Grateful Dead lyricist; co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; retired cattleman; born in Jackson Hole Ronnie Bedford (1931–2014), jazz musician; music professor at Northwest College in Powell Richard Kermode (1946–1996), keyboardist; played with Janis Joplin, Malo and Santana, born in Lovell Chris LeDoux (1948–2005), country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion (professional bareback rider); lived in Kaycee Ned LeDoux (born 1977), musician, singer-songwriter, son of Chris LeDoux Teenage Bottlerocket, punk rock band from Laramie
Television Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), sportscaster; born in Green River Ian James Lee (born 1984), CNN correspondent; born in Lander Pete Williams (born 1952), NBC news correspondent; born in Casper
Visual arts
Earl W. Bascom (1896–1992), painter, sculptor, "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists", "Dean of Rodeo Cowboy Sculpture"; lived in Rock Springs Elsa Spear Byron (1896–1992), photographer; born in Big Horn; lived most of her life in Sheridan Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), artist; born in Cody Floyd Shaman (1935–2005), sculptor; born in Wheatland Penny Wolin (born 1953), photographer; author of The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora and Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry; born in Cheyenne
Other Tony Andruzzi (1925–1991), magician; born in Cheyenne Robyn Johnson (born 1985), Miss Wyoming USA 2007 Melba Ogle (born 1942), model; born in Cheyenne Lyle Waggoner (1935–2020), actor, sculptor; lives in Jackson
Politics and public office
A–G
Thurman Arnold (1891–1969), associate judge of the Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit Amos W. Barber (1861–1915), governor of Wyoming (1890–1893) John Barrasso (born 1952), Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming (since 2007) Frank A. Barrett (1892–1962), U.S. senator, representatives, governor of Wyoming Eli Bebout (born 1946), Republican gubernatorial nominee (2002); member of the Wyoming State Senate (since 2007) Mary Bellamy (1861–1954), first woman elected to the Wyoming Legislature Eliza Stewart Boyd (1833–1912), Bryant Butler Brooks (1861–1944), governor of Wyoming (1905–1911) Anne Gorsuch Burford (1942–2004), first female administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; born in Casper Harriet Elizabeth Byrd (1926–2015), first African-American elected to the Wyoming LegislatureBlackPast.org-Remembered and Reclaimed-Byrd, Harriet Elizabeth "Liz" (1926–) John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), first governor of the Wyoming Territory (1869–1875) Joseph M. Carey (1845–1924), governor of Wyoming, first U.S. senator from Wyoming Robert D. Carey (1878–1937), governor of Wyoming (1919–1923), U.S. senator (1930–1937) Vincent Carter (1891–1972), U.S. representative (1929–1935) Cale Case (born 1958), Wyoming state senator from Lander (since 1998) Fenimore Chatterton (1860–1958), acting governor of Wyoming (1903–1905) Dick Cheney (1941–2025), vice president of the United States; raised in Casper; lived in Jackson Hole Lynne Cheney (born 1941), member of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; wife of Dick Cheney; born in Casper Alonzo M. Clark (1868–1952), governor of Wyoming (1931–1933) Clarence D. Clark (1851–1930), member of the Wyoming constitutional convention, U.S. Representative (1890–1893), U.S. senator (1895–1917) Tom Coburn (1948–2020), junior Republican senator from Oklahoma; born in Casper Henry A. Coffeen (1841–1912), U.S. representative (1893–1895) Arthur G. Crane (1877–1955), governor of Wyoming (1949–1951) Patrick Crank (born 1959), attorney general of Wyoming (2002–2007) Edward D. Crippa (1899–1960), interim U.S. senator (1954) Barbara Cubin (born 1946), U.S. representative (1995–2009) W. G. Curtis, founder and mayor of Torrington; Wyoming State representative Stephen Wheeler Downey (1839–1902), Wyoming territorial government leader; member of the Wyoming congressional convention; University of Wyoming trustee and president Frank Emerson (1882–1931), governor of Wyoming (1926–1931) Mike Enzi (1944–2021), U.S. senator (1997–2021) Dave Freudenthal (born 1950), governor of Wyoming (2003–2011) Nancy Freudenthal (born 1954), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming Jack R. Gage (1899–1970), governor of Wyoming (1961–1963) Jim Geringer (born 1944), governor of Wyoming (1995–2003) Paul Ranous Greever (1891–1943), U.S. Representative (1935–1938); mayor of Cody
H–M
Clifford Hansen (1912–2009), governor of Wyoming (1963–1967), U.S. senator (1967–1978) William Henry Harrison (1896–1990), Republican U.S. representative from Wyoming (1950s and 1960s) Stanley K. Hathaway (1924–2005), governor of Wyoming (1967–1975), U.S. secretary of the interior (1975) Edgar Herschler (1918–1990), governor of Wyoming (1975–1987) John J. Hickey (1911–1970), U.S. senator (1961–1962) Frank O. Horton (1882–1948), U.S. representative (1939–1941) Lester C. Hunt (1892–1954), governor of Wyoming (1943–1949); U.S. senator (1949–1954) John B. Kendrick (1857–1933), governor of Wyoming (1915–1917), U.S. senator (1917–1933) Frank E. Lucas (1876–1948), Republican governor of Wyoming (1924–1925) Cynthia Lummis (born 1954), Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming (since 2021); former member of both houses of the Wyoming legislature and former state treasurer Randall Luthi (born 1953), former speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives Max Maxfield (born 1945), Republican secretary of state of Wyoming Rodger McDaniel (born 1948), Democrat, House of Representatives (1970–1976), Wyoming Senate (1976–1980), attorney; author of biography of U.S. Senator Lester C. Hunt (2013) Gale W. McGee (1915–1992), U.S. senator (1959–1977) John J. McIntyre (1904–1974), U.S. representative (1941–1943); Wyoming Supreme Court justice Ron Micheli (born 1948), former Republican member of Wyoming Legislature, former Wyoming director of Agriculture Leslie A. Miller (1886–1970), governor of Wyoming (1932–1939) Franklin Wheeler Mondell (1860–1939), U.S. representative (1895–1897, 1899–1923)
N–Z
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (1884–1962), U.S. senator (1934–1953, 1954–1961) John Eugene Osborne (1858–1943), governor of Wyoming (1892–1895), U.S. representative (1987–1999) Dana Perino (born 1972), 26th White House press secretary DeForest Richards (1846–1903), governor of Wyoming (1899–1903) William A. Richards (1849–1912), governor of Wyoming (1895–1899) Edward V. Robertson (1881–1963), U.S. senator (1943–1949) Teno Roncalio (1916–2003), U.S. representative (1965–1967, 1971–1978) Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876–1977), governor of Wyoming (1925–1927), first female governor of a U.S. state William B. Ross (1873–1924), governor of Wyoming (1923–1924) Tom Sansonetti (born 1949), assistant U.S. attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department Henry H. Schwartz (1869–1955), U.S. senator (1937–1943) Bryan Sharratt (1947–2007), member of Clinton administration defense team; Democratic candidate for Congress (1988), having been defeated by Dick Cheney Alan K. Simpson (1931–2025), U.S. senator (1979–1997) Milward L. Simpson (1897–1993), Republican governor and U.S. senator from Wyoming Mike Sullivan (born 1939), governor of Wyoming (1987–1995) Patrick Sullivan (1880–1959), Wyoming state representative (1913–1917) Patrick Joseph Sullivan (1865–1935), mayor of Casper; U.S. senator (1929–1930) John Thayer (1820–1906), governor of Wyoming Territory (1875–1878) Craig L. Thomas (1930–2007), U.S. senator (1995–2007) Edwin Keith Thomson (1919–1960), U.S. representative (1955–1960) Thyra Thomson (1916–2013), Wyoming secretary of state (1962–1987) Malcolm Wallop (1933–2011), U.S. senator (1977–1995) Francis E. Warren (1844–1929), governor of Wyoming (1890), U.S. senator (1890–1893, 1895–1929) James G. Watt (1938–2023), U.S. secretary of the interior (1981–1983) Charles E. Winter (1870–1948), U.S. representative (1923–1929) John S. Wold (1916–2017), U.S. representative (1969–1971)
Sportspeople
Adam Archuleta (born 1977), professional football player; born in Rock Springs Zane Beadles (born 1986), professional football player; born in Casper Nick Bebout (born 1951), professional football player; played for the University of Wyoming; born in Riverton Jim Benepe (born 1963), professional golfer; born in Sheridan Jacob Bobenmoyer (born 1997), NFL long snapper for the Denver Broncos; Born in Cheyenne Bill Briggs (born 1931), pioneer in ski mountaineering, lives in Jackson Hole Tom Browning (born 1960), MLB pitcher; born in Casper John Buck (born 1980), MLB catcher, born in Kemmerer