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

• Erma Bombeck – humorist
• Charles Boyer – actor^[1]
• 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^[2]
• Hugh Downs – broadcaster
• Yvonne Lime Fedderson – philanthropist, founder of Childhelp, former actress
• Hunter Gomez – actor^[3]
• Rob Halford – singer/songwriter^[4]
• Jenna Jameson – adult film actress
• Bil Keane – cartoonist
• Cris Kirkwood – musician^[4]
• Stevie Nicks – singer^[4]
• Leslie Nielsen – actor
• Dave Pratt – radio personality
• Paolo Soleri – architect
• Emma Stone – actress
• Dick Van Dyke – actor
• Asher Angel – actor^[5]

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
• Peter Sperling – businessman
• Don Stewart – head of Don Stewart Ministries/Association^[6]
• Robert Sarver – businessman and Former Owner of Phoenix Suns^[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
• Jason Kidd - basketball player, NBA coach^[11]
• Randy Johnson - baseball pitcher^[12]
• Nikolai Khabibulin - ice hockey goaltender
• 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