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Revision as of 08:27, 18 March 2009
This is a list of notable Native Americans (first nations and descendents)
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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Native American or must have references showing they are Native American and are notable.
List
Athletes
- Notah Begay III Diné- PGA Tour golfer
- Rod Curl - PGA Tour golfer
- Billy Mills
- Louis Sockalexis - Major League Baseball player
- Jim Thorpe - Olympic Gold Medalist and Football / Baseball player
- Johnny Bench - Hall of Fame Catcher
- Joba Chamberlain - Pitcher, New York Yankees
- Jacoby Ellsbury - Outfielder, Boston Red Sox
Historic figures
See List of Native American leaders
- Indian Will
- Ishi
- Pocahontas
- Sacagawea
- Touch the Clouds
- Sequoyah (Cherokee)
- Squanto
- White Eyes (Lenape)
- Chief G. Anne Richardson (Chief of the Rappahannock tribe - first female chief in Virginia since the 1700s)
Politicians
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne)- former senator from Colorado
- Chad 'Corntassel' Smith- Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
- Peterson Zah Diné
- Tom Cole (Chickasaw) Congressman from Oklahoma
- Charles Curtis (Ka) Senator from Kansas; Vice President under Herbert Hoover
- Hiawatha- Iroquois Native American Chief
Artists and Entertainers
See also List of Native American musicians
- Jaime Luis Gómez - Rapper
- Tonantzin Carmelo- actress
- Megan Fox, actress
- William Least Heat-Moon, author
- Jack Hoxie, actor (Nez Perce mother)[1]
- Angelina Jolie, academy award-winning actress (French Canadian/Iroquois mother)
- Johnny Depp, prominent actor
- Mandy Moore, singer/actress
- Maria Tallchief - ballerina
- Ray Young Bear - poet
- Nampeyo- Hopi potter
- R. Carlos Nakai - Navajo Musician
- Oscar Pettiford - bebop jazz bass player
- Charles Mingus - jazz composer, band leader, and bass player
- Chuck Norris
- Brandon Routh - actor, has a small amount of Native-American ancestry
- Will Rogers (Cherokee)
- Litefoot - actor/hip hop artist
- Nikki Nova (Part-Cherokee)- Pornstar
- Aaliyah- Singer
- Liv Tyler- actress (part Cherokee)
- Carrie Underwood - singer
- Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy (German/Native American father and Hawaiian mother)
- Taylor Lautner - actor
- Wilford Brimley - actor