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
 * 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
 * Hugh Downs – broadcaster
 * Yvonne Lime Fedderson – philanthropist, founder of Childhelp, former actress
 * Hunter Gomez – actor
 * Rob Halford – singer/songwriter
 * Jenna Jameson – adult film actress
 * Bil Keane – cartoonist
 * Cris Kirkwood – musician
 * Stevie Nicks – singer
 * Leslie Nielsen – actor
 * Dave Pratt – radio personality
 * Paolo Soleri – architect
 * Emma Stone – actress
 * Dick Van Dyke – actor
 * Asher Angel – 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
 * Peter Sperling – businessman
 * Don Stewart – head of Don Stewart Ministries/Association
 * Robert Sarver – businessman and Former Owner of Phoenix Suns

Military

 * Betty Tackaberry Blake – last surviving member of the first training class 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

Sport

 * Muhammad Ali - boxer
 * Charles Barkley - basketball player
 * Devin Booker - basketball player
 * 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
 * Randy Johnson - baseball pitcher
 * Nikolai Khabibulin - ice hockey goaltender
 * Miguel Montero - baseball player
 * Steve Nash - basketball player
 * Shaquille O'Neal - basketball player
 * Jesse Owens - sprinter
 * Michael Phelps - swimmer
 * Tom Sneva - auto racer
 * Terrell Suggs - football player
 * Mike Tyson - boxer
 * Kurt Warner - football player
 * Matt Williams - baseball player
 * Kerry Wood - baseball pitcher