List of people from Santa Fe, New Mexico
This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Arts and entertainment
- Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934), writer[1]
- Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), poet[2]
- Gustave Baumann (1881–1971), print-maker, marionette-maker and painter; resident artist for more than fifty years; died in Santa Fe[3]
- William Berra (born 1952), painter
- Florence Birdwell (1924–2021), musician, teacher
- Ned Bittinger (born 1951), portrait painter and illustrator[4]
- Merrill Brockway (1923–2013), Emmy Award-winning producer, director
- Dana Tai Soon Burgess (born 1968), dancer, choreographer[5]
- Paul Burlin (1886–1969), modern and abstract expressionist painter
- Witter Bynner (1881–1968), poet
- Julia Cameron (1948), author of The Artist's Way
- Dana B. Chase (1848–1897), photographer
- Zach Condon (born 1986), lead singer and songwriter of band Beirut[6]
- Randall Davey, painter and art educator
- Chris Eyre (born 1968), actor, director
- Tom Ford (born 1961), fashion designer[7]
- T. Charles Gaastra (1879–1947), architect in the Pueblo Revival Style
- Greer Garson (1904–1996), actress and philanthropist
- Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), photographer and author
- Anna Gunn (born 1968), Emmy-winning actress[8]
- Gene Hackman (1930-2025), Oscar-winning actor[9]
- Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993), novelist and literary critic
- Martha Hyer (1924-2014), actress and screenwriter
- John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909–1996), landscape architect
- Jeffe Kennedy, author
- Matt King, artist, co-founder of Meow Wolf[10]
- Jean Kraft (1927–2021), operatic singer (mezzo-soprano)
- Oliver La Farge (1901–1963), writer
- Marjorie Herrera Lewis (born 1957), author
- Ali MacGraw (born 1939), actress[11]
- Shirley MacLaine (born 1934), actress[12]
- George R. R. Martin (born 1948), author and screenwriter, Game of Thrones[13]
- Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023), author, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[14]
- Christine McHorse (1948–2021), ceramic artist[15]
- John Gaw Meem (1894–1983), architect who popularized the Pueblo Revival style
- John Nieto (1936–2018), contemporary artist
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), artist, winner of National Medal of Arts[16]
- Elliot Porter (1901–1990), photographer
- Robert Redford (1936–2025), actor, director[17]
- Wendy Rule (born 1966) Australian-born musician[18]
- Hib Sabin (born 1935), indigenous-style sculptor
- Brad Sherwood (born 1964), actor and comedian[19]
- Wes Studi (born 1947), actor and musician
- Teal Swan (born 1984), spiritual guru and author
- Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016), writer[20]
- Charlene Teters (born 1952), artist, activist
- Michael Charles Tobias (born 1951), author and global ecologist
- Jeremy Ray Valdez (born 1980), actor
- Tuesday Weld (born 1943), actress[21]
- Josh West (born 1977), Olympic medalist rower and Earth Sciences professor
- Roger Zelazny (1937–1995), writer
- Pinchas Zukerman (born 1948), violinist, conductor[22]
Military, politics, and public service
- David W. Alexander (1812–1886), Los Angeles politician and sheriff
- Bronson M. Cutting (1888–1935), politician, newspaper publisher and military attaché[23]
- John Grubesic (born 1965), New Mexico State Senator, representing the 25th District as a Democrat
- Teresa Leger Fernández (born 1959), U.S. House of Representatives[24]
- Ben Ray Luján (born 1972), U.S. senator for New Mexico[25]
- Dorothy McKibbin (1897–1985), gatekeeper and point-of-contact for personnel at the Manhattan Project
- Jesse L. Nusbaum (1887–1975), archaeologist, anthropologist, photographer and National Park Service Superintendent[26]
- L. Bradford Prince (1840–1922), Governor of New Mexico Territory
- Manuel de Sandoval, colonial governor of Texas, the only native of New Mexico to govern Spanish Texas
- Tom Udall (born 1948), former United States Senator from New Mexico (2009-2021) and former Ambassador of the United States to New Zealand and Samoa (2021-2025)[27]
- Lew Wallace (1827–1905), territorial governor 1878–1881, and author of Ben-Hur
Other
- Antonio Armijo (1804–1850), explorer and merchant who led the first commercial caravan between Santa Fe, Nuevo México and Los Angeles, Alta California in 1829–1830
- Garance Franke-Ruta (born 1972), journalist
- Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize recipient
- Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946), archaeologist and anthropologist[28]
- Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814–1888), first Archbishop of Santa Fe
- Jean Baptiste LeLande (1778–1821), merchant
- Sylvanus Morley (1883–1948), archaeologist and Mayanist
- Stanisław Ulam (1909–1984), mathematician associated with the Manhattan Project
References
- ^ Richardson, Lynn (2023). "Mary Austin". EBSCO Research Starters. EBSCO Information Services. Archived from the original on 3 November 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
In 1924, Austin built a house in Santa Fe, and she moved there permanently in 1925 after being named an associate in Native American Literature at the School of American Research in Santa Fe.
- ^ Levin, Jennifer (2024-11-06). "The Power of the Pen". New Mexico Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before being sent to jail for selling drugs at age 20.
- ^ "Gustave Baumann". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 21 April 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
After moving to Santa Fe in 1918, he became a leading member of the art community, respected for services he performed on behalf of his colleagues and for his experiments in a wide variety of media.
- ^ "Alumni unveil Schatzel's presidential portrait". December 5, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ^ Herman, Eleanor (2023-02-28). "Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess discusses inspiration, artistic expression at book talk and performance". Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. The George Washington University. Archived from the original on 25 January 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
Burgess discussed growing up in a largely Hispanic community in Santa Fe, the child of a White father and a mother of Korean descent.
- ^ Maldonado, Paul (October 19, 2006). "Zach Condon returns home to the land of red and green". Albuquerque Tribune. Archived from the original on April 12, 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
Condon was born in Albuquerque, raised in Virginia and went to Santa Fe High School. In 2003, he dropped out at 17. He took a job in a frame shop in Santa Fe, for a while at least.
- ^ Bear, Rob (December 12, 2013). "The Homes of Fashion Designer and Film Director Tom Ford". Curbed. Archived from the original on October 1, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ "Former Santa Fe resident Anna Gunn snags another Emmy nomination". The Santa Fe New Mexican. 12 May 2025 [10 July 2014]. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ Granville, Samantha (1 March 2025). "Pilates, painting and bike rides: Gene Hackman's life in Santa Fe". BBC News. Archived from the original on 6 April 2025. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
- ^ Adams, Abagail (July 12, 2022). "Matt King, Co-Founder of Popular Art Experience Meow Wolf, Dies at 37: 'Community Is Devastated'". People Magazine. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
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MacGraw, Ali (22 May 2024). "Ali MacGraw on Her Natural, Beautiful Life". The New York Times (Interview). Interviewed by Trebay, Guy. Archived from the original on 22 May 2024. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
I live north of Santa Fe, kind of in nature, and I'm very involved with the community.
- ^ Taylor, Candace (November 18, 2014). "Shirley MacLaine Ignores Psychics, Lists New Mexico Ranch for $18 Million". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ Schmidt, Ingrid (2025-08-02). "George R.R. Martin's Real Kingdom? A Faraway Land Called Santa Fe". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
- ^ "In memoriam: Cormac McCarthy". Santa Fe Institute. 13 June 2023. Archived from the original on 14 August 2025. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
Cormac McCarthy, a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and one of the greatest American novelists, passed away on Tuesday, June 13, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- ^ Green, Penelope (17 March 2021). "Christine Nofchissey McHorse, Navajo Ceramist, Dies at 72". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
- ^ "Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Beloved Landscape". New Mexico True. New Mexico Tourism Department. Archived from the original on 26 June 2025.
In 1949, she made New Mexico her permanent home and continued to paint, draw and make pottery until her failing eyesight forced her to retire in 1984. In 1986 she passed away at the age of 98 in Santa Fe.
- ^ Taylor, Candace (September 14, 2018). "The not-quite retiring Robert Redford". CNBC News. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ Rule, Wendy (12 July 2019). "The Magic Of Persephone: An Interview With Wendy Rule". By Athame and Stang (Interview). Interviewed by Kelden. Patheos. Archived from the original on 11 August 2025. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
He set up a recording studio at our home here in Santa Fe, and I was able to begin laying down all the guide tracks on guitar and vocals, creating a bed for all the other musicians to play to.
- ^ "Comedian Brad Sherwood". KATU. Sinclair. 9 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 November 2025. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
Bradley Sherwood was born on the 24th November, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, and later, grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- ^ "About Ms. Tepper – Sheri S. Tepper". January 21, 2016. Archived from the original on January 21, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ Wigler, Stephen (July 7, 1996). "Leading The Way Music". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ Wigler, Stephen (July 7, 1996). "Leading The Way Music". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ "Bronson Cutting House". Historic Santa Fe Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 November 2025. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
Born in 1888 to a wealthy New York family, Bronson M. Cutting came to Santa Fe in 1910 accompanied by his sister, Justine Cutting Ward, to recover from tuberculosis at Sunmount Sanatorium.
- ^ "Teresa Leger Fernández". Davenport College. Yale University. Archived from the original on 4 November 2025. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ "LUJÁN, Ben Ray". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
- ^ "Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, Jesse Nusbaum Collection". UNM Digital Repository. University of New Mexico. Archived from the original on 7 October 2024. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
- ^ "Tom Udall - 28th Attorney General of New Mexico". LegiStorm. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ "Dr. Edgar L. Hewett Dies in Albuquerque". Santa Fe New Mexican. December 31, 1946. Retrieved May 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.