List of Native Americans

List of Native Americans

This is a list of notable Native Americans (first nations and descendents)

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
* 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

Artists and Entertainers

See also List of Native American musicians
* Tonantzin Carmelo- actress
* Megan Fox, actress
* William Least Heat-Moon, author
* 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
* Will Rogers (Cherokee)
* Litefoot - actor/hip hop artist
* Nikki Nova (Part-Cherokee)- Pornstar
* Aaliyah- Singer
* Liv Tyler- actress (part Cherokee)
* Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy (German/Native American father and Hawaiian mother)

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