Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Downtown Phoenix skyline. This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Phoenix, Arizona, and its surrounding metropolitan area.For people whose only connection with the city is attending the nearby Arizona State University, see: List of Arizona State University alumni.
The Arizona Women's Hall of Fame recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Arizona for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. In 1979, the office of Governor Bruce Babbitt worked with the Arizona Women's Commission to create the Hall of Fame. The first inductees were in October 1981.
Karl Eller (1928–2019) – owner of the Phoenix Suns; Sean Elliott (born 1968) – basketball player; Brady Ellison (born 1988) – competitive archer, World Champion and Olympian; Julie Ertz (born 1992) – defender for the United States women's national soccer team and Chicago Red Stars; Andre Ethier (born 1982) – outfielder for the Los ...
Brittney Yvette Griner (/ ˈ ɡ r aɪ n ər /; born October 18, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). [1] She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist with the U.S. women's national basketball team [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and a six-time WNBA All-Star . [ 4 ]
Rose Mofford is buried at Saint Francis Catholic Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2017, a new grave marker was unveiled for Mofford's grave, which includes among other things images of her meeting Pope John Paul II in 1987 and Mother Teresa in 1989; those meetings were some of her favorite times as governor.
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history. But what about the many, many more women who never made it into most . high school history books?
Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Taurasi is widely recognized as one of the greatest women's basketball players of all time; she rose to fame while playing college basketball at the University of Connecticut.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Arizona.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.