Denver Transplants
These people lived in Denver as an adult, but were born and reared elsewhere.
- Charles Adams, United States military officer and foreign minister
- Roseanne Barr – comedienne and actress, moved to Denver after high school, worked as a waitress, and got her start doing stand-up at comedy clubs in Denver
- Anthony R. Barringer – geophysicist and inventor
- Emily Gibson Braerton – V.P. Daughters of the American Revolution, raised in Council Grove, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas
- Molly Brown – survivor of Titanic accident, born in Hannibal, Missouri
- Carlotta Walls LaNier- One of the Little Rock Nine group of African American students to first enter integrated schools, born Little Rock, Arkansas
- George Elbert Burr – early 20th century American artist, known for landscape paintings of the Rocky Mountains
- Jerome B. Chaffee – Colorado Senator, born in Cambria, New York, raised in Adrian, Michigan, founded Denver
- Marshall Colt - Actor and clinical psychologist, born and reared in New Orleans; former Denver resident; now living in San Diego
- Ann B. Davis - actress, best known as "Alice" on The Brady Bunch
- Madhuri Dixit – Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon. Dixit was born in Mumbai, India
- Lindsey Durlacher – wrestler, born in Evanston, Illinois
- John Elway – NFL Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos 1983–98. Born in Port Angeles, Washington
- Frank Freyer – 14th Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy
- John Frullo – CPA formerly at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Denver, member of the Texas House of Representatives, originally from Rock Springs, Wyoming
- John Hickenlooper – Governor of Colorado, former mayor of Denver, born in Narberth, Pennsylvania
- Jason Hirsh – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Frances Wisebart Jacobs – philanthropist, born in Kentucky, raised in Ohio, moved to Denver and founded a number of charities.
- William Larimer, Jr. – founder of Denver, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Bat Masterson – lawman, gunfighter, gambler, journalist, born in Canada
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson – U.S. politician, born in County Carlow, Ireland, raised in New York City and Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Arthur Roy Mitchell – Cowboy and western painter, originally from Trinidad, Colorado, spent his last two years of life in Denver, where he is interred.
- Federico Peña, born in Laredo, Texas; mayor of Denver (1983–1991); United States Secretary of Transportation (1993–1997); United States Secretary of Energy (1997–1998)
- Condoleezza Rice – born in Birmingham, Alabama; National Security Advisor (2001–2005); United States Secretary of State (2005–2009)
- Andrew J. Rogers (1828–1900) – represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1863–1867, and served as Denver's police commissioner after moving here in 1892.
- Joe Sakic – National Hockey League centre for the Colorado Avalanche. Born in Burnaby, British Columbia
- Patricia Schroeder - former member of the United States House of Representatives, born in Portland, Oregon
- Shannon Sharpe – former NFL player for the Denver Broncos, sports commentator, CBS, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mark Schlereth – former NFL Pro Bowl offensive guard for the Denver Broncos
- Soapy Smith – Denver crime boss from 1885–96. born in Coweta County, Georgia
- Manick Sorcar – artist, engineer, and entrepreneur
- John Warne – bassist of the Christian rock band Relient K
- Wellington Webb – mayor of Denver (1991—2003)
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