Political Figures
- Mark E. Amodei – Member of the Nevada Senate from the Capital District
- Kathy Augustine, (1956–2006), Nevada State Controller from 1999 until her death
- Helen Delich Bentley – former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Alan Bible, (1909–1988) Democratic Senator from Nevada
- James Bilbray, Nevada's first district, U.S. House of Representatives
- Emmet D. Boyle, (1879–1926) 13th Governor of Nevada and first Nevadan born governor
- Berkeley L. Bunker, (1906–1999) U.S. senator from Nevada and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Jim Gibbons, (1944–) 28th Governor of Nevada
- Morley Griswold, (1890–1951) served in the U.S. Army in World War I later became Lieutenant governor of Nevada, then later Governor of Nevada
- Dean Heller – U.S. Senator and former U.S. Congressman from Nevada's 2nd congressional district
- Velma Bronn Johnston, (1912–1977) animal rights activist
- Paul Laxalt – Republican Governor of Nevada and U.S. Senator from Nevada
- Myron E. Leavitt, (1930–2004) former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
- Pat McCarran, (1876–1954) former United States Senator from Nevada, McCarran International Airport named after him
- Mike McGinness – Republican member of the Nevada Senate
- Pat Nixon, (1912–1993), First Lady of the United States (1969–1974)
- Harry Reid, (1939–), United States Senate Majority Leader (2005–)
- Willard Hughes Rollings, (1948–2008), Historian of Native Americans
- Jon Wellinghoff, (1949–), attorney, energy expert, and chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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