Navajo People - Notable Navajo

Notable Navajo

  • Dr. Fred Begay, nuclear physicist and a Korean War Veteran
  • Notah Begay III (Navajo-Isleta-San Felipe Pueblo), American professional golfer
  • Klee Benally, musician and documentary filmmaker
  • Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston Red Sox outfielder (Enrolled Colorado River Indian Tribes)
  • Rickie Fowler, American professional golfer
  • Joe Kieyoomia, captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942
  • Jay Tavare, actor
  • Cory Witherill, first full-blooded Native American in NASCAR.

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