Twin Falls, Idaho - Notable People

Notable People

  • Sharon Allen, former chair of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
  • Gary L. Bennett, former NASA scientist and engineer and science fiction writer.
  • Bryce Black, designer from Project Runway (season 9)
  • Dorothy Custer (born May 30, 1911) an American comedian, harmonicist, and centenarian, most famous for her two appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
  • W. Mark Felt, the informant in the Watergate scandal known as Deep Throat, graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1931
  • Christina Hendricks, of the renowned AMC series Mad Men, grew up in Twin Falls and despite moving while in high school, Hendricks still considers Twin Falls her hometown
  • Jim Gentry, PhD, history professor and author of In the Middle and on the Edge: The Twin Falls Region of Idaho
  • Lyda Southard, Serial Killer

Notable musicians who spent parts of their childhood in Twin Falls include Gary Puckett, Paul Durham of Black Lab, Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe, and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill.

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