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List of people from Seattle

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Seattleites are people who are from or are residents of the city of Seattle. This is a list of well-known people who lived and currently live in the city of Seattle.

Lived in Seattle

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  • Yassamin Ansari – U.S. representative for Arizona{{Cite web |title=ANSARI, Yassamin |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000381 |access-date=July 1, 2025 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}
  • Maria Cantwell – U.S. senator
  • Jenny Durkan – mayor of Seattle
  • Bob Ferguson – governor of Washington
  • Steve Gunderson – politician in Montana{{cite web |url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/168443/steven-gunderson |title=Steve Gunderson's Biography |publisher=Vote Smart |access-date=August 13, 2020}}
  • Jay Inslee – former governor of Washington
  • Jerry Lewis – California politician
  • Gary Locke – U.S. Ambassador to China, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, former governor of Washington
  • Patty Murray – U.S. senator, former state senator{{Cite web |title=U.S. Senate: States in the Senate {{!}} Washington |url=https://www.senate.gov/states/WA/intro.htm |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=www.senate.gov}}
  • Frank Murkowski – Polish-American politician, tenth governor of Alaska
  • Lonnie Nelson – civil rights, Indigenous peoples, labor, peace, and social justice activist[https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/nelson_interview.shtml Lonnie Nelson] (biography), in "Communism in Washington State: History and Memory Project." Seattle, Washington: Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, retrieved online July 27, 2023.Landis, Paul. "[https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/landis.shtml A Partial Revival: the 1960s]," in "Communism in Washington State: History and Memory Project." Seattle, Washington: Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, retrieved online July 27, 2023.
  • Marjorie Pitter King – first African-American woman to serve in the Washington State Legislature
  • William Farrand Prosser – U.S. congressman from Tennessee, Seattle city treasurer, Yakima mayor{{cite web |title=Bioguide Search |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000550 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (United States Congress) |access-date=22 September 2022}}
  • Angela Rye – CNN political commentator
  • Peter Steinbrueck – politician
  • Lynn Woolsey – politician

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Moved to Seattle

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| title = Collison reflects on Sonics' relocation

| url = http://www.seattlepi.com/basketball/376642_collison27.html | work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | first1=Gary| last1=Washburn| date=August 26, 2008}}

| title = Gary Hall Jr.: Olympic medalist now a hero to diabetics

| url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restlessnative/2013782035_restless28m.html | work=The Seattle Times | date=December 27, 2010}}

| title = Ryan Rowland-Smith

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Athletes from Seattle

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