The fresh snow that falls across the high country of Colorado offers 26 ski areas and resorts to the tourists who throng here from all over the world. The major draw of the state of Colorado in United States is the Rocky Mountain Region. Ideal steeps, deep bowls, challenging tycoons and exhilarating terrain parks could be easily accessed in Colorado’s 40,000 skiable acres that extend throughout the iconic Rocky Mountains.

Skiing and snowboarding is the major activities in Colorado for which people dye to visit Colorado, but besides this, there are plenty of other winter activities are also available. Colorado not only offers amazing and breathtaking locations, activities, and attractions to explore, but there is a list of famous people from Colorado as well who lived, born, or raised from this state. Coloradans are prominent personalities in many fields like literature, entertainment, art, music, politics, and business.

So here are the list of some famous people from Colorado:

• Tim Allen – Actor, Denver
• Zachery Ty Bryan – Actor, Aurora
• M. Scott Carpenter – Astronaut, Boulder
• Lon Chaney – Actor, Colorado Springs
• William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey – Boxer Manassa
• Ralph Edwards – Entertainer, Merino
• Douglas Fairbanks – Actor, Denver
• Eugene Fodor – Violinist, Turkey Creek
• Gene Fowler – Writer
• Lawrence H. Gipson – Historian, Greeley
• Ouray – Ute Indian Chief, Colorado Territory
• Robert J. Seiwald – Inventor, Fort Morgan
• Byron Raymond White – Jurist, Fort Collins
• Paul Whiteman – Conductor, Denver
• O.T. Jackson – Founded Deerfield
• Katherine Bates – Wrote America the Beautiful
• Lt. Zebulon Pike – Said to have discovered Pike’s Peak
• Dr. Edwin James – Led first group up Pike’s Peak
• Major Stephen H. Lang – First American explorer of present day northern Colorado
• Aunt Clara Brown – Leading citizen of Central City
• Albert Bierstadt – Landscape painter
• Barney Ford and Henry O Wagoner – Established first adult education classes in Colorado
• George Turner – Built Tiny Town
• Nathan C. Meeker – Founder of Greeley
• William Byers – Published Colorado’s first newspaper
• Spencer Lenrose – Built Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs
• Evelyn McLean – Author
• Eugene Field – Famous poet
• Kit Carson – Frontier scout