Editing Needles, California (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Pat Morris (politician)|Pat Morris]], Mayor of [[San Bernardino, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/cityhall/mayor/mayors_biography.asp |title=City of San Bernardino – Mayor's Biography |publisher=Ci.san-bernardino.ca.us |access-date=January 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117024956/http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/cityhall/mayor/mayors_biography.asp |archive-date=January 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Max Rafferty]], Needles Superintendent of Schools, 1955–1961,<ref>"Max Rafferty, 1917–1982, Conservative U.S. Educator and Critic: Bibliography of Writings By and About Him," CORE (Collected Original Resources in Education), VII, No. 1 (1983), Fiche 9 C1</ref> became California [[California Department of Education|Superintendent of Public Instruction]] 1962–1970.
* [[Charles Schulz]], cartoonist of ''[[Peanuts]]'', lived in Needles 1928–30 and made it the residence of [[Snoopy]]'s brother [[Snoopy#Siblings|Spike]].{{r|VDP 2020-01-19}}
* [[Bess Houdini]], wife and stage assistant of famed escape artist [[Harry Houdini]], died in Needles in 1943.{{r|VDP 2020-01-19}}
*[[Irataba|Yara tav]], leader of the [[Mohave people]] (1861–1874), born close to the Needles rock formation before the establishment of the town.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kroeber|first=Alfred Louis|author-link=Alfred L. Kroeber|title=Handbook of the Indians of California|year=1925|publisher=Courier|isbn=978-0-486-23368-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDdn0WNMQMYC|pages=725–727}}</ref>
*[[Alice Notley]], American poet, grew up in Needles.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/alice-notley|title = Poets.org|date = August 10, 2001}}</ref>
*[[Natalie Diaz]], American poet and winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Natalie Diaz to give Public Poetry Reading |url=https://diversity.illinois.edu/2022/03/31/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-natalie-diaz-to-give-public-poetry-reading/ |website=University of Illinois Office of the Vice Chancellor for DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION |access-date=October 3, 2022 |quote=Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River.}}</ref>
*[[Sam Kinison]], American stand-up comedian, was killed in a car crash caused by 17-year-old drunk driver Troy Pierson, about {{convert|4.3|mi|km|abbr=off|sp=us}} outside of Needles on April 10, 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19920412&slug=1485946 |title= Motorist, 17, Arrested In Death Of Sam Kinison |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=April 12, 1992 |access-date=April 16, 2023}}</ref><ref name="NYTcrash">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/12/us/sam-kinison-38-comedian-dies-wife-injured-in-head-on-collision.html |date=April 12, 1992 |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Bruce |last=Lambert |title=Sam Kinison, 38, Comedian, Dies; Wife Injured in Head-On Collision |access-date=April 16, 2023}}</ref>