Editing Silver City, New Mexico (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Alfred Shea Addis]] (1832–1886), photographer of Billy the Kid's mother's home, lived in Silver City
* [[Ben D. Altamirano]] (1930–2007), politician and businessman
* [[Poker Alice]] (Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert), frontier gambler, lived for a time in Silver City
* [[Roy Bean]], American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace.
* [[Paul Benedict]], actor, "Harry Bentley" on ''[[The Jeffersons]]''<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-benedict5-2008dec05,0,2329529.story "Paul Benedict dies at 70; actor from 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sesame Street'"] ''Los Angeles Times,'' December 8, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2009.</ref>
* [[Billy the Kid]], outlaw, aka Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, William H. Bonney
* [[Jeff Bingaman]], U.S. Senator, grew up in Silver City
* [[Daniel B. Borenstein]], MD, President, American Psychiatric Association, grew up in Silver City<ref>Sacks, H, "Daniel B Borenstein, MD, One Hundred Twenty-Ninth President, 2000–2001". ''Am J Psychiatry'' 2001;158:1603–1604</ref>
* [[Karen Carr]], artist
* [[Kit Carson]], western scout and frontiersman, in 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River
* [[Cochise]], Apache war leader who raided surrounding area
* [[Anita Scott Coleman]], writer
* [[Philip Connors]], writer
* [[George Crook]], U.S. Army major general
* [[J. Doyne Farmer|Doyne Farmer]], physicist<ref name="p"/>
* [[Geronimo]], born at the headwaters of the Gila River (north of Silver City)
* [[George Hearst]], US Senator from California and mining entrepreneur. Father of [[William Randolph Hearst]].
* [[Charles S. Kilburn]], U.S. Army brigadier general<ref name="Assembly">{{cite magazine |editor-last=Krisman |editor-first=Michael J. |date=December 1980 |title=Death Notice, Charles S. Kilburn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bmj761huscUC&pg=RA1-PA128 |magazine=Assembly |location=West Point, NY |publisher=Association of Graduates, USMA |page=128 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* [[Ben Lilly]] (1856–1936), hunter and mountain man
* [[Ralph McPherran Kiner]], American MLB player and broadcaster.
* [[Mangas Coloradas]] or "Dasoda-hae" (known as "Red Sleeves"), Apache war leader
* [[Howie Morales]] (born 1973), American politician and educator, Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico
* [[Naiche]], Apache war chief, second son of Cochise; roamed area with Geronimo
* [[Nana (chief)|Nana]], Apache war leader who roamed the Silver City area
* [[William Harrell Nellis]], United States fighter pilot who flew 70 World War II combat missions.
* [[Nichelle Nichols]] (1932–2022), died in Silver City. Actress, singer, and dancer.
* [[Norman Packard]], physicist<ref name="p">Bass, Thomas A., ''The Predictors'', 1999, Henry Holt Publishing, p. 54</ref>
* [[Phillip Parotti]], fiction writer and educator<ref name="p"/>
* [[John J. Pershing]], reported for active duty on September 30, 1886, stationed at Fort Bayard, near Silver City.
* [[Harrison Schmitt]], American geologist, NASA astronaut, former U.S. senator
* [[Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]], author
* [[James Tenney]] (1934–2006), composer, born in Silver City
* [[Victorio]], Apache war leader who roamed and attacked area
* [[Cathay Williams]], first African-American female to enlist in the US Army (posed as a man)
* [[George L. Young]], track star