Editing Laramie, Wyoming (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Craig Arnold]] (1967–c. 2009), poet, professor
* [[Thurman Arnold]] (1891–1969), lawyer
* [[Kim Barker]], ''New York Times'' journalist and author
* [[Jim Beaver]] (born 1950), actor, writer, [[film historian]]
* [[William L. Carlisle]] (1890–1964), one of America's last [[train robber]]s, lived in the town
* [[Jaycee Carroll]] (born 1983), basketball player
* [[Jesseca Cross]] (born 1975), former [[track and field]] athlete
* [[Tommy Davidson]] (born 1963), actor
* [[Sheridan Downey|Sheridan H. Downey]] (1884–1961), lawyer, U.S. Senator
* [[Robert Eggers]] (born 1983), film director and screenwriter<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Knight |first=Sam |date=March 28, 2022 |title=Robert Eggers's Historical Visions Go Mainstream |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/robert-eggerss-historical-visions-go-mainstream |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329132254/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/robert-eggerss-historical-visions-go-mainstream |archive-date=March 29, 2022 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref>
* [[George Carr Frison]] (1924–2020), [[Archaeology|archaeologist]]
* [[Grace Raymond Hebard]] (1861–1936), Wyoming historian, suffragist, pioneering scholar, prolific writer, political economist and noted University of Wyoming educator
* [[H. L. Hix]] (born 1960), poet, academic
* [[Raymond A. Johnson]] (1912–1984), aviation pioneer<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2013/09/25/news/01top_09-25-13.txt|title=James Chilton Hall of Fame inductee grew alongside aviation industry, September 26, 2013|newspaper=[[Wyoming Tribune-Eagle]]|access-date=September 26, 2013|archive-date=December 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223203015/https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/hall-of-fame-inductee-grew-alongside-aviation-industry/article_efcee0c2-54aa-5d13-9c15-630be73d7dd3.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Tom Lubnau]] (born 1958), politician and lawyer who served as [[Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives|Speaker]] of the [[Wyoming House of Representatives]] from 2013 to 2015
* [[Cody Lundin]] (born 1967), survival instructor; teaches modern [[Survival skills|wilderness survival skills]], [[Survivalism|primitive living]] skills, urban preparedness, and [[homesteading]]
* [[Timothy Mellon]] (born 1942), businessman, and the chairman and majority owner of [[Pan Am Systems]]
* [[William Mulloy]] (1917–1978), [[anthropologist]]
* [[Edgar Wilson Nye]] (1850–1896), a.k.a. Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye, nineteenth-century [[humorist]], lived in Laramie from 1876-1887 <ref>American National Biography, v.16, p.565: "Nye settled in Laramie (City) where he rose to national fame ...</ref>
* [[Wayde Preston]] (1929–1992), actor
* [[Chip Rawlins]] (born 1949), writer
* [[Ken Sailors]] (1921–2016), basketball player, credited with inventing the jump shot, graduated from Laramie High School, in 1943 led the University of Wyoming Cowboys in winning the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
* [[Matthew Shepard]] (1976–1998), University of Wyoming student, victim of hate-motivated murder
* [[Pete Simpson]] (born 1930), university administrator, historian, politician
* [[Gerry Spence]] (born 1929), trial lawyer
* [[Brad Watson (writer)|Brad Watson]] (1955–2020), author, academic
* [[Jamila Wideman]] (born 1975), left-handed point guard basketball player, lawyer