Seattle Entertainment People

Bryan Ferry CBE (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with...

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction...

Madison Park is a neighborhood in east central Seattle, Washington, USA, named after the city park at the foot of E. Madison Street on the Lake Washington shore. It is bounded on the east by Lake Washington; on the south...

Frank Kimbrough (born 2 November 1956 in Roxboro, North Carolina) is a post-bop jazz pianist born and raised in North Carolina. He did some work at Chapel Hill before moving to Washington, D. C. in 1980.

The Murder City Devils is a garage punk band, that started in 1996.

Penelope Houston (born December 17, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter best known as the singer for the San Francisco-based punk rock band The Avengers. She was raised in Seattle. In the mid-1970s she attended Fairhaven College...

Eric P. Liu (Chinese: 劉柏川; pinyin: Liú Bǎichuān, born 1968) is an American writer living in Seattle, Washington.

Dave Dederer, best known as guitarist and singer for The Presidents of the United States of America, was born on October 5, 1964. An alumnus of Seattle, Washington's The Bush School and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he founded...

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (born in Binalonan, Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippines, November 24, 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 11, 1956) was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work...

John Okada (September 23, 1923 — February 20, 1971) was a Japanese-American writer. Born in Seattle, Washington, he was student at the University of Washington when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Okada and his family were interned at Minidoka in...