Some famous celebrities have made their homes in or made prominent visits to Anacortes, including:

• Jake Anderson--star of the Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" (IMDB)
• Bobo--a pet gorilla that lived in Anacortes in the 1950s
• Craig Bartlett--creator of the Nickelodeon series "Hey Arnold!"
• Sherean Kesheb--appeared on "Naked and Afraid"
• Burl Ives--musician, singer, and actor best known as the snowman in the 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Devan Long--IMDB
• Rien Long--former NFL player
• Sean McCool--appeared on "Naked and Afraid"
• William Cameron ("Willie") McCool--pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-107 mission