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             Colorado History


Colorado Notables

COLORADO NOTABLES

This is a partial list of people who were born, lived, or spent time in Colorado, listed according to their field of achievement.  Underlined names are people who were born in Colorado.

 

Music:

Antonia Brico, Judy Collins, John Denver, Eugene Fodor, Ron Miles, Glenn Miller, Willie Nelson,  Paul Whiteman

Art:

Eve Drewelowe, Laura Gilpin, William Henry Jackson, Vance Kirkland, Patrick B. Oliphant, Alexander Phimister Proctor,  Allen Tupper True, Allen Wallihan

Writers

Edward Abbey, Isabella Bird Bishop, Mary Coyle Chase, Clive Cussler, Eugene Field, Mary Hallock Foote, Allen Ginsberg, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ken Kesey,  Louis L’Amour, James Michener, Damon Runyan, Sidney (Schectel) Sheldon, Dalton Trumbo, Leon Uris, Lenora Mattingly Weber, Connie Willis

History Makers:

James Beckwourth, William Bent, Black Kettle,  "Unsinkable"  Molly Brown,  Kit Carson, Chipeta, John Chivington, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Wyatt Earp, Horace Greeley,  Ferdinand V. Hayden, John Henry ‘Doc” Holliday, Mary “Mother” Jones, Evelyn Walsh MacLean, Bat Masterson, Ouray,  Alfred Packer, Zebulon Pike, Horace  &  Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor

Entertainers:

Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Jessica Biel, Spring Byington, Ward Bond, Lon Chaney, Don Cheadle, Ken Curtis, Ann B. Davis, Ralph Edwards,  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Pam Grier, Goldie Hawn, Lee Horsley, Kate Hudson, Ted Mack, Groucho Marx, Hattie McDaniel, Christopher Meloni, Antoinette Perry, Cassandra Peterson, Kurt Russell, Rick Schroeder, Lowell Thomas, Joan Van Ark, Dennis Weaver, Mare Winningham

Sports

Jack Dempsey, John Elway, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, ‘Goose’ Gossage, Hale Irwin, Billy Kidd, Tippy Martinez, Steve Mahre, Phil Mahre, Martina Navratilova, Frank Shorter, Charlie Tickner, Lee Trevino, Bud Werner, Babe Diedrickson Zaharias

Religion

Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini.

Astronauts

Vance Brand, Scott Carpenter, James Irwin, Jack Swigert

Government

Madeleine Albright, Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, President and Mrs. Gerald Ford, Gary Hart, Condoleezza Rice, Josephine A. Roche, Edward T. Taylor,  Justice Byron White

Science:

Thomas Cech (Nobel Prize), Eric Cornell (Nobel Prize), Florence Sabin, Nikola Tesla, Carl Wieman (Nobel Prize), Hannah Marie Wormington

Military:

Homer Lea, General Maurice B. Rose, Tenth Mountain Division

Business & Industry

Adolph Coors, Charles Gates, Meyer Guggenheim, Ruth Handler, John Malone

To learn more about theseand other individuals, visit the library where you'll find many biographies, biographical clipping and reference files.

 

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