Mary Kawena Pukui

Mary Kawena Pukui

female
Hawaii musician, Native Hawaiian, punahou school, Hawaiian language, BishopMuseum, Hawaiiana
Mary Kawena Pukui (1895-1986) was an expert on the Hawaiian language and Hawaiian culture. She was born in Kaū, Big Island, to a traditional H...
Charles Reed Bishop

Charles Reed Bishop

male
Royal Family of Hawaii, hawaiian, Business Person, Kamehameha Schools, Kingdom of Hawaii, BishopMuseum…Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Charles Reed Bishop was a businessman in Hawaii during the 1800s. He was the husband of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, late heir to the Hawaiian throne,...
Eddie Kamae

Eddie Kamae

male
Honolulu, BishopMuseum, Sons of Hawaii, slack-key guitar, slack-key guitarist, Ukulele Hall of Fame
Eddie Kamae was born in Honolulu in 1927. He is an ukulele virtuoso, singer and composer. He is also known as a primary proponent of the "Hawaiian...
Herb Kawainui Kane

Herb Kawainui Kane

male, 81 years old
writer, Hawaii artist, hawaiian, national geographic, Voyagers, Po'okela…BishopMuseum
Herbert "Herb" Kawainui Kane (born 1928) is an artist-historian and author with special interest in Hawai'i and the South Pacific. Born in...

John Webber

male, deceased (1793)
painter, British, artist, kauai, From London, Peabody Essex Museum…BishopMuseum, Anchorage Museum of History and Art
John Webber was a British artist best known for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii. He was born in London in 1752 and served as official artist...
Willi Hennig

Willi Hennig

male, deceased (1976)
Biologist, German, Entomologist, dipteran, systematics, Evolutionary biologist…american museum of natural history, BishopMuseum, State Museum of Natural History, bishop, Dresden Museum
Emil Hans Willi Hennig was a German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, also known as "cladistics". With his works...
Charles Furneaux

Charles Furneaux

male, 174 years old
painter, King Kalakaua, Hawaii artist, Iolani Palace, Honolulu Academy of Arts, BishopMuseum…Brooklyn Museum, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Charles Furneaux (born 1835, Boston) was an American artist. He was a drawing instructor in Boston and for many years he lived in the town of...
Enoch Wood Perry Jr.

Enoch Wood Perry Jr.

male
painter, King Kamehameha IV, Düsseldorf Academy, Honolulu Academy of Arts, BishopMuseum, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf…metropolitan museum of art, Louisiana State Museum
Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. was an American painter. He was born in Boston in 1831 and moved to New Orleans with his family as a teenager. After working...
Jules C. E. Riotte

Jules C. E. Riotte

male, deceased (2000)
Canadian of Ukrainian descent, archimandrite, World War II, Nazi, German, second world war…Royal Ontario Museum, BishopMuseum, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
The Right Reverend Archimandrite Dr. Jules C. E. Riotte, was a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas in Chicago, and a...

Dawn Southard

female
bishop, Director of Conservation, Former Director, BishopMuseum, Board of HANO, executive director of the Native
Dawn Southard takes over at the Community Conservation Network Dawn Southard , the former Director of Foundation and Individual Giving at Bishop...