Kitty Genovese

Kitty Genovese

female, deceased (1964)
Catherine Susan Genovese, commonly known as Kitty Genovese, was a New York City woman who was stabbed to death near her home in the Kew Gardens...

Melinda Katz

female
Melinda Katz is an American Democratic Party politician in New York, and a member of the New York City Council from Queens. She represents the 29th...

Richard Turner

male, deceased (1881)
Richard Turner (1798-1881) was an Irish iron-founder and manufacturer of glasshouses, born in Dublin. His works included the Palm House at Kew...
Anthony D. Weiner

Anthony D. Weiner

male, 45 years old
Anthony David Weiner (born September 4, 1964) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of New York. He represents New York's 9th...
Francis Masson

Francis Masson

male, deceased (1805)
Francis Masson was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter. Masson was born in Aberdeen. In the 1760s he went to wo...
Augustine Henry

Augustine Henry

male, deceased (1930)
Augustine Henry was an Irish, plantsman and sinologist. He is best known for sending over 15,000 dry specimens and seeds and 500 plant samples to...
Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks

male, 70 years old
Charles Jencks (b. 1939) is an American architect, landscape architect and architectural theorist. His books on the history and criticism of...

Tony Lord

male
Tony Lord is a United Kingdom gardener, photographer and author. In 2005 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Victoria Medal of Honour...
George Caley

George Caley

male, deceased (1829)
George Caley (June 10, 1770 - May 23, 1829) was an English botanist and explorer in Australia.
Violet Dickson

Violet Dickson

female, deceased (1991)
Violet Penelope Lucas-Calcraft was born in Gautby, Lincolnshire, England. Her father was Neville Lucas-Calcraft, a land agent. The 1900 census...