John Green

male, 79 years old
professor, Tersonia cyathiflora, Micromyrtus blakelyi, Malleostemon peltiger, Conostylis teretifolia, Conostylis crassinerva…southwest, Southwest Australia
John William Green (born 10 July 1930) is an Australian botanist. Born in Waverley, New South Wales, he began his botanical career in 1954 as...
Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Smith

male, deceased (1831)
Columbia, southwest, From Wyoming, Basque American, Hinterland, West Coast of the United States
Jedediah Strong Smith (born January 6, 1799 - presumed date of death May 27, 1831) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader and explorer of the Rocky...
Gary Paul Nabhan

Gary Paul Nabhan

male, 57 years old
The Forgotten Pollinators, pollinator decline, Cultures of Habitat, Gathering the Desert, Forgotten Pollinators, The Desert Smells Like Rain…southwest
Gary Paul Nabhan (1952-) is an ecologist, ethnobotanist, and writer whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert...
Norman Petty

Norman Petty

male, deceased (1984)
the String-A-Longs, rock, From Lubbock, Texas, bmi, From New Mexico, Southwestern United States…southwest
Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 - August 15, 1984) was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwest who helped shape...
Frank Tenney Johnson

Frank Tenney Johnson

male, deceased (1939)
Death from meningitis, California artist, from the San Gabriel Valley, American West, yellowstone national park, cattle…southwest
Frank Tenney Johnson (26 June, 1874-1 January, 1939) was a painter of the american west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which...
Everett Ruess

Everett Ruess

male, deceased (1934)
Unitarian, artist, desert, colorado river, American, navajo nation…southwest
Everett Ruess (1914-1934) was an artist and writer who explored the deserts of the southwest, invariably alone. He was known for cutting linoleum...
Hi Jolly

Hi Jolly

male, deceased (1902)
Muslim, American, Syrian, Southwest United States, Syrian-American, Greek-American…southwest
Hadji "Hi Jolly" Ali was a Greek-Syrian specialist who was one of the first camel drivers ever hired by US Army in 1856 to lead the camel driver...

Gary Griffin

male, 49 years old
Theatre director, My Fair Lady, Broadway theatre, Olivier Award, Sunday in the Park With George, The Apple Tree…southwest
Gary Griffin, born 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from...
Francis Quinn

Francis Quinn

male
Yaqui, Deanery, Roman Catholic, Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop Quinn High School, Native American in the Unietd States…Southwest United States, southwest
Francis A. Quinn (b. September 11, 1921, Los Angeles, California) is the Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Sacramento. He was...
Andrew Jackson Smith

Andrew Jackson Smith

male, deceased (1897)
United States Military Academy, United States Army officer, brigadier general, West Point graduate, confederate, american civil war…southwest
Andrew Jackson Smith (April 28, 1815 - January 30, 1897) was a U.S. Army general during the American Civil War, rising to the command of a corps....