Famous New Mexicans

From the website “Hot Times, Cool Places” by John Kremer (http://www.traveltriviatime.com/newmexicofamous.htm) this is a list of people who were “born in or spent important time in New Mexico.” Sometimes the connection is very small—use judgement.

Ben Abruzzo, balloonist Maurus Chino, founder of the Southwest Ansel Adams, photographer Indigenous Alliance Larry Ahrens, radio talk show host Jan Clayton, actress Paul Allen, founder of Microsoft , chief Clay Allison, outlaw Cody, wild west showman Rudolfo Anaya, author Henry Connelly, New Mexico governor Dianne Anderson, radio talk show host E. Irving Couse, artist Lynn Anderson, country singer Bob Crosby, Maxie Anderson, balloonist Francisco Cuervo y Valdes, provisional Johnson Antonio, woodcarver Spanish governor , New Mexico governor Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), psychologist and Elfego Baca, lawman spiritual leader Jimmy Santiago Baca, author Juan Bautista de Anza, New Mexico governor Kathy Baker, actress Clarita Garcia de Aranda, flamenco dancer Josef Bakos, painter Ezequiel de Baca, first governor in Gertrudis Barcelo, women gambler U.S. Patrocinio Barela, woodcarver Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, explorer David Barsky, storyteller and author John , singer Maria Benetiz, flamenco dancer Antonio de Ortermin, New Mexico governor , New Mexico governor Don Pedro de Peralta, New Mexico governor Bryan Berg, world record-breaking card stacker Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, explorer Oscar Berninghaus, artist Diego de Vargas, New Mexico governor Hans Bethe, physicist David DeWitt, novelist , U.S. senator Bo Diddley, singer Sarah Bird, novelist Trent Dimas, Olympic gymnast Michael Blake, novelist Mabel Dodge, heiress, author, and literary Ernest Blumenschein, artist philanthropist William Bonney (aka Henry McCarty, Henry , U.S. senator Antrim, and ), outlaw Long John Dunn, entrepreneur Kent Bostick, Olympic cyclist W. Herbert “Buck” Dunton, artist Richard Bradford, novelist Fremont Ellis, painter Nacio Herb Brown, songwriter Joaquin Encinias, director J. B. Bryan, publisher, La Alameda Books Marisol Encinias, flamenco dancer Alice Bullock, folklorist Jim Everett, football player Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner Richard Farnsworth, actor Bruce Cabot, actor Nicolai Fechin, artist Glen Campbell, singer Enrico Fermi, physicist T. C. Canon, artist Bobby Foster, boxer Cathy Carr, Olympic swimmer Clifford Fragua, artist Lena Carr and A. A. Carr, filmmakers Drew Gaffney, astronaut , explorer and lawman Jose Manuel Gallegos, U.S. representative Willa Cather, novelist and short story writer Miguel Gandert, photographer Dennis Chavez, U.S. senator , sheriff Fray Angelico Chavez, author Greer Garson, actress Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel prize-winning Manuel Lujan Jr., U.S. secretary of interior physicist Solomon Luna, Valencia County politician , Apache chief Douglas MacArthur, general Robert H. Goddard, developed world's first Tommy MacDonald, football player liquid-fuel rocket Shirley MacLaine, actress Glenna Goodacre, sculptress Marisa Maez, TV news anchor Edward Gonzales, artist Mangas, Apache chief R. C. Gorman, artist Agnes Martin, artist Sidney Gutierrez, astronaut George R.R. Martin, science fiction and fantasy , actor novelist Donald Hamilton, mystery writer Maria and Julian Martinez, potters William Hanna, cartoonist Padre Martinez, social reformer who also Neil Patrick Harris, actor brought the first printing press to New Mexico Elizabeth Case-Harwood and Burt Harwood, Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist art patrons George McJunkin, discoverer of Folsom Man Edward Hatch, general Mark Medoff, novelist Tony Hillerman, novelist George Mendoza, blind athlete Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton hotels Don Meredith, football player Buddy Holly, singer Roger Miller, singer and songwriter , actor Edgar D. Mitchell, astronaut Paul Horgan, historian Flores Mogollon, Spanish governor Allan Houser, sculptor Scott Momaday, novelist Peter Hurd, painter Tamara Monosoff, inventor and author, The Aldous Huxley, novelist and essayist Mom Inventor's Handbook Don Imus, radio show host Demi Moore, actress Burl Ives, musician Jim Morrison, singer, The Doors Will James, legend Walter Mruk, painter Janis Joplin, singer Michael Martin Murphy, country singer Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head Ty Murray, rodeo champion Stephen Watts Kearny, general Roy Nakayama, chile developer Charles Kennedy, Western legend Nana, Apache chief Jan Kerouac, author Willard Nash, painter Black Jack Ketchum, train robber Bruce Nauman, artist Val Kilmer, actor Ralph Neely, football player Ralph Kiner, baseball player Francine Neff, U.S. secretary of the treasury J. Z. Knight, channeler of Ramtha John Nichols, novelist John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market , actor Your Books, Celebrate Today, and The Biology Georgia O'Keeffe, painter of Business; founder and member of the Self- Juan de Oñate, explorer Publishing Hall of Fame; maintainer of this web Steve Ontiveros, baseball player site; self-promoter J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of Manhattan Oliver LaFarge, novelist Project which developed atomic bomb Bishop Lamy, Catholic bishop Katherine Ortega, U.S. treasurer Octaviano Larrazolo, U.S. senator and first Simon Ortiz, poet naturalized American and Hispanic to serve as a Virgil Ortiz, artist senator Concha Oritiz y Pino Kleven, woman legislator D. H. Lawrence, novelist Louis Owens, novelist Timothy Leary, psychologist and drug Sheldon Parsons, painter experimenter Albino Perez, New Mexico governor John Lewis, founder of Modern Jazz Quartet Don Perkins, football player Samuel Lewis, Sufi teacher John (Blackjack) Pershing, general Ottmar Liebert, composer and guitarist Bert Phillips, artist Milton Livingston, builder of Cyclotron Waite Phillips, oilman Gregory Lomayesva, artist Slim Pickens, actor Nancy Lopez, golfer Jim Plunkett, football player Mabel Dodge Lujan, author Frederick Pohl, science fiction novelist Po'pay, led the 1680 Pueblo Revolt Slim Summerville, Keystone cop Eliot Porter, nature photographer Roxanne Swentzell, potter Bart Prince, architect Leo Szilard, physicist LeBaron Bradford Prince, New Mexico Luci Tapahonso, poet governor Edward Teller, physicist Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer and discover of Godfrey Reggio, director Pluto Eugene Manlove Rhodes, author Miguel Trujillo, Isleta Pueblo activist , New Mexico governor , U.S. representative Holly Roberts, photographer Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician John Maddox Roberts, novelist Al Unser, race car driver Julia Roberts, actress Al Unser Jr., race car driver Charmayne James Rodman, barrel racer Bobby Unser, race car driver Millicent Rogers, designer and art patron Vivian Vance, actress Susan Rothenberg, artist Judith Van Gieson, mystery novelist Fred Saberhagen, science fiction novelist Woody and Steina Vasulka, artists Eva Encinias Sandoval, dancer and founder, Pablita Velarde, painter National Institute of Flamenco Cuerno Verde, chief Peter & Paul Sarkisian, artists , Apache chief Jack Schaefer, novelist , novelist, general, and territorial Harrison J. Schmitt, astronaut and U.S. governor senator Alton Walpole, filmmaker Ernest Thompson Seton, author, naturalist, Erika Wanenmaker, artist artist, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts Duane Ward, baseball player Joseph Sharp, artist Frank Waters, author Connie Shelton, novelist Bill Watterson, cartoonist Will Shuster, painter Richard Wetherill, leader of first expedition Hampton Sides, novelist party to excavate Chaco Canyon Leslie Marmon Silko, novelist Eugene Wigner, mathematician Marc Simmons, historian Jack Williamson, science fiction novelist Mike Smith, jockey Heather Wilson, U.S. representative Teresa Kalab Smith, children's book author and Joe Wilson, ambassador illustrator Valerie Plame Wilson, CIA analyst Smokey the Bear Scott Wiseman, animator Erick Southwick, rodeo champion Ellen Wood, author Frank Springer, Summer Woods, novelist Roger Staubach, football player Henrietta Wyeth, painter Alfred Stieglitz, photographer