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