People Index
The people behind the places
Who built the bridge, who painted the picture, who the city is named for. Everyone our tours and stories mention, and where you meet them on the trip.
433 people
Before 1700
- Bernardo Bembo1433 to 1519Venetian ambassador to Florence whose emblem is on Ginevra's portrait.
- Leonardo da Vinci1452 to 1519Painter of Ginevra de' Benci
Samuel de Champlainc. 1574 to 1635Explorer and mapmaker who founded Quebec in 1608Explorers- Roger Williamsc. 1603 to 1683Founder of Providence and champion of religious libertyFounders and leaders
- Jeanne Mance1606 to 1673Cofounder of Ville Marie, now Montreal
John Harvard1607 to 1638Young minister whose bequest named HarvardFounders and leaders
Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve1612 to 1676French officer who founded Montreal in 1642Founders and leaders- Benedict Arnold1615 to 1678Colonial governor of Rhode Island who called the tower his windmill
- François de Laval1623 to 1708First bishop of Quebec
Johannes Vermeer1632 to 1675Dutch painter of quiet rooms full of lightArtists- Christopher Wren1632 to 1723English architect of London parish churches
William Penn1644 to 1718Quaker founder of Pennsylvania and PhiladelphiaFounders and leaders
Elihu Yale1649 to 1721East India Company official whose gift named YaleFounders and leaders- Kondiaronkc. 1649 to 1701Wendat diplomat of the Great Peace of MontrealNative nations and Indigenous peoples
- Mary Dyerdied 1660Quaker hanged on Boston Common
The 1700s
Tomochichic. 1644 to 1739Yamacraw leader who made the founding of Savannah possibleNative nations and Indigenous peoples- John Leverett1662 to 1724Harvard president who helped design Massachusetts Hall
- Benjamin Wadsworth1670 to 1737Harvard president who helped design Massachusetts Hall
- Joseph Addison1672 to 1719English writer whose play Nathan Hale echoed
- Andrew Hamilton1676 to 1741Lawyer who designed the Pennsylvania State House
- George Farquhar1677 to 1707Playwright of The Recruiting Officer
- George Berkeley1685 to 1753Philosopher who gave Trinity Church's organ
- Stede Bonnet1688 to 1718Pirate hanged in Charleston
James Oglethorpe1696 to 1785Founder of Georgia and planner of SavannahFounders and leaders- Peter Faneuil1700 to 1743Boston merchant who gave Faneuil Hall
- Mary Musgrovec. 1700 to 1765Muscogee Creek interpreter and trader in early GeorgiaNative nations and Indigenous peoples
- Philip Syng1703 to 1789Silversmith who made the Independence Hall inkstand
- John Wesley1703 to 1791Founder of Methodism, early clergy of Christ Church Savannah.
Benjamin Franklin1706 to 1790Printer, scientist and signer of the Declaration of IndependenceFounders and leaders- Abraham Redwood1709 to 1788Merchant who founded the Redwood Library
Eleazar Wheelock1711 to 1779Minister who founded Dartmouth College in 1769Founders and leaders- George Whitefield1714 to 1770Evangelist, early clergy of Christ Church Savannah.
Peter Harrison1716 to 1775Colonial architect of Newport's Touro Synagogue and Redwood LibraryBuilders and architects
Samuel Adams1722 to 1803Boston organizer of the Revolution and the Sons of LibertyFounders and leaders- Robert Smith1722 to 1777Philadelphia builder who designed Nassau Hall
- Crispus Attucksc. 1723 to 1770Sailor killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770Civil rights
- Samson Occom1723 to 1792Mohegan minister whose fundraising helped found Dartmouth
- George Stubbs1724 to 1806English painter of horses
- George Ross1730 to 1779Pennsylvania delegate and uncle of Betsy Ross's husband
George Washington1732 to 1799Commander of the Revolution, first president of the United StatesFounders and leaders- Robert Morris1734 to 1806Financier of the American Revolution
John Adams1735 to 1826Revolutionary lawyer, second president of the United StatesFounders and leaders- John Morgan1735 to 1789Cofounder of Penn's medical school
Paul Revere1735 to 1818Boston silversmith and the midnight rider of 1775Founders and leaders- John Brown1736 to 1803Providence merchant and slave trader of the Brown family
- William Shippen1736 to 1808Cofounder of Penn's medical school
- Francis Hopkinson1737 to 1791Signer of the Declaration, likely designer of the flag
John Hancock1737 to 1793Merchant, president of Congress, the biggest signature on the DeclarationFounders and leaders- John Wentworth1737 to 1820Royal governor who signed Dartmouth's charter
- Moses Brown1738 to 1836Brother of John Brown who became an abolitionist
- John Singleton Copley1738 to 1815American painter (1738-1815)
- James Manning1738 to 1791First president of Brown
- Nathaniel Russell1738 to 1820Charleston merchant and slave trader
- Richard Mundaydied 1739Builder of Newport's Colony House and Trinity Church
- Charles Willson Peale1741 to 1827Painter of the founders from life
- Nathanael Greene1742 to 1786Revolutionary War general buried in Johnson Square
Thomas Jefferson1743 to 1826Author of the Declaration of Independence, third presidentFounders and leaders- Moses Seixas1744 to 1809Touro Synagogue warden who wrote to George Washington
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney1746 to 1825Landowner who gave land for Charleston's market
- Benjamin Rush1746 to 1813Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration
- William White1748 to 1836First Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania
James Madison1751 to 1836Father of the Constitution and fourth presidentFounders and leaders- Gouverneur Morris1752 to 1816Wrote the final text of the Constitution
- Betsy Ross1752 to 1836Philadelphia upholsterer credited in legend with the first flag
Pierre Charles L'Enfant1754 to 1825French engineer who drew the plan of WashingtonBuilders and architects- Benjamin Tallmadge1754 to 1835Yale classmate of Nathan Hale and Revolutionary officer
Gilbert Stuart1755 to 1828Portraitist of the first presidents, painter of the dollar bill WashingtonArtists
Nathan Hale1755 to 1776Patriot spy hanged by the British at twenty oneFounders and leaders- Aaron Burr1756 to 1836Vice president and Princeton graduate
- John Trumbull1756 to 1843Painter of the Revolution and founder of the Yale art gallery
Alexander Hamiltonc. 1757 to 1804Founding Father and first secretary of the treasuryFounders and leaders- Eliza Hamilton1757 to 1854Wife of Alexander Hamilton, buried at Trinity Church
Marquis de Lafayette1757 to 1834French volunteer general of the American RevolutionFounders and leaders- Horatio Nelson1758 to 1805British admiral honored by Montreal's Nelson Column
- Patrick Carrdied 1770Irish immigrant killed in the Boston Massacre
- John Rossdied 1776Upholsterer and first husband of Betsy Ross
- Phillis Wheatleydied 1784Enslaved poet, first African American woman to publish a book.
- Samuel Frauncesdied 1795Innkeeper of Fraunces Tavern
The 1800s
Katsushika Hokusai1760 to 1849Japanese artist of The Great WaveArtists
Charles Bulfinch1763 to 1844Architect of the Massachusetts State House and the Capitol domeBuilders and architects- Benjamin Latrobe1764 to 1820Architect who rebuilt Nassau Hall and worked on the Capitol
- Robert Fulton1765 to 1815Steamboat pioneer buried at Trinity Church
James Smithsonc. 1765 to 1829British chemist whose fortune founded the SmithsonianScientists and inventors- Pierre Toussaint1766 to 1853Formerly enslaved Haitian New Yorker on the road to sainthood
Andrew Jackson1767 to 1845General of New Orleans and seventh presidentFounders and leaders- Napoleon Bonaparte1769 to 1821French emperor whose death mask is in the Cabildo
- Henry Philip Hope1774 to 1839London banker whose gem catalogue gave the Hope Diamond its name.
- James O'Donnell1774 to 1830Irish American architect of Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal
- Mary Pickersgill1776 to 1857Baltimore flag maker who sewed the Star Spangled Banner
John By1779 to 1836British engineer who built the Rideau Canal and founded Bytown, now OttawaBuilders and architects- John Forsyth1780 to 1841Georgia governor for whom Forsyth Park is named
- Daniel Webster1782 to 1852Orator and senator, Dartmouth class of 1801
- Lord Byron1788 to 1824English poet who died fighting for Greek independence
- William Strickland1788 to 1854Architect of the Second Bank and Independence Hall steeple
- William Gooderham1790 to 1881Cofounder of the Gooderham and Worts distillery
Samuel Morse1791 to 1872Painter who became the inventor of the American telegraphScientists and inventors- William Jay1792 to 1837English architect of the Owens Thomas House
- Carl Christian Rafn1795 to 1864Danish antiquarian who called the Newport Tower Norse
- Henry Erben1800 to 1884Organ builder of Old St. Patrick's
- James Bucklin1801 to 1890Architect of Brown's Manning Hall
- Richard Upjohn1802 to 1878Architect of Trinity Church in Manhattan
- Robert Anderson1805 to 1871Union commander at Fort Sumter
- William Lloyd Garrison1805 to 1879American journalist and abolitionist (1805 to 1879)
- Robert Launitz1806 to 1870Sculptor who moved the Greene monument
The Roeblings1806 to 1926The family who built the Brooklyn BridgeBuilders and architects
Ezra Cornell1807 to 1874Telegraph builder and co-founder of Cornell UniversityBusiness and money
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807 to 1882Poet of Paul Revere's Ride and HiawathaWriters- Samuel Francis Smith1808 to 1895Wrote the words of America
Abraham Lincoln1809 to 1865Sixteenth president, who led the Union through the Civil WarFounders and leaders- Victor Bourgeau1809 to 1888Architect of the Notre Dame Basilica interior
- Gardner Colby1810 to 1879Boston dry goods merchant who commissioned a SoHo cast iron building.
- Clark Mills1810 to 1883Sculptor of the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square
- John Notman1810 to 1865Architect who rebuilt Nassau Hall after the 1855 fire
- Edouard de Laboulaye1811 to 1883French thinker who proposed the Statue of Liberty
- Abiel Abbot Low1811 to 1893China trade merchant, father of Seth Low
- Elisha Otis1811 to 1861Builder of the first passenger elevator
- Charles Dickens1812 to 1870English novelist who visited Eastern State Penitentiary
- Galen Clark1814 to 1910First guardian of the Yosemite grant
- Henry Sage1814 to 1897Donor of Cornell's first women's residence hall
Emanuel Leutze1816 to 1868Painter of Washington Crossing the DelawareArtists
Domingo Ghirardelli1817 to 1894Italian chocolatier of Gold Rush San FranciscoBusiness and money
Biddy Mason1818 to 1891Won her freedom in court and became a Los Angeles landowner and philanthropistCivil rights- Philip Barton Key1818 to 1859Shot by Daniel Sickles in Lafayette Square in 1859
- Mary Todd Lincoln1818 to 1882First Lady, wife of Abraham Lincoln
- Daniel Sickles1819 to 1914Congressman who killed Philip Barton Key in Lafayette Square
Walt Whitman1819 to 1892Poet of Leaves of Grass, father of free verseWriters- Henry Howard Houston1820 to 1895Railway executive who gave Houston Hall
- Jenny Lind1820 to 1887Singer who debuted in America at Castle Garden
- William Tecumseh Sherman1820 to 1891Union general honored by Saint Gaudens' gilded statue
Frederick Law Olmsted1822 to 1903Father of American landscape architecture, co-designer of Central ParkBuilders and architects
Harriet Tubmanc. 1822 to 1913Freedom seeker who led others out of slaveryCivil rights
Red Cloudc. 1822 to 1909Oglala Lakota leader who won Red Cloud's WarNative nations and Indigenous peoples- John McArthur1823 to 1890Architect of Philadelphia City Hall
- Goldwin Smith1823 to 1910English historian and early Cornell professor
Calvert Vaux1824 to 1895Architect and co-designer of Central ParkBuilders and architects- Edward Rollins1824 to 1889New Hampshire senator who gave Rollins Chapel
- John Winthrop Chanler1826 to 1877New York congressman who built The Chanler in Newport
- Joseph Wharton1826 to 1909Industrialist who founded the Wharton School
- Frederick Clarke Withers1828 to 1901Architect of the Jefferson Market Courthouse
- Charles Babcock1829 to 1913Cornell architecture professor
- Thomas Lincoln Casey1831 to 1896Army engineer who finished the Washington Monument and Library of Congress
- Willard Fiske1831 to 1904Cornell's first librarian
- James Hobandied 1831Irish born architect of the White House
- William Earl Dodge1832 to 1903Merchant who gave Earl Hall at Columbia
- Gustave Eiffel1832 to 1923Engineer of the Statue of Liberty's iron frame
- Andrew Dickson White1832 to 1918Cofounder and first president of Cornell
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi1834 to 1904French sculptor of the Statue of LibertyArtists- Alfred Mullett1834 to 1890Architect of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- James Wortsdied 1834Cofounder of the Gooderham and Worts distillery
- Andrew Carnegie1835 to 1919Industrialist who paid for the John Hay Library
- John La Farge1835 to 1910Stained glass maker
- George Fiske1835 to 1918Pioneering Yosemite photographer
- Thomas Webb Richards1836 to 1911Architect of College Hall at Penn
- Anna Harkness1837 to 1926Donor of Yale's Memorial Quadrangle
- John Hay1838 to 1905Lincoln's secretary and secretary of state
John Muir1838 to 1914Naturalist and writer, father of the national parksExplorers- Henry Hobson Richardson1838 to 1886Architect of Sever Hall and Glessner House
- Frank Furness1839 to 1912Architect of Penn's Fisher Fine Arts Library
- Robert Gair1839 to 1927Paper box maker who built much of DUMBO
Claude Monet1840 to 1926French painter who gave Impressionism its nameArtists- Jennie McGraw1840 to 1881Donor of the Cornell Chimes
- Auguste Rodin1840 to 1917French sculptor of The Thinker
- William Appleton Potter1842 to 1909Architect of Chancellor Green library at Princeton
- David Ross McCord1844 to 1930Lawyer whose collection founded the McCord Museum
- John William Sterling1844 to 1918Lawyer whose estate paid for Sterling Library
Brother André1845 to 1937Doorkeeper and saint who founded Saint Joseph's OratoryFounders and leaders- Bruce Price1845 to 1903Architect of the Château Frontenac
- Alexander Milne Calder1846 to 1923Sculptor of the William Penn statue on City Hall
- Paul Philippoteaux1846 to 1923French painter of the 1883 Gettysburg cyclorama.
- Henry Hardenbergh1847 to 1918Architect of The Plaza hotel
Joseph Pulitzer1847 to 1911Newspaper publisher who paid for Liberty's pedestal with small giftsBusiness and money- Charles McKim1847 to 1909Architect of Columbia's campus and Harvard's Johnston Gate
- William Henry Miller1848 to 1922Cornell's first architecture student and Ithaca architect
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens1848 to 1907Sculptor of the Sherman statue.
- Louis Comfort Tiffany1848 to 1933Stained glass maker
Emma Lazarus1849 to 1887Poet of The New Colossus on the Statue of LibertyWriters- Jacob Riis1849 to 1914Journalist of New York's slums
Daniel Chester French1850 to 1931Sculptor of the seated Lincoln and the Minute ManArtists- Seth Low1850 to 1916Columbia president who paid for Low Library
Stanford White1853 to 1906Gilded Age architect of the Washington Square ArchBuilders and architects
Vincent van Gogh1853 to 1890Dutch painter of The Starry NightArtists- Caroline Phelps Stokes1854 to 1909Donor of St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia
- Cecilia Beaux1855 to 1942American artist (1855-1942)
- Andrew Mellon1855 to 1937Founder of the National Gallery of Art
- Doane Robinson1856 to 1946South Dakota historian who proposed Mount Rushmore
- Louis Sullivan1856 to 1924Skyscraper architect trained by Frank Furness
- Woodrow Wilson1856 to 1924Twenty eighth president and former president of Princeton
- Alexander Doyle1857 to 1922Sculptor of the Jasper monument
- Charles Rushmore1857 to 1931New York lawyer for whom Mount Rushmore is named
- Wilson Eyre1858 to 1944Architect of the Penn Museum
- Michael Pupin1858 to 1935Serbian immigrant physicist, namesake of Pupin Hall
Theodore Roosevelt1858 to 1919Twenty sixth president, conservationist and Nobel Peace laureateFounders and leaders- Cass Gilbert1859 to 1934Architect of the Woolworth Building
- Georges Seurat1859 to 1891Painter of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Sir Henry Pellatt1859 to 1939Toronto financier who built Casa LomaBusiness and money- Lewis Bradburydied 1892Mining millionaire who commissioned the Bradbury Building
The 1900s
Juliette Gordon Low1860 to 1927Founder of the Girl Scouts of the USAFounders and leaders- George Wyman1860 to 1939Draftsman credited with the Bradbury Building design
- Eleanor Elkins Widener1861 to 1937Titanic survivor who built Widener Library
- Nicholas Murray Butler1862 to 1947President of Columbia for forty three years
- Ralph Cameron1863 to 1953Owner of the Bright Angel Trail
- Ralph Adams Cram1863 to 1942Architect of Princeton University Chapel
- Edward Pearce Casey1864 to 1940Designed the Library of Congress interiors
- Henry Bacon1866 to 1924Architect of the Lincoln MemorialBuilders and architects
Gutzon Borglum1867 to 1941Sculptor who carved Mount RushmoreArtists- Stephen Tyng Mather1867 to 1930First director of the National Park Service
- Francis Rattenbury1867 to 1935Architect of the Vancouver Art Gallery courthouse
- James Gamble Rogers1867 to 1947Architect of Sterling Library and Harkness Tower
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes1867 to 1944Architect of St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia
The Wright brothers1867 to 1948Brothers who built and flew the first successful airplaneScientists and inventors- Charles Whittlesey1867 to 1941Chicago architect of El Tovar
- Frank Lloyd Wright1867 to 1959Architect and pupil of Louis Sullivan
- Harvey Firestone1868 to 1938Tire maker for whom Firestone Library is named
- Horace Trumbauer1868 to 1938Philadelphia architect of Irvine Auditorium
Mary Colter1869 to 1958Architect of the Grand Canyon's South Rim buildingsBuilders and architects- Henri Matisse1869 to 1954French painter, grandfather of Paul Matisse.
- Alexander Stirling Calder1870 to 1945Sculptor of the Swann fountain
Emily Carr1871 to 1945Canadian painter and writer of the Pacific coastArtists- Harry Thaw1871 to 1947Murderer of Stanford White
- Jules Mastbaum1872 to 1926Movie theater owner who founded the Rodin Museum
- Leon Moisseiff1872 to 1943Engineer of the Manhattan Bridge
- Edward Harkness1874 to 1940Standard Oil heir who paid for Yale's residential colleges
- Milton Bennett Medary1874 to 1929Penn student who designed Houston Hall
Winston Churchill1874 to 1965British prime minister of the Second World WarFounders and leaders- Charles Connick1875 to 1945Stained glass artist of the St. Patrick's rose window
Walter Chrysler1875 to 1940Carmaker who paid for the Chrysler BuildingBusiness and money- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney1875 to 1942Founder of the Whitney Museum
- Paul Cret1876 to 1945Architect of the Rodin Museum
- The Kolb brothers1876 to 1976Grand Canyon photographers and river runnersExplorers
- Ernest Martin Hopkins1877 to 1964President of Dartmouth
- Lee Lawrie1877 to 1963Sculptor of Atlas at Rockefeller Center
- Lise Meitner1878 to 1968Physicist who explained nuclear fission
- Paul Renner1878 to 1956German designer of the Futura typeface.
Albert Einstein1879 to 1955Physicist of relativity, later of PrincetonScientists and inventors- Otto Hahn1879 to 1968Chemist who split the uranium atom
- John Jakob Raskob1879 to 1950Financier behind the Empire State Building
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson1879 to 1962Arctic explorer who gave his library to Dartmouth
- Edgar Palmer1880 to 1943Zinc heir who built Palmer Square
- Frances Perkins1880 to 1965Witness to the Triangle fire and first woman cabinet secretary
- Julian Abele1881 to 1950Architect in Trumbauer's office who shaped Irvine Auditorium
Edward Hopper1882 to 1967American painter of NighthawksArtists
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882 to 1945Thirty second president, through the Depression and the Second World WarFounders and leaders- Fiorello La Guardia1882 to 1947New York mayor who named the library lions
- Walter Gropius1883 to 1969Bauhaus founder who taught at Harvard
- José Clemente Orozco1883 to 1949Mexican muralist who painted Dartmouth's Epic of American Civilization
- Eleanor Roosevelt1884 to 1962First Lady and United Nations delegate
- Harry Elkins Widener1885 to 1912Book collector who died on the Titanic.
- Le Corbusier1887 to 1965Architect of Harvard's Carpenter Center
- Robert Moses1888 to 1981Planner who built the Brooklyn Queens Expressway
- Edwin Armstrong1890 to 1954Inventor of FM radio at Columbia
- Dwight Eisenhower1890 to 1969Thirty fourth president; held first televised presidential press conference
- Charles de Gaulle1890 to 1970French president who said Vive le Québec libre
Grant Wood1891 to 1942Iowa painter of American GothicArtists- Herbert Maier1893 to 1969Architect of Yavapai Observation Station and the Yosemite Museum
- Joan Miro1893 to 1983Catalan artist and friend of Sert
- Fritz Pollard1894 to 1986First Black NFL head coach, played at Brown
- Norman Rockwell1894 to 1978Painter of the Yankee Doodle mural at the Nassau Inn
- Buckminster Fuller1895 to 1983Engineer associated with the geodesic dome
- Wallace Harrison1895 to 1981Architect of the Hopkins Center and the Met Opera
- Harry Winston1896 to 1978Jeweler who gave the Hope Diamond
- Alexander Calder1898 to 1976American artist (1898 to 1976)
- Henry Moore1898 to 1986British sculptor of Oval with Points
- Leo Szilard1898 to 1964Physicist who worked on chain reactions at Columbia
- Joseph Hirshhorn1899 to 1981Financier whose collection founded the Hirshhorn Museum
Louis Armstrong1901 to 1971New Orleans trumpeter and singer who reshaped jazzArtists
Louis Kahn1901 to 1974Architect of monumental, light filled buildings in concrete and brickBuilders and architects
Ansel Adams1902 to 1984Photographer of Yosemite and the American WestArtists- Marcel Breuer1902 to 1981Architect of the former Whitney building on Madison Avenue
- Charles Lindbergh1902 to 1974Pilot of the Spirit of St. Louis
- Barbara McClintock1902 to 1992Nobel geneticist who worked at Columbia
- Fritz Strassmann1902 to 1980Chemist who split the uranium atom
- Otto Frisch1904 to 1979Physicist who explained nuclear fission
- Isamu Noguchi1904 to 1988Sculptor of the Beinecke sunken garden
- Paul Mellon1907 to 1999Founder of the Yale Center for British Art
- Margot Gayle1908 to 2008Preservationist who saved Jefferson Market Courthouse
- Gordon Bunshaft1909 to 1990Architect of the Hirshhorn and the Beinecke Library
- Edwin Land1909 to 1991Inventor of the Polaroid camera
- Johnny Mercer1909 to 1976Songwriter, great grandson of Hugh Mercer.
- Louise Bourgeois1911 to 2010Sculptor of the spider Maman
- Charles Addams1912 to 1988Cartoonist who created the Addams Family
- Julia Child1912 to 2004Cookbook author and television chef whose kitchen is at the Smithsonian.
Jackson Pollock1912 to 1956Abstract Expressionist painter of the drip paintingsArtists- Frank Oppenheimer1912 to 1985Physicist who founded the Exploratorium
- Vince Lombardi1913 to 1970Green Bay Packers coach.
- Joan Littlewood1914 to 2002Theatre director who conceived the Fun Palace
- Lawrence Halprin1916 to 2009Landscape architect of the FDR Memorial
- Betty Snyder1917 to 2001One of the six ENIAC programmers
- Bill Reid1920 to 1998Haida artist of The Raven and the First Men
- Kay McNulty1921 to 2006One of the six ENIAC programmers
- Marlyn Wescoff1922 to 2008One of the six ENIAC programmers
- Richard Haag1923 to 2018Landscape architect of Gas Works Park
- Arthur Erickson1924 to 2009Canadian architect of Vancouver's Museum of AnthropologyBuilders and architects
- Betty Jennings1924 to 2011One of the six ENIAC programmers
- Frank Gaylord1925 to 2018Sculptor of the Korean War Veterans Memorial soldiers
- Robert Venturi1925 to 2018Architect of the Franklin Court ghost frame
- John Kemeny1926 to 1992Dartmouth president and coinventor of BASIC
- Eberhard Zeidler1926 to 2022Architect of Canada Place
- Ben Ali1927 to 2009Founder of Ben's Chili Bowl
- Pope Benedict XVI1927 to 2022Pope who made Old St. Patrick's a basilica
- Maya Angelou1928 to 2014Poet who criticized the King memorial inscription
- Thomas Kurtz1928 to 2024Coinventor of BASIC at Dartmouth
- Jacqueline Bouvier1929 to 1994First Lady, married John F. Kennedy in Newport in 1953
Frank Gehry1929 to 2025Architect of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Bilbao's GuggenheimBuilders and architects
Martin Luther King Jr.1929 to 1968Minister and leader of the civil rights movementCivil rights- Raymond Moriyama1929 to 2023Architect of the Canadian War Museum
- Claes Oldenburg1929 to 2022Sculptor of the Split Button
- Jim Williams1930 to 1990Restorer of the Mercer Williams House
- Toni Morrison1931 to 2019Novelist who taught at Princeton
- Peter Walkerborn 1932Landscape architect of the September 11 Memorial
- Douglas Cardinalborn 1934Blackfoot architect of the National Museum of the American Indian
- Cedric Price1934 to 2003Architect who conceived the Fun Palace
- Der Scutt1934 to 2010Architect of Trump Tower
- Pope Francis1936 to 2025Pope who made Savannah's cathedral a basilica
Renzo Pianoborn 1937Italian architect of the Whitney and the Art Institute's Modern WingBuilders and architects- Charles Rossborn 1937Artist of the prism installation at the Native American museum.
- Moshe Safdieborn 1938Architect of the National Gallery of Canada
Dale Chihulyborn 1941Glass artist, born in TacomaArtists- Arturo Di Modica1941 to 2021Sculptor of Charging Bull
- Harvey Prattborn 1941Cheyenne and Arapaho artist who designed the Native American Veterans Memorial.
- Martin Puryearborn 1941Sculptor of Brown's slavery memorial
- Michael Bloombergborn 1942Former New York mayor and donor to The Shed
- Coosje van Bruggen1942 to 2009Cocreator of the Split Button
- Barry Dillerborn 1942Media executive who funded Little Island
- Mario Bottaborn 1943Architect of SFMOMA's 1995 building
- Tod Williamsborn 1943Architect who expanded the Hood Museum
- Piet Oudolfborn 1944Garden designer of the High Line
- Judith Rodinborn 1944President of Penn
- Barbara Krugerborn 1945Artist of Belief+Doubt at the Hirshhorn.
- Marsha P. Johnson1945 to 1992Activist remembered as a leader of the Stonewall eraCivil rights
- Jean Nouvelborn 1945Architect of the Jane's Carousel pavilion
- Daniel Libeskindborn 1946Architect of the ROM's Michael Lee Chin Crystal
- Donald Trumpborn 1946Developer of Trump Tower and later president
- Ira Magazinerborn 1947Coauthor of Brown's Open Curriculum proposal
- Billie Tsienborn 1949Architect who expanded the Hood Museum
- Santiago Calatravaborn 1951Architect of the World Trade Center Oculus
- Paul Allen1953 to 2018Microsoft cofounder who founded MoPOP
- Lei Yixinborn 1954Sculptor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- Yo Yo Maborn 1955Cellist
Maya Linborn 1959Designer of the Vietnam Veterans MemorialBuilders and architects- Danny Hansforddied 1981Young man shot and killed in the Mercer House in 1981.
2000 to today
- Mark Bradfordborn 1961Artist of Pickett's Charge at the Hirshhorn.
- David Adjayeborn 1966Design architect of the National Museum of African American History
- Michael Aradborn 1969Architect of the National September 11 Memorial
- Thomas Heatherwickborn 1970Designer of the Vessel and Little Island
- Tuan Andrew Nguyenborn 1976Artist of the 2026 High Line Plinth commission
Dates not yet known
- Harriet Crocker AlexanderDonor of Alexander Hall at Princeton
- Charles ArbuckleBrooklyn coffee merchant, one of the Arbuckle brothers.
- Louisa ArmisteadWidow of George Armistead, said to have sewn on the flag's red chevron.
- Daniel BadgerMaker of the Haughwout Building's cast iron fronts
- Paul BajnottiBuilt Carrie Tower in memory of his wife
- Amerigo BenciFlorentine banker, father of Ginevra de' Benci.
- Harry BestPainter who opened Best's Studio in Yosemite
- Fran BilasOne of the six ENIAC programmers
- George BowenNamesake of Bowen's Wharf
- Edythe BroadCofounder of The Broad museum
- Lucy BrownSurvivor of the 1851 Mariposa Battalion, buried in Yosemite
- William BullSouth Carolina colonist who helped lay out Savannah
- Orin BullockArchitect who restored the Great Friends Meeting House
- Rose ButlerWoman hanged at the gallows near Washington Square
- William CanbyGrandson of Betsy Ross who published her flag story
- Irwin CohenDeveloper of Chelsea Market
- Charles CollisDartmouth alumnus for whom the Collis Center is named
- Laura CrosseyGeologist who co-led the Grand Canyon Trail of Time.
- Joshua DavidCofounder of Friends of the High Line
- J. Y. DavisWashington hatter who made Lincoln's top hat.
- Jacob DissiusDelft owner whose 1696 estate sale included Vermeer paintings.
- Hendrik DoyersEighteenth century Dutch immigrant for whom Doyers Street is named.
- Isaac DuckworthArchitect of cast iron buildings on Greene Street in SoHo.
- Esther DulacLongtime owner of the Red Parrot restaurant
- Jeremiah ElfrethBlacksmith for whom Elfreth's Alley is named
- Henry EngelbertArchitect who rebuilt Old St. Patrick's Cathedral after the 1866 fire.
- Guillaume EstèbeMerchant whose house is part of the Museum of Civilization
- Josef FenykoviHungarian engineer who shot the Smithsonian elephant
- Nathaniel FitzRandolphFarmer who gave the land for Nassau Hall
- William FootnerArchitect of Bonsecours Market
- Anthony FurtadoCarpenter who made the Bowen's Wharf anchor stock
- John GaynorArchitect of the 1857 Haughwout Building.
- Charles GeddesArchitect of the Yosemite Valley Chapel
- William GodfreyArchaeologist who excavated the Newport Tower in 1948
- John GreenDonor of Chancellor Green library
- Robert HammondCofounder of Friends of the High Line
- Eder HaughwoutMerchant of the Haughwout Building
- Norman IshamArchitect who restored Newport's Colony House
- Gassy JackRiverboat captain and saloon keeper for whom Gastown is named.
- Robert JohnsonColonial governor of South Carolina, namesake of Johnson Square
- Samuel JohnstonHarvard alumnus who gave Johnston Gate
- Johnpaul JonesCherokee and Choctaw architect, lead design consultant of the museum.
- Karl KarlstromGeologist who led the design of the Grand Canyon Trail of Time.
- Wo KeeMerchant whose Mott Street store began Chinatown
- William KelseyPenn student who designed Houston Hall
- Katharine KerryGave Kerry Park to Seattle with her husband
- Charlie LaiCofounder of the New York Chinatown History Project
- Jens Fredrick LarsonDartmouth college architect who designed Baker Library
- Dorothy Porcher LeggePainted Rainbow Row pink, starting its colors
- Ruth LichtermanOne of the six ENIAC programmers
- Joseph François ManginArchitect of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral
- Paul MatisseArtist and engineer who rebuilt Calder's East Building mobile.
- Elliot MaxwellCoauthor of Brown's Open Curriculum proposal
- Sarah MeltonDressmaker who lived on Elfreth's Alley in the 1790s
- Chris MillerWriter whose Dartmouth years inspired Animal House
- Alpheus MorseArchitect of Sayles Hall at Brown
- John MyersGerman laborer, first Brooklyn Bridge worker to die of caisson disease.
- William Rigby NaylorArchitect of Charleston's Old Exchange
- Jonathan NicholsNamed the White Horse Tavern in 1730
- Signe NielsenLandscape architect of Little Island
- Emma ParkhurstDonor of Parkhurst Hall
- Wilder Lewis ParkhurstStudent memorialized by Parkhurst Hall
- Donald ParkinsonArchitect of Union Station, Los Angeles
- Edward PelhamWharf owner who willed enslaved people to his heirs
- Paul PelzArchitect of the Library of Congress
- Caroline PickersgillDaughter of Mary Pickersgill who helped sew the Star-Spangled Banner.
- Jack RidleyTest pilot and engineer on the Bell X-1 project.
- Pamela RosenkranzArtist of a pink tree on the High Line Plinth.
- Thomas RyanCharleston councilman who opened Ryan's Mart
- Edwin SanbornDartmouth English professor honored by Sanborn House
- William SaylesDonor of Sayles Hall
- Mary SmithDressmaker who lived on Elfreth's Alley in the 1790s
- Paul Chaat SmithComanche curator of the Americans exhibition.
- John SmithmeyerArchitect of the Library of Congress
- Jacob StarrMetalworker who built the Times Square ball
- Christine SterlingPreservationist who saved the Avila Adobe
- John Kuo Wei TchenCofounder of the New York Chinatown History Project
- John VerkampGrand Canyon souvenir merchant
- David WalentasDeveloper who transformed DUMBO and bought Jane's Carousel.
- Jane WalentasRestorer of Jane's Carousel
- Kathy WankelMontana rancher who found the Nation's T. rex in 1988.
- Margaret Astor WardWife of John Winthrop Chanler
- Augustus Van WickleDonor of the Van Wickle Gates
- Grace WisherAfrican American indentured servant who helped sew the Star Spangled Banner
- Ruth WittenbergPreservationist who saved Jefferson Market Courthouse
- Edmund WoolleyMaster builder of the Pennsylvania State House
- James WrightLast royal governor of Georgia
- John ZalarCarver credited with Jane's Carousel horses
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