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Location of the City and County of Denver in Colorado. This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States. People born elsewhere but raised in Denver are marked with a §. People born and raised elsewhere who have lived in Denver as adults are marked with a
Freddie Steinmark (January 27, 1949 – June 6, 1971) was an American college football player for the University of Texas Longhorns.He inspired his teammates by his faith after his diagnosis of bone cancer and subsequent leg amputation during his junior year.
Sumiko Hennessy (PhD, 1978), Japanese-American academic, social worker, and activist for the Asian American community in Denver; Harold Franklin, professor, first Black student at Auburn University; Nancy Golden, professor, Chief Education Officer of Oregon, 2013-1015; Mary Ann Kerwin, J.D. 1986, co-founder of the La Leche League
Christine Arguello (born 1955), federal court judge, Denver, Colorado; Roger S. Burdick, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court; Howard Jenkins Jr., labor lawyer and civil servant; Louis O. Kelso, inventor of the employee stock ownership plan; William Lee Knous, former associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Louise Sneed Hill (1862–1955) wife of Crawford Hill, head of the famous Denver society set called the Sacred 36; Herbert Alonzo Howe (1858–1926), American astronomer, educator, author, Dean of Denver University; Robert Lee Howsam (1918–2008), co-founder of the Denver Broncos; Charles James Hughes Jr. (1853–1911), US Senator
DJ Unk, the Atlanta rapper behind the hits “Walk It Out” and “2 Step,” died at the age of 43. Unk, born Anthony Platt, was one of the key figures in snap music, a subgenre of crunk that ...
Officer Eric Guy Kelly, Officer Stephen James Mayhle, and Officer Paul John Rizzo Domenic Sciullo II: Pittsburgh Bureau of Police: April 9, 2009: Gunfire while responding to a domestic disturbance call. The shooter was sentenced to death on June 28, 2011. [178] [179] [180] Officer James B. Wilson Jr. Omaha Police Department: August 20, 1995
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...