Famous New Mexicans (Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos: condo, theater, college)

[LRUA]

Conrad Hilton ....founder of Hilton Hotel chain....born San Antonio,NM in 1887 ...I read that he once was at big meeting in Texas and they assumed he was from San Antonio,TX ....he had to correct them !! ...San Antonio is small town just south of Socorro..... also Ronny Cox born Cloudcroft in 1938 ...best known for his role in the 1972 movie "Deliverance" ...and Paul Benedict also born 1938 (Silver City) ....his best known role playing the "english" guy on hit TV Show "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985)

[nmoutlaw]

Don't forget our boy's from down here in Carlsbad! Shane Andrews had a 7 year stint in MLB,playing for the Expos,Cubs and Red Sox. Cody Ross play's for the Florida Marlins currently and has been pro for going on 8 years now. Don't forget that Brian Flores is getting ready to go pro! New Mexico just keep on turning out movie stars and other sports athletes,Carlsbad'll cover baseball!!!

[mtncat]

Lew Wallace. Governor and author of "Ben Hur"

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There are several Denver Broncos with New Mexico ties. Lionel Taylor resides in Albuquerque. He was the first real Denver Bronco star before Floyd Little came along in '67. He was the pro player to catch 500 passes in his first six years in the league. Later he spent a lot of years as an NFL ass't coach, notably with the Los Angeles Rams. He went to college at New Mexico Highlands University in Los Vegas. He attends all Bronco alumni functions and is retired, I believe. Charlie Johnson lives in Las Cruces and went to school at NMSU. He arrived with the Broncos in '72 and brought Denver their first winning seasons in the 4 seasons he played with them. Also a member of the Broncos ring of fame as is Lionel Taylor. He still is with NMSU in the chemical engineering dept. where he holds a degree and works with the quarterbacks on the football team.

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Paul Smith is another ring of famer. Paul was raised in Roswell and went to college at UNM. He played 11 seasons with Denver and retired in 1979. He passed away in 2000.

[jsc23]

Patrick Swayze lives in the Mineral Hill area outside LV, Gene HackMan just built in Golindras Canyon near Penderies, Ted Turner outside Raton. Judge Reinhold in SF.

Junior Brown (Honky Tonk Guit-Steel player) from Santa Fe. Rudolfo Anaya (author), Mary Austin (author, the movie Chinatown is very loosely based on her writings about the Owens Valley water wars), Tom Mix spent several years in LV, Doc Holliday owned a bar in LV for a couple of years, Max Evans (western Novelist), Evan S Connell (novelist/writer), Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel in physics, founder and director of Santa Fe Inst.), Chuck Jones (animator of Bugs, Daffy and the gang), Bill Mauldin (native, creator of Willie & Joe WWII characters, pulitzer in editorial cartoons), Cormac McCarthy (novelist), Shirley McLain, Robert Goddard (inventor of liquid fuel rocketry), William S Burroughs (novelist, attended Los Alamos School for Boys- now part of the Lab campus)

Hillerman is an Oklahoma native. Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser etc, ABQ native), Glen Campbell....

A couple of infamous: Albert Fall, of Teapot Dome Scandal and Carl C. Magee, founding publisher of the Albuquerque Tribune who later moved to OKC and invented the Parking Meter...

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...Baxter Black (large animal vet/ cowboy poet, from Las Cruces area), Michael Martin Murphy (Wildfire...Raton), Kit Carson, Dick Wooton (mountain man), Pat Garrett, Smokey the Bear, Roger Zelazny (Sci-Fi novelist), Mabel Dodge Luhan, D. H. Lawrence, Judy Blume, Willa Cather, R C Gorman, N Scott Momaday, Juan de Onate, George Ancona (photographer), Leslie Marmon Silko (novelist), Roger Staubach (NMMI grad), .....

[mtncat]

And now I feel bad that someone else mentioned Bill Mauldin. He was raised less then a mile from my house. His brother Sid and I were friends up until his death. His nephews and his widow are also long time friends.

[tecpatl]

Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the former planet Pluto, lived for many years in Mesilla, just down the road from my home and worked at NMSU. He joined the galaxies in 1997, but I believe his widow is still alive and lives here, though I've never seen her.

[jsc23]

Originally Posted by mtncat

And now I feel bad that someone else mentioned Bill Mauldin. He was raised less then a mile from my house. His brother Sid and I were friends up until his death. His nephews and his widow are also long time friends.

Don't feel bad Mtncat... I recently found and read Mauldin's book Back Home (about WWII demobilization) so he was on my mind. From what I've read, Mauldin wasn't big on being famous.