Famous
People of the Past Inspired by Muir
Aldo Leopold and John Muir
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Ansel Adams
Celebrated landscape photographer and conservationist
Ryozo Azuma
"The John Muir of Japan"
David Brower
Famous twentieth-century conservationist, widely regarded as a latter-day John Muir
Francis Fisher Browne
Author and editor of literary periodicals
William
E. Colby
Conservation campaigner and close colleague of John Muir who started
Sierra Club "High Trips"
Brother Cornelius
Art Professor, expert on artist William Keith, to whom he was introduced by Muir
Ricardus M. El-Haber
Founder of "Friends of Nature" in Lebanon
James Bernard Harkin
Canada's first Commissioner of National Parks (1911-1936). Harkin paid tribute to Muir by quoting directly from Muir's writings in his departmental correspondence.
Phillip Hyde
Landscape Photographer and conservationist.
David Starr Jordan
Ichthyologist, university professor and administrator
Robert
Underwood Johnson
Published Muir's Yosemite articles
Charles
Keeler
Poet, author, and ornithologist; charter member of Sierra Club
William
Kent
Inspired by Muir, who with his wife donated the land for Muir Woods National Monument
Elizabeth Baldwin Thacher Kent
Wife of William Kent, who jointly donated the land for Muir Woods National Monument and praised Muir's book Stickeen
Bill and Maymie Kimes
Muir collectors and authors of John Muir: A Reading Bibliography and other writings about John Muir
Aldo Leopold
Quoted Muir in his classic Sand County Almanac
Theodore Parker Lukens
Pasadena City councilman, realtor, banker, and forester
Stephen Lyman
Wilderness and wildlife artist inspired by John Muir.
Stephen T. Mather
Founding director of the U.S. National Park Service
Edmond
Meany
Washington Mountaineer's club founder
Catharine Merrill
Teacher, University professor, author and friend of Muir
Harriet Monroe
Poet who wrote tributes of Muir and the Sierra
Merrill Moores
Prominent lawyer, Indiana congressman and boyhood friend of Muir
Robert Moran
Washington State Park Philanthropist
Pat Mosley
John Muir devotee and LeConte Lodge Curator
Enos
Mills
Father of Rocky Mountain National Park - "John Muir of the Rockies"
Gaylord
Nelson
1916 - 2005
Long-time
U.S. Senator from Wisconsin; Founder
of Earth Day; recipient of the Sierra Club's John Muir Award
John Olmsted
Naturalist and Conservationist
Sigurd F. Olson
Nature writer and wilderness advocate of the North Woods of Minnesota
Marion Randall Parsons
Author, mountaineer, activist, Sierra Club leader
Gerald
Pelrine
Wisconsin actor who portrayed Muir in dramatic presentations
Theodore
Roosevelt
the "Conservation President"
Shirley Sargent
Yosemite
historian, biographer of John Muir, and author
Faire and Henry Sax
The couple who saved John Muir's House in Martinez from destruction, so it could become the John Muir National Historic Site
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
Alaska Explorer, author, conservation advocate, and National Geographic Magazine's first official female board member.
Carl Sharsmith
Noted botanist and National Park Service interpretive ranger
Theodore
Solomons
Pioneer of the John Muir Trail
Millie Stanley
Muir scholar and biographer
William
Steel
Father of Crater Lake National Park and founded Oregon "Mazamas" mountaineering club
George Swain
Borax chemist who celebrated Muir's life
Philemon
van Trump
Mount Rainier climber and conservationist
Rudolph Wendelin
Designer of Smokey Bear and Muir Postage Stamp
S.
Hall Young
Presbyterian
missionary who wrote a book,
Alaska Days With John Muir
John Muir-Aldo Leopold illustration courtesy of the Wisconsin
Conservation Hall of Fame.
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