List Of People From Denver
This article is a list of notable individuals who were born in, have lived in or are commonly associated with Denver, Colorado. 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 #. Academia * Harold Agnew (1921–2013), physicist * Hal Anger (1920–2005), electrical engineer, biophysicist * Lena Lovato Archuleta (1920–2011), administrator, librarian # * John Arthur (1946–2007), philosopher * Alfred Marshall Bailey (1894–1978), ornithologist # * Jacques Bailly (1966– ), classics scholar, Scripps National Spelling Bee pronouncer * Thomas Bopp (1949–2018), astronomer and co-discoverer of comet Hale-Bopp * Jason Box (1970– ), climatologist, geographer * Hendrika B. Cantwell (1925– ), Dutch-American clinical professor of pediatrics, advocate for abused and neglected children * Louis George Carpenter (1861–1935), engineer, mathematician # * John Cotton Dana (1856†...
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Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ...
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