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Born September 13, 1860 • Denmark
Died October 1, 1951 (aged 91) • Wisconsin
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape architect
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
Robert Moses seated at a desk, holding a candlestick telephone to his ear, with papers and office items in front of him.
Robert Moses
American public official
“Black Sun,” black tamba granite sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1960–63; in a private garden
Isamu Noguchi
American sculptor
Downing, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Downing
American horticulturalist and landscape architect
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
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Horace William Shaler Cleveland
American landscape architect
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis
American journalist
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Victor Borge
Danish-born American musician and comedian
William S. Knudsen
William S. Knudsen
Danish-born American industrialist
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Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish physicist
William Kent
William Kent
British architect
Park at Petworth House, West Sussex, Eng., landscaped by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, c. 1751–57
Lancelot Brown
English landscape architect
Repton, portrait by an unknown artist
Humphry Repton
British landscape designer
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Jacques Wirtz
Belgian landscape designer
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John Claudius Loudon
Scottish landscape architect
Sir Uvedale Price, portrait by an unknown artist; in the British Museum
Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet
British landscape designer
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Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
Burle Marx, 1954
Roberto Burle Marx
Brazilian landscape architect
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Sōami
Japanese artist