Famous People with Name Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary Leon Ridgway: known as the Green River Killer, is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Renton, Washington factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders of seven women whose deaths were attribu

David "Dave" Ridgway            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David "Dave" Ridgway: was a placekicker for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. His CFL career began in 1981 when he was drafted by the Montreal Alouettes. He did not make the squad that year and returned to the University of Toledo to complete his degree in Marketing

Robert Ridgway            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Ridgway: was an American ornithologist.Ridgway was a protege of zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird, who, on becoming the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, appointed Ridgway the first full-time curator of birds at the U.S. National Museum. He served from 1880 until his death in 1929. Ridgway also published one of the first and most important color system for bird identification, with his 1886 book A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.). In 1912 he self-published a larger work on color nomenclature, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, financed using money from his friend and colleague José Castulo Zeledón of Costa Rica. Ornithologists all over the world continue to cite Ridgway's color studies and books.

Matthew Bunker Ridgway            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew Bunker Ridgway: was a United States Army General. He held several major commands and was most famous for resurrecting the United Nations (U.N.) war effort during the Korean War. Several historians have credited Ridgway for turning around the war in favor of the UN side, with American military historian Victor Davis Hanson remarking that he "turned around an entire theater... amid media gloom and doom".