page_title: Taos, New Mexico
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Taos, New Mexico / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Christopher 'Kit' Carson (1809-1868), American explorer
context_page_description: Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It was founded by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón in 1795, to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo and Hispano communities, including Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, El Prado, and Arroyo Seco. The town was incorporated in 1934. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,716.
  Taos is the county seat of Taos County. The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "place of red willows".
  Taos is the principal city of the Taos, NM Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Taos County.
context_section_description: Lynn Anderson, country/pop singer
  Ross Anderson, skier
  Marcelino Baca, 19th-century fur trader
  Charles Bent, first Territorial Governor of New Mexico
  Oscar E. Berninghaus, artist
  Emil Bisttram, artist
  Larry Bell, sculptor
  Ernest L. Blumenschein, founding member, Taos Society of Artists
  Dorothy Brett, artist and personality
  Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
  Kit Carson, frontiersman
  Agnes Chavez, artist
  E. Irving Couse, artist
  Judson Crews, poet and publisher
  Andrew Dasburg, artist
  Ronald Davis, artist
  James Doss, author
  W. Herbert Dunton, artist
  Nicolai Fechin, artist
  Natalie Goldberg, writer
  R. C. Gorman, artist
  Dave Hahn, mountaineer
  E. Martin Hennings, artist
  William Victor Higgins, artist
  Dennis Hopper, actor, director, artist
  Aldous Huxley, author
  Margaret Catherine Alice Hyson, missionary and teacher in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
  Gary Johnson, former two-term governor of New Mexico
  Gene Kloss, artist
  Brandie Knight, author, film producer
  D. H. Lawrence, author
  Mabel Dodge Luhan, patron of the arts
  Agnes Martin, artist
  John Márquez, politician
  Thomas "Doc" Martin, physician
  Antonio José Martínez, priest
  Robert Mirabal, Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo
  John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War
  Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, artist
  Bert Geer Phillips, artist
  Susan Powter, health and fitness entrepreneur
  Kenneth Price, ceramicist
  Mike Reynolds, Earthship architect
  Christian Ristow, artist
  Julia Roberts, actress
  Millicent Rogers, socialite, fashion icon, and art collector
  Julius Rolshoven, artist
  Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense of the United States (part-time resident)
  Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, journalist and writer
  Joseph Henry Sharp, artist
  Dean Stockwell, artist and actor
  Larry Torres, foreign language professor
  Walter Ufer, artist
  Danelle Umstead, Paralympic skier
  Kristen Vigard, actress and singer
  Harold Joe Waldrum, artist
  Michael Walker, custom knife maker and sculptor
  Fred Wendorf, Henderson-Morrison Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University
caption: Kit Carson, American explorer and frontiersman
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