Frederick Law Olmsted

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Born	April 26, 1822 • Hartford • Connecticut
Died	August 28, 1903 (aged 81) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Role In	World’s Columbian Exposition

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Calvert Vaux

British architect

Jens Jensen

American landscape architect

André Le Nôtre

French landscape architect

Daniel Burnham

American architect

Robert Moses

American public official

Isamu Noguchi

American sculptor

Ellwood Cubberley

American educator and administrator

Richard Morris Hunt

American architect

Bertha Honoré Palmer

American philanthropist

Gifford Pinchot

American conservationist

David Starr Jordan

American educator

Andrew Jackson Downing

American horticulturalist and landscape architect

Daniel Edgar Sickles

American politician

Walter Burley Griffin

American architect and city planner

Leland Stanford

American politician and industrialist

Horace William Shaler Cleveland

American landscape architect

William Kent

British architect

Park at Petworth House, West Sussex, Eng., landscaped by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, c. 1751–57

Lancelot Brown

English landscape architect

Humphry Repton

British landscape designer

Jacques Wirtz

Belgian landscape designer

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