Ridgway
Encyclopedia
Places
- Ridgway, ColoradoRidgway, ColoradoThe Town of Ridgway, coined Gateway to the San Juans, is a Home Rule Municipality in Ouray County, in the southwestern portion of the U.S. State of Colorado. The town is a former railroad stop on the Uncompaghre River in the northern San Juan Mountains...
- Ridgway State ParkRidgway State ParkRidgway State Park is a state park located in Ouray County, Colorado. It is the westernmost state park in Colorado. The park is 21 miles southeast of Montrose, 14 miles northeast of Ouray, it is also 4 miles north of the town of Ridgway and 312 miles southwest of Denver. The current wildlife...
- Ridgway State Park
- Ridgway, IllinoisRidgway, IllinoisRidgway is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 928 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ridgway is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land....
- Ridgway, PennsylvaniaRidgway, PennsylvaniaRidgway is a borough in and the county seat of Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States.-History:Ridgway was founded by Philadelphian shipping merchant Jacob Ridgway and James Gillis. Jacob Ridgway earned substantial wealth both in Philadelphia and abroad in London. He constantly sent sums of money...
People
- Dave RidgwayDave RidgwayDavid "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...
, CFL (Canadian Football League) Hall of Famer - Fred RidgwayFred RidgwayFrederick Ridgway is an English former cricketer, who played in five Tests for England on the 1951/1952 tour of India, where he and Brian Statham shared the opening pace bowling duties.-Life and career:...
, former England and Kent cricketer - Gary RidgwayGary RidgwayGary Leon Ridgway is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer. He murdered numerous women in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River. He strangled them, usually with his arm but sometimes using ligatures...
, U.S. serial killer (a.k.a. the Green River Killer) - John Ridgway (comic artist)John Ridgway (comic artist)John Ridgway is a British comics artist.-Career:Ridgway began his career initially as a hobby, drawing D.C.Thompson's Commando War Stories alongside professional work as a design engineer...
, British comics artist - John Ridgway (sailor)John Ridgway (sailor)John Ridgway, MBE, , is a British yachtsman and rower.-Biography:Ridgway was educated at Pangbourne Nautical College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In 1966, whilst a Captain in the Parachute Regiment, Ridgway, together with Chay Blyth, rowed across the North Atlantic in a 20 ft open...
, British sailor - Keith RidgwayKeith RidgwayKeith Ridgway is a Dublin-born award-winning writer. He currently lives in Edinburgh.-Writings:Ridgway's first published fictional prose work was Horses, which appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997. In 1998 The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London...
, Irish author - Linda RidgwayLinda RidgwayLinda Ridgway is an American artist who was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1947. She earned a BFA from Louisville School of Art in Anchorage, Kentucky and an MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana....
(born 1947), an American artist - Matthew RidgwayMatthew RidgwayMatthew Bunker Ridgway was a United States Army General. He held several major commands and was most famous for resurrecting the United Nations war effort during the Korean War. Several historians have credited Ridgway for turning around the war in favor of the UN side...
, U.S. military general - Robert Ridgway, U.S. ornithologist
- Sharon Ridgway, Australian equestrian
- Stan RidgwayStan RidgwayStanard 'Stan' Ridgway is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums and was the original lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo...
, U.S. musician - Thomas RidgwayThomas RidgwayThomas Ridgway was an English trader who specialised in the import and sale of tea during the early 19th century.His first shop was in the Bull Ring area of Birmingham; this went bankrupt, and he moved to London. The new business, The Tea Establishment of King William Street, London, imported tea,...
, British trader - Stephen Ridgway, (soldier) Data Manager
Other meanings
- Ridgway (electric motors), U.S. manufacturer of electric motors for submarines