John Samuel Hunt
Hunt & Roskell
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1785 — 1865
Hunt & Roskell, an English firm of manufacturing and retail jewellers and silversmiths, was...
Hunt Brothers - Nelson, Lamar & William Hunt
United States
Date of Birth: 1926 — 2014
Silver Thursday was an event that occurred in the United States silver commodity markets on...
Judas Iscariot
Date of Birth: - — 33
The thirty pieces of silver that Judas received for betraying Jesus have become a symbol of...
Georg Jensen
Denmark
Date of Birth: 1866 — 1935
Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of...
John Johnson
United States
Date of Birth: 1813 — 1871
John Johnson was born at Saco, Maine, U.S.A. in 1813. He was brought up in New Hampshire and,...
Kamiya Jutel
Korea
Date of Birth: 16th C
In 1526 Kamiya Jutei, a wealthy merchant from Hakata, founded the Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine in...
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Alan Kulan
Canada
Date of Birth: 1921 — 1977
Credited with the discovery of several sizeable lead-zinc-silver deposits in Yukon, most notably...
Edward Herbert Land
United States
Date of Birth: 1909 — 1991
November 26, 1848, marks a major day in the history of photography as American Edward Land...
Alfred LaRose
Canada
Date of Birth: 1870 — 1940
Alfred LaRose, was a blacksmith working as a contractor on the railway being pushed through...
Louis Aim Auguston Le Prince
France
Date of Birth: 1841 — 1890
Born in Metz, France, Louis Aim studied chemistry and physics at university and then worked as a...
Jaime Lomelin
Mexico
Inducted into the Silver Hall of Fame in 2017
Mr Lomelin spent 36 years at Peñoles where he...
Eduardo Luna
Mexico
Inducted into the Silver Hall of Fame in 2017
Mr. Luna is currently (2017) Director, President...
Bonanza Kings - Mackay, Fair, Flood, O'Brien
United States
John Mackay, James Fair, James Flood, William O'Brien
In 1871, Irish-Americans John William...
Richard Leach Maddox
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1816 — 1902
Richard Maddox was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin...
Jonathan Mappin
Mappin & Webb
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1775
Mappin & Webb is a leading retailer of fine silverware and jewellery based in London and is...
Peter Mawdsley
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1824 — 1909
Peter Mawdsley invented the first photographic paper, the silver gelatin print, in 1873. It was...
Elizabeth McCourt Tabor, aka “Baby Doe” McCourt
United States
Date of Birth: 1854 — 1935
Colorado's Silver Queen
Elizabeth McCourt Tabor (1854 March 7, 1935), better known as "Baby...
James H. McKinley, and Ernest J. Darragh
Canada
James H. McKinley and Ernest J. Darragh were contractors providing lumber for a railway being...
Willett G. Miller
Canada
Date of Birth: 1866 — 1925
Dr. Willet G. Miller, a world-renowned geologist, had an enormous influence on the scientific...
Nathaniel Mills
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1784 — 1843
Nathaniel Mills & Sons were 19th century Birmingham silversmiths who excelled in making silver...