The king who drew the square, the monk who built the mountain road, the family that gave a street its name.
เจ้าแก้วนวรัฐ
Ninth and last ruler of Chiang Mai, 1911–1939. He cut the first sod of the Doi Suthep road in 1934, and the Ping bridge at the foot of Tha Phae Road…
พระเจ้ากาวิละ
First ruler of Chiang Mai under Siam. The city had stood nearly empty for two decades after the Burmese wars; he re-entered it in 1796, restored the…
ครูบาศรีวิชัย
The monk of Lanna, 1878–1938, who organised the road up Doi Suthep. Ground was broken on 9 November 1934, Chao Kaew Nawarat cutting the first sod…
พญามังราย
Founder of Chiang Mai, 1296, and of the Lanna kingdom. He had already built Wiang Kum Kam on the river and watched it flood; the new city went on the…
ตระกูลนิมมานเหมินท์
A Chiang Mai merchant family. Ki and Kim Ho Nimmanhaemin gave land to the government for the university in 1963, and the road on the edge of the gift…
เจ้าพระยาสุรสีห์วิสิษฐศักดิ์
Siam's high commissioner for the northern circle, Monthon Phayap, in the reign of Inthawichayanon. Under his commission about a thousand yang-na…
นายทิม โชตนา
A former highway division supervisor. The city stretch of Route 107, from Chang Phueak Gate north, was named Chotana Road after him on 12 December…