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Resources - Famous People

Religious Leaders

William Carey

Jonathan Edwards

Philipp Melancthon

Dwight L. Moody

John Newton

John Owen

Hudson Taylor

Brigham Young

John Wesley

Statesmen

Konrad Adenauer

John Jay

Benjamin Franklin

Patrick Henry

William Penn

Sam Houston

Henry Clay

Konrad Adenauer

Henry Fountain Ashurst

William Jennings Bryan

Pierre du Pont

Alexander Hamilton

Patrick Henry

William Penn

Daniel Webster

George Mason

William Few

William Houston

Richard Basset

John Francis Mercer

Charles Pinckney III

George Clymer

William S. Johnson

William Livingston

Richard D. Spaight

William Blount

George Wythe

John Witherspoon

William Blount

George Clymer

William Houston

William S. Johnson

William Livingston

John Francis Mercer

Richard D. Spaight

George Wythe

John Singleton Copley

Claude Monet

Grandma Moses

Charles Peale

Andrew Wyeth

Jamie Wyeth

Sandra Day O'Connor

US Presidents

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Harrison

Abraham Lincoln

James Madison

George Washington

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Jefferson

John Tyler

Theordore Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Grover Cleveland

James Garfield

William Henry Harrison

Andrew Jackson

Actors

Whoopi Goldberg

Frankie Muniz

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Charles Chaplin

Noel Coward

Will Rogers

Generals

Stonewall Jackson

Robert E. Lee

Douglas MacArthur

George Patton

John Paul Jones

Matthew Perry

John Pershing

David Dixon Porter

John Marshall

John Rutledge

Inventors & Scientists

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Cyrus McCormick

Orville & Wilbur Wright

Alec Issigonis

John Moses Browning

Peter Cooper

Thomas Edison

Benjamin Franklin

Elias Howe

William Lear

Cyrus McCormick

Ruth Lawrence

Guglielmo Marconi

Eli Whitney

Sir Frank Whittle

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Booker T. Washington

Blaise Pascal

George Washington Carver

Pierre Curie

Michael Faraday

Oliver Heaviside

T.H. Huxley

Architects

Frank Lloyd Wright

Sports persons

Tamara McKinney

Jim Ryan

Sir Ernest Shackleton

Jason Taylor

George Rogers Clark

Writers

Hans Christian Anderson

Pearl Buck

Agatha Christie

Charles Dickens

Bret Harte

Mercy Warren

Rumer Godden

Sean O'Casey

Mark Twain

Noel Coward

Angelina Archer

Margaret Atwood

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Willa Cather

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Robert Frost

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Alex Haley

Amy Lowell

Gabriela Mistral

Christopher Paolini

Isabel Paterson

Beatrix Potter

Carl Sandburg

Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Mercy Warren

Phillis Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Musicians

John Barry

Yehudi Menuhin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Felix Mendelssohn

John Philip Sousa

Anton Bruckner

Francis Poulenc

Conlon Nancarrow

Daniel Bedingfield

Natasha Bedingfield

Irving Berlin

Louis Armstrong

Hanson

Moffatts

LeAnne Rimes

Educators

Frank Vandiver

Fred Terman

William Samuel Johnson

John Witherspoon

Frances E. C. Willard

Amos Bronson Alcott

Catharine Beecher

Jill Ker Conway

Timothy Dwight

Horace Mann

Charlotte Mason

Booker T. Washington

Artists

Claude Monet

Andrew Wyeth

Leonardo da Vinci

Jamie Wyeth

John Singleton Copley

William Blake

Ansel Adams

Herbert Spencer

Philosophers

John Stuart Mill

John Burroughs

Peter Kindersley

Charles Louis Montesquieu

Business Entrepreneurs

Amadeo Giannini

Horace Greeley

Soichiro Honda

Peter Kindersley

Ray Kroc

Jimmy Lai

Dr. Orison Swett Marden

Adolph Ochs

Joseph Pulitzer

Colonel Harland Sanders

Dave Thomas

Others

George Rogers Clark

Andrew Carnegie

John Burroughs

Albert Schweitzer

Tamara McKinney

Martha Washington

Abigail Adams

Clara Barton

John Paul Jones

Jim Ryan

Bill Ridell

Andrew Carnegie

George Rogers Clark

Florence Nightingale

Joan of Arc

Priscilla Park-Weir

Abigail Adams

Susan B. Anthony

John James Audubon

Clara Barton

Elizabeth Blackwell

John Burroughs

Davy Crockett

Charles Evans Hughes

Mary D. Leakey

Harriet Martineau

Margaret Mead

Charles Louis Montesquieu

John Muir

Thomas Paine

Gloria Steinem

Mary Walker

Lester Frank Ward

Martha Washington

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"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents.So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education."
John Updike

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