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Amazing People

Scientists, artists, athletes, and heroes.

Katherine Johnson
George Washington Carver
Alan Turing
Jane Goodall
Ada Lovelace
Rosalind Franklin
Chien-Shiung Wu
Ernest Shackleton
Jacques Cousteau
Sacagawea
Neil Armstrong
Roald Amundsen
Ibn Battuta
Walt Disney
Hayao Miyazaki
Beatrix Potter
Jim Henson
Michelangelo
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelé
Serena Williams
Usain Bolt
Simone Biles
Jesse Owens
Muhammad Ali
Jackie Robinson
Wilma Rudolph
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Johann Sebastian Bach
Marian Anderson
Helen Keller
Fred Rogers
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Florence Nightingale
Confucius
Louis Pasteur
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Fleming
Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
Gregor Mendel
Carl Linnaeus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Edwin Hubble
Edmond Halley
William Herschel
Caroline Herschel
Carl Sagan
Stephen Hawking
Richard Feynman
Niels Bohr
Ernest Rutherford
Lise Meitner
Dmitri Mendeleev
Antoine Lavoisier
Robert Boyle
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
Alessandro Volta
Guglielmo Marconi
Samuel Morse
James Watt
George Stephenson
Eli Whitney
Johannes Gutenberg
Louis Daguerre
George Eastman
John Logie Baird
Philo Farnsworth
Charles Babbage
Grace Hopper
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
Hedy Lamarr
Barbara McClintock
Dorothy Hodgkin
William Harvey
Joseph Lister
Charles R. Drew
Patricia Bath
Percy Lavon Julian
Garrett Morgan
Lewis Latimer
Granville Woods
Elijah McCoy
Benjamin Banneker
Madam C. J. Walker
Marie Tharp
Alfred Wegener
Annie Jump Cannon
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Vera Rubin
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Robert H. Goddard
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Sergei Korolev
Norman Borlaug
Temple Grandin
Stephanie Kwolek
George de Mestral
Percy Spencer
Josephine Cochrane
Margaret E. Knight
Ruth Handler
Henry Ford
Carl Benz
Euclid
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Leonhard Euler
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Blaise Pascal
Pierre de Fermat
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Fibonacci
Al-Khwarizmi
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Hypatia
Eratosthenes
Sophie Germain
Emmy Noether
John von Neumann
Claude Shannon
Benoit Mandelbrot
Dorothy Vaughan
Maryam Mirzakhani
Edmund Hillary
Tenzing Norgay
Robert Falcon Scott
Fridtjof Nansen
Matthew Henson
Robert Peary
James Cook
Vasco da Gama
Zheng He
Leif Erikson
Erik the Red
Amerigo Vespucci
Henry Hudson
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
John Wesley Powell
David Livingstone
Mary Kingsley
Nellie Bly
Junko Tabei
Reinhold Messner
Thor Heyerdahl
Howard Carter
Heinrich Schliemann
Roy Chapman Andrews
Hiram Bingham III
Jeanne Baret
Robert Ballard
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins (astronaut)
Sally Ride
Mae Jemison
Guion Bluford
Ellen Ochoa
Jim Lovell
Chris Hadfield
Peggy Whitson
Eileen Collins
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Alexei Leonov
Gene Kranz
Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
Christa McAuliffe
Kalpana Chawla
Yang Liwei
Bessie Coleman
Chuck Yeager
Jacqueline Cochran
Harriet Quimby
Otto Lilienthal
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Igor Sikorsky
Beryl Markham
Rembrandt
Johannes Vermeer
Sandro Botticelli
Raphael
Donatello
Caravaggio
Francisco Goya
J. M. W. Turner
Edgar Degas
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Henri Matisse
Wassily Kandinsky
Piet Mondrian
Jackson Pollock
Andy Warhol
Marc Chagall
Henri Rousseau
Mary Cassatt
Berthe Morisot
Katsushika Hokusai
Utagawa Hiroshige
Auguste Rodin
Alexander Calder
M. C. Escher
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Faith Ringgold
Jacob Lawrence
Yayoi Kusama
Ansel Adams
Frank Lloyd Wright
Charles M. Schulz
Chuck Jones
Osamu Tezuka
Grandma Moses
Antonio Vivaldi
George Frideric Handel
Joseph Haydn
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Edvard Grieg
Giuseppe Verdi
Sergei Prokofiev
Franz Liszt
Clara Schumann
Felix Mendelssohn
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
Leonard Bernstein
John Philip Sousa
John Williams
Florence Price
William Grant Still
Dr. Seuss
Roald Dahl
E. B. White
Lewis Carroll
L. Frank Baum
Hans Christian Andersen
Brothers Grimm
Aesop
A. A. Milne
J. M. Barrie
Kenneth Grahame
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Louisa May Alcott
Laura Ingalls Wilder
L. M. Montgomery
Astrid Lindgren
Tove Jansson
C. S. Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien
Eric Carle
Ezra Jack Keats
Shel Silverstein
Maurice Sendak
Beverly Cleary
Judy Blume
Margaret Wise Brown
Ludwig Bemelmans
Robert McCloskey
Arnold Lobel
Michael Bond
Carlo Collodi
Charles Perrault
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Roberto Clemente
Satchel Paige
Jim Thorpe
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Billie Jean King
Arthur Ashe
Althea Gibson
Michael Jordan
Bill Russell
Wayne Gretzky
Bobby Orr
Gordie Howe
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Florence Griffith Joyner
Carl Lewis
Roger Bannister
Olga Korbut
Mary Lou Retton
Michael Phelps
Duke Kahanamoku
Lionel Messi
Mia Hamm
Kristi Yamaguchi
Bonnie Blair
John Muir
David Attenborough
Steve Irwin
Rachel Carson
Sylvia Earle
Dian Fossey
Eugenie Clark
Barnum Brown
Alfred Russel Wallace
John James Audubon
Henry David Thoreau
Gerald Durrell
Maria Sibylla Merian
E. O. Wilson
Mary Leakey
Anne Frank
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Louis Braille
Anne Sullivan
Ruby Bridges
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Mary McLeod Bethune
Thurgood Marshall
John Lewis
Bayard Rustin
Fannie Lou Hamer
Cesar Chavez
Malala Yousafzai
Desmond Tutu
Mother Teresa
Elizabeth Blackwell
Mary Seacole
Jane Addams
Wangari Maathai
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Elizabeth II
Hatshepsut
Nefertiti
Ramesses II
Ashoka
Alexander the Great
Charlemagne
Joan of Arc
Eleanor of Aquitaine
William the Conqueror
Richard I of England
Saladin
Mansa Musa
Sundiata Keita
Wu Zetian
Qin Shi Huang
Kublai Khan
Akbar
Suleiman the Magnificent
Cyrus the Great
Augustus
Marcus Aurelius
Pericles
Leonidas I
Hammurabi
Pachacuti
Sejong the Great
Kamehameha I
Sitting Bull
Sequoyah
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
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