Biographies
Organized alphabetically by first name.A
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Adelaide Herrmann (1853-1932)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Alfred E. Beach (1826-1896)
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Alice Coachman (1923-)
Alta Weiss (1890-1964)
Althea Gibson (1927-2003)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
Anne Carroll Moore (1871-1961)
Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921)
Annie Oakley (1860-1926)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1826)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
B
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
Barack Obama (1961-)
Barnum Brown (1873-1963)
Beatles (musical group)
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Benny Goodman (1909-1986)
Bessie Coleman (1896-1926)
Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Betsy Ross (1752-1836)
Betty Mae Jumper (1923-2011)
Betty Skelton (1926-2011)
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Black Elk (1863-1950)
Blondin (1824-1897)
Bob Dylan (1941-)
Bob Marley (1945-1981)
Bobby Orr (1948-)
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Bronte family
Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
Buddha (Gautama Buddha)
Buddy Holly (1936-1959)
C
Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Casey Jones (1863-1900)
Casey Stengel (1890-1975)
Celia Cruz (1924-2003)
Cesar Chavez (1927-1933)
Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)
Charles Atlas (1893-1972)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Chingis Khan
Christopher Columbus
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Clara Lemlich (1886-1982)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Cleopatra
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
Confucius
Crazy Horse
D
Dalai Lama XIV (1935-)
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)
Django Reinhardt (1910-1953)
Doc Watson (1923-2012)
Dolores Huerta (1930-)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
Effa Manley (1897-1981)
Eleanor Creesy (1814-1900)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Elijah McCoy (1844-1929)
Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861)
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Elizabeth Freeman (ca. 1742-1829)
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
Ella Kate Ewing (1872-1913)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919)
Emily Carr (1871-1945)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Emily Post (1873-1960)
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
Esther (biblical figure)
Esther Morris (1814-1902)
F
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Ferdinand Magellan (d. 1521)
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Frank Zamboni (1901-1988)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1934-1904)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
G
Galileo (1564-1642)
Gandhi (1869-1948)
Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963)
George Crum (1822-1914)
George Eastman (1854-1932)
George Ferris (1859-1896)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
George Washington (1732-1799)
George Washington Carver (1864?-1943)
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Golda Meir (1898-1978)
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
Grace O'Malley (1530?-1603?)
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
H
Hank Aaron (1934-)
Hank Greenberg (1911-1986)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)
Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913)
Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Henry Hudson (d. 1611)
Henry Knox (1750-1806)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-)
Horace Pippin (1888-1946)
I
Ibn Battuta (1304-1377)
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Ira Frederick Aldridge (1807-1867)
Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
Issa Kobayashi (1763-1827)
J
Jack Johnson (1878-1946)
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Jane Goodall (1934-)
Janusz Korczak (1878-1942)
Jean Lafitte (1776-1823)
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915)
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809)
Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)
Jesse Owens (1913-1980)
Jesus Christ (biography)
Jim Henson (1936-1990)
Jim Thorpe (1887-1953)
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)
Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999)
Joe Jackson (1888-1951)
Joe Louis (1914-1981)
Johann Gutenberg (1397?-1468)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
John Adams (1735-1826)
John Avery Lomax (1867-1948)
John Brown (1800-1859)
John Chapman (1774-1845)
John Coltrane (1926-1967)
John Ericsson (1803-1889)
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
John Hancock (1737-1793)
John Harrison (1693-1776)
John James Audubon (1785-1851)
John Lennon (1940-1980)
John Lewis (1940- )
John McCain (1936-)
John Muir (1838-1914)
John Quincy Adams (1967-1848)
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Joseph Bologne (1745–1799)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Mohr (1792-1848)
Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
Josh Gibson (1941-1947)
Joshua Slocum (b. 1844)
Judy Blume (1938-)
Julia Child (1912-2004)
Julia Margaret Cameron (1915-1879)
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
K
Kate Olivia Sessions (1857-1940)
Kate Warne (1833-1868)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
King George III
King Tut
Kit Carson (1809-1868)
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989)
L
L. Frank Baum ()1856-1919)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
Laura Secord (1775-1868)
Lemuel Chenoweth (1811-1887)
Leon Foucault (1819-1868)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240)
Leontyne Price (1927-)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Lou Gehrig (1903-1941)
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927)
Louis Armstrong (1901-1970)
Louis Braille (1809-1852)
Louis de Rougemont (1847-1921)
Louis Sockalexis (1871-1913)
Louis XIV (King of France)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Lucille Ball (1911-1989)
Lucille Mulhall (1885-1940)
M
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Marcel Marceau (1923-2007)
Marco Polo (1254-1323?)
Marconi Guglielmo (1874-1937)
Margret and H. A. Rey
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919)
Mary Garber (1916-2008)
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Mary Nohl (1914-2001)
Mary Tharp (1920-2006)
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
Melba Liston (1926-1999)
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
Michael Jordan (1963-)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Michelle Obama (1964-)
Moses (biblical figure)
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Muhammad (prophet)
Muhammad Ali (1942-)
Muhammad Yunus (1940-)
N
Napoleon Bonapart (1769-1821)
Nat Love (1854-1921)
Neil Armstrong (1930-)
Nellie Bly (1864-1922)
Nelson Mandela (1918-)
Noah (biblical figure)
Noah Webster (1758-1843)
P
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1873)
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Paul Revere (1734-1818)
Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
Pedro Martinez (1971-)
Pee Wee Reese (1918-1999)
Pele (1940-)
Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971)
Pocahontas (ca. 1595-1617)
R
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)
Ray Charles (1930-2004)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Roberto Clemente (1934-1972)
Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Ruth Elder (1902-1977)
S
Sacagawea (1788-1812)
Saint Brigid
Saint Christopher
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Hildegard
Saint Martin de Porres
Saint Nicholas
Saint Patrick
Saint Valentine
Sam Houston (1793-1863)
Sammy Lee (1920-)
Samuel Adams (1722-1836)
Sandy Koufax (1935-)
Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898)
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)
Satchel Paige (1906-1982)
Sim Webb (1874-1957)
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
Soichiro Honda (1906-1991)
Sojourner Truth (d. 1883)
Sonia Sotomayor (1954-)
Sophia Smith (1796-1870)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Sylvia Earle (1935-)
T
Ted Harrison (1926-)
Ted Williams (1918-2002)
Teddy Wilson (1912-1986)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
Tito Puente (1923-2000)
Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803)
W
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Walter Rothschild (1968-1937)
Wanda Gag (1893-1946)
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)
Westley Wallace Law (1923-2002)
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
William Hoy (1862-1961)
William Penn (1644-1718)
William Powell (1916-)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Willie Mays (1931-)
Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994)
Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Winston Simon (1927-1976)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville)