Constitutional Convention Delegates Richard Basseti - Governor of DelawareWilliam Blount - U.S. Senator George Clymer - U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Few - U.S. SenatorBenjamin Franklin - Inventor and StatesmanWilliam Houston - LawyerWilliam S. Johnson - Columbia College President William Livingston - Governor of New JerseyJames Madison - 4th President of the U.S.George Mason - Justice of Virginia County CourtJohn Francis Mercer - U.S. RepresentativeCharles Pickney III - Governor of S. CarolinaJohn Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court Richard D. Spaight - Governor of North CarolinaGeorge Washington - 1st President of the U.S.John Witherspoon - President of PrincetonGeorge Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court
Presidents John AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Grover ClevelandJames GarfieldWilliam Henry Harrison Andrew JacksonThomas JeffersonAbraham Lincoln James MadisonJames PolkFranklin Delano Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt John Tyler George WashingtonWoodrow Wilson
Statesmen Konrad Adenauer Henry Fountain AshurstWilliam Jennings BryanWinston ChurchillHenry ClayPierre du PontBenjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry William Penn Daniel Webster
Military Leaders John Barry - Senior Navy Officer George Rogers Clark - Revolutionary War hero Stonewall Jackson - Civil War General John Paul Jones - Father of the American Navy Robert E. Lee - Civil War General Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General George Patton - U.S. General Matthew Perry - U.S. Naval Officer John Pershing - U.S. General David Dixon Porter - Civil War Admiral
U.S. Supreme Court Judges Charles Evans HughesJohn Jay John MarshallJohn Rutledge Sandra Day O'Connor
Religious Leaders Joan of Arc Dietrich BonhoefferWilliam CareyJonathan Edwards Philipp MelancthonDwight L. MoodyJohn Newton John OwenHudson TaylorJohn & Charles WesleyBrigham Young
Explorers William Clark - Lewis & Clark ExpeditionMeriwether Lewis - Lewis & Clark ExpeditionJohn Wesley Powell - Colorado River ExpeditionSir Ernest Shackleton - Antarctic Expedition
Scientists Wilson A. Bentley - "The Snowflake Man" George Washington Carver - agricultural research Pierre Curie - discovered radium Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist Paul Erdos - Hungarian mathematician Michael Faraday - electrochemist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - French physicist Oliver Heaviside - electromagnetism researcher T.H. Huxley - biologist, zoologist, Darwinist Ruth Lawrence - mathematician Gilbert Newton Lewis - physical chemist Ada Lovelace - founder of scientific computing Benoit Mandelbrot - pioneer in fractal geometry Blaise Pascal - French mathematician Joseph Priestley - father of modern chemistry Samuel C. C. Ting - Chinese American physicist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - Russian rocket scientist
Inventors Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone John Moses Browning - firearms inventor/designer Peter Cooper - built the first modern skyscraper, the first commercial locomotive, and patented the first gelatin dessert which was later named Jell-O Thomas Edison - invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and electric light bulb Benjamin Franklin - invented the lightning rod Elias Howe - invented sewing machine William Lear - airplane creator Cyrus McCormick - invented grain reaper Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo jet engine Orville and Wilbur Wright - brothers who built the first successful airplane
Artists William Blake - painter, engraver, poet John Singleton Copley - American Colonial painter Evelyn De Morgan - Pre-Raphaelite painter Christian Grew - American Painter Donal Hord - San Diego sculptor Akiane Kramarik- 10-year-old art and poetry prodigy Claude Monet - French Impressionist Grandma Moses - American folk artist Charles Willson Peale - American portrait artist Lu Pinchang - ceramic sculptor Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance artist, sculptor Andrew Wyeth - American realist painter Jamie Wyeth - American realist painter
Composers Johann Sebastian Bach - Baroque Irving Berlin - Patriotic Anton Bruckner - Symphonies Noel Coward - Musicals Felix Mendelssohn - Romantic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Classical John Porcaro - Experimental Francis Poulenc - Choral John Philip Sousa - ?March King?
Writers Louisa May Alcott - author of Little Women Hans Christian Anderson - fairy tale writer Margaret Atwood - Canadian novelist, poet Fawn M. Brodie - biographer Pearl S. Buck - Nobel prize-winning author William F. Buckley, Jr. - conservative writer Willa Cather - American novelist Agatha Christie - mystery author Samuel Clemens - a.k.a. Mark Twain Charles Dickens - British novelist Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charlotte Perkins Gilman - early feminist writer Alex Haley - African-American novelist Sharlot Hall - poet, writer, Arizona historian Joshua Harris- pastor and author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye Bret Harte - frontier California journalist L. Ron Hubbard - science fiction writer Helen Keller - blind and deaf author and lecturer Rose Wilder Lane - journalist, ghostwriter, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder C.S. Lewis - Christian writer and apologist Amy Lowell - Modernist poet Gabriela Mistral - Nobel-prize winning Latin American poet Sean O'Casey - Irish author Thomas Paine - political writer during the American Revolution, author of Common Sense Christopher Paolini - teen author of Eragon Isabel Paterson - conservative political author Beatrix Potter - author of Peter Rabbit Tales Jedediah Purdy - author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today Kenneth Rexroth - poet, translator, critical essayist Carl Sandburg - American poet George Bernard Shaw - Irish-born playwright Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs Rosemary Sutcliff - historical novels for children Rabindranath Tagore - Bengali poet, essayist, dramatist, songwriter Mercy Warren - American Revolution eyewitness Phillis Wheatley - African-American poet Walt Whitman - American poet Laura Ingalls Wilder - children?s book author Virginia Woolf - English novelist
Educators Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott Catharine Beecher - co-founder of the Hartford Female SeminaryJill Ker Conway - first woman president of Smith CollegeErik Demaine - associate professor of Computer Science at MITTimothy Dwight - President of Yale UniversityWilliam Samuel Johnson - President of Columbia College Horace Mann - "Father of the American Common School" Charlotte Mason - Founder of Charlotte Mason College of EducationJoyce Reed - Associate Dean of the College, Brown UniversityFred Terman - President of Stanford University Frank Vandiver - President of Texas A&M UniversityBooker T. Washington - teacher and founder of Tuskegee InstituteJohn Witherspoon - President of Princeton University
Medical Practitioners Clara Barton - started the Red CrossElizabeth Blackwell - first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degreeFlorence Nightingale - Nurse Susan La Flesche Picotte - first American Indian woman physician Albert Schweitzer - Physician Mary Walker - Civil War physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
Business Entrepreneurs Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel industrialistAmadeo Giannini - Bank of America?s founderHorace Greeley - New York Tribune founder Soichiro Honda - creator of the Honda automobile companyPeter Kindersley - book illustrator and publisherRay Kroc - founder of McDonald's fast food restaurant chainJimmy Lai - newspaper publisher; founder of Giordano InternationalDr. Orison Swett Marden - founder, Success magazineAdolph Ochs - New York Times founder Joseph Pulitzer - newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer PrizeColonel Harland Sanders - started Kentucky Fried ChickenDave Thomas - founder of the Wendy?s restaurant chain
Performers Alan Alda - actor, screenwriter, producer Louis Armstrong - king of jazz BarlowGirl - Lauren, Alyssa, and Rebecca Barlow Spencer Breslin - actor Chris Brown - R&B singer, dancer, actor The 5 Browns - five siblings who play classical music on five grand pianos Charlie Chaplin - actor Cherryholmes - Bluegrass family band Erika Christensen - actress Hilary Duff - actress, singer Dakota Fanning - actress Whoopi Goldberg - actress Hanson - sibling singing group Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress Hume brothers - Jon, Peter, and Dann of the Evermore alternative rock band from New Zealand Tiffany Jo - Arizona yodeling star Josh Layne - harp musician Lindsay Lohan - actress Scott MacIntyre - visually impaired pianist Pat McMahon - television personality Jena Malone - actress Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy violinist Alyson "Aly" Michalka and Amanda Joy "AJ" Michalka - sister singing duo and actresses Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson Frankie Muniz - actor Adam Paskowitz - lead singer, The Flys LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy country music star Rebecca St. James - contemporary Christian recording artist Jeremy Sumpter - actor Raven Symone - actress Maria von Trapp - one of the Von Trapp Family Singers, the third child of Captain von Trapp Elijah Wood - actor Evan Rachel Wood - actress
Athletes Tanith Belbin - figure skating champion Chad Compton - surfer Alexa Glatch - tennis player Todd Lodwick - U.S. ski team member Tamara McKinney - World Cup skier Bode Miller - American alpine skier Jim Ryan - world runner Maria Sharapova - tennis player Jason Taylor - NFL football player Venus and Serena Williams - twin tennis stars
Others Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams Ansel Adams - photographer Susan B. Anthony - women?s rights leader John James Audubon - ornithologist and artist Alyssa Buecker - director, Milbo Productions John Burroughs - naturalist Jennie Chancey - historical costumer Davy Crockett - frontiersman Edward Curtis - photographer Robin Lee Graham - youngest person to sail around the world at age 16 Eric Hoffer - social philosopher Sam Houston - lawyer; first leader of Texas Abraham Kuyper - Dutch politician, journalist Mary Leakey - fossil hunter Charles Fletcher Lummis - journalist, historian, photographer, founder of the Southwest Society Harriet Martineau - first woman sociologist Margaret Mead - cultural anthropologist John Stuart Mill - free-market Economist Charles Louis Montesquieu - philosopher John Muir - naturalist Rosa Parks - Civil Rights activist Bill Ridell - Newspaperman Will Rogers - Humorist Eleanor Roosevelt - wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Bertrand Russell - Logician Emerson Spartz - 12-year-old internet entrepreneur (MuggleNet) Herbert Spencer - philosopher, sociologist Gloria Steinem - founder of Ms. magazine Lester Frank Ward - Father of American Sociology Martha Washington - wife of George Washington Frances E. C. Willard - educator, temperance leader, and suffragist Frank Lloyd Wright - architect Sho Yano - gifted child prodigy Elijah ben Solomon Zalman - Jewish scholar FAMOUS HOMESCHOOL PARENTS Garth Brooks - country music singer Michael Card - contemporary Christian songwriter Duane G. Carey - NASA astronaut Mike Farris - lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet David Guterson - educator and author of Snow Falling on Cedars Kimberly Hahn - Catholic apologist and author Gregg and Sono Harris - pioneers in the modern Christian homeschooling movement Barbara Howe - Libertarian activist Eric Jackson - whitewater paddler Christopher Klicka - attorney and Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) Len Munsil - attorney, President of The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), and gubernatorial candidate Paul Overstreet - musician, songwriter Jada Pinkett - actress, wife of Will Smith Kelly Preston - actress, wife of John Travolta Rick Santorum - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Mike Smith - lawyer and co-founder of HSLDA Will Smith - actor R.C. Sproul, Jr. - pastor, author of When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling Stefan von Trapp - grandson of Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music John Travolta - actor, pilot Darrell Waltrip - NASCAR racer Lisa Whelchel - former actress, "The Facts of Life", now a pastor's wife and author |