Famous Americans

Famous People in American History

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Women	Men A-He	Men Ho-Z
Abigail Adams Jane Addams - 2 Louisa May Alcott -2, 3 Marian Anderson - 2 Susan B. Anthony - 2* Clara Barton - 2, 3* Elizabeth Blackwell - 2, 3* Nellie Bly* Rachel Carson - 2, 3, 4* Amelia Earhart - 2, 3 Anne Hutchinson - 2 Mary Jamison (Jemison) Helen Keller Sybil Ludington Dolley Madison Lucretia Mott Annie Oakley - 2 Rosa Parks - 2, 3 Molly Pitcher Pocahontas -2 Sally Kristen Ride Betsy Ross - 2, 3 Eleanor Roosevelt Sacagawea Deborah Sampson - 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sojourner Truth - 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe* Harriet Tubman - 2, 3 Lillian Wald - 2 Martha Washington - 2, 3	John Adams - 2 Samuel Adams Ethan Allen - 2 Benedict Arnold Chester A. Arthur Alexander Graham Bell - 2 Benjamin F. Butler - 2 Harry F. Byrd - 2 George W. Carver - 2, 3, 4 John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) DeWitt Clinton James Fenimore Cooper -2 Davey Crockett* - 2 Jefferson Davis- 2 Walt Disney -2, 3, 4 Frederick Douglass - 2* W.E.B. DuBois George Eastman Thomas Alva Edison - 2, 3* Dwight D. Eisenhower - 2 Benjamin Franklin - 2 Robert Fulton William Lloyd Garrison - 2 Horatio Gates - 2 William "Bill" Gates - 2 Samuel Gompers* Charles Goodyear Ulysses S. Grant - 2* Nathan Hale Alexander Hamilton John Hancock Patrick Henry	Harry Houdini Henry Hudson John Jay Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson- 2, 3 Thomas Jefferson - 2 John Paul Jones - 2 Martin Luther King - 2, 3, 4 Lewis Latimer Robert E. Lee* - 2 Abraham Lincoln - 2, 3, 4 Charles Lindbergh Gen. Douglas MacArthur James Madison James Monroe Samuel Morse Ely S. Parker - 2 Charles C. Pinkney Ronald Reagan - 2, 3 Paul Revere John Roebling Franklin D. Roosevelt* Theodore Roosevelt Phillip Schuyler Roger Sherman Sitting Bull Peter Stuyvesant - 2 Nat Turner - 2 Booker T. Washington - 2 George Washington Woodrow Wilson Orville & Wilbur Wright-2, 3, 4, 5, 6* John Peter Zenger
Artists	Musicians	Authors
Ansel Adams - 2 Grandma Moses Jackson Pollock - 2* Norman Rockwell Alfred Steiglitz Andrew Wyeth	Louis Armstrong* Miles Davis Duke Ellington* - 2* Ella Fitzgerald* B. B. King Elvis Presley -2* Otis Redding Stevie Wonder	Emily Dickinson Laura Ingalls Washington Irving - 2 Thomas Paine Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain*
Athletes A-G	Athletes J-Re	Athletes Ro-Z
Muhammad Ali - 2 Arthur Ashe* Joe DiMaggio - 2 Althea Gibson - 2, 3 Peggy Fleming Wayne Gretsky Jeff Gordon - 2	Joe Jackson Reggie Jackson - 2 Michael Jordan - 2 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Billie Jean King -2 Joe Louis -2 Jesse Owens* Mary Lou Retton - 2	Jackie Robinson* Wilma Rudolph - 2, 3* Babe Ruth - 2, 3* Emmitt Smith Mark Spitz Jim Thorpe - 2 Esther Williams Kristi Yamaguchi - 2