This article lists people who have been featured on United States
postage stampA postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for postal services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery...
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Since the United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and over 800 people featured. Many of these people (especially the earlier Presidents) have been featured on multiple stamps. The following entries list the name of the person, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a very short description of their notability.
For the purpose of this list, "featured" may mean:
- The likeness of a person,
- The name of a person, or
- People who have neither their likeness or name on a stamp, but are documented by the United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Within the United States, it is commonly...
as being the subject of a stamp (see Reference).
This list is complete through all announced 2009 issues
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009stamps/welcome.htm.
Also see
List of United States airmail stamps
Quotation Reference
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- Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's...
(2001) Illustrator
- Bud Abbott
William Alexander “Bud” Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.-Early life:...
(1991) Comedian
- Edward R. Abrams (2008) Actor
- Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War...
(1993) Secretary of State
- Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...
(2003) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
- Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth...
(1985) First Lady
- Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West and primarily Yosemite National Park....
(2002) Photographer
- John Adams
John Adams was an American politician and the second President of the United States , after being the first Vice President for two terms. He is regarded as one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution...
(1938) 2nd President
- John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829. He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives...
(1938) 6th President
- Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the first women to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.-Biography:...
(1940) Social Worker
- Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey, Jr. was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance...
(2004) Choreographer
- Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts and published in 1868...
(1940) Author
- Horatio Alger, Jr.
Horatio Alger, Jr. was a prolific 19th-century American author whose principal output was formulaic juvenile novels that followed the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class...
(1982) Author
- Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.In...
(1965) Poet
- Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician....
(1955) Green Mountain BoysThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants...
leader
- Gracie Allen
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen , better known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns...
(2009) Comedian
- Steve Allen
Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen, American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3*Steve Allen, British musician, lead singer of Liverpool rock band Deaf School...
(2009) Comedian
- Fran Allison
Fran Allison was an American television and radio comedian and singer. She is best known for her starring role on the NBC puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie, which ran from 1947 to 1957, returning to the air regularly until the mid 1980s...
(2009) Actress
- Gilbert M. Anderson (Broncho Billy Anderson) (1998) Actor
- Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson was an American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. Music critic Alan Blyth said "Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty." Most of her singing career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and...
(2005) Contralto
- Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches every year on women's rights for 45...
(1936) Suffragist, feminist, and abolitionist
- Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance...
(1990) Painter
- Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar was an American physician who specialised in anesthesia and pediatrics. She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and effectively founded the field of neonatology...
(1994) Physician
- Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed , born John Chapman, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois...
(1966) Conservationist
- Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music.Having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to being the composer of The Wizard of Oz, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook.His 1938 song "Over the Rainbow”...
(1996) Composer
- Edwin Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of frequency modulation radio, regeneration, and the superheterodyne....
(1983) FM radio inventor
- Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
(1995) Jazz singer, musician, and songwriter
- Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-American musician, actor and television producer. He gained international renown for leading a Latino music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra...
(1999) Actor, producer and singer
- Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1988) Air Force General
- Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur was an American politician who served as the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th Vice President under James Garfield. While Garfield was mortally wounded by Charles J...
(1938) 21st President
- Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the U.S...
(2005) Tennis player
- John James Audubon
John James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before...
(1940) Naturalist, painter
- Stephen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin , known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by settlers from the United States. The capital of Texas, Austin in Travis County, Austin County, Stephen F...
(1936) Texas colonizer
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- Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "Mrs. Swing"...
(1994) Jazz singer
- Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker was a leading African American civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s....
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was an American expatriate entertainer and actress. She became a French citizen in 1937. Most noted as a singer, Baker also was a celebrated dancer in her early career. She was given the nicknames the "Bronze Venus" or the "Black Pearl", as well as the "Créole Goddess" in...
(2008) Singer
- George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgian parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based...
(2004) Choreographer
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.He traveled to the New World in...
(1913) Explorer
- Abraham Baldwin
Abraham Baldwin was an American politician, Patriot, and Founding Father from the U.S. state of Georgia. Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the adoption of the Constitution.-Early life:Baldwin...
(1985) Statesman
- James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States...
(2004) Author
- Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy...
(2001) Actress
- Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.-Family history and early life:...
(1980) Astronomer
- Theda Bara
Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress. Bara was one of the most popular screen actresses of her era, and was one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term...
(1994) Actress
- Francis Barbé-Marbois (1953) Louisiana Purchase negotiator
- Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
(1997) Composer
- John Bardeen
John Bardeen, Ph.D. was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory...
(2008) Physicist
- John Barry (1745-1803) (1936) Naval officer
- Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
(1982) Actress
- John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III...
(1982) Actor
- Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, radio and film. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul .-Early life:...
(1982) Actor
- Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is remembered mainly for designing the Statue of Liberty...
(1985) Statue of Liberty sculptor
- Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She has been described as having a "strong and independent spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.-Youth, education, and family nursing:Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on...
(1948) American Red Cross founder
- John Bartram
John Bartram was an early American botanist, horticulturalist, and explorer. Carolus Linnaeus said he was the "greatest natural botanist in the world."...
(1999) Botanist
- William Bartram
William Bartram was an American naturalist, the son of John Bartram. Bartram was born in Kingsessing, Pennsylvania, then near Philadelphia. As a boy, he accompanied his father on many of his travels, to the Catskill Mountains, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, New England, and Florida...
(1999) Botanist
- Count Basie
William "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years...
(1996) Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
- John Basilone
Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was a United States Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II...
(2005) Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
- Daisy Bates
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was an American civil rights leader, journalist, publisher, and author who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957....
(2009) Civil rights leader
- The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
(1999) Rock music band
- Jim Beckwourth (1994) Explorer
- Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
(1940) Telephone inventor
- Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it...
(1992) Painter
- Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist.She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923...
(1995) Anthropologist
- Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By...
(1998) Author
- Jack Benny
Jack Benny , born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
(1991) Comedian
- Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States...
(1971) Painter
- Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.-Early life:...
(1991) Ventriloquist
- Milton Berle
Milton Berle was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr...
(2009) Comedian
- Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
(2002) Composer
- Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
(2001) Conductor, composer
- Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D...
(1985) Civil Rights advocate
- Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion...
(1998) Painter
- Hiram Bingham IV
Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice-Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, and helped over 2,500 Jews to flee from France as Nazi forces advanced.-Early life:...
(2006) Diplomat
- George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham – 19th century American painter of the American West. The majority of Bingham's paintings and virtually all of his drawings are held in American museums, with the largest selection of paintings at the St. Louis Museum of Art. No museums outside of the United States hold any...
(1998) Painter
- Emily Bissell
Emily P. Bissell was an American social worker and activist, best remembered for introducing Christmas Seals to the United States....
(1980) Social Worker
- Hugo L. Black (1986) Supreme Court Justice
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1974) 1st U.S. female physician
- Montgomery Blair
Montgomery Blair , the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland...
(1963) Lawyer, politician, postmaster general
- Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
(1995) Jazz musician and songwriter
- Harlon Block
Harlon Henry Block was a United States Marine during World War II. Born in Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps in November 1943 and subsequently saw action during the Battle of Bougainville and the Battle of Iwo Jima where he was killed in action...
(1945) Iwo Jima
- Nellie Bly (2002) Journalist
- Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor.After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film...
(1997) Actor
- Charles E. Bohlen
Charles Eustis “Chip” Bohlen was a United States diplomat from 1929 to 1969 and Soviet expert, serving in Moscow before and during World War II, succeeding George F. Kennan as United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union , then ambassador to the Philippines , and to France...
(2006) Diplomat
- Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte Blanco, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a South American political leader...
(1958) South American revolutionary
- Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone [October 22 , 1734 – September 26, 1820] was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky, which was...
(1942) Frontiersman
- Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance...
(1981) Painter
- Clara Bow
Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. Her acting artistry and high spirits made her the premier flapper and the film It made her world famous...
(1994) Actress
- William Boyd
William Boyd may refer to:*William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd , Scottish-Canadian professor and author...
(2009) Actor
- Elizabeth Boyer (2008) Actress
- John Bradley
John "Jack" "Doc" Bradley was a United States Navy corpsman during World War II, and one of the six men who took part in raising the Flag on Iwo Jima...
(1945) Iwo Jima
- Omar N. Bradley (2000) World War II Army General
- Louis Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Europe...
(2009) Supreme Court justice
- Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. She also was known as Mary Carson Breckinridge.She started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains...
(1998) Frontier Nursing Services founder
- William Brennan Jr.
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. During his term on the Supreme Court, he was known for being a leader of the judicially liberal wing of the Court....
(2009) Supreme Court justice
- Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...
(1991) Comedian
- Jim Bridger
James or Jim Bridger was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1840...
(1994) Western pioneer
- William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for a deep, commanding voice...
(1986) Lawyer, politician
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his twenty-five year tenure as Alabama's head coach he amassed two national championships and thirteen conference championships...
(1997) Football coach
- James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century...
(1938) 15th President
- Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck also known as Sai Zhen Zhu , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer who spent the majority of her life in China...
(1983) Author
- Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession....
(1979) Architect
- Ralph Bunche
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize. He was involved in formation and administration of the United...
(1982) Diplomat, Nobel Laureate
- Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science.He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables...
(1940) Horticulturist
- John Burgoyne
General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. During the American War of Independence, on 17 October, 1777, at the Saratoga he surrendered his army of 6,000 men.-Early biography:...
(1927) Revolutionary War General
- George Burns
George Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century...
(2009) Comedian
- Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside and his lead role as Steve Martin in Godzilla, King of the Monsters and Godzilla 1985.-Early life:He was born Raymond William Stacey Burr in New Westminster, British...
(2009) Actor
- Richard E. Byrd (1988) Antarctic explorer
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- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese, was a Portuguese explorer noted for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California in the United States...
(1992) Explorer
- Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1951) Explorer
- James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.For his first performing...
(1999) Actor
- Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder , also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry and jewelry.-Childhood:Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July...
(1998) Sculptor
- Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was a sports writer and American football coach known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Glenn Scobey Warner, Fielding H...
(2003) Football coach
- Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella , nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player — primarily at the position of catcher — in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball...
(2006) Baseball player
- Zachary Canter (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
- Hattie Caraway
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was the first woman elected to serve as a United States Senator. Senator Caraway represented Arkansas.-Biography:...
(2001) 1st female Senator
- Chester Carlson
Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington....
(1988) Xerox inventor
- Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust" , "Georgia On My Mind," and "Heart and Soul", three of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the American popular song,...
(1996) Singer, musician, composer, and actor
- Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur, and a major philanthropist....
(1960) Philanthropist
- Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. Carney portrayed the upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners.-Personal life:Carney, youngest of six sons , was...
(2009) Actor
- Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna....
(1989) Painter
- Kit Carson
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson was an American frontiersman. Carson left home at an early age and became a trapper. He gained notoriety for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West. Carson also played a minor role in California during the 1846-48 Mexican-American War, and...
(1994) Frontiersman
- Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement....
(1981) Environmentalist
- Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter , best known as A.P. Carter, was an American musician and founding member of The Carter Family group, one of the most notable acts in the history of Country music.-Life:...
(1993) Country musician
- Maybelle Carter
"Mother Maybelle" Carter was an American country musician.She was born Maybelle Addington on May 10, 1909 near Nickelsville, Virginia, the daughter of Hugh Jackson Addington and Margaret S. Kilgore...
(1993) Country singer and musician
- Sara Carter
Sara Carter was an American Country music musician. Known for her deep and distinctive singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s....
(1993) Country singer and musician
- Philip Carteret
Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity was a British naval officer and explorer who participated in the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expedition of 1766....
(1964) Explorer
- Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso was an Italian tenor who sang to acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America...
(1987) Tenor
- George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver , was an American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor whose studies and teaching revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States...
(1948 & 1998) Botanist
- Nellie Cashman
Ellen Cashman , better known as Nellie Cashman, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who became famous across the American and Canadian west as a nurse and gold prospector.-Early years:...
(1994) Prospector
- Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists....
(1966) Painter
- John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He appeared in many Hollywood films. He is most notable as an influential pioneer of independent film...
(2003) Motion picture director
- Willa Sibert Cather (1973) Author
- George Catlin
George Catlin was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.- Biography :...
(1998) Painter
- Ignacio Chacón (2006) Painter
- Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, , , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat and chronicler...
(2006) Explorer
- Lon Chaney, Jr.
Lon Chaney, Jr. was an American character actor, known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney. Originally credited in films as Creighton Chaney, he was first credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935...
(1997) Actor
- Lon Chaney, Sr.
Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. He is best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his...
(1994) Actor
- Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute was a French-born American railway engineer and aviation pioneer. He provided the Wright brothers with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments.-Railroad engineering:...
(1979) Aviation pioneer
- Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and...
(1994) Actor
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920...
(1948) Suffragist
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1974) Painter
- Martha Chase
Martha Cowles Chase , also known as Martha C. Epstein, was an American geneticist famously known for being a member of the 1952 team which experimentally showed that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life. She was greatly respected as a geneticist. Chase was born in 1927 in...
(1997) Doll designer
- César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers . Supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers...
(2003) Labor rights leader
- Dennis Chavez
Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was a Democratic politician from the U.S. State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962.-Early life:...
(1991) Senator
- Claire Chennault (1990) Aviator
- Mary Chesnut (1995) Civil War diarist
- Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity.- Early life :...
(2008) Writer
- Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters...
(1998) Painter
- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer...
(1965) British Prime Minister
- Giovanni Battista Cima (1993) Painter
- George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War...
(1929) Revolutionary War officer
- Grenville Clark
Grenville Clark was the writer of the book World Peace Through World Law. A Wall Street lawyer, he was elected to the corporation that governs Harvard University in 1931....
(1985) Author
- William Clark (1954) Explorer
- Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. was a nineteenth-century American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He served as Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829....
(1870, 1902) Statesman
- Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted...
(1940) Author
- Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker was a professional baseball player and a Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. On November 14, 1964, he married Vera Zabala at San Fernando Church in Carolina. The couple had three children: Roberto Jr.,...
(1984) Baseball player
- Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
(1923) 22nd & 24th President
- J. R. Clifford
J.R. Clifford was West Virginia’s first African-American attorney. Clifford was also a newspaper publisher, editor and writer, schoolteacher, and principal. He was a Civil War veteran, grandfather, as well as a civil rights pioneer and founding member of the Niagara Movement . Despite boundaries...
(2009) Attorney
- Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...
(1993) Country singer and musician
- David Cobb
David Cobb was a Massachusetts physician, military officer, jurist, and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for the At-large District of Massachusetts.-Biography:...
(1976) Congressional Representative, 3rd U.S. Congress
- Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb , nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a baseball player and is regarded by some historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era, and is generally seen as one of the greatest players of all time.In 1936, Cobb received the most votes of any player on the...
(2000) Baseball player
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn was an early 20th century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract...
(2002) Photographer
- Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation...
(1996) Aviator
- Mickey Cochrane
Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane was a catcher and manager in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers. New York Yankees Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was named after Cochrane...
(2000) Baseball player
- Buffalo Bill Cody
William Frederick " Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes...
(1988) Wild West showman
- George M. Cohan
George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy...
(1978) Actor, playwright
- Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat "King" Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz...
(1994) Singer, musician, and songwriter
- Bessie Coleman
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was an American civil aviator. Popularly known as "Queen Bess", she was the first African American to become a licensed airplane pilot, and the first American of any race or gender to hold an international pilot license.-Early years:Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas,...
(1995) 1st African American female pilot
- Eddie Collins
Edward Trowbridge Collins, Sr. , nicknamed "Cocky", was an American second baseman, manager and executive in Major League Baseball who played from to for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox....
(2000) Baseball player
- John Coltrane
John William "Trane" Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...
(1995) Jazz musician and composer
- Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere...
(1893) Explorer
- Henry Comstock
The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. deposit of silver ore, discovered under what is now Virginia City, Nevada on the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson, a peak in the Virginia range. After the discovery was made public in 1859, prospectors rushed to the area and scrambled to stake their claims...
(1959) Prospector
- James Cook
Captain James Cook, FRS RN , was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy...
(1978) Explorer
- Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the...
(1938) 30th President
- Anna Julia Cooper (2009) Civil rights leader
- Gary Cooper
Frank James “Gary” Cooper was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
(1990) Actor
- James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...
(1940) Author
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe...
(1973) Astronomer
- Elizabeth Clarke Copley (1965) Portrait subject on a stamp honoring John Singleton Copley
- John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects...
(1965) Painter
- Gerty Cori
Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, was an American biochemist born in Prague who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen — a...
(2008) Biochemist
- Charles Cornwallis (1930) Revolutionary War General
- Dean Cornwell
Dean Cornwell was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American...
(2001) Illustrator
- Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1940) Explorer
- Lorenzo Costa
Lorenzo Costa was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by the his early twenties, and would be more influential to the Bolognese school of painting. However, many artists worked in both nearby cities, and thus others consider him a product of the...
(2001) Painter
- Lou Costello
Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...
(1991) Comedian
- Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S...
(1982) Oglala Sioux warrior
- Davy Crockett
David Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and often by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier.” He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas...
(1967) Alamo defender
- Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death....
(1994) Singer, actor
- Percy Crosby
Percy Leo Crosby was a U.S. author, illustrator, and cartoonist. He is best known for his 1923 to 1945 comic strip Skippy, a popular and acclaimed feature adapted into movies, a novel, and a radio show, and commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp...
(1997) Cartoonist
- Jim Crowley
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a winning group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the legendary backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team...
(1998) Football player
- Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry....
(2002) Photographer
- Nathaniel Currier
Nathaniel Currier was an American lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives.-Early years:...
(1976) Lithographer
- Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation.-Birth and early career:...
(1980) Aviation pioneer
- Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing, M.D. was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the "father of modern neurosurgery".-Life:...
(1988) Neurosurgeon
- Manasseh Cutler
Manasseh Cutler was an American clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. Cutler was also a member of the United States House of Representatives and a founder of Ohio University....
(1937) Northwest Territory pioneer
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- Daniel Daly
Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly was a United States Marine and one of only 19 men to receive the Medal of Honor twice, the other being Major General Smedley Butler....
(2005) Marine; Medal of Honor recipient
- Virginia Dare
Virginia Dare was the first child born in America to English parents, Eleanor and Ananias Dare. She was born into the short-lived Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, USA. What became of Virginia and the other colonists has become an enduring mystery...
(1937) 1st European child born in America
- Gerard David
Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color.-Life:...
(1979) Painter
- Alexander Jackson Davis
Alexander Jackson Davis was one of the most successful and influential American architects of his generation....
(1980) Architect
- Allison Davis
William Boyd Allison Davis was an educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar. He was considered one of the most promising black scholars of his generation, and became the first African-American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of...
(1994) Educator, anthropologist
- Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (1997) Army General
- Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
(2008) Actress
- Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War....
(1970) Confederate President
- Agnes de Mille
Agnes George de Mille was an American dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Agnes de Mille was born in New York City into a well-connected family of theater professionals. Her father William C. deMille and her uncle Cecil B. DeMille were both Hollywood directors...
(2004) Choreographer
- Dizzy Dean
Jerome Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball, and was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953....
(2000) Baseball player
- James Dean
James Byron Dean was an American film actor.Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark...
(1996) Actor
- Stephen Decatur
Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr was an American naval officer notable for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and in the War of 1812...
(1936) Naval officer
- Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...
(1973)
- Andrea della Robbia
Andrea della Robbia was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics. He was the son of Marco della Robbia, brother of Luca della Robbia....
(1978) Sculptor
- Luca della Robbia
Luca della Robbia was an Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels.Luca Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama...
(1985) Sculptor
- Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.-Early life:...
(2003) Motion picture producer
- Jack Dempsey
Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records...
(1998) Boxer
- George Dewey
George Dewey was an admiral of the United States Navy. Many historians called him the "hero of Manila." He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War...
(1936) Navy Admiral
- John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and of functional psychology...
(1968) Educator
- Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
(1971) Poet
- John Dickinson
John Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of...
(1976) American lawyer and Governor of DelawareThe Governor of Delaware is the executive officer of the U.S. state of Delaware. The current incumbent is Jack Markell of Centreville, Delaware. He is Delaware's first Jewish governor and is serving in his first term...
and Pennsylvania
- William Dickson (1996) Motion picture camera inventor
- Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen was a Republican U.S. Congressman and Senator from Pekin, Illinois. As Republican Senate leader he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Open Housing Act of 1968, both...
(1981) Senator
- Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder Walter Elias...
(1968) Motion picture producer, animator
- Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums...
(1983) Mental health advocate
- Jimmy Dorsey
James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
(1996) Jazz musician and bandleader
- Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis Dorsey was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing".. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey.". His lyrical trombone style became one of the signature sounds of his band...
(1996) Jazz musician and bandleader
- Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen Arnold Douglas , son of Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah Fisk, was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in...
(1958) Politician
- Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer...
(1967) Abolitionist
- Charles R. Drew
Charles Richard Drew was an African American physician and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II, saving thousands of...
(1981) Surgeon
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1992) Civil Rights advocate
- John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world...
(1960) Secretary of State
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life, one poem in the collection Ode to Ethiopia...
(1975) Poet
- Harvey Dunn
Harvey Thomas Dunn was an American painter. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden. In this painting, a mother and her son and daughter are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great Plains.-Early life:Dunn was born on a homestead...
(2001) Illustrator
- Asher B. Durand (1998) Painter
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- Eddie Eagan
Edward "Eddie" Patrick Francis Eagan was an American sportsman. He was the first person to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and is to date the only person to have won a gold medal at both games.Eagan was born into a poor family in Denver. He studied law at Harvard University...
(1990) Boxer, bobsledder
- Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator...
(1967) Painter, sculptor
- Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames were American designers, married in 1941, who worked and made major contributions in many fields of design including industrial design, furniture design, art, graphic design, film and architecture....
(2008) Industrial design, furniture design
- Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart ; was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean...
(1963) Aviator
- Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his...
(1994) Gunfighter
- George Eastman
George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream...
(1954) Roll film inventor
- Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb...
(1947) Inventor
- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of...
(1966) Physicist
- Billy Eisengrein
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Bergen Record, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. The official name for...
(2002) Ground Zero firefighter
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the...
(1969) 34th President
- Charles W. Eliot
Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.- Background :The scion of a wealthy Boston...
(1940) Educator
- Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM , was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are The Love Song of J...
(1986) Poet
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz, though his music stretched into...
(1986) Jazz musician and composer
- Lincoln Ellsworth
-Birth:Son of James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio as a child.-Arctic/North Pole exploration:...
(1988) Antarctic explorer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s...
(1940) Author
- John Ericsson
John Ericsson was an American Swedish-born inventor and mechanical engineer, as was his brother, Nils Ericson...
(1926) Inventor
- Leif Ericson
Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer who is currently regarded as the first European to land in North America 492 years before Christopher Columbus...
(1968) Explorer
- Walker Evans
Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
(2002) Photographer
- Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith.- Early life :...
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Ray Ewry
Raymond "Ray" Clarence Ewry was an American track and field athlete who won 8 gold medals at the Olympic Games and 2 gold medals at the "Intercalated Games" . This puts him among the most successful Olympians of all time.Ewry was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and contracted polio as a young boy...
(1990) Track & field athlete
- Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
(1968) Painter
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- Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman Fairbanks, Sr., was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists...
(1984) Actor
- Cal Farley
Cal Farley , called by some "America's Greatest Foster Father," founded in 1939 the residential childcare facility known as Boys Ranch, located near Old Tascosa, a largely otherwise abandoned community in Oldham County north of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.Farley has been honored by the United...
(1996) Boys Ranch founder
- Philo T. Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first fully electronic television system, including the first working electronic image pickup device , and for being the first to demonstrate fully electronic television to the public.In his later life, Farnsworth...
(1983) TV camera inventor
- David G. Farragut
David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and full admiral of the Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the torpedoes,...
(1903) 1st Navy Admiral
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (1987) Author
- Robert Fawcett
Robert Fawcett trained as a fine artist but achieved fame as an illustrator of books and magazines.Born in England, he grew up in Canada and later in New York. His father, an amateur artist, encouraged Robert's interest in art. While in Canada, he was apprenticed to an engraver...
(2001) Illustrator
- Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, author and playwright.-Early years:Ferber was born in 1885 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia Ferber...
(2002) Author
- Perry Ferguson
Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
(2003) Motion picture art director
- Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
(2001) Physicist
- Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics...
(2005) Physicist
- Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Fiedler was the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specializes in popular and light classical music. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the country...
(1997) Conductor
- Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
(1996) Lyricist
- W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields was an American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women.The...
(1980) Actor, comedian
- Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853 and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to assume the presidency upon the death of a sitting president, succeeding Zachary Taylor, who died of what is...
(1938) 13th President
- Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Lady Ella", and the "First Lady of Song", was an American jazz vocalist....
(2007) Jazz singer
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996) Author
- James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his propaganda posters.Flagg was born in Pelham Manor, New York...
(2001) Illustrator
- Father Edward J. Flanagan
Father Edward Joseph Flanagan was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the founder of what is arguably the most famous orphanage—Boys Town...
(1986) Orphan advocate
- Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
(2005) Actor
- Lynn Fontanne
Lynn Fontanne was a British actress and major stage star in the United States for over 40 years, who with her husband Alfred Lunt was part of the most acclaimed acting team in the history of the American theater....
(1999) Actress
- Gerald R. Ford (2007) President of the United States
- Henry Ford
Henry Ford was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents...
(1968) Industrialist
- John Foster
John Foster may refer to:*John Foster of Dunleer , MP for Dunleer, grandfather of 1st Baron Oriel*John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel , speaker of the Irish House of Commons*John William Foster , MP for Dunleer...
(1998) Painter
- Stephen Collins Foster (1940) Composer
- Four Chaplains
The Four Chaplains were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out; 230 of the 904 men aboard the...
(1948) Died during the Dorchester sinking
- George L. Fox
George L. Fox was a Methodist minister and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II.-Life:George L. Fox was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania in 1900, one of...
(1948) One of the Four ChaplainsThe Four Chaplains were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out; 230 of the 904 men aboard the...
- Jimmie Foxx
James Emory "Jimmie" Foxx was an American first baseman and noted power hitter in Major League Baseball...
(2000) Baseball player
- Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans....
(1982) Franciscan Order founder
- Peter Francisco
Peter Francisco , known variously as the "Virginia Giant" or the "Giant of the Revolution" , was an American patriot and soldier in the American Revolution...
(1975) Revolutionary War soldier
- Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.-Early life:Frankfurter was born on November 15, 1882 in Vienna, Austria, third of six children of Leopold and Emma Frankfurter. His forebears had been rabbis for generations...
(2009) Supreme Court justice
- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat...
(1847) 1st Postmaster, statesman, scientist
- Elizabeth Freake (1998) Portrait subject
- Mary Freake (1998) Portrait subject
- John C. Fremont
John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery...
(1898) and (1994) Explorer, Senator
- Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Biography:...
(1940) Sculptor
- Arthur Burdett Frost
Arthur Burdett Frost , was an early American illustrator, graphic artist, and comics writer. He was also well known as a painter. Frost's work is well known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence. Frost is considered one of the great illustrators in the "Golden Age of American...
(2001) Illustrator
- Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
(1974) Poet
- Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.Fuller published more than thirty books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics...
(2004) Inventor
- Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship...
(1909) Steamboat inventor
- Frank Furness
Frank Heyling Furness was an acclaimed American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his eclectic, muscular, often idiosyncratically-scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan...
(1980) Architect
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- Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was an American film actor, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time....
(1990) Actor
- Rene Gagnon
Rene Arthur Gagnon was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.-Early life:...
(1945) Iwo Jima
- Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain.-Suffolk:...
(1974) Painter
- Albert Gallatin
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, Congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was also a founder of New York University....
(1967) Secretary of the Treasury
- Thomas H. Gallaudet (1983) Educator
- Bernardo de Galvez (1980) Revolutionary War General
- Mohandas Gandhi (1961) Indian patriot
- Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a Swedish actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age....
(2005) Actress
- James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure, at 199 days, the second shortest in United States history.Before his election as president, Garfield served as a major general in the...
(1882) 20th President
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection...
(1960) Italian patriot
- Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy...
(1990) Actress
- Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad Misty, has become a jazz standard...
(1995) Jazz musician and composer
- Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig was an American baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s, chiefly remembered for his prowess as a hitter, his consecutive games-played record and its subsequent longevity, and the pathos of his farewell from baseball at age 36, when he was stricken with a fatal disease...
(1989) Baseball player
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter...
(1999) Author & illustrator
- Martha Gelborn (2008) Journalist
- Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a long-time United States Senator and was President pro tempore. He was a Democrat.-Early years:...
(1960) Senator
- Geronimo
Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades.-Biography:Goyahkla was...
(1994) Apache leader
- George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar....
(1973) Composer and musician
- Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
(1999) Lyricist
- Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo.-Early years:...
(1975) Painter
- Amadeo P. Giannini (1973) Bank of America founder
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (2005) Thermodynamicist
- Josh Gibson
Joshua Gibson was an American catcher in baseball's Negro Leagues. He played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946...
(2000) Baseball player
- John Gilbert
John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover", he rivaled even Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw...
(1994) Actor
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, PhD, was one of the first working female engineers holding a PhD. She was born in Oakland, California to William and Anne Moller....
(1984) Industrial engineer
- Giorgio Barbarelli Giorgione (1971) Painter
- Giotto di Bondone
Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages...
(1995) Painter
- Jackie Gleason
Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , baptized as John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician....
(2009) Comedian
- Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard , U.S. professor of physics and scientist, was a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled rocketry. He launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. From 1930 to 1935, he launched rockets that attained speeds of up to 885 km/h...
(1964) Rocket scientist
- George W. Goethals (1939) Panama Canal engineer
- Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor , and served as the AFL's president from 1886-1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924...
(1950) Labor union leader
- Alexander D. Goode
Alexander D. Goode was a rabbi and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II-Life:...
(1948) One of the Four ChaplainsThe Four Chaplains were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out; 230 of the 904 men aboard the...
- Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
(1996) Jazz musician and bandleader
- Charles Goodnight
Charles Goodnight was a cattle rancher in the American West, perhaps the best known rancher in Texas. He is sometimes known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle." Essayist and historian J...
(1994) Cattle rancher
- Jan Gossaert (2002) Painter
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano pieces...
(1997) Composer
- Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history...
(1974) Painter
- Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture...
(2004) Choreographer
- Red Grange
Harold Edward "Red" Grange was a professional and college American football halfback for the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame...
(2003) Football player
- Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor...
(2002) Actor
- Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was general-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War and the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877....
(1890) 18th President
- François Joseph Paul Grasse (1931) Revolutionary War Admiral
- Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician...
(1961) Journalist
- Adolphus W. Greely (1986) Arctic explorer
- Hank Greenberg
Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg , nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s....
(2006) Baseball player
- Nathanael Greene
Nathaniel Greene was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer...
(1936) Revolutionary War General
- Ludwig Greiner
You may be looking for:* Catherine Greiner aka Cathy Stewart, French actress who performed in adult movies from the Golden Age of Porn* Ludwig Greiner, also Ľudovít, or Lajos, discovered the highest peak in the Tatras, Carpathians...
(1997) Doll designer
- David Wark Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering Academy Award-winning American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .-Early life:Griffith was born in La Grange, Kentucky to...
(1975) Motion picture producer
- Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé was an American pianist, arranger and composer. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was sometimes billed as Ferdie Grofe....
(1997) Composer
- Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
(1982) Architect
- Thomas Grosvenor (1968) Revolutionary War soldier
- Lefty Grove
Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.Born in Lonaconing, Maryland, Grove was a sandlot star in the Baltimore area during the 1910s...
(2000) Baseball player
- Johnny Gruelle
Johnny Gruelle was an artist, political cartoonist, and writer of children's books. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. He also provided colour illustrations for a 1914 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales.He was born John Barton Gruelle in Arcola, Illinois...
(1997) Doll designer
- Johann Gutenberg (1952) Printing press inventor
- Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
(1998) Folk singer, songwriter, and musician
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- Philip Habib
Philip Charles Habib was a Lebanese-American career diplomat known for work in Vietnam, South Korea and the Middle East...
(2006) Diplomat
- George Halas
George Stanley Halas, Sr. , nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was a player, coach, inventor, jurist, producer, philanthropist, philatelist, owner and pioneer in professional American football and the iconic longtime leader of the NFL's Chicago Bears.-Early life and sports career:Halas,...
(1997) Football coach
- Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British...
(1925) Revolutionary War officer
- Bill Haley
Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock"...
(1993) Rock and roll singer, musician, and songwriter
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader....
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher...
(1870) Statesman
- Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health...
(1995) Physician
- Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously....
(1962) United Nations Secretary General
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American writer, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song", and much of his work is part of the unofficial Great...
(1999) Musical theater writer
- John Hancock
John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
(1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
- Winfield Hancock (1995) Civil War General
- William Christopher Handy (1969) Blues musician and composer
- John Hanson
John Hanson was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. After serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland, in 1779 Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after...
(1981) President of Continental Congress
- Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg , known as E.Y. Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers...
(2005) Lyricist
- Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack or stroke in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate and later as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S...
(1923) 29th President
- Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted over 31 years, from 1926 to 1957...
(1991) Comedian
- William Harnett
William Michael Harnett was an Irish-American painter who practiced a trompe l'oeil style of realistic painting...
(1969) Painter
- Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years...
(1948) Journalist
- Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the administration of President Jimmy Carter...
(2000) Presidential Cabinet member, ambassador
- Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at the age of 21, where he became a prominent state politician...
(1902) 23rd President
- William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office...
(1938) 9th President
- Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in...
(1999) Lyricist
- Moss Hart
Moss Hart was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater.-Early years:Hart was born in New York City and grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs, but of dray wagons, pushcarts, and immigrants.” Early on he had a strong...
(2004) Playwright
- Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.-Life and career:...
(1987) Author
- David Hartley
David Hartley, the younger , statesman, scientific inventor, and the son of the philosopher David Hartley. He was Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull, and also held the position of His Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, appointed by King George III to treat with the United...
(1983) Treaty of Paris signatory
- John Harvard
John Harvard was an English clergyman and first benefactor of the College which was named Harvard University in his honor. He directed that half his money, along with his library, be given to the recently created school. His gift assured its continued operation...
(1986) Harvard College benefactor
- Josiah Johnson Hawes
Josiah Johnson Hawes was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s-1860s.-Biography:...
(2002) Photographer
- Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was the first important jazz musician to use the instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn"...
(1995) Jazz musician
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne...
(1983) Author
- Ira Hayes
Ira Hamilton Hayes was an Akimel O'odham, or Pima Native American, and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community...
(1945) Iwo Jima
- Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher
Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Revolutionary War. Since various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore, rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the...
) (1928) Battlefield volunteer
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President of the United States . Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876...
(1922) 19th President
- Edith Head
Edith Head was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered eight Academy Awards—more than any other woman in history.-Early life and career:...
(2003) Costume designer
- Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes...
(2004) Painter
- John Held, Jr.
John Held Jr. was a United States illustrator, one of the most famous magazine illustrators of the 1920s. His cheerful art defined the flapper era so well that many people are familiar with it today....
(2001) Illustrator
- Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature...
(1989) Author
- Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry served as the first post-colonial Governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779. A prominent figure in the American Revolution, Henry is known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, and as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
(1955) American Revolution orator
- Jim Henson
James Maury "Jim" Henson , was one of the most widely known puppeteers in American history. He was the creator of The Muppets...
(2005) Muppets creator
- Matthew Alexander Henson (1986) Arctic explorer
- Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian.Born in Ixelles as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Netherlands, during the Second World War...
(2003) Actress
- Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and...
(1940) Composer
- Nicholas Herkimer
Nicholas Herkimer was a militia general in the American Revolutionary War, who died of wounds after the Battle of Oriskany. He was the son of immigrants Catherine Petrie and Johann Jost Herchheimer from the German Palatinate living in German Flats in the Mohawk Valley in the Colony of New York...
(1977) Revolutionary War General
- Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
(1999) Composer
- John Hersey
John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage...
(2008) Journalist
- Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey was a confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company and the “company town” of Hershey, Pennsylvania.-Early life:...
(1995) Confectioner
- Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok , better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized...
(1994) Gunfighter
- Marguerite Higgins
Marguerite Higgins, married name Marguerite Higgins Hall, , was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War and the war in Vietnam, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents.Higgins was born in Hong Kong while...
(2002) Journalist
- Morgan Hill (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
- Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States. -Early life:...
(2002) Photographer
- John L. Hines
John Leonard Hines was an American soldier who served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1924 to 1926....
(2000) World War I General
- Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
(1998) Motion picture director
- James Hoban
James Hoban was an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C..-Life:James Hoban was born in Desart, near Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Hoban was raised on the estate of the Earl of Desart at Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny where he learned carpentry skills...
(1981) White House architect
- Katsushika Hokusai (1974) Painter
- Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing...
(1994) Jazz singer
- Hollow Horn Bear
Hollow Horn Bear was a Brulé Sioux leader during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains of the United States.Hollow Horn Bear was born in what today is Sheridan County, Nebraska. He was the son of chief Iron Shell...
(date unknown) BruléThe Brulé are one of the seven branches or bands of the Teton Lakota Sioux American Indian nation. They are known as Sičháŋǧu Oyáte , or "Burnt Thighs Nation," and so, were called Brulé by the French...
SiouxSioux are a Native American and First Nations people. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many dialects...
leader
- Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
(1993) Rock and roll singer, musician, and songwriter
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932...
(1968) Supreme Court Justice
- Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
(1962) Painter
- Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic...
(1965) 31st President
- Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG was an American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO tours entertaining American military personnel...
(2009) Comedian
- Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular...
(1989) Philanthropist
- Mark Hopkins
Mark Hopkins, Junior was one of four principal investors who formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.-Early life:...
(1940) Educator
- Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching...
(1970) Painter
- Rogers Hornsby
Rogers Hornsby , nicknamed "The Rajah", was a Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. Hornsby's first name, Rogers, was his mother's maiden name. He spent the majority of his playing career with the St...
(2000) Baseball player
- Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini was a Hungarian American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer...
(2002) Magician
- Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston was an African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and trained future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.Houston was born in Washington, D.C. His father...
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Sam Houston
Samuel Houston was a 19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier. Born on Timber Ridge, just north of Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, Senator...
(1963) Texas Governor
- Elias Howe
Elias Howe was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory and then for a master mechanic...
(1940) Inventor
- Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."-Early life and family:...
(1987) Abolitionist
- Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett
Chester Arthur Burnett , better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player....
(1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
- Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the...
(2000) Astronomer
- Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. After several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast Passage to India, Hudson explored the region around modern New York City while looking for a western route to the Orient under...
(1909) Explorer
- Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes Sr. was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as Governor of New York , United States Secretary of State , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States...
(1962) Chief Justice
- Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes, was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry...
(2002) Author
- Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
(1963) Secretary of State
- Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...
(1991) Vice President
- Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...
(1981) Architect
- Samuel Huntington
Samuel Huntington was a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation...
(1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
- Ruby Hurley (2009) Civil rights leader
- Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.-Early life:Hurston was the fifth of eight...
(2003) Author
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- Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
(1940) Author
- Isabella of Castile (1893) Queen of Spain, funded Christopher Columbus's voyage
- Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years...
(1997) Composer
- Frederic E. Ives (1996) Halftone printing inventor
- James Ives (1974) Lithographer
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- Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . He was military governor of Florida , commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans , and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy...
(1861) 7th President
- Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson was an African-American gospel singer. With her powerful, distinct voice, Mahalia Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world and is the first Queen of Gospel Music...
(1998) Gospel singer
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1937) Confederate Army General
- John Jay
John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and, from 1789 to 1795, the first Chief Justice of the United States...
(1958) New York Governor, statesman, Supreme Court justice
- Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.-Life:Jeffers was born in...
(1973) Poet
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States , the principal author of the Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States...
(1861) 3rd President
- Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth —also known as Jesus Christ or occasionally Jesus the Christ—is the central figure of Christianity. Within most Christian denominations...
(1966) Christianity founder
- Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson , the 17th President of the United States , was the first U.S. President to be impeached, as well as the first U.S. president to succeed to the presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor.At the time of the secession of the Southern states, Johnson was a U.S. Senator from...
(1938) 17th President
- Eastman Johnson
Eastman Johnson was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance...
(1976) Painter
- George Johnson
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Bergen Record, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. The official name for...
(2002) Ground Zero firefighter
- James P. Johnson
James Price Johnson [also known as Jimmy Johnson] was an American pianist and composer. With Luckey Roberts, Johnson was one of the originators of the stride style of jazz piano playing.-Biography:...
(1995) Composer
- James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of the...
(1988) Author
- Joshua Johnson
Joshua Johnson was the first African American painter to make his living by painting, and a noted folk artist.-Life:Johnson was apparently self-trained in his art. During a 30-year period of activity from 1795 to 1825 he produced many paintings with Baltimore-related subject matter, including...
(1998) Painter
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1973) 36th President
- Robert Johnson (1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
- Walter Johnson
Walter Perry Johnson , nicknamed "The Big Train," was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball between 1907 and 1927...
(2000) Baseball player
- Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph Eggleston Johnston was a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Johnston's effectiveness in the Civil War was undercut...
(1995) Confederate Army General
- Louis Jolliet
Louis Jolliet, also known as Louis Joliet , was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. Jolliet and missionary Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest, were the first white men to explore and map the Mississippi River.-Early life:Jolliet was born in 1645 in a...
(1968) Explorer
- Al Jolson
Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian, and actor. According to PBS, he is considered the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America"...
(1994) Singer and actor
- Casey Jones
John Luther "Casey" Jones was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad . On April 30, 1900, he alone was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi on a foggy and rainy night...
(1950) Railroad engineer
- John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made enemies among the American ruling class, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day.During his...
(1936) Revolutionary War Naval Captain
- Bobby Jones
Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28.Explaining his decision to retire, Jones said, "It is something like a...
(1981) Golfer
- Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, he wrote forty-four original ragtime pieces, one...
(1983) Ragtime musician and composer
- Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years...
(2008) Musician/singer
- Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph was the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Nez Perce to a reservation in Idaho...
(1968) Nez Perce warrior
- Percy Lavon Julian (1993) Chemist
- Ernest E. Just (1996) Biologist
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- Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku is generally regarded as the person who popularized the modern sport of surfing. He was also an Olympic champion in swimming.-Early years:...
(2002) Surfer, swimmer
- Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically articulate her own pain and sexuality...
(2001) Painter
- Kamehameha I of Hawaii (1937) Hawaiian King
- Elisha Kent Kane (1986) Arctic explorer
- Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff was a British actor who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein, 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein...
(1997) Actor
- Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics...
(1992) Aerospace scientist
- Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude Käsebier was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.-Early life :Käsebier was born Gertrude...
(2002) Photographer
- Stephen Watts Kearny (1946) Mexican American War officer
- Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all...
(1994) Actor
- Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
(1980) Author, disability advocate
- Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American film and stage actress and fashion icon who later became Princess Grace of Monaco....
(1993) Actress and Princess of Monaco
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
(1964) 35th President
- Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician. He was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisers during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S...
(1979) Attorney General
- Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.- Biography :Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper...
(2001) Illustrator
- Jerome Kern (1985) Composer
- André Kertész
André Kertész , born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and by his efforts in establishing and developing the photo essay...
(2002) Hungarian photographer
- Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."-Life:...
(1948) Star-Spangled Banner composer
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1979) Civil Rights advocate
- Franz Kline
Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting...
(1998) Painter
- Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War.-Early life and marriage:...
(1985) Revolutionary War General
- Erich Korngold (1999) Composer
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish-Lithuanian military leader. He is a national hero in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and the United States...
(1933) Polish-Lithuanian patriot
- Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849...
(1958) Hungarian patriot
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- Marquis de Lafayette (1952) Revolutionary War General
- Fiorello H. La Guardia (1972) New York City Mayor
- Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration...
(2002) Photographer
- Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...
(1988) Aviation pioneer
- Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.-Early life and war:Sydney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry, with his distant French ancestors having immigrated to England in the 16th...
(1972) Poet
- Mary Lasker
Mary Woodard Lasker was a highly influential American health activist. She worked to raise funds for medical research, and founded the Lasker Foundation...
(2009) Philanthropist
- Benjamin Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe was a British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol, as well as his design of the Baltimore Basilica, the first Catholic Cathedral built in the United States...
(1979) Architect
- Frank C. Laubach (1984) Educator
- Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II.-Early life:Stan Laurel was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June...
(1991) Comedian
- John Laurens
John Laurens was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.-Early life:...
(1976) Revolutionary War soldier
- Elmer Layden
Elmer Francis Layden was Commissioner of the National Football League and head football coach at University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.-College:...
(1998) Football coach
- Huddie Ledbetter (1998) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
- Jason Lee
Jason Lee , an American missionary and pioneer, was born on a farm near Stanstead, Quebec. He was the first of the Oregon missionaries and helped establish the early foundation of a provisional government in the Oregon Country....
(1948) Oregon Territory missionary
- Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. Lee was the son of Major General Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" , Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter...
(1937) Confederate Army General
- Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she had also played on stage in London's West End.She was a...
(1990) Actress
- John A. Lejeune
Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, was the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Known as the "greatest of all Leathernecks" and the "Marine's Marine", he served for over 40 years — his service included leading the U.S...
(2005) Marine Corps Commandant
- Ponce de Leon
Ponce de León may refer to:* Juan Ponce de León , Spanish conquistador* Juan Ponce de León II , the first Puerto Rican to assume the governorship of Puerto Rico...
(1982) Explorer
- Alan Jay Lerner (1999) Lyricist
- Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German American history painter best-known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.-Biography:...
(1976) Painter
- Francis Lewis
Francis Lewis was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York....
(1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
- Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.- Biography :Lewis...
(1954) Explorer
- Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works...
(1985) Author
- Joseph Christian Leyendecker (2001) Illustrator
- Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery...
(1866) 16th President
- Benjamin Lincoln
Benjamin Lincoln was an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War...
(1976) Revolutionary War General
- Tad Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the fourth and youngest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.- 1853–1865 :...
(1984) son of Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery...
- Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S...
(1927) Aviator
- Jean-Etienne Liotard
Jean-Étienne Liotard was a Swiss-French painter. His father was a jeweller who fled to Switzerland after 1685....
(1974) Painter
- Fra Filippo Lippi (1984) Painter
- Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann was an influential American award-winning writer, journalist, and political commentator...
(1985) Journalist
- Sarah Lipsey (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
- Robert R. Livingston
Robert R Livingston , was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York.-Early life:...
(1904) Declaration of Independence drafter
- Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
(1994) Actor
- Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American attorney, politician, educator and author. She was active in working for women's rights, although the term feminist was not in use. The press of her day referred to her as a "suffragist," someone who believed in women's suffrage or voting rights...
(1986) Lawyer, feminist
- Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the...
(1999) Composer
- Frederick Loewe
Frederick Loewe was a Tony Award-winning Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, both of which were made into films.- Biography :Loewe was born in Vienna to...
(1999) Composer
- Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 1959-67, winning five league championships during his nine years...
(1997) Football coach
- Jack London
Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books...
(1986) Author
- Crawford W. Long (1940) Physician
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline"...
(1940) Poet
- Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits...
(1970) Painter
- Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949....
(1993) Boxer
- Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI of France ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August 1792, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21...
(1978) King of France, Revolutionary War supporter
- Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912....
(1948) Girl Scouts of America founder
- James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets...
(1940) Poet
- Henry R. Luce (1998) Publisher
- Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington was a young woman known for a night ride to alert American colonial forces, similar to that performed by Paul Revere.-Background:...
(1975) Revolutionary War heroine
- Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version...
(1997) Actor
- Bernardino Luini
Bernardino Luini was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described to have taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend". Consequently many of his works were...
(2007) Painter
- Alfred Lunt
Alfred Lunt was an American stage director and actor, often identified for an incomparable, long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne...
(1999) Actor
- Martin Luther
Martin Luther changed the course of Western civilization by initiating the Protestant Reformation. As a priest and theology professor, he confronted indulgence salesmen with his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. Luther strongly disputed their claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could...
(1983) Protestant reformer
- Mary Lyon
Mary Mason Lyon , surname pronounced , was a pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, . Within two years, she raised $15,000 to build the Mount Holyoke School...
(1987) Educator
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- Clara Maass
Clara Louise Maass was an American nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever. -Early life:...
(1976) Nurse
- Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II...
(1971) Army General
- Thomas Macdonough
Thomas MacDonough was an early-19th-century American naval officer. He a leading member of "Preble's Boys", a small group of naval officers who served during the First Barbary War. His most notable achievement occurred during the War of 1812...
(1937) Naval officer
- Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...
(1940) Composer
- Dolley Madison
Dolley Payne Todd Madison was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817...
(1980) First Lady
- Helene Madison
Helene Madison was an American swimmer. She won three gold medals in freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin....
(1990) Swimmer
- James Madison
James Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States , and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States....
(1894) 4th President
- Ramon Magsaysay
Magsaysay redirects here, for other uses see Magsaysay .Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay was the third President of the Third Republic of the Philippines from December 30, 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1957...
(1957) Philippine President
- Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995...
(2004) Composer
- Horace Mann
Horace Mann was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-1837. Mann was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, their wives being sisters.-Education and early career:Horace Mann was...
(1940) Educator
- C.G.E. Mannerheim
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces, Marshal of Finland, a politician, and a military commander...
(1960) Finnish President
- Mickey Mantle
Mickey Charles Mantle was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974....
(2006) Baseball player
- Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956, when he retired as the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career.- Early years :Marciano was an...
(1999) Boxer
- Luis Muñoz Marín
José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician. Regarded as the "father of modern Puerto Rico", he was the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. Muñoz Marín was the son of Luis Muñoz Rivera, a renowned autonomist leader...
(1990) 1st Puerto Rico Governor
- Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Maris was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for hitting 61 home runs for the New York Yankees during the 1961 season...
(1999) Baseball player
- Jacques Marquette
Father Jacques Marquette, S.J., , sometimes known as Pere Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...
(1898) Explorer
- George Catlett Marshall (1965) Secretary of State, Army General
- John Marshall
John Marshall was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835...
(1894) Chief Justice
- Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of...
(2003) Supreme Court Justice
- Roberta Martin
Roberta Martin was an American gospel composer, singer, pianist, arranger and choral organizer, helped launch the careers of many other gospel artists through her group, The Roberta Martin Singers.-Early years:...
(1998) Gospel singer, musician, and songwriter
- Mary (The Madonna) (1966) Central figure in Christianity
- Groucho Marx
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born...
(2009) Comedian
- Tomáš Masaryk
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak statesman, sociologist and philosopher, who as the keenest advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the first President and founder of Czechoslovakia...
(1960) President of Czechoslovakia
- George Mason
George Mason IV was an American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention...
(1958) Statesman
- Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist...
(1970) Poet
- Bat Masterson
William Barclay "Bat" Masterson was a figure of the American Old West known as a buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, avid fisherman, gambler, frontier lawman, U.S. Marshal, and sports editor and columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph...
(1994) U.S. Marshal
- Richard Mather
Richard Mather , was a Puritan clergyman in Colonial Boston, Massachusetts. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both also celebrated Boston divines.-Biography:...
(1998) Painter
- Christy Mathewson
Christopher "Christy" Mathewson , nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball...
(2000) Baseball player
- Paolo de Matteis
Paolo de Matteis was an Italian painter.He was born in Cilento near Salerno, and died in Naples. He trained with Francesco di Maria in Naples, then with Luca Giordano. He came to the employ of the Spanish Viceroy of Naples. From 1702-1705, de' Matteis worked in Paris, Calabria, and Genoa...
(1996) Painter
- Jan Earnst Matzeliger (1991) Lasting machine inventor
- Bernard Maybeck
Bernard Ralph Maybeck was a prominent architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century.- Early life and education :...
(1981) Architect
- Charles Horace Mayo
Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother, William James Mayo, Drs. Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E...
(1964) Surgeon
- William James Mayo
William James Mayo was a physician in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s...
(1964) Surgeon
- Philip Mazzei
Philip Mazzei was an Italian physician and a promoter of liberty...
(1980) Revolutionary War supporter
- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...
(2005) Geneticist
- John McCormack
John Count McCormack , was a world-famous Irish tenor and recording artist, celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control...
(1984) Tenor
- Cyrus Hall McCormick (1940) Mechanical reaper inventor
- Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
(2006) Actress
- Ephraim McDowell
Ephraim McDowell was an American physician. He was the first to successfully remove an ovarian tumor.-Biography:...
(1959) Surgeon
- William McKinley
William McKinley Jr. was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office....
(1904) 25th President
- John McLoughlin
- Childhood and early career :McLoughlin was born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, of Irish , Scottish, and French Canadian descent. He lived with his great uncle, Colonel William Fraser, for a while as a child...
(1948) Oregon Territory settler
- Brien McMahon
Brien McMahon was born James O'Brien McMahon.McMahon was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate from 1945 to 1952...
(1962) Atomic Energy Act author
- Neysa McMein
Neysa McMein was an American artist.Born Marjorie Moran in Quincy, Illinois, she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and in 1913 went to New York City. After a brief stint as an actress, she turned to commercial art...
(2001) Illustrator
- Clyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter was an American R&B singer.-Life and career:McPhatter was raised in a religious Baptist family, and formed a gospel group in 1945 after his family moved to New Jersey...
(1993) R&B singer
- Dan McWilliams
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Bergen Record, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. The official name for...
(2002) Ground Zero firefighter
- Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
(1998) Anthropologist
- George Meany
George Meany was an American labor leader, who served as President of the American Federation of Labor from 1952 to 1955, and then, following its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the latter year, as president of the united AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979...
(1994) Labor union leader
- Andrew W. Mellon
Andrew William Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4 1921 until February 12 1932.-Early life:...
(1955) Financier
- Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism...
(1984) Author
- Hans Memling
Hans Memling was a German-born Early Netherlandish painter.- Life and works :...
(1966) Painter
- Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
(1996) Composer and singer
- Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German inventor, who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type. This machine revolutionized the art of printing...
(1996) Linotype inventor
- Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer of the musical theatre. Known for her powerful voice, she was often referred to as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage".-Early life:...
(1994) Singer, actress
- Moina Michael
Moina Michael was a U.S. professor and humanitarian who conceived the idea of using poppies a symbol of remembrance for those who served in World War I....
(1948) Memorial Poppy founder
- James Michener (2008) Writer
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs...
(1981) Poet
- Don Miller
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a winning group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the legendary backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team...
(1998) Football player
- Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller , was an American jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
(1996) Jazz musician
- Robert Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of Caltech from 1921 to 1945.-Education:Millikan went to high school in Maquoketa, Iowa...
(1982) Physicist
- Charlie Mingus (1995) Jazz musician and composer
- Billy Mitchell
William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell was an American Army general who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force...
(1999) Air Force General
- Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies...
(1986) Author
- Lorenzo Monaco
Lorenzo Monaco was a Florentine painter. He joined the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence in 1391, but he left monastic life before making a lifetime commitment...
(2004) Painter
- Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer who, according to The Penguin Guide to Jazz, was "one of the giants of American music"...
(1995) Jazz musician and composer
- James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida ; the Missouri Compromise , in which Missouri was declared a slave state; the admission of Maine in 1820 as a free state; and the profession of the Monroe Doctrine , declaring U.S...
(1904) 5th President
- Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe , born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer and model....
(1995) Actress
- John Bassett Moore
John Bassett Moore was an American authority on international law who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice ....
(1965) Jurist
- Clayton Moore
Clayton Moore was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger.-Early years:...
(2009) Actor
- Marianne Craig Moore (1990) Poet
- Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran from Bolton, England was a painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains...
(1998) Painter
- Giovanni Battista Moroni
Giovanni Battista Moroni was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni...
(1987) Painter
- Justin S. Morrill (1999) Senator
- Robert Morris
Robert Morris, Jr. was an American merchant, and a signer to the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution...
(1952) Declaration of Independence signatory
- Samuel F. B. Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was the American inventor of a single-wire telegraph system and Morse code and a painter of historic scenes.-Birth and education:Samuel F.B...
(1940) Telegraph inventor
- Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902...
(originally Ferdinand J. La Menthe) (1995) Jazz musician and composer
- Julius Sterling Morton
Julius Sterling Morton was President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat....
(1932) Arbor Day founder
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is most often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age.-Painting:Moses began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in...
"Grandma Moses" (1969) Painter
- Horace Moses (1984) Junior Achievement founder
- Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy.- Early life and education:Lucretia Coffin was...
(1948) Civil Rights advocate
- John Muir
John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today...
(1964) Conservationist
- Audie L. Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy was a much-decorated American soldier who served in the European Theater during World War II. He later became an actor, appearing in 44 American films, and also found some success as a country music composer.In 27 months of combat action, Murphy became one of the most highly...
(2000) World War II soldier, actor
- Robert Daniel Murphy
Robert Daniel Murphy was an American diplomat.Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Murphy had begun his diplomatic career in 1917 as a member of the American Legation in Bern, Switzerland. Among the several posts he held were Vice-Consul in Zurich and Munich, American Consul in Paris from 1930 to 1936,...
(2006) Diplomat
- Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered...
(1994) Journalist
- Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard J. Muybridge was an English photographer, known primarily for his important pioneering work, with use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the celluloid film strip that is still used today."....
(1996) Photographer
- Myron
Myron of working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher....
of Boeotia (1996) Sculptor
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- Bronco Nagurski (2003) Football player
- James Naismith
James Naismith was a Canadian and naturalized American sports coach and innovator. Naismith invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet...
(1961) Basketball inventor
- Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".-Early life:Nash was born in Rye, New York...
(2002) Poet
- Harriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.-Early life and career:...
(2009) Actress
- Ozzie Nelson
Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American entertainer and band leader who originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons.-Early life:...
(2009) Actor
- Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Thomas Nelson, Jr. , was an American planter, soldier, and statesman from Yorktown, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the Continental Congress and was its Governor in 1781. He is regarded as one of the U.S. Founding Fathers since he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the...
(1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
- Louise Nevelson (2000) Sculptor
- Ernie Nevers
Ernest Alonzo Nevers was an American professional athlete who played American football as a fullback for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League, as well as baseball as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns...
(2003) Football player
- Ethelbert Nevin (1940) Composer
- Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman was an American composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Award nominations, making him the second most nominated person in the history of the Academy Awards, tied with John Williams Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900– February 17, 1970) was an American composer of music...
(1999) Composer
- Jean Nicolet
Jean Nicolet de Belleborne was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Green Bay in early modern North America.-Life and exploration:...
(1934) Explorer
- Chester W. Nimitz (1985) World War II Admiral
- Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States and is the only president to resign the office. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States ....
(1995) 37th President
- Alfred Nobel
was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes...
(2001) Philanthropist
- Isamu Noguchi
was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
(2004) Sculptor
- George W. Norris (1961) Senator
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- Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet , Oakley reputedly...
(1994) Sharpshooter
- Adolph S. Ochs (1976) New York Times publisher
- James Edward Oglethorpe (1933) Georgia founder
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style...
(1996) Painter
- Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City...
(1999) Landscape architect
- Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August...
(1973) Playwright
- Rose O'Neill
Rose Cecil O'Neill was an illustrator who created a popular period comic called Kewpie.-Early life:...
(2001) Illustrator
- Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born Jewish conductor and violinist.-Biography:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the National Hungarian Royal Academy of Music at the age of five...
(1997) Conductor
- Timothy O'Sullivan
The American Civil War was the fourth war in history to be caught on camera. The first three were the Mexican-American War the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion of 1857....
(2002) Photographer
- Mel Ott
Melvin Thomas "Mel" Ott , nicknamed "Master Melvin", was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played his entire career for the New York Giants . Ott was born in Gretna, Louisiana. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
(2006) Baseball player
- Francis Ouimet
Francis DeSales Ouimet was an American golfer. He is widely known for winning the 1913 U.S. Open, and was the first American elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He married Stella M...
(1988) Golfer
- Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington was a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.-Biography:Mary White Ovington was born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church were supporters of women's rights and had been involved in anti-slavery...
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 metres, the 200 metres, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay...
(1990) Track & field athlete
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- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland...
(1960) Polish Prime Minister
- Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American baseball player whose pitching in several different Negro Leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime...
(2000) Baseball player
- Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in England, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution...
(1965) Journalist
- Nathaniel Palmer
Nathaniel Brown Palmer was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut....
(1988) Antarctic explorer
- George Papanicolaou (1978) Cytologist
- Al Parker
Al Parker was a gay American pornographic actor , producer, and director. He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 40....
(2001) Illustrator
- Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker, with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, is often considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians...
(1995) Jazz musician and composer
- Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles....
(1992) Author
- Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his...
(1965) Historian
- Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator.-Life:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began drawing for his own amusement as a child. His given name was Frederick Parrish but he later adopted the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, Maxfield, as his middle name, and later as...
(2001) Illustrator
- Alden Partridge
Alden Partridge, was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and a controversial pioneer in U.S...
(1985) Educator
- George S. Patton, Jr. (1953) World War II Army General
- Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S...
(1995) Suffragist and feminist
- Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists in any field of the 20th century. Pauling was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum...
(2008) Chemist
- Ethel L. Payne
Ethel L. Payne was an award-winning African American journalist. Known as the "First Lady of the Black Press", she was a columnist, lecturer, and free-lance writer. She combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s...
(2002) Journalist
- Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier and naturalist.-Early life:Peale was born in Chester, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, the son of Charles Peale and his wife Margaret. In 1749 his brother James Peale was born. Charles became an apprentice to a saddle maker when he was thirteen...
(1955) Painter
- Rembrandt Peale
Rembrandt Peale was a 19th century American artist who received critical acclaim for his portraits of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson...
(1998) Painter
- Robert Edwin Peary
Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole...
(1959) Arctic explorer
- Phoebe Pember
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember was a member of a prominent American Jewish family from Charleston, South Carolina and a nurse and female administrator of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War...
(1995) Confederate nurse
- William Penn
William Penn was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his good relations and his treaties with...
(1932) Pennsylvania founder
- Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s...
(2000) Senator
- Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins Frances Perkins Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Davies, (April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor...
(1980) Secretary of Labor
- Matthew Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.-Early life and naval career:...
(1953) Navy Commodore
- Oliver Hazard Perry
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the son of Captain Christopher Raymond Perry and Sarah Wallace Alexander. He was an older brother to Matthew Calbraith Perry. As a boy, he lived in South Carolina, sailing ships practicing for his future career as an...
(1870) Naval officer
- John J. Pershing
General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing, Honorary GCB; September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948, was a general officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies General of the...
(1961) World War I General
- Perugino (1986) Painter
- John Frederick Peto (1974) Painter
- Ammi Phillips
Ammi Phillips , a self-taught New England portrait painter, is regarded as one of the most important folk artists of his era.Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, and began painting portraits as early as 1810...
(1998) Painter
- Coles Phillips
Clarence Coles Phillips was an American artist.He was born in Springfield, Ohio. While studying at Kenyon College in 1902, he found an audience for drawing in the school yearbooks. His drawings appear in the 1901-1904 issues of The Reveille, and in the 1921 and 1922 editions of the U.S. Naval...
(2001) Illustrator
- Ben Picket (1994) brother of Bill Picket, accidentally placed on stamp when his brother Bill was meant to appear; stamp recalled and replaced
- Bill Pickett
Willie M. "Bill" Pickett was a cowboy and rodeo performer.Pickett was born in the Jenks-Branch community of Travis County, Texas. He was the second of 13 children born to Thomas Jefferson Pickett, a former slave, and Mary "Janie" Gilbert...
(1994) Wild West performer
- Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857, an American politician and lawyer. To date, he is the only President from New Hampshire....
(1938) 14th President
- Sano di Pietro
Sano di Pietro was an early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena.-Gallery:Sano di Pietro's paintings appear in the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Florida, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York City, and the University of Michigan Art Museum in Ann Arbor,...
(1997) Painter
- William T. Piper
William Thomas Piper Sr. was an American airplane manufacturer, and founder, eponym, and 1st president of Piper Aircraft Corporation 1929-1970. He graduated from Harvard University in 1903, and became known as "the Henry Ford of Aviation". The William T...
(1990) Aviation pioneer
- ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts The earliest date is supported by census records: the 1900 census gives her age as 6, though puzzlingly lists March as her month of birth; the 1910 census gives her age as 15, but by the time of the 1920 census she had begun her film acting career and her age is given as 21...
(1994) Actress
- Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian woman notable for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown in present-day Virginia. She was converted to Christianity and married the English settler John Rolfe. After they traveled to London, she became famous in the last year of her life...
(1907) Algonquin Indian
- Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the...
(1949) Author
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1987) Chicago settler
- Clark V. Poling
Clark V. Poling was a minister in the Reformed Church in America and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II.-Life:Poling was born in Columbus, Ohio to Daniel A...
(1948) One of the Four ChaplainsThe Four Chaplains were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out; 230 of the 904 men aboard the...
- George Polk
George Polk was an American journalist for CBS who disappeared in Greece and was found dead a few days later on Sunday May 16, 1948, shot at point-blank range in the back of the head, and with hands and feet tied. Polk was covering the civil war in Greece between the right wing government and...
(2008) Journalist
- James K. Polk (1938) 11th President
- Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of...
(1999) Painter
- Lily Pons
Lily Pons was a French-American coloratura soprano.-Biography:Born as Alice "Lili" Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15...
(1997) Soprano
- Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years....
(1997) Soprano
- Salem Poor
Salem Poor was an African American soldier who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill.Born into slavery in Andover, Massachusetts, Poor managed to purchase his freedom in 1769 for £27. Poor soon married a free African American woman named Nancy...
(1975) Revolutionary War soldier
- Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin"...
(1991) Composer and songwriter
- David D. Porter (1937) Civil War naval officer
- Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist...
(2006) Author
- Emily Post
Emily Post was an American author on etiquette.- Background :Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, into privilege as the only daughter of architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine Lee Price. She was educated at home and attended Miss Graham's finishing school in New York, where...
(1998) Author
- Wiley Post
Wiley Hardeman Post was the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits. His Lockheed Vega aircraft, the is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F...
(1979) Aviator
- John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.-Early life:Powell was born in Mount...
(1969) Geologist
- Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King....
(1993) Rock and roll singer and musician
- Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
(1983) Chemist
- Kazimierz Pułaski (1931) Revolutionary War soldier (spelled Casimir Pulaski on the stamp)
- Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer , né Politzer József, was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism .- Biography :Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary to Jewish parents Philip Pulitzer , a...
(1947) Journalist
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller was an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Puller is the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, and the only Marine to receive five Navy Crosses, the United States Navy's and Marines' second highest decoration after the Medal of Honor...
(2005) Marine Corps General
- Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was a colonial military officer during the French and Indian War, and a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War...
(1937) Northwest Territory settler
- Ernest Taylor Pyle (1971) Journalist
- Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
(1964) Illustrator
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- Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey , was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues...
(1994) Blues singer
- Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand , was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
(1999) Author
- Asa Philip Randolph (1989) Labor & Civil Rights advocate
- Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings...
(1973) Painter
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The...
(2008) Author
- Man Ray
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky , was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
(2002) Photographer
- Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn , often called "Mr. Sam," was a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for seventeen years, the longest tenure in U.S...
(1962) Legislator
- George Read
George Read was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the...
(1976), lawyer and signer of the Declaration of IndependenceThe United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire...
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- Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...
(2005) 40th President
- Red Cloud
Red Cloud , was a war leader of the Oglala Lakota . One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army ever faced, he led a successful conflict in 1866–1868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder River Country in northwestern Wyoming and southern Montana...
(1987) Oglala Sioux Chief
- Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer. Often called the "King of Soul", he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice...
(1993) Soul singer and songwriter
- Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed, M.D., was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than by direct contact...
(1940) Army surgeon
- Frederic Remington
Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S...
(1940) Sculptor, painter
- James Renwick, Jr.
James Renwick, Jr. , was a prominent American architect in the 19th-century. The Encyclopedia of American Architecture calls him "one of the most successful American architects of his time".-Life and work:Renwick was born into a wealthy and well-educated family...
(1980) Architect
- Ernst Reuter
Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter was the German mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War.- Early years :...
(1959) Berlin Mayor
- Bernard Revel
Bernard Revel was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He served as the first President of Yeshiva College from 1915 until his death in 1940...
(1986) Educator
- Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.He was glorified after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol...
(1958) Revolutionary War patriot
- Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson was a prominent American architect of the 19th century whose work left a significant impact on Boston, Pittsburgh, Albany and Chicago, among others.-Biography:...
(1980) Architect
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.-Early...
(1995) World War I fighter pilot
- James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer and poet. Known as the Hoosier Poet, National Poet, and the Children's Poet, he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal...
(1940) Poet
- Paul Robeson
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was an internationally renowned American basso profundo concert singer, scholar, actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator and lawyer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism...
(2004) Actor, singer, civil Rights advocate
- Edward G. Robinson
Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an American actor born in Romania...
(2000) Actor
- Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947...
(1982) Baseball player
- Sugar Ray Robinson
'Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...
(2006) Boxer
- Comte de Rochambeau (1931) Revolutionary War General
- Knute Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne was an American football player and is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame calls him "American football's most-renowned coach." He was a native Norwegian, and was trained as a chemist at Notre...
(1988) Football coach
- Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four...
(1972) Painter
- Jimmie Rodgers
James Charles Rodgers , known as "Jimmie," was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling...
(1978) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
- Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
(1999) Composer
- Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Representative and WWII veteran Will Rogers, Jr....
(1948) Humorist
- Antoniazzo Romano
Antoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili was an Italian Early Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the 15th century.-Biography:...
(1991) Painter
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights...
(1963) First Lady
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945) 32nd President
- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Bull Moose Party...
(1922) 26th President
- Betsy Ross
Betsy Ross , of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been widely credited with making the first American flag.-Early life:...
(1952) American flag creator
- George Ross (delegate)
George Ross may refer to:*George Ross , signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence*George Ross , Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1788–1790*George H...
(1952) Relative of Betsy Ross
- Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted the classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk...
(1998) Painter
- Edward Rudledge (1976) Painter
- Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games, despite running on a sprained ankle at the time...
(2004) Track & field athlete
- Jimmy Rushing
James Andrew Rushing was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.....
(1994) Blues singer
- Charles M. Russell (1961) Painter
- Richard Russell, Jr.
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who was a long-time United States Senator from the state of Georgia. He represented Georgia in the Senate from 1933 until his death in 1971...
(1984) Statesman
- George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1983) Baseball player
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- Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project : simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.- Biography :Eero Saarinen, who was born in Hvitträsk,...
(1982) Architect
- Albert Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin was an American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.-Life:...
(2006) Virologist
- Sacagawea
Sacagawea was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, in their exploration of the Western United States...
(1994) Shoshone guide
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens , was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance"...
(1940) Sculptor
- Ruben Salazar
Rubén Salazar was a Mexican-American journalist killed by a sheriff's deputy during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles, California...
(2008) Journalist
- Peter Salem
Peter Salem was an African American who served as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, a slave of Jeremiah Belknap. Salem was later sold to Lawson Buckminster, who gave him his freedom. {At least one record calls him "Salem Middlesex"}Peter Salem...
(1968) Revolutionary War soldier
- Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City, where his parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. Although they themselves lacked formal education, they were...
(2006) Medical scientist
- Haym Salomon (1975) Revolutionary War financier
- William T. Sampson
William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his victory in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.-Biography:...
(1937) Navy Admiral
- José de San Martin
José Francisco de San Martín Matorras, also known as José de San Martín , was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain....
(1959) South American liberator
- Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...
(1978) Poet
- Henry Sandham (1925) Painter
- Winthrop Sargent (1948) Mississippi Territory Governor
- William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...
(1991) Author
- Winfield S. Schley (1937) Navy Admiral
- Albert Schoenhut (1997) Doll designer
- Carl Schurz
Carl Schurz was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army General in the American Civil War...
(1983) Journalist
- Blanche Stuart Scott
Blanche Stuart Scott , also known as Betty Scott, was possibly the first American woman aviator .-Early life:...
(1980) Aviator
- Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and many historians rate...
(1870) Army General
- David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick, born David Selznick , was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Not only did Gone with the Wind gross the highest amount of money in the U.S...
(2003) Motion picture producer
- Raphael Semmes
For other uses, see Semmes .Raphael Semmes was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous commerce raider CSS Alabama, taking a record sixty-nine prizes...
(1995) Naval officer
- Sequoyah
Sequoyah , named in English George Gist or Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith who in 1821 completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible...
(1980) Cherokee linguist
- Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. He was known in the more secular community as being an atheist despite converting to Unitarianism...
(2009) Writer
- Junipero Serra
Fray Junípero Serra was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California. Fr. Serra was beatified by John Paul II on September 25, 1988.-History:Junípero Serra was born Miquel Josep Serra i Ferrer in Petra, Majorca, Spain...
(1985) Franciscan mission founder
- John Sevier
John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as Governor of Tennessee, and as a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death...
(1946) Tennessee Governor
- William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. was a Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...
(1873) Secretary of State
- Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareid was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents—dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow....
(2008) Journalist
- Chief Shadoo (1930) Kiowa Chief
- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
(1964) Playwright
- Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century....
(1998) Painter
- Philip Henry Sheridan (1937) Civil War General
- Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman was an early American lawyer and politician. He served as the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic.He was the only person to sign all four...
(1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
- William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War , for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched...
(1893) Civil War General
- Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s....
(2009) Singer
- Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky , born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky , was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913...
(1988) Aircraft engineer
- Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S...
(2009) Comedian
- Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the...
(2008) Singer/actor
- Elisabetta Sirani
Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian painter whose father was the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani of the School of Bologna, and the principal assistant of Guido Reni. She died at the age of 27....
(1994) Painter
- George Sisler
George Harold Sisler , nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball for fifteen seasons, primarily as a first baseman with the St. Louis Browns. Although his career ended in , from until , Sisler held the MLB record for most hits in a single season...
(2000) Baseball player
- Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man, born near the Grand River in South Dakota and killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him and prevent him from supporting the Ghost Dance...
(1989) Hunkpapa Sioux warrior
- Red Skelton
Red Skelton , born Richard Bernard Skelton, was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971...
(2009) Comedian
- John French Sloan
John French Sloan was a U.S. artist. As a member of The Eight, a group of American artists, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window...
(1971) Painter
- Alfred E. Smith (1945) New York Governor
- Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues", Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent...
(1994) Blues singer
- Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books....
(2001) Illustrator
- John Smith
Captain John Smith Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Virginia Indian girl Pocahontas during an...
(1907) Jamestown settler
- Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name...
(2007) U.S. senator
- W. Eugene Smith
William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.- Life and Work :...
(2002) Photographer
- John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches...
(1940) Composer
- Franklin Sousley
Franklin Runyon Sousley was one of the six men in the famous photograph of United States Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima in World War II.-Early life:...
(1945) Iwo Jima
- Albert Southworth
thumb|Albert Southworth, circa 1848Albert Sands Southworth operated Southworth & Hawes daguerreotype studio with Josiah Johnson Hawes from 1843 to 1863.-Biography:...
(2002) Photographer
- Tris Speaker
Tristram E. Speaker , nicknamed “Spoke” and “Grey Eagle” , was an American baseball player known as one of the best offensive and defensive center fielders in history...
(2000) Baseball player
- Elmer Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer Note: the wrong photograph was used as the basis for the stamp, which actually pictures Elmer Sperry's father.
- Lawrence Sperry
Lawrence Burst Sperry was an aviation pioneer. He was the third son of gyrocompass co-inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry and his wife Zula. Sperry is noted for having invented the first autopilot, which he demonstrated with startling success in France in 1914...
(1985) Aviation pioneer
- Joel Elias Spingarn
Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic and civic activist.-Biography:Spingarn was born in New York City and was professor of comparative literature at Columbia University from 1899 to 1911...
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era.-Early life and career:...
(1871) Secretary of War
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement...
(1948) Suffragist, feminist, and abolitionist
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist. He was born at Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, of Icelandic descent. He was educated in the universities of North Dakota and of Iowa , US...
(1986) Arctic explorer
- Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen , born in Bivange, Luxembourg, was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo...
(2002) Photographer
- John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and the novella Of Mice and Men . He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories...
(1979) Author
- Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian American composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the score he composed for Gone with the Wind and for the score and theme song for the film A Summer Place.Steiner was born Maximilian Raoul Steiner in Vienna, Austria-Hungary...
(1999) Composer
- Charles Steinmetz (1983) Electrical inventor
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, Prussian aristocrat and military officer who served as inspector general and Major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War...
(1930) Revolutionary War general
- Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served one term as governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956; both times...
(1965) UN Ambassador and presidential candidate
- James Stewart
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...
(2007) Actor
- Walter Stewart
Walter Douglas Stewart was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them bestsellers...
(1976) Revolutionary War soldier
- Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form...
(2002) Photographer
- Joseph W. Stilwell (2000) Army General
- Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony...
(1997) Conductor
- Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone was an American lawyer and jurist. A native of New Hampshire he served as the dean of Columbia Law School, his alma mater in the early 20th century. As a member of the Republican Party, he was appointed as the 52nd Attorney General of the United States before becoming an...
(1948) Chief Justice
- Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1839, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged...
(1965) Suffragist and feminist
- Joseph Story
Joseph Story was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered today for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The Amistad.-Early life:Story was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts. His father was Dr...
(2009) Supreme Court justice
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S...
(2007) Author
- Paul Strand
Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...
(2002) Photographer
- Michael Strank
Michael Strank was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was photographed raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The leader of the group in the famous picture was Strank, who got the order to climb Mt. Suribachi to lay telephone wire...
(1945) Iwo Jima
- Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of...
(1982) Composer
- William Strickland
William Strickland , was a noted architect in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Nashville. He is noted as one of the founders of the Gothic revival movement when in 1823 he built Saint Stephen's Church in Philadelphia...
(1979) Architect
- Gilbert Charles Stuart (1940) Painter
- Harry Stuhldreher
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a winning group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the legendary backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team...
(1998) Football player
- Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664...
(1948) New Amsterdam Governor
- Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter...
(1999) Author & illustrator
- Anne Sullivan
Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy, born Johanna Sullivan , was a teacher best known as the instructor and companion of Helen Keller. She is also known as Annie Sullivan.- Biography :...
(1980) Educator
- Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s....
(2009) TV variety show host
- John Sullivan
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(1929) Revolutionary War general
- Louis Sullivan
Louis Henri Sullivan was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago...
(1981) Architect
- George Szell
George Szell , originally György Széll or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer...
(1997) Conductor, composer
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- Robert A. Taft (1960) Senator
- William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States....
(1930) 27th President
- William Talman (2009) Actor
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an African American artist best known for his paintings of religious subjects, genre scenes, and portraits. He was the first African American painter to gain international acclaim.-Education:...
(1973) Painter
- Ida Tarbell (2002) Author, journalist
- Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was an American military leader and the 12th President of the United States.Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War before achieving fame leading U.S...
(1875) 12th President
- Gerard Terborch (1974) Painter
- Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell , daughter of two former slaves, was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree...
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry was a blind blues musician...
(1998) Blues musician
- Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th...
(1983) Induction motor inventor
- Rosetta Tharpe (1998) Gospel singer, musician, and songwriter
- Sylvanus Thayer
Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer also known as "the Father of West Point" was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States....
(1985) Educator
- Charles Thomson
Charles Thomson was a Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress throughout its existence.-Biography:...
(1976) Continental Congress Secretary
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist...
(1967) Author
- Jim Thorpe
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe * Gerasimo and Whiteley. pg. 28
* , americaslibrary.gov, accessed April 23, 2007. was an American athlete...
(1984) Football player
- James Thurber
James Grover Thurber was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit.Thurber was best known for his contributions to The New Yorker magazine.-Life:...
(1994) Author, illustrator, humorist
- Lawrence Tibbett
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett was an American opera singer, movie actor, radio personality and recording artist. He sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1923 to 1950. He performed roles ranging from Iago in Otello to Captain Hook in Peter Pan...
(1997) Opera singer
- Giambattista Tiepolo (1982) Painter
- Lewis Comfort Tiffany (2007) Designer
- Bill Tilghman
William Matthew "Bill" Tilghman was a lawman and gunslinger in the American Old West.- Early life :Tilghman was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on July 4, 1854. He became a buffalo hunter at age 15 and claimed he killed over 12,000 bison over his five years of activity...
(1994) Southwest lawman
- Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor...
(1999) Composer
- Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory...
(1989) Conductor
- Pie Traynor
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor was a professional baseball third baseman who played his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates ....
(2000) Baseball player
- William B. T. Trego
William Brooke Thomas Trego was an American painter best known for his historical military subjects, in particular scenes of the American Revolution and Civil War.- Biography :...
(1976) Painter
- Edward Trudeau (2008) Phthisiologist
- Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...
(1973) 33rd President
- John Trumbull
John Trumbull was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War famous for his historical paintings including his Declaration of Independence, which appears on the reverse of the two-dollar bill.-Early years:Trumbull was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, to Jonathan Trumbull,...
(1927) Painter
- Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York...
(1986) Abolitionist
- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the...
(1978) Abolitionist
- Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker was a highly regarded American operatic tenor throughout his career, and is generally considered by vocal-music historians and critics as being the greatest American-born, American-trained tenor of the post-World War Two era.Tucker was born Rivn Ticker in Brooklyn, New York, into a...
(1997) Tenor
- Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted...
(1940) Author
- John Tyler
John Tyler, Jr. was the tenth President of the United States and the first to succeed to the office following the death of a predecessor....
(1938) 10th President
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- Ritchie Valens
Richard Steven "Ritchie" Valenzuela , better known by the stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist....
(1993) Rock and roll musician
- Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film era. He is best known for his work in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
(1994) Actor
- Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth Vice President and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson...
(1938) 8th President
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by his colleagues, students, writers, and others....
(1982) Architect
- James Van Der Zee
James Van Der Zee was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period...
(2002) Photographer
- Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance was an American award winning television and theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy...
(2009) Actress
- Félix Varela
Félix Varela y Morales was a great notable figure in the Roman Catholic Church of Cuba.He was born in Havana, Cuba and died in St. Augustine, Florida, United States. He studied to become a Roman Catholic Priest in San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary in Havana, the only seminary in Cuba. He also...
(1997) Social reformer
- Alfred V. Verville
Alfred Victor Verville was an aviation pioneer and designer who contributed to civilian and military aviation. During his 47 years in the aviation industry, he led the design and developed nearly a dozen commercial and military airplanes...
(1985) Aviation pioneer
- Oswald Garrison Villard
Oswald Garrison Villard was an American journalist. He provided a rare direct link between the classical liberal anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative "Old Right" of the 1930s and 1940s....
(2009) Civil rights leader
- Bartolomeo Vivarini (1999) Painter
- John von Neumann
John von Neumann was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics John...
(2005) Mathematician
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- Honus Wagner
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner , nicknamed The Flying Dutchman due to his superb speed and German heritage, was an American Major League Baseball shortstop who played in the National League from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won eight batting titles, tied for the...
(2000) Baseball player
- Izannah Walker (1997) Doll designer
- Madam C.J. Walker (1998) Philanthropist
- Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, surgeon, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.-Early life and education:...
(1982) Army surgeon
- DeWitt Wallace
DeWitt Wallace , also known as William Roy was a United States magazine publisher. He co-founded Reader's Digest with his wife Lila Wallace and published the first issue in 1922.Born in St...
(1998) Publisher
- Lila Wallace (1998) Publisher
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust...
(1997) Humanitarian
- Clara Ward
Clara Ward was a gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers...
(1998) Gospel singer and songwriter
- Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
(2002) Painter
- "Pop" Warner
Glenn Scobey Warner was an American football coach, also known as Pop Warner. During his 44-year career as a head coach , Warner had 319 major NCAA college football wins. The 319 wins listed does not include 18 wins at Iowa State University...
(1997) Football coach
- Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and is to date the only person elected Governor of California three times. Prior to holding these positions, Warren served as a district attorney for Alameda County, California and Attorney General of California.His tenure as California...
(1992) Chief Justice
- Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men and the Pulitzer Prize for...
(2005) Author and poet
- Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author, presidential advisor, and the dominant leader of the nation's African-American community from the 1890s to his death. Born into slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, he led the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers'...
(1940) Educator
- Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. Despite dying at the early age of 39, Washington became one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century,. She is a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.-Early life:Washington was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama...
(1993) Blues singer
- George Washington
George Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the United States of America...
(1847) 1st President
- John P. Washington
John P. Washington was a Roman Catholic priest and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II.-Life:Born as one of seven children to Irish immigrants Frank and...
(1948) One of the Four ChaplainsThe Four Chaplains were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out; 230 of the 904 men aboard the...
- Martha Washington
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States...
(1902) First Lady
- Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters was an American blues and jazz vocalist and actress.She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues...
(1994) Blues singer and actress
- Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams...
(1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
- Stand Watie
Stand Watie was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War...
(1995) Confederate General
- Carleton Watkins
Carleton E. Watkins was a noted 19th century California photographer.Carleton Emmons Watkins was born in Oneonta, upstate New York. He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851...
(2002) Photographer
- Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
(1999) Composer
- Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony".-Early...
(1929) Revolutionary War General
- John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison , born Marion Robert Morrison, better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height...
(1990) Actor
- Jack Webb
John Randolph "Jack" Webb was an American actor, television producer, director and author, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet...
(2009) Actor
- Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster was a leading American statesman during the nation's Antebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests...
(1870) Statesman
- Noah Webster
Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor. He has been called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education.” His “Blue-Backed Speller” books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children...
(1958) Author
- Orson Welles
George Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years...
(1999) Actor/film director
- Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, a newspaper owner. An early leader in the civil rights movement, she documented the extent of lynching in the United States...
(1990) Civil Rights advocate, feminist
- Benjamin West
Benjamin West RA was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence...
(1956) Painter
- Joseph West (1930) Charleston Governor
- Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera.-Life and work:...
(2002) Photographer
- Clifton R. Wharton, Sr. (2006) Diplomat
- Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer and designer.- Early life :Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to parents George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander. She had two brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" is...
(1980) Author
- Joseph Wharton
Joseph Wharton was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist and philanthropist, who was involved in mining, manufacturing and education...
(1981) Wharton School of Business founder
- James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger...
(1934) Painter
- Jon Whitcomb
Jon Whitcomb was an American illustrator. He was well-known for his pictures of glamorous young women. He was born in Weatherford, Oklahoma and grew up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin...
(2001) Illustrator
- Josh White
Joshua Daniel White , best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. He was also known by the name "J King"....
(1998) Folk singer, musician, songwriter, and actor
- Minor White
Minor Martin White was an American photographer born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.White earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. His first creative efforts were in poetry, as he took five years thereafter to complete a sequence of 100 sonnets while...
(2002) Photographer
- Paul Dudley White
Paul Dudley White , American physician and cardiologist, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Herbert Warren White and Elizabeth Abigail Dudley. White's interest in medicine was sparked early in life, when he accompanied his father, a family practitioner, on rounds and house calls in a...
(1986) Cardiologist
- Walter Francis White
For the football player of the same name see Walter White . For the fictional character see Breaking Bad.Walter Francis White was an African American who became a spokesman for his community in the United States for almost a quarter of a century, and served as executive secretary...
(2009) Civil rights leader
- William Allen White
William Allen White was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, and author. Between World War I and World War II White became the iconic middle American spokesman for thousands throughout the United States.-Life:Born in Emporia, Kansas, White moved to El Dorado with his parents, Allen...
(1948) Newspaper editor
- Wabokieshiek
Wabokieshiek was an important Native American of the Ho-Chunk and Sauk tribes in 19th century Illinois, playing a key role in both the Winnebago War of 1827 and the Black Hawk War of 1832...
(White Cloud) (1998) Iowa Chief
- Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
(1940) Poet
- Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South. Whitney's invention made short staple cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic...
(1940) Cotton gin inventor
- John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets...
(1940) Poet
- Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman was an American tennis player.-Personal life:Wightman was born in Healdsburg, California and married to George Wightman of Boston in 1912.She died in Newton, Massachusetts...
(1990) Tennis player
- Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town.-Early years:...
(1997) Playwright
- Harvey W. Wiley
Harvey Washington Wiley was a noted chemist best known for his leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and his subsequent work at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories...
(1956) Chemist
- Charles Wilkes
Charles Wilkes was an American naval officer and explorer. He is particularly noted for leading the 1838–1842 United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 as well as for his role in the Trent Affair during the Civil War.-Early life and career:Wilkes was born in New York City, in 1798, as...
(1988) Antarctic explorer
- Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People .During his latter life Wilkins was frequently referred to as the 'senior statesman'...
(2001) Civil Rights advocate
- Frances E. Willard (1940) Educator
- Hank Williams (1993) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
- Roger Williams
Roger Williams was an English theologian, a notable proponent of religious toleration and the separation of church and state and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans...
(1936) Rhode Island co-founder
- Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams , né Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama...
(1995) Playwright
- Frances E. Willis (2006) Diplomat
- Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie was a corporate lawyer in the United States and was the Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election, although he had never previously had an elected political office....
(1992) Statesman
- Bob Wills
James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western Swing by his fans.-New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma:He was born near Kosse,...
(1993) Country musician and songwriter
- Meredith Willson
Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958...
(1999) Composer, playwright
- Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
(1925) 28th President
- Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand was a street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid 20th century....
(2002) Photographer
- John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey...
(1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
- Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an acclaimed American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing...
(2000) Author
- Grant Wood
Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.- Life and career :His family moved to Cedar Rapids after his father died in...
(1996) Painter
- Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to value and study Black History...
(1984) Historian
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works....
(1965) Architect
- Orville Wright (1928) Aviation pioneer
- Richard Wright
Richard Wright may refer to:* Richard Wright , also known as Rick Wright, English musician, founding member of Pink Floyd* Richard Wright , African-American novelist, writer, poet, essayist...
(2009) Writer
- Wilbur Wright (1928) Aviation pioneer
- Newell Convers Wyeth (2001) Illustrator
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- Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Republican China, Sun is frequently referred to as the Father of the Nation. Sun played an instrumental role in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty in October 1911, the last imperial dynasty of China...
(1961) Chinese revolutionary leader
- Alvin C. York (2000) World War I soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
- Ashley Young (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
- Cy Young
Denton True "Cy" Young was an American baseball player who pitched for five different major league teams from 1890 to 1911....
(2000) Baseball player
- Whitney Moore Young (1981) Civil Rights advocate
Quotation
"We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead." --
J. Edward DayJames Edward Day was an American businessman and political office-holder.Day was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, he studied at University of Chicago, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and Harvard Law School, receiving high grades...
, Postmaster General, 1962. Day was replying to a request from an individual to be honored with a stamp. The letter was never mailed.
See also
- Artists of stamps of the United States
This article lists people whose artwork has been featured on stamps of the United States. For this purpose "featured" is not limited to complete works but includes any identifiable representation of their works. Thus the "Geophysical Year" stamp of 1958 is considered to feature the work of...
- Postage stamps and postal history of the United States
- Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States of America.-Beginnings:Initiated by South Carolina's secession from the United States in December 1860, the Confederate States of America came into existence on February 4, 1861 when seven seceding states came...