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Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist & humanitarian
George Washington
First President of the United States
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Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota leader
Susan B. Anthony
Social reformer & suffragist
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father & polymath
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Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President & Founding Father
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President & Civil War general
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader & minister
Malcolm X
Civil rights activist & minister
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Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist
Nat Turner
Enslaved rebellion leader
Billy the Kid
Outlaw & gunfighter
Jesse James
Outlaw & gang leader
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Al Capone
Gangster
Bonnie and Clyde
Outlaw couple
Jackie Robinson
Baseball player
Babe Ruth
Baseball player
Muhammad Ali
Boxer & activist
Jesse Owens
Track and field athlete
Wilma Rudolph
Track and field athlete
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Serena Williams
Tennis player
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Michael Jackson
Singer & entertainer
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Louis Armstrong
Jazz musician & singer
Elvis Presley
Singer & actor
Michael Jordan
Basketball player
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Tiger Woods
Golfer
Michael Phelps
Swimmer
Simone Biles
Gymnast
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Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President
James Madison
4th U.S. President & Founding Father
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President & WWII general
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Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
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Bill Clinton
42nd U.S. President
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Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. President
Thomas Edison
Inventor & businessman
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist
Wright Brothers
Aviation pioneers & engineers
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Henry Ford
Industrialist & engineer
Crazy Horse
Lakota war leader
Tecumseh
Shawnee military leader
Sacagawea
Guide and interpreter
Geronimo
Apache leader
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
Katherine Johnson
Mathematician
Duke Ellington
Jazz pianist and composer
Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz vocalist
Jimi Hendrix
Guitarist and songwriter
Aretha Franklin
Singer and songwriter
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
Miles Davis
Jazz trumpeter and composer
Grace Hopper
Computer scientist and naval officer
Alan Shepard
Astronaut
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Theoretical physicist
Barbara McClintock
Cytogeneticist
Nina Simone
Singer, pianist, and civil rights activist
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Multi-sport athlete
Jim Thorpe
Multi-sport athlete
Wilt Chamberlain
Basketball player
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
Toni Morrison
Novelist and editor
Mae Jemison
Astronaut and physician
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Vivien Thomas
Surgical laboratory supervisor
Vera Rubin
Astronomer
Katherine Freese
Theoretical physicist
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Sally Ride
Astronaut & physicist
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Peggy Whitson
Astronaut & biochemist
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Christa McAuliffe
Teacher & astronaut
Eileen Collins
Astronaut & Air Force pilot
Ellen Ochoa
Astronaut & engineer
Rosalind Picard
Computer scientist
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Kamehameha I
King of Hawaii
Liliuokalani
Queen of Hawaii
George Washington Carver
Agricultural scientist & inventor
Garrett Morgan
Inventor & businessman
Elisha Otis
Industrialist & inventor
Wilma Mankiller
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Dolores Huerta
Labor leader & activist
Shirley Chisholm
Politician
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Frances Perkins
US Secretary of Labor
Samuel Morse
Inventor & painter
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