Abigail Adams
wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams
Ansel Adams
landscape photographer
Susan B. Anthony
women’s rights leader
John James Audubon
ornithologist and artist
Alyssa Buecker
director, Milbo Productions
Amy Burritt
traveled around the country to meet the governors of all 50 states
John Burroughs
naturalist
Jennie Chancey
historical costumer
Davy Crockett
frontiersman
Edward Curtis
photographer
Clarence Darrow
lawyer
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer
Garet Garrett
leading conservative economics writer of the 1920s and 1930s
Robin Lee Graham
first teenager to sail alone around the world
Alex and Brett Harris
twin teen writers and conference speakers for "The Rebelution," a Christian ministry/youth organization
Eric Hoffer
social philosopher
Sam Houston
lawyer; first leader of Texas
Julia Ward Howe
abolitionist and women's rights activist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Gianna Jessen
abortion survivor and pro-life activist
Abraham Kuyper
Dutch politician, journalist
Mary Leakey
fossil hunter
Charles Fletcher Lummis
journalist, historian, photographer, founder of the Southwest Society
Robert Malthus
British demographer and economist
Harriet Martineau
first woman sociologist
Margaret Mead
cultural anthropologist
John Stuart Mill
free-market Economist
Charles Louis Montesquieu
philosopher
John Muir
naturalist
Sandra Day O'Connor
first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
Annie Oakley
American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter
Raymond Parks
Civil Rights activist, husband of Rosa Parks
Sofia, Susan, and Judit Polgar
chess masters
Ferdinand Porsche
engineer and designer of cars and tanks
Bill Ridell
Newspaperman
Will Rogers
Humorist
Eleanor Roosevelt
wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lila Rose
founder of the pro-life group Live Action
Bertrand Russell
Logician
Drew Ryun
co-founder of Generation Joshua, director of Jim Ryun Running Camp
Ned Ryun
co-founder of Generation Joshua, president of American Majority
Deborah Sampson
female soldier in the American Revolution
Teresa Scanlan
Miss America 2011
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher, sociologist, political theorist
Gloria Steinem
founder of Ms. magazine
Abby Sunderland
youngest person to sail around Cape Horn at age 16
Zac Sunderland
youngest person to sail alone around the world at age 17
Timmy Teepell
chief of staff for Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
Darrell Waltrip
NASCAR racer
Lester Frank Ward
Father of American Sociology
Martha Washington
wife of George Washington
Jessica Watson
youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world
Frances E. C. Willard
educator, temperance leader, and suffragist
Frank Lloyd Wright
architect
John Lloyd Wright
architect, toy designer, inventor of Lincoln Logs
Sho Yano
gifted child prodigy
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
Jewish scholar
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