Famous People in American History

LearnAboutAmerica Biographies & Activities

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Key: TC means that the subject comes with a full range of activities | ACT means there is at least one activity for the subject

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A J R
  1. Hank Aaron TC
  2. Abigail Adams TC
  3. John Adams TC
  4. John Quincy Adams
  5. Samuel Adams
  6. Muhammad Ali TC
  7. Ethan Allen
  8. Susan B. Anthony TC
  9. Louis Armstrong
  10. Neil Armstrong
  11. Benedict Arnold TC
  12. Chester A. Arthur
  13. Crispus Attucks TC
  14. John James Audubon TC
  15. Stephen F. Austin
  1. Andrew Jackson TC
  2. Stonewall Jackson TC
  3. Jesse James
  4. John Jay
  5. Thomas Jefferson TC
  6. Andrew Johnson ACT
  7. Lyndon B. Johnson
  8. Michael Jordan TC
  1. Sir Walter Raleigh ACT
  2. Ronald Reagan
  3. Red Cloud
  4. Paul Revere ACT
  5. Jackie Robinson TC
  6. John D. Rockefeller
  7. John Rolfe
  8. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  9. Theodore Roosevelt ACT
  10. Betsy Ross
  11. Nellie Tayloe Ross
  12. Wilma Rudolph
  13. Benjamin Rush
  14. Babe Ruth TC
B K S
  1. Benjamin Banneker TC
  2. Clara Barton
  3. Alexander Graham Bell ACT
  4. Mary McLeod Bethune
  5. Billy the Kid
  6. Larry Bird
  7. Blackbeard
  8. Daniel Boone
  9. Belle Boyd
  10. Jim Brown
  11. James Buchanan
  12. Pearl Buck
  13. Paul Bunyan ACT
  14. George W. Bush
  1. Helen Keller ACT
  2. John F. Kennedy
  3. B.B. King
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. TC
  5. King Kamehameha I
  6. Henry Knox ACT
  1. Sacagawea TC
  2. Junípero Serra
  3. Sequoyah ACT
  4. William H. Seward
  5. Roger Sherman
  6. William Tecumseh Sherman
  7. Sitting Bull ACT
  8. John Smith ACT
  9. Squanto ACT
  10. Harriet Beecher Stowe ACT
  11. J.E.B. Stuart
C L T
  1. John Cabot ACT
  2. Calamity Jane
  3. John C. Calhoun
  4. Andrew Carnegie
  5. Kit Carson
  6. Jimmy Carter
  7. Jacques Cartier TC
  8. George Washington Carver TC
  9. Joshua Chamberlain
  10. Samuel de Champlain ACT
  11. César Chávez
  12. Kate Chase
  13. Chief Joseph
  14. Chief Seattle
  15. William Clark TC
  16. Henry Clay ACT
  17. Roberto Clemente TC
  18. Grover Cleveland
  19. Bill Clinton
  20. Ty Cobb
  21. Cochise
  22. Buffalo Bill Cody
  23. Christopher Columbus TC
  24. Captain James Cook
  25. Calvin Coolidge
  26. Francisco Coronado ACT
  27. Crazy Horse
  28. Stephen Curry
  1. Jean Lafitte
  2. Jason Lee
  3. Robert E. Lee
  4. Meriwether Lewis TC
  5. Maya Lin ACT
  6. Abraham Lincoln TC
  7. Mary Todd Lincoln ACT
  8. Charles Lindbergh
  9. Lord Baltimore
  10. Sybil Ludington TC
  1. William Howard Taft
  2. Ida Tarbell
  3. Zachary Taylor
  4. Tecumseh ACT
  5. Jim Thorpe
  6. Samuel Tilden
  7. Harry S. Truman
  8. Donald J. Trump
  9. Sojourner Truth ACT
  10. Tuskegee Airmen TC
  11. Harriet Tubman TC
  12. Mark Twain
  13. Boss Tweed
  14. John Tyler
D M U
  1. Jefferson Davis ACT
  2. Sandra Day O' Connor
  3. Robert Sieur de la Salle ACT
  4. Ponce de León ACT
  5. Hernando de Soto ACT
  6. Dorothea Dix
  7. The Donner Party ACT
  8. Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  9. Frederick Douglass TC
  10. Sir Francis Drake ACT
  1. Dolley Madison ACT
  2. James Madison TC
  3. Mickey Mantle ACT
  4. Manteo
  5. Marquette and Joliet
  6. Thurgood Marshall ACT
  7. George Mason
  8. Cotton Mather ACT
  9. Mayo Brothers
  10. George McClellan
  11. William McKinley
  12. James Monroe
  13. Daniel Morgan
  14. Robert Morris
  15. John Muir
  
E N V
  1. Amelia Earhart TC
  2. Wyatt Earp
  3. Thomas Edison ACT
  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  1. Navajo Code Talkers TC
  2. Christopher Newport
  3. Richard Nixon
  1. George Vancouver
  2. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  3. Martin Van Buren
  4. The Voyageurs
F O W
  1. Philo T. Farnsworth
  2. Millard Fillmore
  3. Henry Flagler
  4. Gerald R. Ford
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Benjamin Franklin TC
  7. John C. Frémont
  1. James Oglethorpe
  2. Osceola
  1. Sam Walton
  2. Andy Warhol
  3. Dr. Joseph Warren
  4. Booker T. Washington
  5. Martha Washington ACT
  6. George Washington TC
  7. Daniel Webster
  8. Phillis Wheatley TC
  9. Eli Whitney
  10. Roger Williams ACT
  11. Woodrow Wilson
  12. Sarah Winnemucca
  13. Grant Wood
  14. Frank Lloyd Wright
  15. Wright Brothers
G P X
  1. James A. Garfield
  2. Geronimo
  3. Samuel Gompers
  4. Ulysses S. Grant TC
  5. Nathanael Greene
  6. Ken Griffey, Jr.
  1. Rosa Parks TC
  2. William Penn ACT
  3. Elizabeth Peratrovich
  4. Franklin Pierce
  5. Zebulon Pike
  6. Molly Pitcher
  7. Pocahontas TC
  8. James K. Polk
  9. John Wesley Powell
  10. Elvis Presley
  
H   Y
  1. Nathan Hale ACT
  2. Alexander Hamilton TC
  3. John Hancock ACT
  4. Warren G. Harding
  5. Benjamin Harrison
  6. William Henry Harrison
  7. Rutherford B. Hayes
  8. Jimi Hendrix
  9. Patrick Henry ACT
  10. A.P. Hill
  11. Thomas Hooker
  12. Herbert Hoover
  13. Harry Houdini
  14. Sam Houston ACT
  15. Henry Hudson
  16. Anne Hutchinson
  
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