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Science
Isaac Newton
1643-1727
Galileo Galilei
1564-1642
Charles Darwin
1809-1882
Marie Curie
1867-1934
Jane Goodall
1934-
Stephen Hawking
1942-2018
Rosalind Franklin
1920-1958
Gregor Mendel
1822-1884
Rachel Carson
1907-1964
Carl Sagan
1934-1996
Mae Jemison
1956-
Alexander Fleming
1881-1955
Barbara McClintock
1902-1992
Niels Bohr
1885-1962
Lise Meitner
1878-1968
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632-1723
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910-1994
Chien-Shiung Wu
1912-1997
Katherine Johnson
1918-2020
Inventors
Thomas Edison
1847-1931
Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
Wright Brothers
1867-1948
Philo Farnsworth
1906-1971
Grace Hopper
1906-1992
Alexander Graham Bell
1847-1922
Eli Whitney
1765-1825
George Washington Carver
c.1864-1943
Hedy Lamarr
1914-2000
James Watt
1736-1819
Johannes Gutenberg
c.1400-1468
Louis Braille
1809-1852
Tim Berners-Lee
1955-
Garrett Morgan
1877-1963
Stephanie Kwolek
1923-2014
Elijah McCoy
1844-1929
Margaret Knight
1838-1914
Lewis Latimer
1848-1928
Mary Anderson
1866-1953
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Explorers
Neil Armstrong
1930-2012
Sacagawea
c.1788-1812
Marco Polo
1254-1324
Christopher Columbus
1451-1506
Ibn Battuta
1304-1369
Jacques Cousteau
1910-1997
Ernest Shackleton
1874-1922
Fridtjof Nansen
1861-1930
Yuri Gagarin
1934-1968
Sally Ride
1951-2012
Roald Amundsen
1872-1928
Edmund Hillary
1919-2008
Tenzing Norgay
1914-1986
Bessie Coleman
1892-1926
Sylvia Earle
1935-
Valentina Tereshkova
1937-
David Livingstone
1813-1873
Jeanne Baret
1740-1807
Matthew Henson
1866-1955
Art
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Vincent van Gogh
1853-1890
Michelangelo
1475-1564
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Claude Monet
1840-1926
Georgia O'Keeffe
1887-1986
Rembrandt
1606-1669
Salvador Dali
1904-1989
Hokusai
1760-1849
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
Diego Rivera
1886-1957
Yayoi Kusama
1929-
Keith Haring
1958-1990
Faith Ringgold
1930-2024
Henri Matisse
1869-1954
Artemisia Gentileschi
1593-1656
Auguste Rodin
1840-1917
Grandma Moses
1860-1961
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960-1988
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770-1827
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750
Frederic Chopin
1810-1849
Louis Armstrong
1901-1971
Aretha Franklin
1942-2018
Bob Marley
1945-1981
Duke Ellington
1899-1974
Ella Fitzgerald
1917-1996
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840-1893
Billie Holiday
1915-1959
Stevie Wonder
1950-
Antonio Vivaldi
1678-1741
Miriam Makeba
1932-2008
Ravi Shankar
1920-2012
Queen Liliuokalani
1838-1917
Scott Joplin
c.1868-1917
Dolly Parton
1946-
Lin-Manuel Miranda
1980-
Clara Schumann
1819-1896
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968
Rosa Parks
1913-2005
Harriet Tubman
c.1822-1913
Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948
Malala Yousafzai
1997-
Cesar Chavez
1927-1993
Susan B. Anthony
1820-1906
Frederick Douglass
c.1818-1895
Emmeline Pankhurst
1858-1928
Desmond Tutu
1931-2021
Harvey Milk
1930-1978
Dolores Huerta
1930-
Sojourner Truth
c.1797-1883
W.E.B. Du Bois
1868-1963
Audre Lorde
1934-1992
Marsha P. Johnson
1945-1992
Ruby Bridges
1954-
Ida B. Wells
1862-1931
Ella Baker
1903-1986
Philosophy
Confucius
551-479 BCE
Aristotle
384-322 BCE
Socrates
c.470-399 BCE
Plato
c.428-348 BCE
Rene Descartes
1596-1650
Immanuel Kant
1724-1804
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759-1797
Simone de Beauvoir
1908-1986
John Stuart Mill
1806-1873
Lao Tzu
6th century BCE
Hypatia
c.355-415 CE
Marcus Aurelius
121-180
Epicurus
341-270 BCE
Voltaire
1694-1778
Hannah Arendt
1906-1975
Zhuangzi
c.369-286 BCE
Seneca
c.4 BCE-65 CE
Martha Nussbaum
1947-
Peter Singer
1946-
Writers
William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Anne Frank
1929-1945
Helen Keller
1880-1968
Maya Angelou
1928-2014
Mark Twain
1835-1910
Jane Austen
1775-1817
Charles Dickens
1812-1870
Emily Dickinson
1830-1886
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
Langston Hughes
1901-1967
J.R.R. Tolkien
1892-1973
Roald Dahl
1916-1990
Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1927-2014
Beatrix Potter
1866-1943
Chinua Achebe
1930-2013
Sandra Cisneros
1954-
Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910
Sappho
c.630-570 BCE
Isaac Asimov
1920-1992
Leaders
Cleopatra
69-30 BCE
Winston Churchill
1874-1965
Joan of Arc
c.1412-1431
Julius Caesar
100-44 BCE
Catherine the Great
1729-1796
George Washington
1732-1799
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
Queen Elizabeth I
1533-1603
Simon Bolivar
1783-1830
Queen Nzinga
1583-1663
Ashoka
c.304-232 BCE
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945
Genghis Khan
c.1162-1227
Hatshepsut
c.1507-1458 BCE
Tecumseh
1768-1813
Toussaint Louverture
c.1743-1803
Mikhail Gorbachev
1931-2022
Jacinda Ardern
1980-
Queen Victoria
1819-1901
Charlemagne
742-814
Trailblazers
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910
Jackie Robinson
1919-1972
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1958-
Temple Grandin
1947-
Serena Williams
1981-
Greta Thunberg
2003-
I.M. Pei
1917-2019
Ellen Ochoa
1958-
Wilma Mankiller
1945-2010
Junko Tabei
1939-2016
Misty Copeland
1982-
Kalpana Chawla
1961-2003
Roberto Clemente
1934-1972
Raven Wilkinson
1935-2018
Althea Gibson
1927-2003
Billie Jean King
1943-
Simone Biles
1997-
Wangari Maathai
1940-2011
Guion Bluford
1942-