Signers of the Constitution of the United States

Abraham Baldwin 1754-1807		James McHenry 1753-1816
Gunning Bedford Jr. 1747-1812		James Madison 1751-1836
John Blair 1731-1800		Alexander Martin 1740-1807
William Blount 1749-1800		Robert Morris 1734-1806
David Brearley 1745-1790		William Paterson 1745-1806
Daniel Carroll 1730-1796		William Pierce
William Richardson		Davie Charles Pinckney
Jonathan Dayton 1760-1824		Edmund Randolph 1753-1813
Oliver Ellsworth 1745-1807		George Read 1733-1798
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790		Roger Sherman 1721-1793
Elbridge Gerry 1813-1896		George Walton 1750-1804
Rufus King 1755-1807		George Washington 1732-1799
John Langdon 1741-1819		George Wythe 1726-1806
John Lansing Jr. 1754-1829

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin , PA 1706-1790		John Hancock, MA 1737-1793
William Hooper ,NC 1742-1790		Richard Stockton 1730-1781
William Ellery 1727-1820		George Walton 1750-1804
William Whipple 1730-1785		Joseph Hewes 1730-1779
Robert Treat Paine 1731-1814

Patriots

John Blair 1732-1800		Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790,
John Hancock 1737-1793		Rufus King 1755-1827
Henry Knox 1750-1806		George Mason 1725-1792
James Otis 1725-1783		Paul Revere 1735-1818
Peyton Randolph 1721-1775
Joseph Warren 1741-1775

Pioneers

Samuel Colt - 1814-1862		David 'Davy' Crockett 1786-1836
Richard Gatling 1818-1903		Sam Houston 1793-1863
William Barret Travis 1809-1836

Astronaut

Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.		Neil Armstrong
Gordon Cooper		Don Eisele
John H. Glenn		Virgil Grissom
Wally Schirra		Edgar Mitchell
Thomas Stafford		James Webb
Fred Haise

Explorers

Richard E. Byrd		Christopher "Kit" Carson
William Clark		Meriwether Lewis
Charles Lindbergh		Robert E. Peary
Zebulon Pike		Donald MacMillan

�Musicians/Composers

Roy Acuff 1903-1992		Eddy Arnold 1918-2008
Johann Christian Bach 1735-1782		William "Count" Basie 1904-1984
Irving Berlin 1888-1989		Roy Clark 1933-
George M. Cohan 1878-1942		Nat "King" Cole 1919-1965
Edward "Duke" Ellington 1899-1974		Burl Ives 1909-1995
Al Jolson - 1886-1950		Francis Scott Key 1779-1843
Glenn Miller - 1909-1944		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
Roy Rogers 1911-1998		John Stafford Smith 1750-1836
John Phillip Sousa 1854-1932		Mel Tillis 1932-
Paul Whiteman 1890-1967		Brad Pasley 1972-
Franz Joseph "Papa" Haydn 1732-1809		Franz Liszt 1811-1886
Jacob Ludwig F. Mendelssohn 1809-1847		Jean Sibelius 1865-1957
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan 1842-1900

�Film and TV Stars

Gene Autry 1907-1998		Mel Blanc 1908-1989
Ernest Borgnine 1917- 33�		Cecil B. DeMille - 1881-1959
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney 1901-1966		Douglas Fairbanks, Sr 1883-1939
W. C. Fields 1880-1946		William Clark Gable 1901-1960
Arthur Godfrey - 1903-1983		Oliver Hardy 1892-1957
Buster Keaton 1895-1966		Arthur Stanley Jefferson "Stan" Laurel - 1890-1965
Elmo Lincoln 1889-1952		Louis B. Mayer 1885-1957
Tom Mix 1880-1940		Roy Rogers 1911-1998 33�
Will Rogers 1879-1935		Richard "Red" Skelton 1913-1997 33�
Tom Thumb" Stratton 1838-1883		Danny Thomas 1912-1991
John "The Duke" Wayne 1907-1979

�Entertainers

Buffalo Bill Cody 1846-1917		Norm Crosby 1927-
Paul Harvey 1918-2009		Bob Hope 1903-2003
Harry Houdini 1874-1926		John N. Ringling 1866-1936
Charles Stratton 1838-1883
Florenz Ziegfeld 1867-1932

Sports

Ty Cobb - Baseball 1886-1961
Mickey Cochrane 1903-1962
Earle Bryan Combs 1899-1976
Jack Dempsey 1895-1983
Rogers Hornsby Original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame 1896-1963
Jack Kemp 1935 - 2009
Vince Lombardi 1913-1970
James Naismith Inventor of Basketball 1861-1939
Ray Nitschke 1936-1998
Arnold Palmer 1929-
Sugar Ray Robinson 1921-1989
Bart Starr 1934-
Honus Wagner 1874-1955 -
Matthew Webb 1st to swim the English Channel (1875) 1848-1883
Cy Young 1867-1955

Author/Writers

Robert Burns The National Poet of Scotland 1759-1796
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) 1835-1910
Carlo Collodi Writer of Pinocchio 1826-1890
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Writer - Sherlock Holmes 1859-1930
Edward Gibbon\| Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German poet & dramatist
Edgar Guest 1881-1959, English-born American journalist
Alex Haley Author, Roots 1921-1992
Francis Scott Key American Poet, The Star-Spangled Banner 1779-1843
Rudyard Kipling Mother Lodge; and The Man Who Would Be King
Charles W. Moore -
Alexander Pushkin Russian Poet
Sir Walter Scott Scottish author
William Shakespeare English playwright & poet
Jonathan Swift Author Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian author and philosopher
Voltaire 1694-1778, French author and philosopher
Lewis Wallace American general, diplomat & author Ben Hur
H.G. Wells 1866-1946, English author, Time Machine
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 1854-1900, Irish poet, playwright & writer

�Business Leaders

Lawrence Bell - Bell Aircraft Corporation
Walter P. Chrysler Automotive 1875-1940
Andre Citroen French Engineer
Edwin L. Drake American Pioneer of the Oil Industry
Bob Evans Bob Evans' Restaurants
Henry Ford Automotive
King C. Gillette Gillette RazorCompany
Samuel Gompers English-born American labor leader
John L. Lewis
Sir Thomas Lipton Lipton Tea Company
Louis B. Mayer Russian-born, motion-picture producer 1885-1957
Ransom E. Olds Automobile
Dave Thomas Wendy's Restaurant
Darryl F. Zanuck Co-founder of 20th Century Productions

War Heroes

Henry Harley ('Hap') Arnold - 1886-1950, American Air-force officer
Omar Nelson Bradley 1893-1981, American military leader
James Harold ('Jimmy') Doolittle 1896-1993, American Army office & Aviator
Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, American general
George C. Marshall 1880-1959, American soldier, diplomat & statesman
Audie Murphy 1924-1971, Most decorated American Soldier of WWII
Oliver Hazard Perry 1785-1819, American Naval officer
John Joseph ('Black Jack') Pershing 1860-1948, American Army officer
Edward Vernon ('Eddie') Rickenbacker 1890-1973, American Aviator
Charles Summerall
Alfred vonTirpitz 1849-1930, German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1883-1953, American general

�Religious Leaders

Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury
J.T.Desaguliers
Norman Vincent Peale

Education Leaders

Robert E.B. Baylor Founder of Baylor University
Booker T. Washington

Health Care

Jean Henri Dunant 1828-1910, Swiss philanthropist & Founder of the Red Cross
Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955, British Inventor of Penicillin
Sir Frederick Hopkins 1861-1947, English biochemist
Edward Jenner 1749-1823, English Inventor of the Vaccination
Dr. Charles Mayo 1865-1939, Founder of the Mayo Clinic
Dr. William Mayo 1861-1939, Founder of the Mayo Clinic
Karl A. Menninger - Psychiatrist for treating mental illness

�Political Figures

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - 1874-1965
DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828
Bob Dole 1923 -
Barry Goldwater 1909
Hubert Humphrey - 1911-1978
Gilbert Lafayette 1757-1834
Robert R. Livingston 1746-1813
James A. Rhodes 1909-2001
Trent Lott 1941-
Sam Nunn 1938-
Strom Thurmond 1902-2003
Joseph Warren 1741-1775
Harry S. Truman President & Grand Master 1884-1972
George Washington 1732 - 1799
James Monroe 1758 - 1831
Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845
James K. Poke 1795 - 1849
James Buchanan 1791 - 1868
Andrew Johnson 1808 - 1875
James A. Garfield 1831 - 1881
William McKinley 1843 - 19011
Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919
William H. Taft 1857 - 1930
Warren G. Harding 1865 - 1923
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 - 1973
Gerald R. Ford 1913 - 2006

Artisans

Frederic A. Bartholdi Designed the Statue of Liberty
Gutzon Borglum- Carved Mt. Rushmore
Lincoln Borglum Carved Mt. Rushmore
John Fitch -

�International Patriots

Simon Bolivar 1783-1830, Venezuelan soldier & South American liberator
Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-1882, Italian general
Benito Juarez 1806-1872 Mexican statesman
Lajos Kossuth 1802-1894, Hungarian revolutionary patriot & statesman
Marquis de Lafayette 1757-1834, French military, politician & revolutionary leader
Giuseppe Mazzini 1805-1872, Italian revolutionary patriot
Jose Rizal 1861-1896, Philippine national leader

Supreme Court Justice

Hugo L. Black	Stephen J. Field	Stanley F. Reed
John Blair Jr	John M. Harlan	Wiley B. Rutledge
Samuel Blatchford	Robert H. Jackson	Potter Stewart
Harold H. Burton	Joseph E. Lamar	Noah H. Swayne
James F. Byrnes	John Marshall	Thomas Todd
John Catton	Thurgood Marshall	Robert Trimble
Thomas C. Clark	Stanley Mathews	Frederick M. Vinson
John H. Clarke	Sherman Minton	Earl Warren
William Cushing	William H. Moody	Levi Woodbury
Willis Van Devanter	William Paterson	William B. Wood
William O Douglas	Samuel Nelson
Oliver Ellsworth

�Inventors

John Theophilus Desaguliers Inventor
John Fitch Inventor of the Steamboat
Richard J. Gatling Inventor of the Gattling Gun
Richard M. Hoe Inventor of the Rotary Press
Simon Lake Built first submarine successfully in open sea
Albert Abraham Michelson Measured speed of light, 1882
Antoine Joseph Sax Inventor of the Saxophone

�Founders

Robert E.B. Baylor Founder of Baylor University
Daniel Carter Beard Founder of the Boy Scouts
Cornelius Hedges "Father" of Yellowstone National Park
Melvin Jones One of the founders of the Lions International
Frank S. Land Founder of the Order of DeMolay
Harry S. New Postmaster General who established Airmail
Leland Stanford Founder of Stanford Univ., placed the 'Gold Spike' for railroad
Norman Vincent Peale Founder of the "Guidepost"
George Pullman Founder of the first sleeping car on trains

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