Benjamin Franklin 

Benjamin Franklin - 1706-1790,

John Hancock - 1737-1793

Rufus King - 1755-1827

Henry Knox - 1750-1806

George Mason - 1725-1792

Thomas Paine - 1737-1809

Peyton Randolph -

Paul Revere - 1735-1818

Joseph Warren -

David 'Davy' Crockett - 1786-1836

Neil Armstrong

Gordon Cooper

Don Eisele

John H. Glenn

Virgil Grissom

James Webb

Fred Haise

Edgar Mitchell

 Richard E. Byrd -

Christopher "Kit" Carson

William Clark

Meriwether Lewis

Charles Lindbergh

Robert E. Peary

Donald MacMillan

Eddy Arnold

Johann Christian Bach

William "Count" Basie

Irving Berlin - 1888-1989

Roy Clark

George M. Cohan - 1878-1942

Nat "King" Cole - 1919-1965

Edward "Duke" Ellington - 1899-1974

Burl Ives

Al Jolson - 1886-1950

Francis Scott Key - 1779-1843

Glenn Miller - 1909-1944

Mel Blanc -1908-1989

Buffalo Bill Cody 

Norm Crosby  

Paul Harvey

Bob Hope

 Mickey Cochrane

Earle Bryan Combs                                                  

Jack Dempsey - Boxer

Rogers Hornsby - Original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame           

Jack Kemp -

Vince Lombardi - Football                                                                   

James Naismith - Inventor of Basketball

Ray Nitschke - Football                                                                      

Arnold Palmer - Golf Pro

Sugar Ray Robinson - Boxer                                                               

Bart Starr - Football

Honus Wagner -                                                             

Matthew Webb - 1st to swim the English Channel (1875)

Cy Young - 

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer

Carlo Collodi - Writer of Pinocchio

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Writer - Sherlock Holmes

Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - 1749-1832, German poet & dramatist

Edgar Guest - 1881-1959, Englih-born American journalist

Alex Haley - Author, Roots

Francis Scott Key - American Poet, The Star-Spangled Banner

Rudyard Kipling - Mother Lodge; and The Man Who Would Be King

Chrales W. Moore -

Dr. Robert Morris - Poet and Founder of the Order of Easter Star

Aleksander Pushkin - Russian Poet

Sir Walter Scott - Scottish author

William Shakespeare - English playwright & poet

Johathan Swift - Irish-born English satirist, author Gulliver's Travels

Leo Tolstoi - 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

Lawrence Bell - Bell Aircraft Corporation

Walter P. Chrysler - Automotive                             

Andre Citroen - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer

William H. Dow - Dow Chemical Company

Edwin L. Drake - American Pioneer of the Oil Industry           

Bob Evans - Bob Evans' Restraunts

Eberhard Faber - Head of Eberhard Fabor Pencil Co             

Henry Ford - Automotive

King C. Gillette - Gillette Razor Company                          

Samel Gompers - English-born American labor leader

Charles C. Hilton - Hotelier                                                   

Frank Hoover - Hoover Vacuum

Ephraim Kirby - Kirby Vacuum                                         

Sebastian S. Kresge -

John L. Lewis -                                                                 

Sir Thomas Lipton - Lipton Tea Company

Ben Marcus -                                              

Louis B. Mayer - 1885-1957, Russian-born, motion-picture producer

Fredrick Maytag - Maytag                                                

Jacob Morton -

Abraham Nieman                                                             

 Ransom E. Olds - Automobile

Frank Phillips                                                                   

Harland Sanders

David Sarnoff                                                                  

John W. Teets - Chairman and President of Dial Corp

James C. Penny - Retailer                                                

Dave Thomas - Wendy's Restaurant

Jack Warner                                                           

Darryl F. Zanuck - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions

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 (Nobel 1953)

Audie Murphy - 1924-1971, Most decorated American Soldier of WWII and actor

Oliver Hazard Perry - 1785-1819, American Naval officer

John Joseph ('Black Jack') Pershing - 1860-1948, American Army officer

Edward Vernon ('Eddie') Richenbacker - 1890-1973, American Aviator

Charles Summerall

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1883-1953, American general

Frances Bellamy

Rev. William Booth                                               

Geoffray Fisher - Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-1961

Father Francisco Calvo - Catholic Priest stated Freemasonry in Costa Rica, 1865

J.T. Desaguliers                                                      

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Joseph Fort Newton                                               

G. Bromley Oxnam

Norman Vincent Peale

Ezra Cornell - 1807-1874                                               

Samuel Kirkland -

Roscoe Pound                                                                

 Cecil Rhodes

Leland Stanford                                                               

John Warren

Booker T. Washington

Sir Alexander Fleming - 1881-1955, British Inventor of Penicillin, Nobel 1945

Sir Frederick Hopkins - 1861-1947, English biochemist, Nobel 1929

Edward Jenner - 1749-1823, English Inventor of the Vaccination

Dr. Chrales King

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

Franz Anton Mesmer - Practiced Mesmerism, which led to Hypnotism

Dr. Andrew Still - 1828-1917, American pioneer osteopath

DeWitt Clinton - 1769-1828, American politician

Bob Dole -

Barry Goldwater - 1909

Hubert Humphrey - 1911-1978

Gilbert Lafayette -

Robert R. Livingston

James A. Rhodes

Trent Lott -

Sam Nunn -

Strom Thurmond

Joseph Warren -

Gutzon Borglum - Carved Mt. Rushmore

Lincoln Borglum - Carved Mt. Rushmore                                    

John Fitch -

James Hoban - Architect for the U.S. Capitol                              

William Schaw -

Simon Bolivar - 1783-1830, Venezuelan soldier & South American liberator

Giuseppe Garibaldi - 1807-1882, Italian general & nationalist leader

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

John Fitch - Inventor of the Steamboat

Richard J. Gatling - Inventor of the "Gattling Gun"                 

Joseph Igrace Guillotin - Inventor of the "Guillotine"

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

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

George Schoonover - Founder of "The Builder"