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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb -
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1000 structures and completed 532 works -
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics -
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France -
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture -
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record -
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres -
Bernt Balchen
Bernt Balchen was a pioneer polar aviator, navigator, aircraft mechanical engineer and military leader -
Howard "Red" Hickey
The Arkansas native made history in 1960 when he combined elements of a punt formation, a spread passing attack and a double-wing formation invented by Stanford's Pop Warner into the shotgun -- so named by Hickey because it sprayed receivers around the field. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era -
Maria Callas
Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic gifts. -
Martin Luther King, Jr
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. -
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking and for her 1969–1980 marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music -
Jim Henson
Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, screenwriter, film director and producer, best known as the creator of The Muppets. -
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel -
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Beatles, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of popular music -
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist, and writer. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades -
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. -
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate and investor. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies. His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. -
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office.
