| A | B |
|---|
| George Washington | Father of our country; general in Revolutionary War |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President; helped put end to slavery |
| Helen Keller | overcame blindness and deafness |
| William Allen White | newspaper editor; Pulitzer Prize |
| Theodore Geisel | children's author |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | leader civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize |
| Adolf Hitler | ruled Germany during WWII; 6 million Jews killed under his rule |
| Ben Franklin | signer of 4 key American documents; inventor |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of U.S. forces during WWII; lived in KS |
| Robert E. Lee | leader of Confederate Army during Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | leader of Union Army; 18th President |
| Franklin Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President during WWII and Great Depression; polio |
| Harriet Tubman | helped slaves escape during Civil War |
| Christopher Columbus | 1492 - sailed across Atlantic Ocean looking for sea route to Asia |
| Anne Frank | Jewish girl; wrote diary during WWII |
| John Kennedy | youngest elected President; Cuban missile crisis |
| Amelia Earhart | 1st woman pilot to fly across Atlantic Ocean; Kansan |
| Carry Nation | smashing saloons with hatchet; Kansan |
| John Brown | hated slavery; helped runaway slaves get to Canada; Kansan |
| Emmett Kelly | famous circus clown; Kansan |
| Jessie Owens | track and field gold medalist; Kansan |
| John Glenn | 1st man to orbit Earth |
| Alexander G. Bell | transmit human voices over wire |
| Clara Barton | Angel of the Battlefield; carried supplies to injured men Civil War; American Red Cross |
