BIOGRAPHIES for KIDS
Famous Leaders for Young Readers

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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

George Washington 1st President of the United States	John Adams 2nd President of the United States	Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States
James Madison 4th President of the United States	James Monroe 5th President of the United States	Andrew Jackson 7th President of the United States
Martin Van Buren 8th President of the United States	Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States	Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge 30th President of the United States	Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States	Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the United States	John F. Kennedy 35th President of the United States	Lyndon B. Johnson 36th President of the United States
Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States	Ronald Reagan 40th President of the United States	Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

OTHER AMERICAN PATRIOTS

Benjamin Franklin Patriot and Statesman	Francis Scott Key Wrote the Star Spangled Banner	Deborah Sampson Woman soldier in the Revolutionary Army
Molly Pitcher Heroine of the Battle of Monmouth

WORLD LEADERS

Constantine Roman Emperor	Alexander the Great Greek Conqueror	Winston Churchill British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher British Prime Minister

INVENTORS

Alexander Graham Bell Inventor of the telephone	Johann Gutenberg Invented the printing press	Cyrus McCormick Inventor of the mechanical reaper
Thomas A. Edison Developer of the electric light bulb	The Wright Brothers First airplane	Henry Ford Automaker
Sequoyah Cherokee alphabet	Nikola Tesla 700 patents	Leonardo Da Vinci Flying Machine
Dean Kamen Segway	Jack Kilby Integrated Circuit	Donald O'Neal ONIL stove
Michael Faraday Electric motor

EXPLORERS

John Muir Explorer and naturalist	Meriwether Lewis Explorer to the Western United States	Christopher Columbus Discovered America
Robert Peary Arctic Explorer	Matthew Henson Arctic Explorer	Sir Edmund Hillary Mt. Everest
Kit Carson Scout, Indian agent	Daniel Boone Frontiersman	John Chapman Johnny Appleseed Orchardist

HUMANITARIANS

Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady, humanitarian	Nelson Mandela Freedom Fighter	Albert Schweitzer Doctor, humanitarian
Mahatma Gandhi Civil rights leader in India	Harriet Tubman Deliverer of Slaves	Norman Borlaug Father of the Green Revolution
Clara Barton Founder of American Red Cross	William Wilberforce Member of Parliament Abolitionist	Florence Nightingale Founder of the Nursing profession
Greg Mortenson Author Humanitarian

WOMEN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE

Amelia Earhart Aviation Pioneer	Henrietta Lacks Immortal Cells	Sadako Sasaki Hiroshima Victim
Malala Yousafzai Education Activist in Pakistan	Joan of Arc Religious and military leader	Annie Oakley Sharpshooter
Susan B. Anthony Suffragette	Elizabeth Keckly Seamstress	Helen Keller Blind and Deaf
Anne Frank Diarist	Madam C.J. Walker Entrepreneur

SCIENTISTS

George Washington Carver Botanist and educator	Albert Einstein Physicist, genius, Nobel Prize winner	Marie Curie Scientist, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Louis Pasteur Chemist, biologist	Sir Isaac Newton Explained gravity and properties of light	Galileo Astronomer, physicist
Lise Meitner Physicist	Benjamin Banneker Astronomer Mathematician

EDUCATORS

Booker T. Washington Leader and educator	Noah Webster Wrote the dictionary	Aristotle Greek philosopher
Mary McLeod Bethune Educator

PHYSICIANS

Hippocrates Father of medicine

Walter Reed Discovered cause of yellow fever

RELIGIOUS LEADERS

George Müller Minister - builder of orphan homes

Increase Mather Religious leader Salem witch trials

ATHLETES

Michael Phelps Olympic swimmer	Wilma Rudolph Olympic gold medal winner	Tiger Woods Championship golfer
Lou Gehrig Baseball player

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS

Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights leader	Rosa Parks Bus desegregation	Sojourner Truth Former slave and abolitionist
Frederick Douglass Abolitionist	Mary Ann Shadd Cary Civil rights leader	James Forten Inventor, abolitionist
César Chávez Civil rights leader

COMPOSERS

Ludwig van Beethoven Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer

AUTHORS

Laura Ingalls Wilder Author Children's Books	Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Author Humorist	Ernest Hemingway Author - Novelist
Phillis Wheatley Slave - Poet

ARTISTS

John James Audubon Artist and Naturalist	Gutzon Borglum Sculptor, Mount Rushmore	Ansel Adams Photographer
Vincent van Gogh Artist	Michelangelo Sculptor and Painter	Rembrandt van Rijn Artist
Grandma Moses Folk Artist	Mary Cassatt Impressionist	Renoir Artist
Cezanne Artist	Norman Rockwell Artist/Illustrator	Dale Chihuly Glass Sculptor

Biographies of 48 Famous Artists

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