Abigail Adams: Revolutionary First Lady
Abraham Lincoln: Great Emancipator
Ada Deer: Notable Native American
Adina de Zavala: Preserved the Alamo
Admiral Raphael Semmes: Naval and Civil War Hero
Aesop's Fables
Al Gore: Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Albert Einstein: Genius of the Millennium
Aldo Leopold: Champion of Conservation
Alex Haley Author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alexander Graham Bell: Innovative Inventor of the Telephone
Alexander Hamilton: Defender of a Strong National Government
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Explorer & Survivor
Amelia Earhart: Female Aviator Extraordinaire
Andrew Jackson: The People's President
Andrew Johnson: 17th President of the United States
Ann Richards: Second Female Governor of Texas
Anne Frank: A Girl and Her Diary
Anne Marbury Hutchinson: Religious Leader
Annie Oakley: Legendary Wild West Markswoman!
Anson Jones: The Last President of the Republic of Texas
Antonia C. Novello: First Female U.S. Surgeon General
Antonio López de Santa Anna: President and Dictator of Mexico
Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star & Activist
Audie Murphy: Most Decorated WWII Veteran
Babe Ruth: The Sultan of Swat
Barack Obama: First African American President of the United States - 44th President
Barbara Jordan: A Voice Heard Loud and Clear
Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Native American Senator
Benedict Arnold: Patriot Turned Traitor
Benjamin Banneker: Mathematical and Scientific Genius
Benjamin Franklin: Man of Many Talents
Bessie Coleman: First African American Licensed Pilot
Betsy Ross: Patriot Seamstress
Bill de Blasio: Mayor with Big Ideas for New York City
Bill Gates: Computer Software Entrepreneur
Bill Martin Jr.: Award-Winning Children's Book Author
Billy the Kid: Gunfighter of the Old West
Black Hawk: Native American Leader
Booker T. Washington: Educator and Reformer
Brooklyn Bridge: An Engineering Marvel
Buffalo Soldiers: The African American Cavalry
Captain John Smith: Courageous Colonist
Carl Sandburg: Chicago's Award Winning Author
Carmen Lomas Garza: Artist and Teacher of Chicano Culture
Carol Moseley Braun: African American U.S. Senator
Carrie Chapman Catt: Amazing Activist
Casey Jones: The Very Punctual Train Engineer
Casimir Pulaski: Freedom Fighter
Cesar Chavez: Farm Worker with Vision
Charles Drew: Dedicated Doctor
Charles Goodnight: Trailblazing Texas Cattleman
Charles Kettering: Patent Giant
Charles Lindbergh: Legendary American Pilot
Charles Pinckney: Contributor to the U.S. Constitution
Charles W. Dryden: Tuskegee Airman
Chelo Silvac: Queen of Tejano Music
Chief Joseph: Chief of the Nez Perce Tribe
Chief Powhatan: Powerful Native American Leader
Christopher Columbus: Extraordinary Explorer
Christopher Newport: Marvelous Mariner
Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Driscoll: "Savior of the Alamo"
Cleto Rodríguez: World War II Hero
Condoleezza Rice: First Woman National Security Advisor
Crazy Horse: Chief of the Oglala Sioux Indians
Cyrus McCormick: Father of Modern Agriculture
Daniel Boone: American Explorer and Frontier Hero
Davy Crockett: Legendary Frontiersman
Dick Cheney: U.S. Vice President
Diego Rivera: Acclaimed Mural Painter
Dolley Madison: : America's First "First Lady"
Dr. Mae Jemison: First African American Woman Astronaut
Dr. Michael DeBakey: Father of Modern Heart Surgery
Duke Ellington: The Greatest Jazz Composer
Dwight D. Eisenhower: President and Five Star General
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady and Humanitarian
Eli Whitney: Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights Activist
Ellen Ochoa: First Hispanic American Woman in Space
Ellis Island: Gateway to America
Emma Sansom: Civil War Heroine
Empire State Building: Symbol of New York City
Enrique Esparza: Witness to the Battle of the Alamo
Ernest Hemingway: Legendary Writer
Father Claude Allouez: Jesuit Missionary
Father Jacques Marquette: Jesuit Missionary
Father James Groppi: Civil Rights Activist
Father Junipero Serra: California Missions Founder
Ferdinand Magellan: World Voyager
Fiorello LaGuardia: Mayor of the People
The Four Chaplains: Heroism During Wartime
Francis Scott Key: Author of Our National Anthem
Francisco de Coronado: Explorer of the Southwest
Frank Lloyd Wright: American Architect
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President with a 'New Deal' for America
Fred Shuttlesworth: A Fearless Civil Rights Hero
Frederick Douglass: Ambitious Abolitionist
Gail Borden, Jr.: Inventor of Food Preservation Methods
Garrett Morgan: Innovative Inventor
General Colin Powell: Brave Military Leader
General George C. Marshall: A Man with a Plan
George C. Wallace: Four-Time Governor of Alabama
George Childress: Author of Texas Declaration of Independence
George H. W. Bush: 41st President of the United States
George Mason: Reluctant Statesman
George W. Bush: 43rd President of the United States
George Washington Carver: Super Scientist
George Washington: Father of Our Country
George Wythe: Independent Thinker
Georgia O'Keeffe: Trailblazing Artist
Gerald Ford: 35th United States President
Geronimo: Fierce Apache Warrior
Golda Meir: Israel's First Woman Premier
Governor Lewis and Cordelia Harvey: Civil War Supporters
Granville Woods: Excellent Inventor
Gwendolyn Brooks: Chicago's Celebrated Poet
Harold Washington: Political Pioneer
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Tubman: Moses of Her People
Harry Connick Jr.: Louisiana Jazz Musician and Actor
Harry Flood Byrd: Accomplished Virginian
Harry Houdini: World-Famous Magician
Harry Truman: 33rd President of the United States
Haym Solomon: Financial Hero of the American Revolution
Hector P. Garcia: Champion of Mexican American Rights
Helen Keller: A Woman of Vision
Henry B. Gonzalez: Politician and Civil Rights Crusader
Henry Ford: Inventor at Work
Henry Hudson: Explorer and Adventurer
Henry Shreve: Super Steamboat Captain
Herbert Hoover: Quaker, Humanitarian, and President
Hernando de Soto: First to Discover the Mississippi River
Hillary Rodham Clinton: First Lady and Senator
Horace Greeley: Famous Newspaper Editor
Horace Mann: Father of American Education
Huey P. Long: Louisiana's Hero to the Poor
Hugo Black: U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Irma Rangel: First Female Mexican American State Legislator
Israel Pickens: Alabama's Third Governor
J. E. B. Stuart: Confederate Cavalier
Jack Jouett: Paul Revere of the South
Jackie Robinson: Baseball Barrier Breaker
Jacques Cartier: French Navigator
James A. Baker III: Presidential Advisor and Cabinet Member
James A. Lovell: Astronaut and Apollo 13 Commander
James Bowie: Defender of the Alamo
James Lafayette: From Slave to War Spy
James Madison: Father of the Constitution
James Monroe: Author of the Monroe Doctrine
James Oglethorpe: Founder of the Georgia Colony
Jane Addams: Courageous Reformer
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable: Father of Chicago
Jean Nicolet: French Explorer
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville: Father of Louisiana
Jefferson Davis: Civil War Hero
Jesse Owens: African American Track & Field Super Star
Jimmie Davis: Louisiana's Singing Governor
Jimmy Carter: The Nobel Prize President
Jo Anderson: Reinventing the Harvest
Joe DiMaggio: Legendary New York Yankee
John "Danny" Olivas: NASA Astronaut from El Paso, Texas
John Adams: America's Second President
John Brown: Madman or Martyr?
John C. Frémont: American Explorer, Soldier, and Politician
John Cabot: Explorer Extaordinaire
John D. Rockefeller: An Industrial Revolutionary
John Deere: Plowing Pioneer
John Edwards: Vice Presidential Hopeful
John F. Kennedy: America's Youngest Elected President
John Glenn: Legendary Astronaut
John Hancock: First Signer of the Declaration of Independence
John Harold Johnson: Creator of Ebony Magazine
John Henry: A Steel-Driving American Legend
John Lewis: U.S. Representative and Civil Rights Leader
John Muir: America's Naturalist
John Paul Jones: Father of the American Navy
John Pierpont Morgan: The Great Financier
John Quincy Adams: 6th President of the United States
John Rolfe: Famous Founding Father
John Sidney McCain: War Hero, Senator, and Presidential Candidate
John Tower: Republican U.S. Senator from Texas
John W. Walker: Alabama's First Senator
John Wise: American Minister and Political Activist
Johnny Appleseed: America's Friendly Frontiersman
Jonas Salk: The Man Who Saved the Children
José Antonio Navarro: A Founding Father of Texas
José de Escandón: Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
José Francisco Ruiz: Colonel and Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence
Joseph Glidden: Inventor who Patented Barbed Wire
Joseph McCarthy: U.S. Senator and Communist Hunter
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.: Vice President of the United States
Joseph Wheeler: Confederate Army Commander
Juan Antonio Padillo: Tejano Supporter of Texas Independence
Juan de Oñate: Spanish Explorer and Founder of New Mexico
Juan N. Seguín: Tejano Soldier and Politician
Juan Ponce de Leon: Spaniard in Search of Eternal Life
Julia Ward Howe: Wrote 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'
Juliette Gordon Low: Founder of the Girl Scouts
Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe: Opera Singer, Actor, and Composer
Kadir Nelson: African American Illustrator and Author
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella: King and Queen of Spain
King George III: Man of Duty
King James I: A King of Many Lands
L. Douglas Wilder: Trailblazing Governor
Langston Hughes: The Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: Super Supreme Court Justice
Linwood Holton: Virginia Governor for Change
Lizzie Johnson: Texas Businesswoman and Cattle Queen
Lord Cornwallis: British Commander
Lords of Baltimore: Founders of Maryland
Lorenzo de Zavala: First Vice President of the Republic of Texas
Lou Gehrig: Baseball's Iron Horse
Louis Armstrong: Tremendous Trumpeter
Louis Jolliet: French Explorer
Louis Pasteur: Inventor of Lifesaving Vaccines
Lydia Mendoza: Songbird of the Border
Lyndon B. Johnson: 36th President of the United States
Maggie Lena Walker: First Female Bank President
Malcolm X: Civil Rights Activist
Malia and Sasha Obama - First Daughters in the White House
Marco Polo: World Traveler
Margaret Mitchell: Author of Gone With the Wind
Maria Mitchell: First American Woman Astronomer
Marie Curie: Nobel Prize Winning Scientist
Marquis de Lafayette: A Hero to Two Worlds
Martín De León: Texas Colonizer and Rancher
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Super Civil Rights Leader
Marx Brothers: The Colorful Comedy Team
Mary Kay Ash: Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
Mary McLeod Bethune: Excellent Educator
Mary Musgrove: Translator and Queen of the Creek
Maya Angelou: Inspirational Writer and Poet
Medard Groseilliers: Fabulous Fur Trader & Explorer
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark: Explorers of the Uncharted West
Michelle Obama: Dedicated to Family and Community
Millie Hughes-Fulford: One of America's First Women Astronauts
Milton Hershey: The Chocolate Man
Mirabeau B. Lamar: The Father of Texas Education
Molly Pitcher: Revolutionary War Hero
Napoleon Bonaparte: French Emperor and Military Genius
Nat Turner: Anti-slavery Revolutionary
Nathan Hale: Revolutionary War Hero
Navajo Code Talkers: Developed a Code Impossible to Crack
Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon
Neil deGrasse Tyson: America’s Space Guy
Nelson Mandela: Visionary for Peace
Nicolas Perrot: Great French Explorer
Old Abe: Civil War Eagle
Oliver White Hill: Civil Rights Attorney
Orson Welles: Actor and Director
Orville and Wilbur Wright: Two Brothers, One Dream: 'Let's Fly'
P.B.S. Pinchback: First African American Governor
Patrick Henry: Voice of the Revolution
Pattillo Higgins: Texas Wildcatter and Geologist
Paul Bunyan: The Biggest Lumberjack There Ever Was!
Paul Revere: American Patriot
Paul Ryan: U.S. Representative and Vice-Presidential Candidate
Pedro Alvarez Cabral: Discoverer of Brazil
Phillis Wheatley: First Published African American Poet
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville: Founder of the Louisiana Colony
Pierre-Charles L'Enfant: Designer of Washington, D.C.
Plácido Benavides: Influential Early Texas Settler
Pocahontas: Legendary Indian Princess
Queen Anne: Friend of Pocahontas
Rachel Carson: Excellent Ecologist
Ralph David Abernathy: Civil Rights Crusader
Raul A. Gonzalez, Jr.: First Hispanic Judge on Texas Supreme Court
René Ménard: Jesuit Missionary
Richard Allen: Houston Builder and Leader
Richard J. Daley: Chicago's Political Giant
Richard King:Founder of the King Ranch
Richard Nixon: 37th President of the United States
Richard Nixon: Expert on Foreign Relations
Robert de La Salle: Famous French Explorer
Robert E. Lee: Confederate Hero
Robert F. Kennedy: Brother of a President
Robert Fulton: Father of Steamboat Travel
Robert M. La Follette: Founder of the Progressive Movement
Robert Rutherford McCormick: Media Giant
Robert Smalls: Slave, Hero, Politician
Roberto Clemente: Baseball Hero & Humanitarian
Roger Sherman: United States Founding Father
Roger Williams: Founder of Rhode Island
Ronald Reagan: All-American President
Rosa Parks: Mother of a Movement
Ruby Bridges: Civil Rights Pioneer
Rudy Guiliani: Fearless New York Mayor
Rutherford B. Hayes: 19th President of the United States
Sacagawea: Native American Heroine
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Sam Houston: Courageous Father of Texas
Sam Rayburn: Legendary Texas Lawmaker
Sam Walton: One of the Most Successful Merchants of the 20th Century
Samuel Adams: Man of the Revolution
Samuel de Champlain: New France's Proud Papa
Sandra Day O’Connor: First Woman Supreme Court Justice
Sarah Palin: Governor of Alaska
Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime
Sequoyah: Inventor of the First Written Cherokee Alphabet
Shirley Chisolm: First African American Woman in Congress
Sidney Sherman: Officer in the Texas Revolution
Sitting Bull: Native American Warrior Chief
Sojourner Truth: Religious Abolitionist
Sonia Sotomayor, First Hispanic Woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
The Sons of Liberty: Rebels Against Tyranny
Squanto: A Friend of the Pilgrims
Stanley Marcus: Famous Neiman Marcus Retailer
Statue of Liberty: Symbol of Freedom
Stephen F. Austin: Father of Texas
Susan B. Anthony: Civil Rights Crusader
Susanna Dickinson: Alamo Survivor
Tecumseh: Shawnee Indian Chief
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team: Japanese American Heros of World War II
The Louisiana Purchase: Greatest Real Estate Deal in History!
The Marsalis Family: The First Family of Jazz
The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Generations of African American Quilters
The Ringling Brothers: A Circus Family
The Tuskegee Airmen: First African American Fighter Pilots
Theodore Roosevelt: America's 'Rough Rider' President
Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson: Military Mastermind
Thomas Bibb: The Second Governor of Alabama
Thomas Edison: Prolific Inventor
Thomas Jefferson: Man of the People
Thomas Paine: Author of Common Sense
Thomas West, Lord de La Warr: Virginia's Governor for Life
Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Solider
Todd Beamer: A 9/11 Hero
Tomie dePaola: Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Tomochichi: Chief of the Yamacraws, Friend of Savannah
Ulysses S. Grant: Unequaled Union General
United Nations: Keeping the Peace
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa: The Diplomatic Conquistador
Vel Phillips: African American Politician
Vicente Filisola: Spanish General during the Texas Revolution
W.E.B. DuBois: Champion of Equality
Wallace Amos: Founder of Famous Amos Cookies
Wallace Jefferson: Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Walt Disney: Master of Imagination
'Wild Bill' Hickok: Wonder of the West
William B. Travis: Texas Commander at the Battle of the Alamo
William Bradford: Governor of Plymouth Colony
William C. C. Claiborne: First Governor of Louisiana
William Jefferson Clinton: 42nd President of the United States
William Lloyd Garrison: The Voice of the Abolitionist Movement
William McKinley: 25th President of the United States
William Penn: Father of Pennsylvania
William Rufus King: U.S. Vice President and Congressman
William Tecumseh Sherman: Civil War General
William Wrigley, Jr.: Chewing Gum Giant
William Wyatt Bibb: The First Governor of Alabama
Woodrow Wilson: World Peace Champion
World Trade Center: New York's Twin Towers
World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs): Female WWII Pilots
