FAMOUS PEOPLE

A list of famous people

    Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American actress / singer / model.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) US President during American civil war
    Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Catholic missionary nun / charity worker
    John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US President
    Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) – American civil rights campaigner
    Nelson Mandela (1918 – ) – South African President anti-apartheid campaigner.
    Winston Churchill (1874- 1965) – British Prime Minister during WWII
    Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Leader of Indian independence.
    Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French resistance leader and President.
    Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) – Italian explorer
    George Orwell (1903 – 1950) British author of 1984, Animal farm
    Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) British scientist proposed theory of evolution.
    Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) American pop singer.
    Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German scientist – theory of relativity.
    Plato (423 BC – 348 BC) Greek philosopher
    Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – ) British monarch since 1954.
    Queen Victoria ( 1819 –1901) British Queen during Nineteenth Century
    John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) British economist.
    Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian Prime Minister
    Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian, painter, scientist, polymath


    Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) – French chemist and microbiologist.
    Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910 ) – Russian author and philosopher.
    Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Spanish modern artists
    Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Dutch artist
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) – US President 1932 – 1945.
    Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish Pope.
    Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931) – American inventor
    Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) – American civil rights activist
    Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) – US President 1963-69
    Ludwig Beethoven (1770 – 1827) – German composer
    Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) US media celebrity.
    Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) – Third Prime Minister of India.
    Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) – First Lady of Argentina
    Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) – Prime Minister of Pakistan
    Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) American film producer
    Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) US Pilot , first person to land on moon.
    Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) British film actor and comedian
    Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) American Black nationalist leader
    Pele (1940 – ) Brazilian footballer, considered greatest of 20th Century.
    Jesse Owens (1913-1980) US track athlete won 4 golds at 1936 Olympics.
    Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American author
    John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British popstar and member of the Beatles.
    Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) US Industrialist
    Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) head of state of Ethiopia
    Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) Soviet leader from 1924-1953.
    Lord Baden Powell (1857 – 1941) British Founder of scout movement
    V.Lenin (1870-1924) – Leader of Russian Revolution 1917.
    Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish actress. Featured in Casablanca.
    Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900) Irish author, poet, playwright.
    Coco Chanel (1883-1971) – French Fashion designer
    Amelia Earhart (1897– 1937) – Female aviator
    Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) – leader of Nazi Germany 1933-45.
    Mary Magdalene (4 BC – 40AD) – devotee of Jesus Christ
    Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) – English / American film producer
    Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) – American Pop singer
    Mata Hari (1876-1917) Dutch exotic dancer, executed as spy.
    Cleopatra (69 -30 BC) Queen of Egypt.
    Grace Kelly (1929-1982) American actress and later Princess of Monaco.
    Steve Jobs (1955 – 2012) Key figure in Apple computers
    Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) – US President (1981-1989).
    Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) American baseball player
    Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary
    Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst
    Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) US president.
    Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Leader of Chinese Communist revolution
    Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) – American actress.
    Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) British actress and humanitarian.
    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) – American wife of JF Kennedy
    C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) – British author
    Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) American jazz singer.
    J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) – British author of Lord of the Rings
    Anne Frank (1929-1945) – Dutch Jewish author who died in Holocaust.