Famous Names Flashcards
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Carthaginian who crossed the Alps with 37 elephants
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Hannibal
2
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“Satchmo”
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Louis Armstrong
3
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Famous tight rope walking family
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Wallendas
4
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“American ornithologist”
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John James Audubon
5
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Baltimore critic
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H.L. Mencken
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Philosopher who asked - “Is man a blunder of God?”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
7
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Violin maker family from Cremona - Italy
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Amati
8
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Late finance magazine tycoon
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Malcolm Forbes
9
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Man who found King Tut’s tomb
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Howard Carter
10
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“The Great Profile”
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John Barrymore
11
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Greek mathematician and founder of the science of hydrostatics
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Archimedes
12
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Greek physician who promoted the work of Hippocrates
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Galen
13
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Pair who died in a light plane crash in Point Barrow - Alaska
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Will Rogers and Wiley Post
14
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Sir Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Sherpa guide
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Tensing Norgay
15
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Chinese Communist Party head who died in 1997
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Deng Xiaoping
16
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Pepin the Short’s father - founder of Carolingian dynasty
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Charles Martel
17
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19th century American lithographers
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Currier and Ives
18
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Canadian-born American economist and Harvard professor of Economics
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Man crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD
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Charlemagne
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MIT linguistic scholar
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Noam Chomsky
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“Recluse” crusader
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Peter the Hermit
22
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Lawyer for the Creationists at Scopes trial
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William Jennings Bryan
23
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K Paul’s chef
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Paul Prudhomme
24
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American septuplets
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McCaugheys
25
Lawyer for the Darwinists at the Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow
26
Train engineer killed in head-on collision - 1900
Casey Jones
27
She wrote the Boston Cook Book
Fannie Farmer
28
17th century French philosopher and mathematician
Rene Descartes
29
Genghis Khan's grandson
Kubla Khan
30
16th century Italian sculptor - painter and poet
Michelangelo
31
Female prosecutor in the OJ Simpson trial
Marcia Clark
32
The Angelic Doctor
St. Thomas Aquinas
33
Greek physician - doctor's oath named for him
Hippocrates
34
French mathematician famous for his "last theorem"
Pierre de Fermat
35
Gay '90s financier and Philanthropist
Diamond Jim Brady
36
"America's handyman"
Bob Vila
37
PLO leader
Yasser Arafat
38
Man who overthrew Charles I of England
Oliver Cromwell
39
Red bearded crusader
Frederick Barbarosa
40
"The Great Communicator"
Ronald Reagan
41
Jean Paul Sartre's philosopher friend
Simone de Beauvoir
42
English pirate hung at Old Baily - 1701
Captain Kidd
43
Claus von Bulow's defense attorny
Alan Dershowitz
44
Scottish economist
Adam Smith
45
"The Chairman of the Board"
Frank Sinatra
46
Cambridge mathematician-philosopher
Bertrand Russell
47
"The Little Flower"
Fiorello La Guardia
48
"The Maid of Orleans"
Joan of Arc
49
Greek philosopher and scientist - teacher of Alexander the Great
Aristotle
50
Famous oil well fire fighter
Red Adair
51
"The Great Commoner"
William Jennings Bryan
52
Famous 19th century furrier
John Jacob Astor
53
19th century banking magnate/philanthropist
J.P. Morgan
54
Chairs astrophysics department - Cambridge University
Stephen Hawking
55
Army surgeon who found the cause of yellow fever
Walter Reed
56
French economist
Jean Baptiste Say
57
Charles Manson's prosecutor
Vincent Bugliosi
58
Doctor who performed Barney Clark's heart transplant
William DeVries
59
_The Fugitive_ series is based on his life
Sam Sheppard
60
He led the mutiny on the bounty
Fletcher Christian
61
Spanish tenor whose name means "peaceful Sunday"
Placido Domingo
62
Roman orator and statesman
Cicero
63
Greek famous as being first actor
Thespis
64
"Magnificent" Ottoman ruler
Suleyman (the Magnificent)
65
Zulu leader
Shaka
66
Violin maker who learned his craft from the Amatis
Antonio Stradivarius
67
"King of Torts" who died in 1996
Melvin Belli
68
He made stainless steel cars in Ireland
John DeLorean
69
South American revolutionary born in Caracas
Simon Bolivar
70
Fidel Castro's revolutionary friend
Che Guevara
71
"The Prince of Humbugs"
P.T. Barnum
72
American Lexicographer
Noah Webster
73
17th century English philosopher and Statesman
Francis Bacon
74
Cook who led the mutiny on the Hispaniola
Long John Silver
75
"The Father of Science Fiction"
Jules Verne
76
Man who built the Erie Canal
De Witt Clinton
77
President's brother who was president of John Hopkins
Milton Eisenhower
78
Canadian quintuplets
Dionnes
79
Muslim defender of Jerusalem - 1189-1191
Saladin
80
"The Little Corporal"
Napoleon Bonaparte
81
"The Great Dissenter"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
82
Man who conquered the world's largest land empire
Genghis Khan
83
"Favorites from the New York Times" chef
Craig Claiborne
84
French mistress to Louis XV
Madame de Pompadour
85
The "Scourge of God"
Attila (the Hun)
86
Inspiration for _Citizen Kane_
William Randolph Hearst
87
Greek philosopher - Academy founder - and student of Socrates
Plato
88
Pirate Ed Teach aka
Blackbeard
89
The Paladin (knight) of Charlemagne
Orlando
90
First King of all the English
Alfred the Great
91
The original Siamese twins
Chang and Eng
92
Scottish reformist
John Knox
93
Greek philosopher/statesman poisoned by Hemlock
Socrates
94
"The Lady with the Lamp"
Florence Nightingale
95
Famous female pirates
Ann Bonnie and Mary Reed
96
"Virginia Orator"
Thomas Paine
97
He defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington
98
"The American Leonardo"
Samuel Morse
99
Greek historian and biographer
Plutarch
100
American winner of Tchaikovsky music competition - 1958
Van Cliburn
101
"The Galloping Gourmet"
Graham Kerr
102
First Christian Roman emperor
Constantine
103
"The Wizard of Menlo Park"
Thomas Edison
104
He blazed the Wilderness Road
Daniel Boone
105
"New England Orator"
Daniel Webster
106
Scottish clock maker
Seth Thomas
107
First chancellor of the German Empire - 1871
Otto von Bismarck
108
Subject of T.S. Eliot's _Murder in the Cathedral_
Thomas A. Becket
109
Greek historian
Herodotus
110
Cesare Borgia's infamous sister and patron of the arts
Lucretia Borgia
111
He broke the sound barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
112
Man who first received an artificial heart
Barney Clark
113
"The Little Tramp"
Charlie Chaplin
114
16th century Dutch humanist
Erasmus
115
20th century Greek shipping magnate
Aristotle Onassis
116
Charlemagne's father
Pepin the short
117
"The American Caesar"
Douglas MacArthur
118
America's cowboy-philosopher
Will Rogers
119
1960s Harvard psychologist; recreational drug advocate
Timothy Leary
120
17th century French mathematician
Blaise Pascal
121
He defended the Boston strangler
F. Lee Bailey
122
"Gentle Pirate" who aided in the Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
123
Presidential brother who had beer named for him
Billy Carter
124
Mexican bandit who raided U.S. border towns
Pancho Villa
125
19th century British travel agent
Thomas Cook
126
Boys Town founder - 1917
Father Edward Flanagan
127
British tea magnate
Sir Thomas Lipton
128
Pro clown with his own postage stamp
Lou Jacobs
129
Italian adventurer and lover
Giacomo Casanova
130
French cardinal who fought the Huguenots
Cardinal Richelieu
131
"The King of Ragtime"
Scott Joplin
132
French queen regent implicated in St. Bartholomew's day massacre
Catherine de Medici
133
Crusader king who fought Saladin
Richard the Lionhearted
134
French Lexicographer
Pierre Larousse
135
American satirical comedian - imprisoned for obscenity - 1962
Lenny Bruce
136
"Magnificent" Florence dictator
Lorenzo de Medici
137
Founder of the Persian Empire
Cyrus the Great
138
Scottish philanthropist and lord Rector
Andrew Carnegie
139
Swiss-French reformist
John Calvin
140
Lord Chancellor beheaded by Henry VIII
Sir Thomas More
141
Greek with sword hanging over his head
Damocles
142
Greek who sought honest man
Diogenes
143
19th century shipping magnate
Cornelius Vanderbilt
144
Greek mathematician and geometry innovator
Euclid
145
Pilot who landed in Europe instead of California in 1938
"Wrong Way" Corrigan
146
"Life is worth living" speaker
Bishop Sheen
147
"The Lone Eagle"
Charles Lindbergh
148
"The Great Compromiser" or "The Great Pacificator"
Henry Clay
149
English Lexicographer
Samuel Johnson
150
Founder of the Capetian dynasty in France - 987 AD
Hugh Capet
151
Italian leader of the Red Shirts
Garibaldi
152
Chinese provisional president - 1912
Sun Yat-Sen
153
"The Lord of San Simeon"
William Randolph Hearst
154
Yosemite photographer
Ansel Adams
155
Father of American public education
Horace Mann
156
"The People's Lawyer"
Ralph Nader
157
Las Vegas magicians who work with big cats
Siegried and Roy
158
Steel magnate and philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
159
"The Man of a Thousand Voices"
Mel Blanc
160
Greek mathematician famous for theorem
Pythagoras
161
He planted apple trees in the Ohio Valley
Johnny Appleseed
162
He founded DeBeers
Cecil Rhodes
163
Leopold and Loeb's defense attorny
Clarence Darrow
164
Man who established Chinese government on Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
165
Austrian celebrity chef
Wolfgang Puck
166
Frederick Barbarosa
RedBeard
167
Billionaire who disappeared from his yacht in 1991
Robert Maxwell
168
Philadelphia publisher and philanthropist
Walter Annenberg
