Famous Names Flashcards
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Man who overthrew Charles I of England
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Oliver Cromwell
2
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French mistress to Louis XV
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Madame de Pompadour
3
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Cook who led the mutiny on the Hispaniola
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Long John Silver
4
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Frederick Barbarosa
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RedBeard
5
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Pirate Ed Teach aka
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Blackbeard
6
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English pirate hung at Old Baily - 1701
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Captain Kidd
7
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“Gentle Pirate” who aided in the Battle of New Orleans
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Jean Lafitte
8
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“The Lady with the Lamp”
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Florence Nightingale
9
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He defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
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The Duke of Wellington
10
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South American revolutionary born in Caracas
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Simon Bolivar
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Zulu leader
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Shaka
12
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Fidel Castro’s revolutionary friend
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Che Guevara
13
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The Angelic Doctor
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St. Thomas Aquinas
14
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17th century French philosopher and mathematician
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Rene Descartes
15
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French cardinal who fought the Huguenots
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Italian adventurer and lover
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Giacomo Casanova
17
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He led the mutiny on the bounty
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Fletcher Christian
18
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17th century French mathematician
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Blaise Pascal
19
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Violin maker who learned his craft from the Amatis
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Antonio Stradivarius
20
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“The Galloping Gourmet”
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Graham Kerr
21
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“The Little Corporal”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
22
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19th century banking magnate/philanthropist
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J.P. Morgan
23
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Greek philosopher/statesman poisoned by Hemlock
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Socrates
24
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Doctor who performed Barney Clark’s heart transplant
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William DeVries
25
Man who first received an artificial heart
Barney Clark
26
Jean Paul Sartre's philosopher friend
Simone de Beauvoir
27
Cambridge mathematician-philosopher
Bertrand Russell
28
Philosopher who asked - "Is man a blunder of God?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
29
Billionaire who disappeared from his yacht in 1991
Robert Maxwell
30
British tea magnate
Sir Thomas Lipton
31
Famous female pirates
Ann Bonnie and Mary Reed
32
20th century Greek shipping magnate
Aristotle Onassis
33
Cesare Borgia's infamous sister and patron of the arts
Lucretia Borgia
34
19th century shipping magnate
Cornelius Vanderbilt
35
Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Sherpa guide
Tensing Norgay
36
Chinese Communist Party head who died in 1997
Deng Xiaoping
37
Man who established Chinese government on Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
38
Chinese provisional president - 1912
Sun Yat-Sen
39
First chancellor of the German Empire - 1871
Otto von Bismarck
40
Italian leader of the Red Shirts
Garibaldi
41
Mexican bandit who raided U.S. border towns
Pancho Villa
42
Steel magnate and philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
43
Greek famous as being first actor
Thespis
44
Violin maker family from Cremona - Italy
Amati
45
Man crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD
Charlemagne
46
First Christian Roman emperor
Constantine
47
Genghis Khan's grandson
Kubla Khan
48
Man who conquered the world's largest land empire
Genghis Khan
49
Founder of the Persian Empire
Cyrus the Great
50
Roman orator and statesman
Cicero
51
Greek physician who promoted the work of Hippocrates
Galen
52
Charlemagne's father
Pepin the short
53
Greek with sword hanging over his head
Damocles
54
Pepin the Short's father - founder of Carolingian dynasty
Charles Martel
55
Greek mathematician famous for theorem
Pythagoras
56
Greek mathematician and geometry innovator
Euclid
57
Greek historian and biographer
Plutarch
58
Greek historian
Herodotus
59
Greek mathematician and founder of the science of hydrostatics
Archimedes
60
Greek who sought honest man
Diogenes
61
Greek philosopher and scientist - teacher of Alexander the Great
Aristotle
62
Greek philosopher - Academy founder - and student of Socrates
Plato
63
Greek physician - doctor's oath named for him
Hippocrates
64
Red bearded crusader
Frederick Barbarosa
65
French queen regent implicated in St. Bartholomew's day massacre
Catherine de Medici
66
Scottish reformist
John Knox
67
Swiss-French reformist
John Calvin
68
17th century English philosopher and Statesman
Francis Bacon
69
Lord Chancellor beheaded by Henry VIII
Sir Thomas More
70
Subject of T.S. Eliot's _Murder in the Cathedral_
Thomas A. Becket
71
16th century Dutch humanist
Erasmus
72
16th century Italian sculptor - painter and poet
Michelangelo
73
The Paladin (knight) of Charlemagne
Orlando
74
"The Maid of Orleans"
Joan of Arc
75
"Favorites from the New York Times" chef
Craig Claiborne
76
"Magnificent" Ottoman ruler
Suleyman (the Magnificent)
77
"Recluse" crusader
Peter the Hermit
78
Crusader king who fought Saladin
Richard the Lionhearted
79
Muslim defender of Jerusalem - 1189-1191
Saladin
80
First King of all the English
Alfred the Great
81
Carthaginian who crossed the Alps with 37 elephants
Hannibal
82
The "Scourge of God"
Attila (the Hun)
83
Founder of the Capetian dynasty in France - 987 AD
Hugh Capet
84
"Magnificent" Florence dictator
Lorenzo de Medici
85
"The Great Dissenter"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
86
"The Father of Science Fiction"
Jules Verne
87
"The Man of a Thousand Voices"
Mel Blanc
88
"The Little Tramp"
Charlie Chaplin
89
"The King of Ragtime"
Scott Joplin
90
"Satchmo"
Louis Armstrong
91
"The Wizard of Menlo Park"
Thomas Edison
92
"The Great Communicator"
Ronald Reagan
93
"The Little Flower"
Fiorello La Guardia
94
"The Chairman of the Board"
Frank Sinatra
95
"The Great Commoner"
William Jennings Bryan
96
"The Lord of San Simeon"
William Randolph Hearst
97
"The Great Profile"
John Barrymore
98
"The Lone Eagle"
Charles Lindbergh
99
"Virginia Orator"
Thomas Paine
100
"New England Orator"
Daniel Webster
101
"American ornithologist"
John James Audubon
102
"America's handyman"
Bob Vila
103
"The American Caesar"
Douglas MacArthur
104
K Paul's chef
Paul Prudhomme
105
"The Great Compromiser" or "The Great Pacificator"
Henry Clay
106
Chairs astrophysics department - Cambridge University
Stephen Hawking
107
Canadian quintuplets
Dionnes
108
Famous tight rope walking family
Wallendas
109
Las Vegas magicians who work with big cats
Siegried and Roy
110
Pro clown with his own postage stamp
Lou Jacobs
111
American satirical comedian - imprisoned for obscenity - 1962
Lenny Bruce
112
Man who found King Tut's tomb
Howard Carter
113
The original Siamese twins
Chang and Eng
114
Yosemite photographer
Ansel Adams
115
"The Prince of Humbugs"
P.T. Barnum
116
MIT linguistic scholar
Noam Chomsky
117
Boys Town founder - 1917
Father Edward Flanagan
118
He broke the sound barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
119
Pilot who landed in Europe instead of California in 1938
"Wrong Way" Corrigan
120
He made stainless steel cars in Ireland
John DeLorean
121
Father of American public education
Horace Mann
122
Baltimore critic
H.L. Mencken
123
Philadelphia publisher and philanthropist
Walter Annenberg
124
America's cowboy-philosopher
Will Rogers
125
"The People's Lawyer"
Ralph Nader
126
1960s Harvard psychologist; recreational drug advocate
Timothy Leary
127
Charles Manson's prosecutor
Vincent Bugliosi
128
"The American Leonardo"
Samuel Morse
129
"Life is worth living" speaker
Bishop Sheen
130
He blazed the Wilderness Road
Daniel Boone
131
Scottish clock maker
Seth Thomas
132
19th century American lithographers
Currier and Ives
133
Famous 19th century furrier
John Jacob Astor
134
He planted apple trees in the Ohio Valley
Johnny Appleseed
135
Famous oil well fire fighter
Red Adair
136
19th century British travel agent
Thomas Cook
137
"King of Torts" who died in 1996
Melvin Belli
138
French Lexicographer
Pierre Larousse
139
He defended the Boston strangler
F. Lee Bailey
140
Claus von Bulow's defense attorny
Alan Dershowitz
141
Leopold and Loeb's defense attorny
Clarence Darrow
142
Lawyer for the Darwinists at the Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow
143
Female prosecutor in the OJ Simpson trial
Marcia Clark
144
Lawyer for the Creationists at Scopes trial
William Jennings Bryan
145
She wrote the Boston Cook Book
Fannie Farmer
146
Austrian celebrity chef
Wolfgang Puck
147
He founded DeBeers
Cecil Rhodes
148
American winner of Tchaikovsky music competition - 1958
Van Cliburn
149
Train engineer killed in head-on collision - 1900
Casey Jones
150
Gay '90s financier and Philanthropist
Diamond Jim Brady
151
Pair who died in a light plane crash in Point Barrow - Alaska
Will Rogers and Wiley Post
152
Presidential brother who had beer named for him
Billy Carter
153
Spanish tenor whose name means "peaceful Sunday"
Placido Domingo
154
PLO leader
Yasser Arafat
155
President's brother who was president of John Hopkins
Milton Eisenhower
156
Army surgeon who found the cause of yellow fever
Walter Reed
157
Inspiration for _Citizen Kane_
William Randolph Hearst
158
Scottish philanthropist and lord Rector
Andrew Carnegie
159
American septuplets
McCaugheys
160
Man who built the Erie Canal
De Witt Clinton
161
_The Fugitive_ series is based on his life
Sam Sheppard
162
French mathematician famous for his "last theorem"
Pierre de Fermat
163
Canadian-born American economist and Harvard professor of Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith
164
Scottish economist
Adam Smith
165
French economist
Jean Baptiste Say
166
English Lexicographer
Samuel Johnson
167
American Lexicographer
Noah Webster
168
Late finance magazine tycoon
Malcolm Forbes
