Famous People Flashcards

Abraham Lincoln
1809 - 1865
16th President of the U.S.

Albert Einstein
1879 - 1955
Developed General Theory of Relativity

Babe Ruth
(George Herman Ruth)
1895 - 1948
714 home runs - most until Hank Aaron

Adolf Hitler
1889 - 1945
German Dictator during WWII

Gaius Octavius (Augustus) Caesar
63 BC - 14 AD
First Roman Emperor (27 BC)

George Washington
1732 - 1799
First President of the U.S.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
b. 1947
Former First Lady, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator

Bill Gates
(William Henry Gates)
b. 1955
Former CEO of Microsoft, co-creator of BASIC, MS-DOS, and Windows

(Nelson Mandela)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1918 - 2013
South African Revolutionary and Politician

Sherlock Holmes
Fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; stories published 1891 - 1927
Sinbad the Sailor
Legendary (folk) character who appears in The Thousand Nights and a Night

Osama bin Laden
(Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad Laden)
1957 - 2011
Founder of al-Qaeda, organizer of terrorist attacks on U.S.

Garth Brooks
(Troyal Garth Brooks)
b. 1962
American country music singer

John Wilkes Booth
1838 - 1865
Actor; assassinated President Lincoln

Robert E. Lee
(Robert Edward Lee)
1807 - 1870
General-in-Chief of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War

Frederick A. Douglass
(Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass)
1818 - 1895
Slave, author of Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, leader of American abolition movement.

Alfred Hitchcock
(Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock)
1899 - 1980
English film director.

Miles Davis
(Miles Dewey Davis III)
1926 - 1991
American jazz musician.

Stephen (Edwin) King
b. 1947
American horror and mystery author

Stephen (William) Hawking
b. 1942
English theoretical physicist

Andrew Jackson
1767 - 1845
7th President of the U.S.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1917 - 1963
35th President of the U.S.

Richard Milhous Nixon
1913 - 1994
37th President of the U.S,

Franklin Delano Rooselvelt
1882 - 1945
32nd President of the U.S.
