Famous People Flashcards
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Greek Historian
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Herodotus
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Greek Biographer
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Plutarch
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Greek Mathematician and Geometry Innovator
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Euclid
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Roman Orator and Stateman
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Cicero
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Founder of the Persian Empire
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Cyrus the Great
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Man Who Conquered the World’s Largest Land Empire
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Genghis Kan
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Genghis Khan’s Grandson
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Kublai Khan
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First Christian Roman Emperor
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Constantine
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Man Crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD
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Charlemagne
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The Paladin (Knight) of Charlemagne
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Orlando
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Charlemagne’s Father
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Pepin the Short
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Pepin the Short’s Father, Founder of Carolingian Dynasty
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Charles Martel
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Founder of the Capetian Dynasty in France, 987 AD
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Hugh Capet
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The Scourge of God
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Attila the Hun
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Carthaginian who crossed the alps with 37 elephants
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Hannibal
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First King of All the English
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Alfred the Great
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Muslim Defender of Jerusalem, 1189-91
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Saladin
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Crusader King Who Fought Saladin
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Richard the Lionhearted
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“Recluse” Crusader King
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Peter the Hermit
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“Magnificent” Ottoman Ruler
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Suleiman (The Magnificent)
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Red Bearded Crusader
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Frederick Barbarossa
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The Maid of Orleans
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Joan of Arc
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Magnificent Florence Dictator
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Lorenzo de Medici
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Subject of TS Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral”
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Thomas a’ Becket (murdered by Henry 2)
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Lord Chancellor Beheaded by Henry VII
Sir Thomas Moore
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Man Who Started protestant reformation with 95 theses
Martin Luther
27
Swiss-French Reformist
John Calvin
28
Scottish Reformist
John Knox (Presbyterian)
29
French Queen Regent Implicated in St. Barthalomew's Day Massacre
Catherine De Medici
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Italian Femme Fatale, Accused of Poisoning her enemies
Lucretia Borgia
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Lucretia Borgia's Brother
Cesare Borgia
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French Mistress to Louis XV
Madame de Pompadour
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Violin maker family from cremora, Italy
Amati
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Violin maker who learned his craft from amati
Antonio Stradivarius
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He led the mutiny on bounty
Fletcher Christian
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Italian Adventurer and Lover
Giacomo Casanova
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French Cardinal who fought the Huguenots
Cardinal Richelieu
38
16th Century Italian Sculptor, Painter and Poet
Erasmus
39
16th Century French Theologian
John Calvin
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17th Century French Mathematician
Blaise Pascal
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17th Century French Philosopher and mathematician
Rene Descartes
42
17th Century English Philosopher and Statesman
Francis Bacon
43
The Angelic Doctor
St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica)
44
Man Who Ooverthrew Charles 1 of England
Oliver Cromwell
45
Zulu Leader
Shaka
46
The Little Corporal
Napoleon Bonaparte
47
He Defeated Napolean at Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington
48
The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale
49
Gentle Pirate who aided in battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafite
50
English Pirate Hung at Old Baily, 1701
Captain Kid
51
Pirate Edward Teach
Blackbeard
52
Cook Who Led the Mutiny on the Hispaniola
Long John Silver (RL Stevenson) Fooled Jim Hawkins
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Famous Female Pirates
Ann Bonne and Mary Reed
54
South American Revolutionary Born in Caracas
Simon Bolivar
55
Fidel Castro's Revoluationary Fried
Che Guevara
56
Mexican Bandi who raided US border towns
Pancho Villa
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Old West Dentist an Gunfighter
Bat Masterson
58
Italian Leader of the Red Shirts
Garibaldi
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First Chancellor of the German Empire, 1871
Otto Von Bismarck
60
Chinese Provisional President, 1912
Sun Yat-SEn
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Man who established Chinese government on taiwan
Chaing Kai-Shek
62
Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Sherpa Guide
Tensing Norgay
63
19th Century Shipping Magnate
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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19th Century Banking Magnate/Philanthropist
JP Morgan (John Pierpont)
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Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century English Mathmatician
John Venn
66
20th Century Greek Shipping Magnate
Aristotle Onassis
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Steel Magnate and Philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
68
British Tea Magnate
Sir. Thomas Lipton
69
Cracked the Enigma Code
Alan Turing
70
Philosopher Who Asked "Is man a Blunder of God"
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cambridge Mathematician Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
72
Jean Paul Sartre's Philosopher Friend
Simone de Beauvoir
73
Man who first received an artificial heart
Barney Clark
74
Doctor who performed barney clark's heart transplant
William Devries
75
Lawyer for the Creationists at Scopes Trial
William Jennings Bryan
76
Lawyer for the Darwinists at Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow
77
Female Prosecutors in OJ Simpson Trial
Marcia Clark
78
Leopold and Loeb's Defense attorney
Clarence Darrow
79
Claus Von Bulow's Defense Attorney
Alan Dershowitz
80
He Defended the Boston Strangler
F. Lee Bailey
81
Famous 19th Century Furrier
John Jacob Astor
82
He planted apple trees in the Ohio Valley
Johnny Appleseed
83
He Founded Debeers
Cecil Rhodes
84
Famous Oil Well Fire Fighter
Red Adair
85
He Founded the American Library Association
Melvin Dewey
86
19th Century American Lithographers
Currier and Ives
87
Scottish Clock Maker
Seth Thomas
88
He blazed the wilderness road
Daniel Boone
89
Life is Worth LIving SPeaker
Bishop Sheen
90
Inspiration for Citizen Kane
William Randolph Hearst
91
19th Century British Travel Agent
Thomas Cook
92
French Lexicographer
Pierre Larousse
93
American Lexicographer
Noah Webster
94
English Lexicographer
Samuel Johnson
95
Scottish Economist
Adam Smith
96
British Economist, 1920
John Maynard Keynes
97
Canadian-Born American Economist and Harvard Professor of Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith
98
French Mathematician Famous for His "Last Theorem"
Pierre de Fermat
99
The Fugitive Series is Based on His Life
Sam Sheppard
100
Man Who Built the Erie Canal
De Witt Clinton
101
American Winner of Tchaikovsky Music Competition, 1958
Van Cliburn
102
Scottish Philanthropist and Lord Rector
Andrew Carnegie
103
Late Finance Magazine Tycoon
Malcolm Forbes
104
Army Surgeon who found the cause of yellow fever
Walter Reed
105
Newspaper Editor or South Sympathizer
Horace Greeley - Ran against US Grant
106
President's Brother who was president of JOhns hopkins
Milton Eisenhower
107
Former PLO Leader
Yasser Arafat
108
Spanish Tenor who name means Peaceful Sunday
Placido Domingo
109
Presidential Brother who had a been named for him
Billy Carter
110
Pair who died in a light plane crase in point barrow, Alaska
Will Rogers and Wiley Post
111
Gay 90s Financier and Philanthropist
Diamon Jim Brady
112
19th Century Tennessee Congressman known as "King of the Wild Frontier"
Davy Crockett
113
Train Engineer Killed in Head-On Collision, 1900
Casey Jones
114
Boys Town Founder, 1917
Father Edward Flanagan
115
The Concord Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
116
The Pathfinder
John,. C Freemont - 1st abolitionist pres candidate
117
The Napoleon of the West
General Santa Anna
118
The Father of the Symphony
Franz Joseph Haydn
119
The Father of Science Fiction
Jules Verne
120
The American Leonardo
Samuel Morse
121
The American Caesar
Douglas MaCarthur
122
America's handyman
Bob Vila
123
New England Orator
Daniel Webster
124
Virginia Orator
Thomas Paine
125
The Lone Eagle
Charles Lindberg
126
The Great Profile
John Barrymore
127
The Great Dissenter
Oliver Wendell Holmes
128
The Great Commoner
William Jennings Bryan
129
The Great Compromiser or The Great Pacificator
Henry Clay
130
The Little Flower
Fiorelloa La Guardia
131
The Great Communicator
Ronald Reagan
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
Thomas Edison
133
Satchmo
Louis Armstrong
134
The King of Ragtime
Scott Joplin
135
Yosemite Photographer
Ansel Adams
136
The Little Tramp
Charlie Chaplin
137
The Man of A thousand Faces
Lon Chaney
138
The Man of A thousand Voices
Mel Blanc
139
The Prince of Humbugs
PT Barnum
140
Gonzo Journalist
Hunter Thompson
141
The King of the Keelboatmen
Mike Fink
142
The Last Lion
Winston Churchill
143
The Chairman of the Board
Frank Sinatra
144
The Lord of San Simeon
William Randolph Hearst
145
The People's Lawyer
Ralph Nader
146
The Oracle of Omaha
Warren Buffet
147
The Sparrow
Edith Piaf (La Vie En Rose) - film stars Marion Cotillard in the role that won her the Academy Award for Best Actress (Oscar),
148
America's Cowboy Philosopher
Will Rogers
149
Philadelphia Publisher and Philanthropist
Walter Annenberg
150
Baltimore Critic
H. L. Mencken (Dubbed it the ""Monkey Trial". )
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American Ornithologist
John James Audubon
152
Father of American Public Education
Horace Mann
153
He Made Stainless Steel Cars in Ireland
John Delorean
154
American Chess Grandmaster at Age 15
Bobby Fischer
155
Pilot Who landed in Ireland instead of California, 1938
"Wrong Way" Corrigan
156
He Broke the Sound Barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
157
Chairs Astrophysics Dept, Cambridge University
Stephen Hawking
158
Canadian Voice Actor, Voice of the Brain
Maurice Lamarche
159
MIT Linguistic Scholar
Noam Chomsky
160
1969s Harvard Psychologist, Recreational Drug Advocate
Timothy Leary
161
Chinese Communist Party Head who Died in 1997
Deng Xiaoping
162
The Original Siamese Twins
Chang and Eng
163
Man WHo Found King Tut's Tomb
Howard Carter
164
American Satirical Comedian Imprisoned for Obscenity
Lenny Bruce
165
Pro Clown With his own postage stampe
Lou Jacobs
166
Las Vegas Magicians who worked with big cats
Siegfried and Roy
167
Famous Tightrope Walking Family
Wallendas
168
Canadian Quintuplets
Dionnes
169
American Septuplets
McCaugheys
170
Rat Pack Members (1960s)
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Biship, Peter Lawford
171
Brat Pack Members
Emilo Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Ander McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
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Monty Python Group
Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Gram Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idol
