Famous People Flashcards
BALLET: Among the few filmed sequences of this Russian ballerina are clips of her “dying swan” from 1907
Anna Pavlova
20th CENTURY FOREIGNERS: Born Garry Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1963, he “checks” in under this name
Gary Kasparov
ELITE ATHLETES: Running the 200 meters in 19.93 seconds at age 17, this Jamaican became the first teen to ever break 20 seconds
Usain Bolt
FOUNDING FATHERS: As late as 2004 this future billionaire was still operating Facebook out of a Harvard dorm room
Mark Zuckerberg
FAMOUS AMERICANS: This man famous for his classification system founded Columbia Univ.’s School of Library Economy
Melvil Dewey
WORLD RELIGION: This great religious leader was born circa 563 B.C. near the India-Nepal border
Buddha
NOTABLE NAMES: This prime minister who led Britain through WWII was a prolific and talented painter as well
Winston Churchill
UNSEEN TITLE CHARACTERS: A 1993 film about chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin is titled “Searching for” this man
Bobby Fischer
FAMOUS FIRSTS: Pictured with Kevin Batangan, he was the first person to officially solve the Rubik’s Cube under five seconds.
Lucas Etter
PENNANTS: No big surprise that this all-time steals king was 1989’s ALCS MVP for the A’s; he stole 8 bases in 5 games and hit .400
Rickey Henderson
WHAT’S THAT ON YOUR HEAD?: The man credited with creating the football helmet is this basketball inventor
James Naismith
THE HUNGARY GAMES: He made his first prototype of his hand-held game in Budapest using 27 wooden blocks
Rubik’s Cube
MISSISSIPPI MISTERS: Once President of the Confederacy, he served as president of an insurance company after the war
Jefferson Davis
THE LEADERS and BEST: In 1992 the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to this Chinese-American architect
I.M. Pei
FACES: This Warrior earned his second straight NBA finals MVP award in 2018
Kevin Durant
LADY CEREBELLUM: This American heroine who passed away in July 2012 helped design the robot arm for the Space Shuttle
Sally Ride
IT’S MY WAY and THE HIGHWAY: The highway named for me, this king, winds from Kailua to Honolulu
Kamehameha
PEOPLE IN HISTORY: In 1877, he shouted, “Mary had a little lamb” into a funnel, & made the phonograph a reality
Thomas Edison
CELEBRITIES: He describes himself as “Cablinasian”, a hybrid of Caucasian, Black, American Indian & Asian
Tiger Woods
OUR OLD PAL WATSON: On film, she’s Hermione Granger
Emma Watson
THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT: This skateboarder known as “The Birdman” can’t quite fly–he’s suffered a dozen concussions
Tony Hawk
WORLD AUTHORS: A Danish historian reports that this “Ugly Duckling” author may have been a king’s son
Hans Christian Andersen
