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36 famous people found
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Benjamin FRANKLIN
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
1706 - 1790 -
Paul REVERE
American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution
1734 - 1818 -
Benjamin WEST
Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence
1738 - 1820 -
Anna Claypoole PEALE
American painter, specializing in portrait miniatures and still lifes
1791 - 1878 -
Sarah Miriam PEALE
American portrait painter
1800 - 1885 -
Charles Willson PEALE
American painter, soldier and naturalist
1741 - 1827 -
Charles BULLFINCH
Early American architect, he has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession
1763 - 1844 -
Jonathan Carver
Captain in a Massachusetts colonial unit, explorer, and writer
1710 - 1780 -
Moses Yale Beach
American inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and publisher, who founded the Associated Press
1800 - 1868 -
Duff Green
American teacher, military leader, Democratic Party politician, journalist, author, diplomat and industrialist
1791 - 1875 -
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
American author
1793 - 1860 -
John Trumbull
American poet
1750 - 1831 -
Francis Hopkinson
American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, author, and composer
1737 - 1791 -
Hannah Flagg Gould
American poet
1789 - 1865 -
James Harper
American publisher and politician, 65th Mayor of New York City
1795 - 1869 -
Joel Barlow
American poet, and diplomat, and politician
1754 - 1812 -
Cephas THOMPSON
American portrait painter
1775 - 1856 -
Charity BRYANT
American business owner and writer
1777 - 1851 -
Isaac Collins
American printer, publisher, bookseller and merchant
1746 - 1817 -
Sarah Goodridge
American painter
1788 - 1853