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345 famous people found
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Samuel MORSE
American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code
1791 - 1872 -
Thomas JEFFERSON
Third President of the United States
1743 - 1826 -
Elisabeth MONROE
Wife of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States
1768 - 1830 -
George WASHINGTON
First President of the United States
1732 - 1799 -
Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Epic high fantasy novel written by philologist and Oxford University professor J. R. R. Tolkien
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Betsy ROSS
Widely credited with making the first American flag
1752 - 1836 -
Martha WASHINGTON
Wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States
1731 - 1802 -
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 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Rebecca NURSE
Executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
1621 - 1692 -
James BUCHANAN
15th President of the United States
1791 - 1868 -
Millard FILLMORE
13th President of the United States
1800 - 1874 -
Zachary TAYLOR
12th President of the United States
1784 - 1850 -
James K. POLK
11th President of the United States
1795 - 1849 -
John Quincy ADAMS
Sixth President of the United States
1767 - 1848 -
William Henry HARRISON
9th President of the United States
1773 - 1841 -
James MONROE
5th President of the United States
1758 - 1831 -
John TYLER, JR.
10th President of the United States
1790 - 1862 -
Martin VAN BUREN
8th President of the United States
1782 - 1862