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459 famous people found
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Ethan ALLEN
Farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician
1737 - 1789 -
Benedict ARNOLD
General during the American Revolutionary War
1740 - 1801 -
Alfred IVERSON
United States Representative and Senator from Georgia
1798 - 1873 -
Ezra STILES
American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, author, and president of Yale College (1778–1795)
1727 - 1795 -
David HOADLEY
American architect
1774 - 1839 -
Anson Green PHELPS
American co-founder of mining company Phelps Dodge
1781 - 1853 -
Daniel WEBSTER
American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War
1782 - 1852 -
Noah WEBSTER
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author
1758 - 1843 -
Eli WHITNEY
American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin
1765 - 1825 -
Oliver Hazard PERRY
United States Navy Commodore
1785 - 1819 -
Matthew C. PERRY
Commodore of the U.S. Navy
1794 - 1858 -
John HANCOCK
Merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution
1736 - 1793 -
Lewis CASS
American military officer and politician
1782 - 1866 -
Sam HOUSTON
American statesman, politician, and soldier, first and third President of the Republic of Texas
1793 - 1863 -
Francis Scott KEY
American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1779 - 1843 -
Johnny APPLESEED
American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
1774 - 1845 -
Dolley MADISON
First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817
1768 - 1849 -
John BROWN
American revolutionary abolitionist
1800 - 1859 -
John James AUDUBON
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter
1785 - 1851