America's First Great

Actor

Edwin Forrest (1806-1872)

Architect

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886)

Architect (modern)

Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)

Artist

John Singleton Copley (1732-1815)

Benjamin West (1739-1820)

Athlete

Tom Molineaux (1784-1818)

Jack Johnson (1878-1946)

Botanist

John Bartram (1699-1777)

Businessman

P.T. Barnum (1810-1891)

Clown

Dan Rice (1823-1901)

Composer

WIlliam Billings (1746-1800)

Edward McDowell (1860-1908)

Doctor

William Beaumont (1789-1853)

Director

DW Griffith (1875-1948)

Engineer

James Buchanan Eads (1820-1887)

Explorer

John Ledyard (1752-1789)

General/Warrior

George Washington (1732-1799)

Historian

George Bancroft (1800-1891)

Francis Parkman (1823-1893)

Henry Adams (1838-1818)

Humorist

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Inventor

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Journalist

Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)

Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Landscape Architect

Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852)

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)

Man

John Winthrop (1547/8-1649)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897)

Novelist

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Philanthropist

Peter Cooper (1791-1883)

Playwright

Edward Sheldon (1883-1946)

Poet

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Pianist

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

William Kapell (1922-1953)

Scientist

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

Sculptor

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

Songwriter

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

Theologian

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1756)

Urban Planner

Daniel Burnham (1846-1912)