Picking People for the Living History Day Expo
Here are some ideas for picking a historic person.
There are also many web pages available and we provide some links below.
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Historic Time
20th Century !
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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S.
Grant, Johnass Saulk, Sojourner Truth, Brooker T.Washington, George
Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Nelson
Hiram R. Revels, Blanche Kelso Bruce, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nelson
Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, J. DuPont, Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, Charles
Dickens, Geronimo, Darwin, Tolstoy, Dostojewski, Wagner, Karl Marx,
Disraeli
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Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander
Hamilton, King George III, The Marques De Lafayette, Napolean
Bonnaparte, King Louis XIV, Louis and Clarke, Eli Whitney, Adam Smith,
Goethe, Mozart, Beethoven, Hegel,KAnt, Cathereine II, Bolivar
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Pascal, Newton, Handel, BAch, Spinoza, Descartes, Montesquieu, K'ang Hsi,
Perter I, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Locke, Moliere
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Calvin, Luther, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Copernicus, Kepler,
Gallileo, William Shakespear, Francis Bacon, William the Conqueror,
Thomas a' Becket, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Genghis Khan, Montezuma,
Isabella, Henry the Navigator, Kublai Khan, El Cid, Cardinal Richeleiu,
Lorenzo Medici, Saladin
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Leif Ericson, Charlemagne, Henry I, Otto I, Gregory I, Huan-Tsung,
Mohammed,
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Hadrian, Ptolmey, Plutarch, Loe I, Benedict, St. Patrick, Atilla,
19th Century !
18th Century
16th and 17th
Centuries !
1000AD to
1500AD
500AD to 1000AD
0AD to 500AD
Historic Person Suggestions
John Kennedy, Malcom X, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight
D.Eisenhower, Nikita Kruschev, Richard Nixon, Albert Einstein, Bob Hope,
Babe Ruth, Elvis Prestley, Charles DeGaul, Winston Churchill, Princess
Dianna, Nelson Mandella, Anwar Sadat, David BenGurion, Mahatma Gandi,
Mother Theresa, Mao Zedong, Martin Luther King, Madame Curie, Thomas
Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Kemal Ataturk,
Picasso, Max Planck, N. Bohr, Sigmund Freud, V. Lenin, Henry Ford, Bill
Gates.
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Hipocrates, St. Paul, Jesus, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Alexander
The Great, Cleopatra, Agrippa, Pompey, Caesar, , Augustus, Mark Anthony,
Claudius, Hannibal, Wen-Ti.
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Socrates, Elijah, Democritos, Xerxes, Solomon, Pericles, Thales, Buddah
500BC to 0AD
1000BC to 500BC
The following web sites have LOTS of suggestions for historic people - but be sure
to pick one that you are interested in doing!
The Hyper-History Web Site - This is comprehensive and extensive http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/people.html and shows people
from world history in several formats and from several different cultural areas (e.g.
Science,music, literature, politics).
and also at http://www.wic.org/misc/llaward.htm
73 Ancient People You Should Know:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/basics101/tp/061308famouspeople.htm
And: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
An excellent list of people from history http://www.indianchild.com/famous_people.htm
and another is at http://www.pipcom.com/~tempus/links/links/hi_peop.html
Links to Other
Pages on Picking A history of China and its historic people is at
Historic People http://chinaunique.com/educate/people.htm
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and a list of eastern/Asian historic figures: http://www.happy-science.org/easternfigures
While a history of India and timeline is at
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm
A timeline history of Mexico is at http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history.html
and a great page on historical figures of Mexican history is at
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/mexicopeople.html
A timeline England's history and people is at
http://www.britannia.com/history/time1.html
and a list of the Kings and Queens of England is at
http://www.britannia.com/history/h6f.html
One might also want to see an african american history timeline and listing of famous
african americans: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timeline.html ,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin2.html ,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin3.html
or a page on famous Japanese people at http://ocoonocoon.hubpages.com/hub/JapanTop-Ten-Historical-Figures
or a listing of people worldwide, ranked by Japanese people via a popular web site
http://www.japanprobe.com/2006/05/08/japanese-rank-their-favorite-100-historicalfigures/
or historic people of Jewish descent at:
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/search/famous-jews.html
or historic people of Middle Eastern history at:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/the_west/bios.html
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