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Please select a hero figure from one of these categories.
You may want to consult a general encyclopedia or biographical
dictionary for some preliminary information about some of the
people before making a final decision. If there is someone else
your team would like to reasearch, ask your English teacher for
approval before proceeding.
Activists/Politcal
Madeleine Albright
Marion Anderson
Susan B. Anthony
Corazon Aquino
Arthur Ashe
Corrie ten Boom
Bill Bradley
Cesar Chavez
Winston Churchill
W.E.B. Dubois
Medgar Evers
Indira Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
Billy Graham
Jesse Jackson
Barbara Jordan
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Nelson Mandela
Ralph Nadar
Sandra Day O'Connor
Rosa Parks
Colin Powell
Christopher Reeve
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Albert Schweitzer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Harry S. Truman
Elie Wiesel
Ryan White
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Scientists/Inventors
Ben Carson
Rachel Carson
George Washington Carver
Marie Curie
Charles R. Drew
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Jane Goodall
Stephen Hawking
Margaret Mead
Carl Sagan
Jonas Salk
Wright Brothers
Writers/Artists
Ansel Adams
Marion Anderson
Maya Angelou
Margaret Bourke-White
Pearl Buck
Walt Disney
Anne Frank
Lorraine Hansberry
Langston Hughes
Maya Lin
Toni Morrison
Georgia O'Keefe
Gordon Parks
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alice Walker
Elie Wiesel
Frank Lloyd Wright
Humanitarians
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Betty Ford
Billy Graham
Helen Keller
Nelson Mandela
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mother Teresa
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Entertainment
Arthur Ashe
Bill Cosby
Jose Feliciano
Jim Henson
Bob Hope
George Lucas
Marlee Matlin
Christopher Reeve
Oprah Winfrey
Sports
Jim Abbott
Hank Aaron
Arthur Ashe
Bill Bradley
Roberto Clemente
Lou Gehrig
Billie Jean King
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Wilma Rudolf
Jim Thorpe
Serena and Venus Williams
Tiger Woods
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Miscellaneous
Amelia Earhart (aviatrix)
Jacques Cousteau (explorer, conservationist)
Walter Cronkite (reporter & television news anchor)
Lee Iacocca corporate executive, entrepreneur)
Bill Gates (computer designer, corporate executive)
John Glenn (astronaut)
Steven Jobs (computer designer, corporate executive)
Chief Joseph (former leader of Nez Perce tribe)
Charles Lindbergh (aviator, social commentator)
Christa McAuliffe (teacher/astronaut)
Alan Shapard (astronaut)
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