who is a good/interesting figure to do a historical profile on?

Answer 1

Any of the presidents, there are always tons of information on them.
Lewis & Clark, Pochahontis, theres too many to name!
Your favorite sports figure. You can tell about their life to present.
Just think of someone you really like and I bet you can do alot on them.
George Washington is a sure bet though. He did alot in his lifetime. Did you know he was the one that started the French &Indian War? He's not just the father of our country as so many think.

Answer 2

Here are a bunch of ideas in no particular order.

Martin Luther King JR., in case you're interested in race relations.

Pope John Paul II, his role in ending Soviet controlled Poland is still under appreciated.

Robert Goddar, rocketry pioneer.

Audie Murphey, American war hero during WW2

Bismark, Prussian statesman who unified Germany

Napoleon Bonaparte

Francis Marion "The Gamecock" guerrila warrior of the American Revoltuion.

Robert de la Salle is a fascinating French explorer.

William Wallace, Scottish revolutionary

Charlemagne is an interesting early medieval figure.

Galen(possibly misspelled) would be difficult to research, but is a fascinating doctor during the Roman empire; way ahead of his time.

CHarles of Burgundy, Charles V Holy Roman Emperor aka Caesar. Nearly united all of Europe under his control using warfare and dynastic marriages.

William the CONquerer

Answer 3

Franklin D. Roosevelt because he was President during WWII, there is so much written about him, he started many of the social programs that we accept today as normal and he was granted a third term exception becasue of the war. Historic person from a critical time in the US and World history.

Answer 4

American Revolutionary war hero General LaFayette. He came to America as a idealistic young man. He left America as a hero and returned to his country France as a national hero for helping the Americans beat Britain. Once in France, LaFayette served King Lous XVI. Once the French revolution started, the mob respected LaFayette but still wanted to cut the king's head off. The mob won. Louis XVI lost his head. Now LaFayette had to save his own head. He did but ended up disgraced. He returned to America where he was still friends with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and other founding American fathers.

Answer 5

Charles Kuralt
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Levi Coffin ("President" of the Underground RR)
Collis Huntington (Central Pacific RR)
Theodore "Crazy Ted" Judah (RR pioneer)

These are some interesting people I've read about and people that others probably wouldn't choose.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Winston Churchill.
Churchill was a statesman, orator, author, historian and Prime Minister who rallied the British people in the Second World War and took them from the edge of defeat to victory.

Churchill’s leadership during the war is legendary. He became Prime minister when the Cabinet were on the verge of seeking terms with Hitler and Germany. But Churchill would not contemplate defeat or even a honourable truce. His saying was ‘We will never give in’. Churchill is credited with conducting the war single-handedly. He made himself Minister for War as well as being Prime Minister and delegated the running of home affairs to junior ministers. Churchill sat at his desk in the Cabinet Office, dictating memos and orders and giving instructions but letting others get on with it. Churchill’s true talent was leadership, not performance. Churchill had a bed in his office suite and habitually slept in the afternoon. He had by a side, in his office, a mixture of brandy and water, which was continually refreshed. Critics say that this put him in a continuously drunken state.

Churchill was a historian. He wrote The History of The English Speaking Peoples, an account not just of English history but also of the British Empire and United States. This work was designed to demonstrate that the British people and their colonies are a unique culture distinct from European civilisations.

Churchill was an author. His book My Early Life, although outwardly an autobiography, is in fact novel with the young Churchill as one of the characters. In the book, Churchill sits the entrance examination for Harrow but on taking the Latin paper, carefully wrote the title, his name and the question number 1. After further thought, he adds brackets to the number but cannot think of anything to write and his paper is smudged by an inkblot. Churchill’s comments on the wisdom of the headmaster in accepting him despite this is an ironic comment not on the inability of his younger self but on the educational system of the time.

Churchill was known for his eloquence and his ready wit. On being accused of being a turncoat for changing parties twice, Churchill reposted ‘anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.’ When an official criticised other writers for ending sentences with propositions, Churchill added a note ‘This is the sort of English, up with which I will not put’. On one occasion a lady heckler shouted ‘Sir, you are drunk’. Churchill replied ‘And you, madam are ugly, but I shall be sober, tomorrow!’

Answer 8

Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt is a FASCINATING example of a historical figure! She ruled Egypt as a Pharoah, a man, and did so extremely well. When you add the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death, you've got one heck of a great story to tell.

Answer 9

Richrard the Lionheart

Answer 10

Don Juan, Casanova, De Medci, Borgesi.