I need a famous person that was the first of thier kind!?

Question

for example it "can't" be Neal Armstrong because he was not the "first" of his kind to go into space,

I doesn't have to be about people in space

Answer 1

How about :

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi - Statue of Liberty
Earned U.S. Patent #11,023 for a "Design for a Statue".

Alexander Graham Bell
Bell and the telephone -- the history of the telephone and cellular phone history.

Charles Babbage
English mathematician that invented a precursor to the computer.

John Backus
The first high level computer programming language, Fortran was written by John Backus and IBM.

Tim Berners-Lee
Invented the World Wide Web and HTML or hypertext markup language.

Hope these helped!

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Answer 2

How about Margaret-Bourke-White? She was a first as a female photojournalist on many levels. In her time, women everywhere regarded Bourke-White as their ideal. From 1936, when she was named one of the ten most outstanding women, to 1965, when she was chosen one of the top ten living American women of the twentieth century, she was constantly in the public eye as a woman of achievement.

She was a true dare-devil, as she took camera in hand, while galloping across Russia on horseback, climbed onto an ornamental gargoyle sixty-one stories above a New York sidewalk, survived a torpedo attack and accompanied a major bombing mission in World War II. She was a true American heroine.

Answer 3

Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr[1] von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and the United States. The German scientist who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen and worked on the American ICBM program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the United States to the Moon.[1] He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program while also remembered as head of the team that designed the Nazi V-2 rockets that killed more than 7,000 people in Britain in 1944 and 1945, in addition to a heavy death toll of slave workers involved in the construction of the rockets.

Answer 4

Chuck Yaeger first man to break the sound barrier.

Elizabeth Hoisington first female Brigadier General in the USA.

Answer 5

Look up an African American
They were the first for a lot and it's Black History month...
It should be very interesting
How about George Washington Carver-The guy who invented peanutbutter

Answer 6

Dracula, Einstein, Henry Ford, Michael Jackson, Elvis, Forrest Gump, Superman, but the most qualified is Adam ( husband of Eve).

Answer 7

You're right... Uri Gagarin would be the first man into space

Answer 8

Adam. Was the first person created.

Answer 9

but he was the first of his kind to walk on the moon.

how about George Washington - First President of the US.

Answer 10

Nostradamus never was or has been anything before him or since him like him. HMmmm too many hims in that sentece me thinks.