i have a history project and need help?

Question

i have to make a project on someone from the 20th century saying how they made an impact but i want the person to be really cool like Audrey Hepburn(helped charity) or Coco Chanel (didnt do much) but im finding trouble finding someone and my friend has already taken Audrey so anyone got any ideas (the person must be really superly duperly cool)?

Answer 1

jackie kennedy


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Here is a huge list of famous 20th c people to help you with ideas
http://history1900s.about.com/library/misc/blpeople.htm

Answer 2

Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
amelia earhart
Virginia Woolfe an amazing writer
Dorothy Parker an amazing poet and had a wicked wit
Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar really touched on topics never before discussed and was utterly moving.
Kathering Hepburn- an amazing actress that played by her own rules
Mary Pickford- one of the people who started Hollywood, and a female producer and head of studio at the beginning of the century. She helped define Hollywood and broke barriers in business.
Rosa Parks
Margaret Thatcher- female prime minister
Golda Meir one of the founders of the State of Israel.


Hope this list of inspiring women help, look them up, they're all amazing in their own right!!!!

Answer 3

David Bowie:
Created a rock icon, Ziggy Stardust , killed him off, created Aladdin Sane, etc. The conceptual rock icon.
Elsa Schiaparelli:
For bringing surrealist art into clothing; influenced Zandra Rhodes, Claude Montana, Versace, Viviene Westwod,etc.
Aniarin Bevan:
for the National Health Service.
Orson Welles:
For his influence on modern cinema.
Peter Scott:
For starting up the World Wildlife Fund

Answer 4

Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter ~ co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records. Set up meeting at the United Nations For the Water for life charity, to thelp out the people in Africa to get clean water. Holds the annual "Christmas toy drive" in the Marcy Projects to give toys to the less fortunate in his old neighborhood. Among his many other achievments, he was the driving force behind the construction of the record label Roc-A-Fella Records and his positions as president of the record label Def Jam.

I think Jay-Z's pretty cool. He was born during the 20th century.

Answer 5

Bill and Melinda Gates.
Oprah Winfrey
Rosa Parks
Gloria Steinem
Princess Diana

Answer 6

Helen Keller, struck blind and deaf by a childhood illness. With the help of her teacher, the great Annie Sullivan, Helen overcame these obstacles,and went on to be an educator for the blind, and an inspirational woman of the 20th century.

Answer 7

surely the coolest person of the 20th Century was actor Steve McQueen? He did a lot for charity in his lifetime, even making the big film studios donate stuff, so that he could give it to deprived kids in care homes.

Answer 8

How about Mick Jagger? Rock star, actor, and he brought down Communism in Eastern Europe and in Russia without even firing a shot! You could certainly make a compelling case that the influence of the Rolling Stones in the Soviet Union did more to bring about the collapse of communism than anything any US president did..

Answer 9

It is apparent you are really interested in a fashion icon so I would recommend Jackie Onassis also known as Jackie O. Her fashion had a huge impact on the women of this country and she started trends my dear. Good Luck!

Answer 10

1. mahatma gandhi (i think everyone knows who he is, and calling him a holy man does not do him justice. calling him a politician is utterly incorrect. but one can say that he led india to her independence...but he was SO much more than that. many people say that [jawaharlal] nehru was too hasty in making a decision)

2. maria tallchief (she is a very famous, retired ballerina of [half] Native-American ancestry; her father was of the Osage tribe and her mother was Scotch-Irish. she had quite an impact on the performing arts)

3. richard p. feynman (famous and very humourous physicist. had a huge impact on the way physics is taught)

4. george balanchine (ballet master who redefined 20th century ballet)

5. j.k. rowling (though i don't think she has had a lot written about her; she's keeps her life very private)

6. deena kastor (american long-distance runner; one of my personal heroes)

7. paula radcliffe (british long-distance runner; another personal favourite)

8. indira gandhi (was prime minister of india and daughter of jawaharlal nehru. amazingly intelligent and compassionate lady)

9. martin luther king, jr (african-american leader who fought for black civil rights with grace and dignity)

10. hubert de givenchy (french designer of classicly tailored clothes. designed audrey hepburn's clothes in "sabrina"; had HUGE impact on the fashion world)

11. steven spielberg (one of the most talented film directorsof our time; watch his first film, "duel" it's terrifying without being gory; it's his cinematography that makes it so scary)

12. bill watterson (creator of the comic strip, "calvin&hobbes"; my favourite comic strip)

13. lance armstrong (amazingly strong-willed and candid 7- time winner of the tour de france AND cancer survivor)

14. neil armstrong (1st person on the moon)

15. jesse owens (african-american track & field athlete. read his story, you'll never believe anything is impossible again. there are many books about him. the link that follows is to an article in runner's world magazine: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--11491-0,00.html

good luck! and i'd have written about audrey too if she wasn't "taken"!

Answer 11

Billie Holiday.

Jazz, Cool, Troubled, and Complex.

You can link her life to music movements and American Culture in general.