Plz add a link so I can do some reaserch.
2007-12-18 23:47:38 · 6 answers · asked by Jesse M 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Today it has to be Bill Gates. He's chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. The annual Forbes magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked Gates as the richest person in the world from 1995 to 2007, with recent estimates putting his net worth over $56 billion USD. Bill Gates donates large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
2007-12-18 23:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by bobe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, he was Black and
during the slavery days.
2. Henry Ford -Advancement in transportation(Automobile)
1900's .
3. Wright brothers-Invented the airplane. Helped to create
closer links to other nations.
4 Elizabeth Stanton -Womens rights. Reformer
5. Frederick Douglas - Anti-slavery
6. Harriet Tubman- Led slaves to freedom. "Underground
Railroad."
I hope these suggestion help!
2007-12-19 00:17:59 · answer #2 · answered by Snoot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many, but here are some:
- Abraham Lincoln (American president during the civil war)
- Jefferson Davis (President of the Confederate Union during the civil war)
- Thomas Jefferson (one the men who signed the American Decleration of independence and later president)
- Thomas Alva Edison (Physicist and inventor of the phonograph and the light bulb amongst other things)
- Adam Smith (Economist)
- John Adams (President)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (president during most of WW2)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (Roosevelt's succesor as president in 1945 who decided to use the atomic bombs on Japan to end WW2)
- James Stewart (famous actor and bomber pilot during
WW2)
- Cary Grant (famous actor)
- Albert Einstein (Of German descent one of most famous physicists and inventors in history. Introduced the Theory of Relativity).
- George Lucas (author of the "Star Wars" scripts).
- Jack London (author of "White Fang" and "Martin Eden" and other famous books).
- Edgar Allan Poe (authour of short stories and poems such as "The Fall of House Usher" and "The Raven").
And many others!
2007-12-19 00:14:34 · answer #3 · answered by robynn144 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Perry House
www.perryhousestratford.com
2007-12-18 23:55:47 · answer #4 · answered by timberline06450 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean famous from something other than politics?
Politicians:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Not politicians (at least when they started):
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Edison
Ronald Reagan
2007-12-18 23:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by Yun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe its franklin roosevelt. he is the only US president to be elected for times. he was able to carry US to escape the great depression and even during the world war. so amazing.
2007-12-18 23:52:50 · answer #6 · answered by pao d historian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋