List of Heroes

List of Heroes

Jane Addams

Susan B. Anthony

Clara Barton

Mary McLeod Bethune

Elizabeth Blackwell

Rachel Carson

Jimmy Carter

George Washington Carver

Mary Cassatt

Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta

Roberto Clemente

Bill Cosby

Walt Disney

Frederick Douglass

Thomas Alva Edison

Albert Einstein

Benjamin Franklin

John Glenn

Martha Graham

Matthew Henson

Milton Hershey

Langston Hughes

Thomas Jefferson

Helen Keller

Anne Sullivan

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robert E. Lee

Meriwether Lewis

William Clark

Sacagawea

Abraham Lincoln

Yo-Yo Ma

George C. Marshall

John Muir

Sandra Day O'Connor

Rosa Parks

I. M. Pei

Christopher Reeve

Cal Ripken Jr.

Jackie Robinson

Branch Rickey

Roy Rogers

Dale Evans

Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Jonas Salk

Tecumseh

Harry S. Truman

Harriet Tubman

George Washington

Ida B. Wells

Elie Wiesel

List from 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet written by Dennis Denenberg and Lorraine Roscoe

Team Hoyt*

Mr. Rogers

Miep Gies*

Norman Borlaug*

John Lennon

Jesse Owens

Bella Abzug*

Dan West*

Steven Spielberg

Charlie Chaplin

Officer Frank Shankwitz*

Mark Twain

Neil Armstrong

Paul Newman

Pele

Barbara Johns*

Aung San Suu Kyi*

Eli Segal*

Andy Miyares*

Clara Hale*

Harper Lee*

Lou Gehrig

Chelsey B. Sullenberger III*

List from heroes for my son written by Brad Meltzer

Joan Ganz Cooney

Audrey Hepburn

Carol Burnett

Alex Scott*

Dorothy Day

Judy Blume

Julia Child

Golda Meir

Stevie Wonder

Nancy G. Brinker*

Tina Turner

Wangari Maathai*

Dolly Parton

Elizabeth Blackburn*

Rochelle Shoretz*

Billie Jean King

Temple Grandin

Dalai Lama

Thurgood Marshall

Hannah Senesh

List from heroes for my daughter written by Brad Meltzer

Abigail Adams

Muhammad Ali

Marian Anderson

Maya Angelou

Johnny Appleseed

Joan of Arc

Louis Armstrong

Arthur Ashe

Alexander Graham Bell

Ruby Bridges

Michaelangelo Buonarroti

Leonardo DaVinci

Diana: Princess of Wales

Amelia Earhart

Marian Wright Edelman

Duke Ellington

Ella Fitzgerald

Henry Ford

Anne Frank

Galileo Galilei

Mahatma Gandhi

Thedore Seuss Geisel

Jane Goodall

Wayne Gretzky

Jim Henson

Harry Houdini

Chief Joseph

Coretta Scott King

Dorothea Lang

Juliette Gordon Low

Nelson Mandela

A.A. Milne

Maria Montessori

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Florence Nightingale

Annie Oakley

Louis Pasteur

Helen Beatrix Potter

Dr. Sally Ride

Betsy Ross

Wilma Rudolph

Mother Theresa

Sojourner Truth

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Oprah Winfrey

Babe Didrickson Zaharias

Ralph Bunche

Will and Charlie Mayo

Nellie Bly

Thomas and Orville Wright

Margaret Mead

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Charles Dickens

Christopher Columbus

Hans Christian Andersen

Will Rogers

Cochise

Albert Schweitzer

Elizabeth Fry

Lucille Ball

Josephine Baker

Madame Curie

Evita Peron

Martha Graham

Mother Jones

Mae West

Wu Zhao

Barack Obama

Dan Marino

John F. Kennedy

Satchel Paige

Oscar Pistorius*