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Photos of Famous Scientists

Niel deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist and Author

Charles Drew

Father of the Blood Bank

Edwin Hubble

AstronomerCreated a galactic classification system

Katherine Johnson

Physicist, Scientist, Mathematician for NASA

John B. Herrington

Chicasaw Indian Astronaut

Sarah Boone

Inventor of the ironing board

Franklin Chang-D i az

Hispanic-American Astronaut

Emmett Chappell

Discovered light-emitting chemical in living organisms

Dr. Dan Hale Williams

Performed one of the first open-heart surgeries

Galileo Galilei

Father of modern scienceAstronomer, Mathematician, Philosophy

Ellen Ochoa

Hispanic-American Astronaut

Rick Kittles

Biologist of human genetics

Photos of Famous Inventors

Amar Bose

Indian AmericanWorld’s Leading Premium Audio Maker

George Washington Carver

Inventor – Discovered hundreds of uses for peanuts, soy beans, sweet potatos

Madame CJ Walker

Invented Hair Products Becoming the Country’s First African American Woman

Millionaire

Percy Lavon Julian

Developed medicinal drugs from soybeans

Rachel Carson

Pioneer in environmentalism

Lonnie George Johnson

Inventor of the Super Soaker

Alexander Graham Bell Shirley Ann Jackson

Invented the telephone Physicist and first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT

Inventor in telecommunications

Garrett Morgan

Invented the first traffic signal

Photos of Famous Historical Figures

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

African-American Civil Rights Activist

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani activist for female educationYoungest-ever Nobel Prize Laureate

Mary White Ovington

Journalist and co-founder of the NAACP

Mahatma Ghandi

India Anti-War Activist

Booker T. Washington

Influential African-American intellectualFounder of Tuskegee Institute

Advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft

Barak Hussein Obama

First African-American President of the US.

Thurgood Marshall Mae Carol Jemison Crazy Horse

First African-American Supreme Court Justice

First African American Woman in SpaceNative American War Leader who fought against the US government to keep them

from encroaching on Native lands.

Frederick Douglass

African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

Benjamin Banneker

Mathematician and Astronomer

Elbert Frank Cox

First African-American Man to Earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Langston Hughes Maya Angelou Ben Carson

Famous African-American Poet African-American Poet Neurosurgeon

Mathematicians

Annie Easley

Mathematician

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Mathematician

Katherine G. Johnson

Mathematician

Percy A. Pierre

Mathematician

Ada Lovelace

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was a British mathematician and writer, chiefly known

for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the

Analytical Engine

Sir Isaac Newton

Famous for Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Facilitated understanding of mechanical principals.

David Blackwell

African-American Mathematician

Euphemia Haynes

First African-American Woman to Earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Albert Einstein

PhysicistTheory of Relativity

Civil Rights Activists

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Activist

W.E.B. DuBois

Civil Rights Activist

Booker T. Washington

Influential African-American intellectualFounder of Tuskegee Institute

Advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and TaftMalcom X

Civil Rights Activist

Walter White

Civil Rights Activist

Cesar Chavez

Civil Rights Activist

Medgar Evans

Civil Rights Activist

Betty Friedan

American writer, activist, and feministWomen’s Rights Movement Leader

Harry Hay

Gordon Hirabayashi Harish Iyer Mary White Ovington

Sociologist/Activist LGBTQ Rights ActivistCo-founder of the NAACP

Phyllis Lyon

Feminist/Activist

Fred Korematsu

Civil Rights Activist

Notable Politicians

Barak Obama

First US African American President

Hillary Clinton

67th Secretary of State, former 1st Lady, NY State Senator, candidate for President

Colin Powell

Retired 4-Star General in US Army65th Secretary of State

Condeleeza Rice

66th Secretary of StateAmerican political scientist and diplomat

Sarah Palin

First Republican woman nominated for Vice President of the US and Governor of Alaska

Thurgood Marshall

US Supreme Court JusticeCivil Rights Activist

Photos of Famous Entertainers

Beyonce Enrique Common Jay-Z

L-MO Taylor Swift Iggy Azalia Ciara

Photos of Famous Sports FiguresBasketball Football Tennis Track

Scotty PipkinsTroy Polamalu

Serena Williams

Leonel Manzano

Skylar Diggins

Brett Keisel

Michael Chang

Lolo Jones

Yao Ming Junior Seau

Sunitha Rao

Tahmina Kostani

Manu Ginóbili Kwame Harris James Blake Florence Delorez

Michael JordanPeyton Manning

Zina Garrison

Carl Lewis

Famous Historical Sports Figures

Jessie Owens

USA’s first African-American Olympic Gold Medalist

Rebecca Adlington

Rebecca Adlington, 19: Britain’s first female swimming gold medalist for 48 years, made it a double by adding

the 800m freestyle gold five days after winning the 400m freestyle.

Florence Joyner-Kersee

Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Owner

Marlin Cilic Jackie Robinson Rory McIlroy

US Open Winner 2014US’s first African-American to cross over from

the Negro Baseball League to the mostly white professional baseball league.

US Open Golf Winner 2011

Lucy Li

Eleven-Year-Old US Open Golfer

Serena Williams

US Open Winner

Karch Kiraly

Three-Time Olympic Volleyball Champion