jesusunzueta89 wrote:I have a Long list on this matter:
Famous people of the Twentieth Century
Famous political figures of the Twentieth Century
Winston Churchill (British PM during WWII)
Martin Luther King (Leader of civil rights movement in US)
Nelson Mandela (opposition to Apartheid, S.A. first black president)
Mahatma Gandhi (Key figure in Indian independence)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (US President 1932-1944)
John Paul II (Roman Catholic Pope)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) US President (1901-09)
Adolf Hitler (German leader 1933-45)
Joseph Stalin (Leader of Soviet Union)
V.I. Lenin (First leader of Communist Soviet Union)
Dwight Eisenhower (US President and General in WWII)
Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) US President 1981-89
Woodrow Wilson (Inspirer of League of Nations)
Margaret Thatcher (British PM in 1980s)
Charles de Gaulle (French President)
Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian President after independence 1947)
John F Kennedy (US President 1960-1963)
Mikhail Gorbachev (Leader of Soviet Union 1981-1990)
Hilary Clinton (US Secretary of State 2012- )
Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan Prime Minister)
Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Laureate)
Ataturk (Father of modern Turkey)
Boris Yeltsin (Elected Russian president)
Kofi Annan (UN Secretary General)
Dalai Lama (Spiritual Leader of Tibet)
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese opposition leader)
Lyndon Johnson (US president 1963-68)
Indira Gandhi (Indian Prime Minister)
Eva Peron (Argentinian First lady)
Malcolm X US Leader Nation of Islam and social activist (1925 – 1965)
Tony Blair (1953 – )(UK Prime Minister 1997-)
Bill Clinton (US President 1992-2000)
Famous Humanitarians of the Twentieth Century
Mother Teresa (charity)
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962) Oversaw drafting of UN declaration of Human Rights.
Rosa Parks (civil rights movement in US)
Princess Diana (1961-1997) (charities such as AIDS
Raisa Gorbachev
Abbe Pierre – French, founder of Emmaus
Albert Schweitzer
Ellie Wiesel
Famous Scientists of the Twentieth Century
Albert Einstein (quantum physics)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian/US physicist, inventor.
Marie Curie 1867–1934) Polish born French chemist and physicist
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scottish scientist. Discovered penicillin.
John Logie Baird (1888–1946) Scottish inventor of tv.
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) Italian scientist of nuclear reactor.
Stephen Hawking (1942 – 2018) Simplified physics
Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958) Discovering DNA
Tim Berners-Lee (1955– ) British inventor of WWW.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), United States – Atomic bomb
Famous artists of the Twentieth Century
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Coco Chanel (1883-1971 ) French designer
David Hockney
Edvard Munch
Famous Writers of the Twentieth Century
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) author of Animal Farm and 1984
J.R.R.Tolkien (1892 – 1973) author of Lord of the Rings
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) The Great Gatsby
Oscar Wilde
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American writer
John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) American writer – Grapes of Wrath.
Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) Jewish diarist during WWII.
J.K.Rowling (1965 – ) Harry Potter series
Virginia Woolf
Germaine Greer
Beatrix Potter
C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) Irish / English author of Chronicles of Narnia
Wilfred Owens
Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet.
Famous Sportsmen / women of Twentieth Century
Pele (Brazil, football)
Jesse Owens (1936 four-time Olympic gold medalist)
Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) US baseball
Muhammed Ali (Boxing, civil rights activist)
Roger Bannister (1929 -) (ran first sub 4 minute mile)
Carl Lewis nine-time Olympic gold medallist.
Bobby Moore
Emile Zatopek – Czech, four times Olympic gold medallist.
Sir Donald Bradman (1908 – 2001) Australia cricket
Eddy Merckx (1945 – ) Belgian cyclist
George Best – N.Irish footballer
David Beckham (1975 – )English footballer
Diego Maradona (1960 – ) Argentina footballer
Tegla Laroupe
Michael Jordan
Sachin Tendulkar (1973 – ) (India, cricket)
Billie Jean King (1943 – ) US tennis player
Aryton Senna (1960 – 1994)
Lewis Hamilton
Nadia Comaneci (1961 – ) Romania, gymnastics
Magic Johnson (1959 – ) (US, Basketball)
Imran Khan (1952 – ) (Pakistan, cricket)
Famous Businessmen of the Twentieth Century
Bill Gates – Founder of Microsoft
Richard Branson – Founder of Virgin Empire
Al Capone (1899-1947) US Gangster
Henry Ford (1864-1947) US car producer
Steve Jobs (1955 -2011)
Famous Actors / Actresses of Twentieth Century
Audrey Hepburn
Michael Caine (1933-) Actor and writer
Richard Burton
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American actress
Sir Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) British/American actor film producer.
Alec Guinness
Peter Sellers
Richard Attenborough
Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) – American actress
Julie Andrews (1935 – ) British actress in ‘Mary Poppins’
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) – English / American film producer.
Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) American film producer
Michael Moore (1954 – ) US film producer
Famous People other Categories
John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) British Economist
Oprah Winfrey (TV personality)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) Wife JFK.
Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) First man on moon
Lord Baden Powell (1857 – 1941) Founder of Scouting movement
I was going to comment but this list pretty much covered all of history. There are some very strong contenders on the list that should have a pop.
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