· Richard Basseti - Governor of DE
· William Blount - U.S. Senator
· George Clymer - U.S. Representative
· William Few - U.S. Senator
· Benjamin Franklin
· William Houston – Lawyer
· William S. Johnson
· William Livingston - Governor of NJ
· James Madison - 4th U.S. President
· George Mason - Justice of VA
· John Francis Mercer - U.S. Rep.
· Charles Pickney III - Governor of SC
· John Rutledge - Chief Justice
· Richard D. Spaight - Governor of NC
· George Washington
· John Witherspoon
· George Wythe - Justice of VAPresidents
· John Adams
· John Quincy
Adams
· Grover
Cleveland
· James
Garfield
· William
Henry Harrison
· Andrew
Jackson
· Thomas
Jefferson
· Abraham
Lincoln
· James
Madison
· Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
· Theodore
Roosevelt
· John Tyler
· George
Washington
· Woodrow
Wilson
Statesmen
· Konrad Adenauer
· Henry
Fountain Ashurst
· William
Jennings Bryan
· Winston
Churchill
· Henry Clay
· Pierre du Pont
· Benjamin Franklin
· Alexander Hamilton
· Patrick Henry
· William Penn
· Daniel Webster
Military Leaders
· John Barry - Senior Navy Officer
· Stonewall Jackson - Civil War General
· John Paul Jones - Father of the
American Navy
· Robert E. Lee - Civil War General
· Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General
· George Patton - U.S. General
· Matthew Perry - naval officer who
opened up trade with Japan
· John Pershing - U.S. General
· David Dixon Porter - Civil War
Admiral
U.S. Supreme Court Judges
· John Jay
· John
Marshall
· John
Rutledge
· Sandra Day
O'Connor
Scientists
· George Washington Carver
· Pierre Curie
· Albert Einstein
· Michael Faraday - electrochemist
· Oliver Heaviside - physicist and
electromagnetism researcher
· T.H. Huxley
· Blaise Pascal
· Booker T. Washington
Artists
· William Blake
· John
Singleton Copley
· Claude
Monet
· Grandma
Moses
· Charles
Peale
· Leonardo da
Vinci
· Andrew
Wyeth
· Jamie Wyeth
Religious Leaders
· Joan of Arc
· William
Carey
· Jonathan Edwards
· Philipp
Melancthon
· Dwight L.
Moody
· John Newton
· John Owen
· Hudson
Taylor
· John &
Charles Wesley
· Brigham
Young
Inventors
· Alexander Graham Bell - invented the
telephone
· John Moses Browning - firearms
inventor and designer
· Peter Cooper - invented skyscraper,
built first U.S. commercial locomotive
· Thomas Edison - invented the stock
ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb
· Benjamin Franklin - invented the
lightning rod
· Elias Howe - invented sewing machine
· William Lear - airplane creator
· Cyrus McCormick - invented grain
reaper
· Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio
· Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin
· Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo
jet engine
· Orville and Wilbur Wright -
built the first successful airplane
Composers
· Irving Berlin
· Anton
Bruckner
· Noel Coward
· Felix
Mendelssohn
· Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
· Francis
Poulenc
· John Philip
Sousa
Writers
· Hans
Christian Anderson
· Margaret
Atwood
· Pearl S. Buck
· William F.
Buckley, Jr.
· Willa
Cather
· Agatha
Christie
· Samuel
Clemens (Mark Twain)
· Charles
Dickens
· Robert
Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
· Charlotte Perkins Gilman
· Alex Haley
· Brett Harte
· L. Ron
Hubbard
· C.S. Lewis
· Amy Lowell
· Gabriela
Mistral
· Sean
O'Casey
· Christopher
Paolini - author of #1 NY Times bestseller, Eragon
· Isabel Paterson
· Beatrix
Potter - author of the beloved Peter Rabbit Tales
· Carl Sandburg
· George
Bernard Shaw
· Mattie J.
T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs
· Mercy Warren
· Phillis
Wheatley
· Walt
Whitman
· Laura
Ingalls Wilder
Educators
· Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative
teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott
· Catharine Beecher - co-founder of the
Hartford Female Seminary
· Jill Ker Conway - first woman
president of Smith College
· Timothy Dwight - President of Yale
University
· William Samuel Johnson - President of
Columbia College
· Horace Mann - "Father of the
American Common School"
· Charlotte Mason - Founder of
Charlotte Mason College of Education
· Fred Terman - President of Stanford
University
· Frank Vandiver - President of Texas
A&M University
· Booker T. Washington - Founder of
Tuskegee Institute
· John Witherspoon - President of
Princeton University
Performing Artists
· Louis Armstrong - king of jazz
· Charlie Chaplin - actor
· Whoopi Goldberg - actress
· Hanson - sibling singing group
· Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress
· Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy
violinist
· Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson
· Frankie Muniz - child actor
· LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy country
music singer
Business Entrepreneurs
· Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel
industrialist
· Amadeo Giannini - Bank of America’s
founder
· Horace Greeley - New York Tribune
founder
· Soichiro Honda - creator of the Honda
automobile company
· Peter Kindersley - book illustrator
and publisher
· Ray Kroc - founder of McDonald's fast
food restaurant chain
· Jimmy Lai - newspaper publisher;
founder of Giordano International
· Dr. Orison Swett Marden - founder,
Success magazine
· Adolph Ochs - New York Times founder
· Joseph Pulitzer - newspaper
publisher; established Pulitzer Prize
· Colonel Harland Sanders - started
Kentucky Fried Chicken
· Dave Thomas - founder of the Wendy’s
restaurant chain
Others
· Abigail Adams - Wife of John Adams;
mother of John Quincy Adams
· Ansel Adams - Photographer
· Susan B. Anthony - reformer and
women’s rights leader
· John James Audubon - ornithologist
and artist
· Clara Barton - Started the Red Cross
· Elizabeth Blackwell - first woman in
the U.S. to receive a medical degree
· John Burroughs - Naturalist
· George Rogers Clark - Explorer
· Davy Crockett - frontiersman
· Eric Hoffer - social philosopher
· Sam Houston - lawyer; first president
of the Republic of Texas
· Charles Evans Hughes - jurist; Chief
Justice
· Mary D. Leakey - fossil hunter; wife
of Richard Leakey
· Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier
· Harriet Martineau - first woman
sociologist
· Margaret Mead - cultural
anthropologist
· John Stuart Mill - Free-market
Economist
· Charles Louis Montesquieu -
Philosopher
· John Muir - naturalist
· Florence Nightingale - Nurse
· Thomas Paine - political writer
during the American Revolution
· Bill Ridell - Newspaperman
· Will Rogers - Humorist
· Bertrand Russell - Logician
· Jim Ryan - World Runner
· Albert Schweitzer - Physician
· Sir Ernest Shackleton - Explorer
· Herbert Spencer - philosopher,
sociologist
· Gloria Steinem - founder and
long-time editor of Ms. magazine
· Jason Taylor - plays in the National
Football League
· Mary Walker - Civil War physician;
recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
· Lester Frank Ward - "Father of
American Sociology"
· Martha Washington - wife of
George
Washington
· Frances E. C. Willard - educator,
temperance leader, and suffragist
· Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect
· Elijah ben Solomon Zalman - Jewish
scholar
Famous
Homeschool Parents
Will Smith - singer, actor
· Michael Card - singer, songwriter
· Mike Farris - lawyer and co-founder
of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet
· Christopher Klicka - attorney and
Senior Counsel of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· Len Munsil - attorney and President
of The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP)
· Paul Overstreet - musician,
songwriter
· Kelly Preston - actress, wife of John
Travolta
· Mike Smith - lawyer and co-founder of
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· John Travolta - actor, pilot
· Lisa Whelchel - former actress,
"The Facts of Life", now a pastor's wife and author
