Historical Figure Who Am I Names

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45 names

  1. Albert Einstein

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    1. I developed a famous theory about space and time.
    2. My most famous equation links energy and mass.
    3. I'm known for wild white hair and a playful tongue-out photo.

  2. Cleopatra

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    1. I was the last ruler of an ancient African kingdom.
    2. I famously charmed two powerful Roman leaders.
    3. I was the final pharaoh of Egypt.

  3. Abraham Lincoln

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    1. I was famously tall and wore a stovepipe hat.
    2. I led the United States through its Civil War.
    3. My face is on the penny and the five-dollar bill.

  4. Leonardo da Vinci

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    1. I filled notebooks with sketches of flying machines, written in mirror writing.
    2. I was an inventor, scientist, and painter all at once.
    3. I painted the Mona Lisa.

  5. Napoleon Bonaparte

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    1. I'm often painted with one hand tucked into my coat.
    2. I crowned myself emperor of France.
    3. I met my final defeat at Waterloo.

  6. George Washington

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    1. A legend says I chopped down a cherry tree as a boy.
    2. I led the Continental Army to victory.
    3. I was the first president of the United States.

  7. William Shakespeare

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    1. My plays were performed at the Globe Theatre.
    2. I wrote the line 'to be or not to be.'
    3. I created Romeo and Juliet.

  8. Mahatma Gandhi

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    1. I'm pictured in round glasses and simple homespun cloth.
    2. I led a 240-mile march to the sea to protest a salt tax.
    3. My nonviolent movement helped free India from British rule.

  9. Martin Luther King Jr.

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    1. I led a movement of marches and peaceful protest.
    2. I won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35.
    3. I told a crowd of 250,000 people, 'I have a dream.'

  10. King Tutankhamun

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    1. I became ruler of Egypt when I was about nine years old.
    2. My tomb was discovered nearly untouched in 1922.
    3. My golden burial mask is one of the most famous objects ever found.

  11. Julius Caesar

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    1. I was a Roman general who crossed the Rubicon.
    2. The month of July is named after me.
    3. I was warned to beware the Ides of March.

  12. Alexander the Great

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    1. My empire stretched from Greece all the way to India.
    2. The philosopher Aristotle was my private tutor.
    3. I became king of Macedonia at 20 and never lost a battle.

  13. Socrates

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    1. I was an ancient Greek philosopher who never wrote anything down.
    2. I taught by asking question after question, and Plato was my student.
    3. A method of teaching through questioning is named after me.

  14. Henry VIII

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    1. My search for a male heir changed an entire country's religion.
    2. I broke with Rome and made myself head of the Church of England.
    3. I was the Tudor king famous for marrying six times.

  15. Queen Elizabeth I

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    1. England's golden age of theater and exploration happened under my rule.
    2. My navy defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588.
    3. I never married, and my father was a king with six wives.

  16. Marie Antoinette

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    1. I was an Austrian-born royal who married into the French throne.
    2. I lived a famously lavish life at the Palace of Versailles.
    3. I'm remembered for a quote about cake that I probably never said.

  17. Joan of Arc

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    1. I said voices told me to save my country.
    2. As a teenage peasant girl, I led French armies in battle.
    3. Centuries later, I was declared a saint of France.

  18. Queen Elizabeth II

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    1. My face appears on more coins and banknotes than almost anyone in history.
    2. I was famous for my love of corgis and horses.
    3. I was Britain's longest-reigning monarch, on the throne for 70 years.

  19. Isaac Newton

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    1. A falling apple supposedly sparked my biggest idea.
    2. I described the laws of motion and gravity.
    3. I invented a branch of math called calculus.

  20. Charles Darwin

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    1. I sailed around the world on a ship called the Beagle.
    2. Finches in the Galápagos Islands helped shape my big idea.
    3. I wrote On the Origin of Species.

  21. Marie Curie

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    1. I was the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize.
    2. I'm still the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
    3. I discovered radium and polonium and coined the word 'radioactivity.'

  22. Thomas Edison

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    1. My New Jersey lab was nicknamed the invention factory.
    2. I held more than 1,000 patents.
    3. I perfected the electric light bulb and the phonograph.

  23. Nikola Tesla

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    1. I was a Serbian-American inventor obsessed with electricity.
    2. I championed alternating current and feuded with a famous American inventor.
    3. A well-known electric car company is named after me.

  24. Benjamin Franklin

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    1. I flew a kite in a thunderstorm to study lightning.
    2. I invented bifocals and the lightning rod.
    3. My face is on the hundred-dollar bill, though I was never president.

  25. Stephen Hawking

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    1. I spent my career studying black holes and the origins of the universe.
    2. I communicated with the world through a computer-generated voice.
    3. I wrote the bestseller A Brief History of Time.

  26. Christopher Columbus

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    1. I convinced Spain's king and queen to fund my risky voyage.
    2. I sailed west in 1492 with three ships: the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María.
    3. I thought I had reached Asia, but landed somewhere else entirely.

  27. Marco Polo

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    1. I was a Venetian merchant who traveled the Silk Road to China.
    2. My book about my travels amazed medieval Europe.
    3. Kids call out my name in a swimming-pool game.

  28. Blackbeard

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    1. Sailors often surrendered at the mere sight of my ship.
    2. I wove smoking fuses into my hair before battle to look terrifying.
    3. I was the most feared pirate of the Caribbean, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

  29. Amelia Earhart

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    1. I was a record-setting pilot in the early days of aviation.
    2. I was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
    3. I vanished over the Pacific in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

  30. Neil Armstrong

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    1. Half a billion people watched my most famous moment live on TV.
    2. I commanded the Apollo 11 mission.
    3. I said 'one small step for man' as I stepped onto the Moon.

  31. Michelangelo

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    1. I was a Renaissance artist who considered myself a sculptor first.
    2. I carved a giant marble statue of David.
    3. I spent four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

  32. Vincent van Gogh

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    1. I sold almost none of my paintings while I was alive.
    2. I painted swirling night skies and bright sunflowers.
    3. My most famous work is The Starry Night.

  33. Pablo Picasso

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    1. My career had a Blue Period and a Rose Period.
    2. I co-founded an art style called Cubism.
    3. I painted faces with both eyes on the same side.

  34. Frida Kahlo

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    1. I turned my own life and pain into vivid paintings.
    2. I'm famous for self-portraits with flowers in my hair and a bold unibrow.
    3. I was a Mexican artist who lived in a bright blue house.

  35. Galileo Galilei

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    1. I pointed a brand-new invention at the night sky and changed science forever.
    2. I discovered four moons circling Jupiter — they're named after me now.
    3. I was put on trial for insisting that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

  36. Walt Disney

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    1. I won more Academy Awards than anyone in history.
    2. I built a magical theme park in California.
    3. It all started with a cartoon mouse I created.

  37. Harry Houdini

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    1. No lock, chain, or jail cell could hold me for long.
    2. I escaped from straitjackets while hanging upside down.
    3. I was the most famous escape artist and magician of my era.

  38. Winston Churchill

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    1. I rallied my country through its darkest hour with famous speeches.
    2. I'm known for my cigar and my V-for-victory sign.
    3. I was Britain's prime minister during World War II.

  39. John F. Kennedy

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    1. I was the youngest person ever elected US president.
    2. I challenged America to reach the Moon within a decade.
    3. I said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you.'

  40. Nelson Mandela

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    1. I spent 27 years in prison and walked out without bitterness.
    2. I won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end apartheid.
    3. I became South Africa's first Black president.

  41. Rosa Parks

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    1. One quiet act of mine helped change a nation.
    2. In 1955, I refused to give up my seat on a city bus.
    3. My arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

  42. Harriet Tubman

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    1. I escaped to freedom, then kept going back to lead others out.
    2. I was called a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad.
    3. I made about 13 rescue missions and never lost a passenger.

  43. Anne Frank

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    1. I was a teenage girl whose words outlived me.
    2. My family hid for two years in a secret annex in Amsterdam.
    3. My diary became one of the most widely read books in the world.

  44. Helen Keller

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    1. I lost both my sight and my hearing as a baby.
    2. My teacher spelled words into my hand until one day 'water' clicked.
    3. I became a world-famous author and activist, and graduated from college.

  45. Mother Teresa

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    1. I devoted my life to the poorest of the poor.
    2. I founded a religious order of nuns in Kolkata, India.
    3. I won the Nobel Peace Prize and was later declared a saint.

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