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History 1302 - 20th Century People Who Changed Us
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A
  1. Bella Abzug
  2. Jane Addams
  3. Madaleine Albright
  4. Muhammed Ali
  5. Idi Amin
  6. Marian Anderson
  7. Maya Angelou
  8. Louis Armstrong
  9. Neil Armstrong
B
  1. Leo Baekeland
  2. Josephine Baker
  3. James Baldwin
  4. Lucille Ball
  5. Clyde Barrow (and Bonnie Parker)
  6. Beatles
  7. Simon de Beauvoir
  8. Stephen Bechtel
  9. Harry Belafonte
  10. David Ben-Gurion
  11. Tim Berners-Lee
  12. Mary Bethune
  13. Marlon Brando
  14. James Brown
  15. Louise Brown
  16. Leo Burnett
C
  1. Al Capone
  2. Willis Carrier
  3. Rachel Carson
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Willa Cather
  6. Carrie Chapman Catt
  7. Coco Chanel
  8. Charlie Chaplin
  9. Ray Charles
  10. Cesar Chavez
  11. Shirley Chisolm
  12. Agatha Christie
  13. Winston Churchill
  14. Dick Clark
  15. Bill & Hillary Clinton
  16. Nat King Cole
  17. Sam Cooke
  18. Bill Cosby
  19. Jacques Cousteau
  20. Father Coughlin
  21. Frances Crick (and James Watson)
  22. Walter Cronkite
  23. Marie Curie
  24. Leon Czolgosz
D
  1. Angela Davis
  2. Bette Davis
  3. Eugene Debs
  4. Charles DeGualle
  5. Dolores Del Rio
  6. Father Devine
  7. John Dewey
  8. Princess Diana
  9. Babe Didrickson
  10. Christian Dior
  11. Walt Disney
  12. W. E. B. DuBois
  13. Isadora Duncan
  14. Will and Ariel Durant
  15. Bob Dylan
E
  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  3. Albert Eistein
  4. T. S. Eliot
  5. Queen Elizabeth II
  6. Duke Ellington
  7. James Reese Europe
F
  1. Philo Farnsworth
  2. John Henry Faulk
  3. William Faulkner
  4. Enrico Fermi
  5. Geraldine Ferraro
  6. Ella Fitzgerald
  7. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. Alexander Fleming
  9. Larry Flint
  10. Jane Fonda
  11. Henry Ford
  12. Anne Frank
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Betty Friedan
  15. Aretha Franklin
  16. Robert Frost
G
  1. Indira Gandhi
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Marcus Garvey
  4. Bill Gates
  5. Marvin Gaye
  6. George Gershwin
  7. A. P. Gianni
  8. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  9. Allen Ginsberg
  10. John Glenn
  11. Robert Goddard
  12. Kurt Godel
  13. Emma Goldman
  14. Samuel Gompers
  15. Jane Goodall
  16. Mikhail Gorbachev
  17. Billy Graham
  18. Katherine Graham
  19. Martha Graham
  20. D. W. Griffith
  21. Che Guevero
  22. Woody Guthrie
H
  1. Alex Haley
  2. Hugh Hefner
  3. Joseph Heller
  4. Ernest Hemingway
  5. Jimi Hendrix
  6. Sonja Henje
  7. Jim Henson
  8. Katherine Hepburn
  9. Anita Hill
  10. Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
  11. Hirohito
  12. Alfred Hitchcock
  13. Adolph Hitler
  14. Ho Chi Minh
  15. Billie Holliday
  16. J. Edgar Hoover
  17. Houdini
  18. Edwin Hubble
  19. Rock Hudson
  20. Dolores Huerta
  21. Langston Hughes
I
  1. Lee Iacocca
J
  1. Jesse Jackson
  2. Michael Jackson
  3. John Paul II
  4. Lyndon B. Johnson
  5. Jim Jones
  6. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
  7. Janis Joplin
  8. Scott Joplin
  9. Barbara Jordan
  10. Michael Jordan
  11. James Joyce
K
  1. Robert Kahn
  2. Helen Keller
  3. The Kennedys
  4. Jomo Kenyatta
  5. Jack Kerouac
  6. Jackie Joyner Kersee
  7. John Maynard Keynes
  8. Ayatolla Khomeini
  9. BB King
  10. Billie Jean King
  11. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  12. Ray Kroc
L
  1. The Leakeys
  2. Timothy Leary
  3. Le Corbusier
  4. Bruce Lee
  5. Harper Lee
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. William Levitt
  8. Jerry Lewis
  9. John L. Lewis
  10. Liberace
  11. Annie Liebowitz
  12. Charles Lindbergh
  13. John Lomax
  14. Huey P. Long
  15. Joe Louis
  16. Lucky Luciano
  17. Patrice Lumumba
M
  1. Douglas MacArthur
  2. Madonna
  3. Malcolm X
  4. Nelson Mandella
  5. Chief Wilma Mankiller
  6. Charles Manson
  7. Mao Zedong (Tse Tung)
  8. Guglielmo Marconi
  9. Bob Marley
  10. Thurgood Marshall
  11. Louis B. Mayer
  12. Joseph McCarthy
  13. Hattie McDaniel
  14. Aimee Semple McPherson
  15. Margaret Mead
  16. Golda Meir
  17. Charles Merrill
  18. Harvey Milk
  19. Carmen Miranda
  20. Margaret Mitchell
  21. Martha Mitchell
  22. Marilyn Monroe
  23. J. P. Morgan
  24. Toni Morison
  25. Akio Morita
  26. Mother Teresa
  27. Benito Mussolini
N
  1. Chester Nimitz
  2. Richard Nixon
O
  1. Sandra Day O'Connor
  2. Georgia O'Keefe
  3. Robert Oppenheimer
  4. George Orwell
  5. Lee Harvey Oswald
  6. Jesse Owens
P
  1. Emmeline Pankhurst
  2. Bonnie Parker (and Clyde Barrow)
  3. Rosa Parks
  4. Alice Paul
  5. Pele'
  6. Selena Quintanilla Perez
  7. Frances Perkins
  8. Commodore Perry
  9. Jean Piaget
  10. Picasso
  11. Colin Powell
  12. Elvis Presley
  13. Gavrilo Princip
Q
R
  1. Ma Rainey
  2. A. Philip Randolph
  3. Jeanette Rankin
  4. Ronald Reagan
  5. Walter Reuther
  6. Sally Ride
  7. The Rockefellers
  8. Knute Rockne
  9. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
  10. Jackie Robinson
  11. Rodgers & Hammerstein
  12. Will Rogers
  13. The Roosevelts
  14. Pete Rozell
  15. Babe Ruth
  16. Ernest Rutherford
S
  1. Anwar Sadat
  2. Andrei Sakharov
  3. Jonas Salk
  4. Haile Sallassie
  5. Carl Sandburg
  6. Margaret Sanger
  7. Abe Saperstein
  8. David Sarnoff
  9. Albert Schweitzer
  10. Bugsy Segal
  11. Alan Shepherd
  12. William Simmons
  13. O. J. Simpson
  14. Frank Sinatra
  15. Upton Sinclair
  16. William Shockley
  17. Bessie Smith
  18. Stephen Spielberg
  19. Benjamin Spock
  20. Joseph Stalin
  21. Gertrude Stein
  22. Gloria Steinem
  23. John Steinbeck
  24. Igor Stravinsky
  25. Ed Sullivan
  26. Billy Sunday
T
  1. Ida Tarbell
  2. Margaret Thatcher
  3. Hunter Thompson
  4. Jim Thorpe
  5. Frances Townsend
  6. Juan Trippe
  7. Harry Truman
  8. Barbara Tuchman
  9. Alan Turing
  10. Tina Turner
U
  1. Unknown Rebel at Tianemen Square
V
  1. "Pancho" Villa
W
  1. Barbara Walters
  2. Sam Walton
  3. Andy Warhol
  4. Booker T. Washington
  5. James Watson & Frances Crick
  6. Thomas Watson, Jr.
  7. Sarah Weddington
  8. Lech Welensa
  9. Ida Wells-Barnett
  10. Mae West
  11. Esther Williams
  12. Tennessee Williams
  13. Ian Wilmut
  14. Bill Wilson
  15. Oprah Winfrey
  16. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  17. Virginia Woolf
  18. Frank Lloyd Wright
  19. Orville and Wilbur Wright
X-Y-Z
  1. Vladimir Zwoykin
Resources for this Page included:
Modern Library - 100 Best Nonfiction 20th Century English-Speaking Books
The Time (Magazine) 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century
20th Century VIPs
20th Century's Most Important People
20th Century Women
Peoples' Century (PBS)
The 1900s
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
100 Best of the Century - African Descent
The Top 100 This and Thats of the 20th Century
100 T.V. Shows That Mattered
CNN Video Almanac 1980-1997
My Own Contributions
Exercise

Identifies any 25 of these people.
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