Famous People

Martin Luther King (1929-1968)

*African American civil rights movement

*youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner

*racial segregation and discrimination

*Pacifist

*assassinated in 1968

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

*Theory of relativity

*Physicist

*Jewish

*E=mc2

*"Nice job, Einstein!"

Yi Sun-sin (1545-1598)

*Naval admiral

*Victories against Japanese navy

*Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598)

*Turtle ships

*Iron roof

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947 - )

*Bodybuilder

*Actor – Terminator, Predator

*Governor of California

*”Austrian Oak”

Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

*Indian Independence Movement

*Satyagraha - resistance

*Non-violent protests

*Hunger Strike

*Pacifist

*Assassinated

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

*President of USA

*Ended slavery in 1863 “emancipation”

*Assassinated in Theater

*shot in the head

Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009)

*Musician

*‘King of Pop’

*moonwalk, robot

*died of natural causes

*donated money to charity

Nelson Mandela (1918 - )

*Anti-apartheid activist

*First non-violent, then terrorist

*First black President of South Africa

*Nobel Peace Prize

*27 years in Prison

Joseph Stalin (1878 - 1953)

*Communist

*Leader of the Soviet Union

*Largest death toll in WW II

*collectivization

*Gulag

Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

*Leader of Germany

*Anti-Semitic

*anti – communist

*Holocaust

* Third Reich

Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)

*Italian dictator

*National Fascists Party

*Fascism – conflict

*One-party state

*Opposition to communism, individualism, liberalism

Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

*Prime Minister

*Writer

*Artist

*Only P.M. to get Nobel Prize for Literature

Kim Yu-Na (1990 - )

*World Champion Figure Skater

Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431)

*Catholic Saint

*Heroine of France

*Helped France win victories during the Hundred Year War

*Burned at the stake (19 years old) by the English

Saddam Hussein (1937 - 2006)

*President of Iraq

*Killed many Kurdish people

*Invaded Kuwait

*Hanged by America

Leonardo Da Vinci (1442 - 1519)

*Florence

*Scientist

*Artist

*Inventor

*Musician

*Writer

*Mona Lisa

*Invented the robot

Bill Gates (1955 - )

*Microsoft

Wright Brothers (1545-1598)

*first airplane

Steven Hawking (1942)

*Scientist

*Black Hole Theory

Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)

*King of Rock ‘n Roll

*mixed “black” and “white” sounds

Hellen Keller (1880 -1986)

*First deaf/ blind to get Degree

*Pacifist