People Who Made a Difference

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur ForMemRS was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
  • Sitting Bull

    Sitting Bull
    Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
  • George Washington Carver

    George Washington Carver
    George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely ranked among the greatest and most influential scientists of all time.
  • Golda Meir

    Golda Meir
    Golda Meir was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez
    Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination on April 4, 1968.
  • Sally Ride

    Sally Ride
    Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space.