Suggestions for Heroes

Athletes /Sports

Aaron, Hank (baseball)

Ali, Muhammad (Boxing)

Andretti, Mario (auto racing)

Armstrong, Lance (cycling)

Beckham, David; Hamm, Mia (soccer)

Bird, Larry (basketball)

Brady, Tom; Brees, Drew (football)

Butcher, Susan (Dog Musher/sledding)

Hamilton, Bethany (surfing)

Kwan, Michelle (figure skating)

Lee, Bruce (martial arts)

Liddell, Eric – Olympic runner

Madden, John (coach and broadcaster)

Murry, Ty (rodeo)

Palmer, Arnold (golf)

skiing

Spitz, Mark (swimming)

White, Shaun (snowboarding)

Williams, Serena or Venus (tennis)

Artists

O’Keeffe, Georgia

Picasso, Pablo

American Historical and Modern Figures

Adams, John

Adams, Samuel

Arnold, Benedict

Barnum, P.T.

Chamberlain, Joshua

Clark, William (Lewis and Clark)

Crockett, David

Davis, Jefferson

Franklin, Benjamin
Grant, U.S.

Hamilton, Alexander

Henry, Patrick
Jackson, Andrew

Jefferson, Thomas

Keller, Helen

Lee, Robert E.

Lewis, Meriwether (Lewis and Clark)

Lincoln, Abraham

Madison, James

Marion, Francis  (Swamp Fox)

O’Connor, Sandra Day

Revere, Paul

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Smith. John

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

Tubman, Harriet

Washington, George

Wright, Frank Lloyd (architect)

U.S. Presidents, other

Supreme Court Justices

First Ladies

Generals

Astronauts: 
Aldrin, Buzz
Armstrong, Neil
Bluford, Guion
Carpenter, Scott
Cooper, Gordon
Glenn, John
Grissom, Gus
Lind, Don
Jemison, Mae
McAuliffe, Christa
Ride, Sally
Shepherd, Alan

Authors

Avi (many!)

Bauer, Joan  (Stand Tall)

Black, Holly  (Spiderwick)

Blume, Judy

Cabot, Meg (Princess Diaries)

Christie, Agatha  (mysteries)

Colfer, Eoin (Artemis Fowl)

Collins, Suzanne  (Hunger Games, Gregor)

Condie, Ally  (local -- Matched)

Cooney, Caroline

Crowe, Chris  (local)

Funke, Cornelia  (Ink-trilogy)

Hesse, Karen

Hinton, S.E. (The Outsiders)

Hobbs, Will  (Crossing the Wire)

Lewis, C.S. (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

Lowry, Lois  (The Giver)

McKinley, Robin  (The Hero and the Crown)

Meyer, Stephenie  (Twilight)

Mull, Brandon (Fablehaven)

Myers, Walter Dean

Nix, Garth 

O'Dell, Scott

Paolini, Christopher (Eragon) 

Paulsen, Gary (Hatchet)

Peck, Richard

Rawls, Wilson  (Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys)
Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain)

Ritter, John

Rowling, J.K.  (Harry Potter)

Sachar, Louis

Sebestyen, Ouida

Shan, Darren (Cirque du Freak)

Soto, Gary

Stine, R.L. (Goosebumps)

Tolkien, J.R.R. (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)

Westerfeld, Scott (Uglies)

Composers and Entertainers

Music

Armstrong, Louis

Bach

Beatles – individuals only

Beethoven

Cash, Johnny

Cole, Natalie

Duke Ellington

Elvis

Fitgerald, Ella

Gillespie,  Dizzy

Guido de Arezzo (a monk who changed the history of music almost 1000 yrs. ago).

Handel

Haydn

Jackson, Michael

King Singers -- individuals

Miller, Glen

Mozart

Nat King Cole

Rogers, Kenny

Sonatra, Frank

U2  --Bono

Vivaldi

Dance:

Astaire, Fred

Kelly, Gene

Rogers, Ginger

Movies and TV

Ball, Lucille

Cosby, Bill

Landon, Michael

Nye, Bill

Winfrey, Oprah

Explorers

See more here:

http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/hall_of_fame.html

Amundsen, Roald

Armstrong, Neil

Boone, Daniel

Byrd, Richard

Cabot, John

Clark, William

Columbus, Christopher

Cook, James

Lewis, Meriwether

Shackleton, Ernest

Tereshkova, Valentina

Inventors and Entrepreneurs

Bell, Alexander Graham

Carnegie, Andrew  (Started US Steel, Carnegie Hall)

Deere, John  (Plow)

Diesel, Rudolf  (Diesel Engine)

Edison, Thomas

Farnsworth, Philo (TV)

Fermi, Enrico

Ford, Henry  (Moving assembly line)

Franklin, Benjamin

Gates, Bill

Kilby, Jack St. Clair  (Semiconductor)

Salk, Jonas (polio vaccine)

Spielberg, Steven

Watt, James  (Steam Engine)

Whitney, Eli  (Cotton gin)

Mathematicians

Archimedes

Einstein, Albert

Galileo

Gauss, Carl F.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Find more at

http://fabpedigree.com/james/greatmm.htm

Other Historical and Modern Figures

Churchill, Winston

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth II

Gandi, Mahatma

Polo. Marco Magellan
King Tut

Mary Queen of Scots

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/hist/mary/home/index.shtml

Theater/Drama

Chenoweth, Kristen  (Wicked, Pushing Daisies, many others)

Christie, Agatha

Crawford, Michael  (the Phantom)
Euripides
Jackman, Hugh (Wolverine and Broadway!)

McDonald, Audra  (Ragtime, amazing Broadway star who came to Utah to perform at the Hale Center Theater)

Menzel, Idina    (Wicked,  Enchanted)

Miller, Arthur

Mitchell, Brian Stokes  (Ragtime, sang with the Mormon Tab. Choir for a Christmas album/program)

Osmond, Donny  (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat)

Shakespeare, William

Simon, Neil

 Sophocles
Steinbeck, John

Twain, Mark (see also Samuel Clemens)

Webber, Andrew Lloyd

 Wilder, Thornton