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Seventh President of the United States. A war hero of the American Revolutionary era, as president he helped broaden and reform American democratic institutions.

English poet and politician. He helped establish the smooth heroic couplet, strongly shaping the poetic style of the Restoration.

Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps is an American swimmer who holds the record for the most Olympic medals, with a total of 28. He competed from the 2004 Athens Olympics to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, setting several world records in various events.

American educator and writer. He has taught and worked with children in poor urban neighborhoods while campaigning for social justice in education; his works include Savage Inequalities and Letters to a Young Teacher.

English soldier and angling writer. In Northern Memoirs, an account of his travels through Scotland, he recorded observations on nature and fishing.

American novelist. She writes historical and religious fiction together with her husband Brock Thoene; her works include The Tenth Stone.

German physicist and satirist. Known for his sharp aphorisms and witticisms.

Roman rhetorician and educator. He wrote Institutio Oratoria, a comprehensive treatise on the training of an orator.

American professional baseball player turned evangelist. One of the most famous preachers in early 20th-century America.

Italian criminologist and physician, founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Often called the 'father of criminology,' he pioneered criminal anthropology and is best known for his work L'Uomo delinquente.

American professional tennis player and the first Black man to win the US Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon. He was also a social activist who fought against racial discrimination and passed away at age 49 due to AIDS.

Bill Gates

1955 – · United States

Bill Gates is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft. He is known as one of the wealthiest individuals in the world and has devoted much of his efforts to philanthropic work.