PRIME MINISTERS of
CANADA:
MacDonald,
Sir John A.; Diefenbaker, John G.; Bowell, Sir Mackenzie;
Borden, Sir Robert L.; Bennett, Viscount R.B.; Abbott, Sir John
J.C.
NOTED CANADIANS:
Chief Joseph Brant; Chief Tecumseh; General James Wolfe; Sam
Steele, N.W.M.P.; Henry Larsen, R.C.M.P.; W.R. "Wop" May, bush
pilot; Lord Thompson of Fleet, publisher; Samuel Bronfman,
businessman; John D. Eaton, Eaton's stores; Oscar Peterson,
musician; John Molson, founder Molson Breweries; Sir Sanford
Fleming, creator of first Canadian stamp and standard time; Lord
Stanley, Governor General; Earl de Gray, Governor General;
Charles Mair, poet; Robert Service, poet; Glenn Ford, actor; Tim
Horton, hockey star; Gordon Sinclair, broadcaster; James A.
Naismith, inventor of basketball; Wipper Billy Watson, Canadian
wrestling legend; John B. MacLean, founder MacLeans magazine;
Hart Massey, Massey-Ferguson farm equipment; E. B. Eddy, founder
of the E.B. Eddy Match Company; Palmer Cox, creator of The
Brownie stories.
COMPOSERS: Irving Berlin,
George M. Cohan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Phillip Sousa,
Richard Wagner, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Listz, and many
others.
ENTERTAINERS: John Wayne,
Gene Autry, Ernest Borgnine, Joe E. Brown, Bob Burns, Eddie
Cantor, Charles D. Coburn, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody,
Donald Crisp, Cecil B. DeMille, Richard Dix, Douglas Fairbanks
Sr., W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Arthur Godfrey, David W.
Griffith, Oliver Hardy, Jean Hersholt, Harry Houdini, Al Jolson,
Charles "Buck" Jones, Harry Kellar, Harold C. Lloyd, Tom Mix,
Dick Powell, Will Rogers, Charles S. "Tom Thumb" Stratton,
Richard B. "Red" Skelton, Paul Whiteman, Ed Wynn, Darryl Zanuck
and many others.
SCULPTORS: Gutzon Borglum
and his son, Lincoln Borglum (together carved Mt. Rushmore
National Memorial), Johann G. Schadow (Prussian Court Sculptor)
J. Otto Schweizer and many others.
WRITERS: Robert Burns,
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock
Holmes), Edward Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire),
Edgar A. Guest, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter
Scott, Jonathan Swift, Lowell Thomas, Voltair and many others.
BUSINESS LEADERS: John
Jacob Astor (financier), Lloyd Balfour (Jewelry), Lawrence Bell
(Bell Aircraft Corp.), William H. Dow (Dow Chemical Co.), Henry
Ford, Alfred Fuller (Fuller Brush), King C. Gillett (Gillett
Razor Co.), Sir Thomas Lipton (tea), Fredrick Maytag, Andrew W.
Mellon (banker), James C. Penny, George Pullman, David Sarnoff
(father of T.V.), Leland Stanford (railroads - Stanford Univ.)
and many others.
UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS:
George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk,
James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G.
Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Gerald Ford.
WORLD LEADERS: Emilio
Aguinaldo (Phillippine Patriot and General), Miguel Aleman
(Mexican President 1947-52), Eduard Benes (President of
Czechoslovakia 1939-48), Sveinn Bjornsson (1st President of
Iceland), Simon Bolivar ("George Washington of S. America")
Napoleon Bonaparte (and his four brothers), King Charles XIII
(King of Sweden 1748-1818), Sir Winston Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, King Edward VII and King Edward VIII (Kings of
England, 1901-10 & 36, respectively), Francis II (Holy Roman
Emperor, 1768-1806), Frederick the Great (King of Prussia
1740-86), George I & George II (Kings of Greece, 1845-1913 &
1922-47), George IV & George VI (Kings of England 1760-1820 &
1820-30), Gustavus VI Adolphus (King of Sweden 1792-1809),
Kamehemeha IV and Kemehemeha V (Kings of Hawaii (1854-63 &
1863-72) Leopold I (King of Belgium (1831-65), Peter the Great
(Emperor of Russia 1689-1725), William I (King of Prussia
1861-88), William II (King of the Netherlands (1792-1849),
William IV (King of England (1830-37) and many others.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS: James
C. Baker (Bishop, Methodist Church, organized first Wesley
Foundation in U.S.), Hosea Ballou (Founder, Universalist
Church), Robert E. B. Baylor (Baptist clergyman, founder of
Baylor University), Preston Bradley (founder of the Peoples
Church), Father Francisco Calvo (Catholic Priest who started
Freemasonry in Costa Rica in 1865), Hugh I. Evans (National head
of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.), Most Reverend Geoffrey F.
Fisher (former Archbishop of Canterbury), Eugene M. Frank
(Methodist Bishop), Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (Methodist
Episcopal minister and author) Titus Low (President of Methodist
Council of Bishops), Thomas Starr King, Swami Vivekananda and
many others.
ASTRONAUTS: Ed Aldrin,
Neil Armstrong, Gordon Cooper, Don Eisle, Virgil Grissom, Ed
Michell, Tom Stafford, Fred Haise, and Wally Shirra.
EXPLORERS: Hiram Bingham
(Discoverer of Machu Picchu), James Bruce (Discoverer of the
source of the Blue Nile), Adm. Richard E. Byrd, Christopher
"Kit" Carson, William Clark; Merriwether Lewis, and Robert E.
Peary.
INVENTORS AND SCIENTISTS:
Samuel Colt (firearms), Sir Alexander Fleming (penicillin),
Edward Jenner (vaccination) Simon Lake (first practical
submarine), John L. McAdam (Macadamized roads), Luther Burbank
and many others.
SPORTS: Grover C.
Alexander, Cy Young, Jack Dempsey, Arnold Palmer, Tyrus R. "Ty"
Cobb, Carl O. Hubbell, Christopher "Christy" Mathewson, Mordecai
P.C. Brown, Gordon "Mickey" Corchran, Avery Brundage, Albert
"Happy" Chandler, Branch Rickey, Knute Rockne and many others.
