100 American Heroes

[bob]

if immigrants are allowed

41 Nikola Tesla



He was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system/

[Rev. Powell]

The list so far:

1. James Madison
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. George Washington
4. Rosa Parks
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Theodore Roosevelt
7. Audie Murphy
8. Gilbert Baker
9. Dwight Eisenhower
10. Grover Cleveland
11. Frederick Douglas
12. Martin Luther King Jr.
13. Davy Crockett
14. Phyllis Schlafly
15. Andrew Jackson
16. Harriet Tubman
17. Daniel Boone
18. John F. Kennedy
19. Roger Williams
20. Geronimo *
21. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
22. Harry Truman
23. Bass Reeves
24. Scott Joplin
25. Alexander Hamilton
26. Walt Disney
27. Susan B. Anthony
28. Neil Armstrong
29. Chuck Yeager
30. Ben Franklin
31. John Adams
32. Alexander Graham Bell
33. Walter Cronkite
34. Sergeant Alvin York
35. Orville Wright
36. Wilbur Wright
37. Buzz Aldrin
38. Fred Rogers
39. Madam C.J. Walker
40. Ray Bradbury
41. Nikola Tesla


and I'll add

42. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)



Writer, most quotable American

[Alex]

I think Mark Twain is my favourite American.

[ER]

43. Elizabeth Ann Seton
44. Laura Ingalls Wilder
45. Billy Graham
46 F. Scott Fitzgerald

[bob]

47 Helen Keller

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48. Jimi Hendrix

http://youtu.be/TKAwPA14Ni4

[Leah]

49) Louis Armstrong

[Allhallowsday]

50. JACKIE ROBINSON

[indianasmith]

51.  Jesse Owens

[pacman000]

52) George Washington Carver

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53. Red Cloud


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cloud


Chief of the Ogala Lakota Sioux.

[ER]

54. Christy Mathewson

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55. Bruce Lee

This may seem stupid- but the importance of Bruce Lee in Asian- American culture is underestimated.

[ER]

56. Walt Whitman

[ER]

(Muuuust reeeeeesist saying "the Greatest American Herooooo"!)