Second President of United States

Owner of Barnum & Bailey Circus, founder of Tufts University

Hungarian composer

Founder of the American Red Cross

Inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium

American botanist of the early 20th century

Scottish poet and song writer

20th century American poet

Scientist, writer, statesman

American novelist, author of The Scarlet Letter

In 1945, founded the Unitarian Service Committee, Canada’s first internationally focused NGO

Composer of Battle Hymn of the Republic

Third President of United States and author of the Declaration of Independence

First president of Czechoslovakia in 1920, proponent of democracy and social justice

Writer, author of Moby Dick

Inventor of the telegraph and Morse code

British nurse and hospital reformer

Chemist, won Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962

Author of Peter Rabbit and other children's stories

Silversmith and colonial patriot of revolutionary depending on your point of view

Theologian and physician

Governor of Illinois, candidate for President and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

27th President of United States and tenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Canada's first female doctor, and founder of first woman suffrage society in Canada

Essayist and naturalist, author of Walden Pond