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.
