| Years |
Name |
Religion |
Known For |
| 1805-1844 |
Joseph Smith, Jr. |
Mormon |
Founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| 1809-1865 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Christian |
Lawyer then U.S. President |
| 1809-1882 |
Charles Darwin |
Church of England |
Geological and biological observations resulted in "On the Origin of Species" |
| 1817-1862 |
Henry David Thoreau |
Transcendentalist |
Author and naturalist |
| 1822-1895 |
Louis Pasteur |
Humanist |
Founder of microbilogical studies and germ theory |
| 1847-1922 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
Unitarian-Universalists |
Inventor of telephone, hydrofoil, and laid the scientific basis for fiber optics. |
| 1847-1931 |
Thomas Edison |
Morals rather than theology |
Invenor of telegraphs, phonograph, electric lighting industry |
| 1861?-1943 |
George Washington Carver |
Christian |
American Botanist and educator who
developed more than 300 by-products from peanuts and sweet potatoes |
| 1867-1912; 1871-1948 |
Wilber and Orville Wright |
Christian |
First powered flight |
| 1869-1948 |
Mohandas Gandhi |
Hindu, Buddihist, Christian |
Lawyer proving force of arms can not prevail against force of spirit |
| 1874-1965 |
Winston Churchill |
Anglican |
Prime Minister of England during World War II |
| 1879-1955 |
Albert Einstein |
Jewish |
Physicist tied to bomb, Big Bang, quantum physics, and modern electronics |
| 1881-1955 |
Alexander Fleming |
? |
Discovered penicillin and wrote numerous papers on
bacteriology,immunology and chemotherapy |
| 1882-1945 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Episcopalian |
Politician who guided US trhough Great Depression and World War II |
| 1884-1967 |
Casimir Funk |
Jewish |
Biochemist who found vitamins B1, B2, C, & D are
necessary toavoid beriberi, scrvey, and rickets |
| 1885-1962 |
Niels Bohr |
Pantheism |
Identified atomic structure |
| 1906-1971 |
Philo Farnsworth |
Mormon |
Invented Cathode-Ray Tube and Television |
| 1907-1964 |
Rachel Carson |
Pantheism |
Book Silent Spring prompted creation of
Environmental Protection Agency |
| 1914-1995 |
Jonas Salk |
Jewish |
Developed polio Vaccine |
| 1935-1977 |
Elvis Presley |
Baptist |
Musician who popularized rock and roll |
| 1955-Present |
Tim Berners-Lee |
Unitarian |
Defined world wide web |
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