Mrs. P's Famous Americans
Summaries! Stories! Bios! Videos! Pix! More!
The President of the United States, Barrack H. Obama
Ending the war in Afghanistan |
Famous Americans for Elementary Students
The 44 US Presidents |
Famous Americans Alphabetical |
Famous Native Americans |
Famous African Americans |
Famous Asian Americans |
Famous American Women |
Famous Europeans |
Additions to this site are made on a regular basis. Be sure to check back often to see who has been added.
Famous Americans Projects
President's Scrapbook Grade 1 Web Quest in which the president asks a class to compile a powerpoint scrapbook of the Famous Americans they are studying. |
President's Scrapbook Grade 2 Web Quest in which the president asks a class to compile a powerpoint scrapbook of the Famous Americans they are studying. Includes starter powerpoint Scrapbook. |
Life of Pocahontas Biography of the young Ambassador from the Powhatans to the Jamestown settlers. |
Famous Leaders for Young Readers Biographies suitable for 4th grade and up. |
Color Pages Color Famous Americans and US Presidents. |
My Hero Choose and report on your favorite hero. |
Quizzes
| Kindargarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade |
SOLs
History and Social Studies ... Virginia SOLs
Kindergarten Famous Americans -Virginia HSS SOL K.1
Powhatan |
Pocahontas |
George Washington |
Betsy Ross |
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 |
Picture Quiz |
First Grade - Virginia HSS SOL 1.2
Benjamin Franklin |
George Washington |
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
George W. Carver |
Picture Quiz |
The President's Scrapbook |
Second Grade Famous Americans - Virginia HSS SOL 2.11
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George Washington |
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 |
Susan B. Anthony |
Helen Keller |
Jackie Robinson |
Martin Luther King 1929-1968 |
The President's Scrapbook |
Picture Quiz |
Third Grade Famous Americans - Virginia HSS SOL 3.3 and 3.11
Juan Ponce de Leon
Jacques Cartier
Christopher Newport
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther KingFourth Grade Famous Americans-Virginia HSS SOL VS.6 and VS.9
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Powhatan |
George Washington |
Thomas Jefferson |
Patrick Henry |
James Lafeyette |
| Jack Joett |
James Madison |
George Mason |
Robert E Lee |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
Ulysses S. Grant |
Woodrow Wilson |
George C. Marshall |
Maggie Walker |
Harry F. Byrd, Sr. |
| Oliver W. Hill |
Arthur Ashe, Jr. 1943-1993 |
A. Linwood Holton, Jr |
L. Douglas Wilder |
Picture Quiz |
Fifth Grade Famous Americans - Virginia HSS SOL US1.6 and US1.9
Alphabetical List of Famous Americans pages
Presidents of the United States
1789 to present
Check out these Pictures of the US Presidents
| 1789-1797
George Washington |
1797-1801
John Adams |
1801-1809
Thomas Jefferson |
1809-1817
James Madison |
1817-1825
James Monroe |
1825-1829 John Quincy Adams |
| 1829-1836 Andrew Jackson |
1837-1841 Martin Van Buren |
1841 William Henry Harrison |
1841-1845 John Tyler |
1845-1849 James Polk |
1849-1850 Zachary Taylor |
| 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore |
1853-1857 Franklin Pierce |
1857-1861 James Buchanan |
1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 |
1865-1869 Andrew Johnson |
1869-1877
Ulysses S. Grant |
| 1877-1881 Rutherford B. Hayes |
1881 James A. Garfield |
1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur |
1885-1889 Grover Cleveland |
1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison |
1893-1897 Grover Cleveland |
| 1897-1901 William McKinley |
1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt |
1909-1913 William H. Taft |
1913-1921
Woodrow Wilson |
1921-1923 Warren Harding |
1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge |
| 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover |
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1933-1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1945-1953 Harry S. Truman |
1953-1961
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
1961-1963 John F. Kennedy |
1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| 1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon |
1974-1977 Gerald R. Ford |
1977-1981
James E. Carter |
1981-1989 Ronald W. Reagan |
1989-1993 George H. W. Bush |
1993-2001
William J. Clinton |
2001-2008
George W. Bush |
2009-present
Barrack H. Obama |
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The White House:
The U S Presidents |
American Presidencies |
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Famous Native Americans
Powhatan |
Pocahontas |
Tamanend |
Sacajawea |
Chief Joseph Brant |
Geronimo |
Mildred and Richard Loving |
Native American Leaders |
Famous American Women
Betsy Ross
Martha Washington 
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Helen Keller
Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
Eleanor Roosevelt
Barbara McClintock
Georgia O'Keeffe
Dian Fossey
Rosa Parks
Sandra Day O'Conner 
Sally RideFamous Asian Americans
John Tommy |
Ellison Onizuka |
Gary Locke |
Famous African Americans
| African-American Registry |
Colonial Years
Phillis Wheatley |
Benjamin Banneker |
Until Freedom
J. J. Roberts |
Nat Turner |
Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 |
Sojourner Truth |
Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 |
Up From Freedom
| Maria Stewart | Ludella Hockaday | Hiram Rhodes Revels |
Booker T. Washington |
Maggie Walker |
George W. Carver 1860-1943 |
Jourdon Anderson | |
| Howard Baugh 1920-2008 |
John Simmons | 
Irene Morgan Kilkaldy1917-2007 |
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 |
Thurgood Marshall |
Mildred and Richard Loving |
Rosa Parks 1913-2005 |
Fred Shuttlesworth 1922-2011 |
African Americans in Entertainment and Sports and The Arts
Duke Ellington |
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson |
Louis "Sachmo" Armstrong |
Jackie Robinson |
Arthur Ashe, Jr. 1943-1993 |
Langston Hughes |
Scientists
Henrietta Lacks 1920-1951 |
Percy L. Julian |
Mae Jemison |
Patricia Bath |
Politicians
Barrack Obama The 44th President of the United States of America. |
L. Douglas Wilder |
Europeans In American History
Thorfinn Karlsefni |
Jacques Cartier |
Christopher Columbus |
Juan Ponce de Leon |
Christopher Newport |
Famous People of the Pacific Lands
| Indonesia R A Kartini |
Australia
Henry Lawson |
Credits
Jane Addams images courtesy of Jane Addams Collection, Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Jane Addams Collection
George Washington Carver photograph courtesy of George Washington Carver website
George Washington Carver
University Archives
Iowa State University Library.
Harriet Tubman is used with the permission of the SPECTRUM Home and School Network, www.IncWell.com
Portraits of Presidents from American Presidents
Credits for other pictures and portraits can be found on the links.