Famous/Influential People of the 1920's

Name of Person Catagory

Babe Ruth Sports: Baseball Player

Coco Chanel Fashion: Fashion Designer

Charles Lindberg Aviation: Pilot

Al Caone Crime: Gangster

F. Scott Fitzgerald Writer

Charlie Chaplin Movies: Silent Film Actor

Louise Brooks Dance/Fashion

Greta Garbo Movies: Silent Film Actress

Zelda Sayre (Fitzgerald) Writer: Female American Novelist

DW Griffith Movies: American Director-Founder of Hollywood

Henry Ford Business: Developer of Ford

Herbert Hoover Politics: President

Lou Henry Hoover Politics: President Hoover's Wife

Amelia Earhart Aviation: Female Pilot

Earnest Hemingway Writer: American Novelist

Rudolph Valentino Movies: Italian Actor

Clara Bow Movies: Actress Silent Movies

Joan Crawford Movies: Actress

Walt Disney Movies: Film Producer

Albert Einstein Science: Scientist

Andrew Mellon Politics: Secretary of Treasury

Eugene Debs Politics: Labor Leader

Warren G Harding Politics: President

Florence Harding Politics: Wife of Warren G Harding

Margaret Sanger Politics/Women's Rights Health & Education

Harlem Renaissance  

Duke Ellington Music: Jazz Pianist - Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston Writer: African American Writer -Harlem Renaissance

Louis Armstrong Music: Jazz Musician - Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes Writer: American Poet - Harlem Renaissance

Bessie Smith Music: Blues Singer - Harlem Renaissance

Josephine Baker Music: Jazz Singer-Harlem Renaissance

Marcus Garvey Politics: Black Nationalist Leader-Harlem Renaissance

Billy Holiday Music: Singer - Harlem Renaissance

Alain Locke Writer: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Essays - Harlem Renaissance

Cab Calloway Music: Jazz Singer-Harlem Renaissance

Jessie Redmon Fauset Writer: Poet-Harlem Renaissance

Claude McKay Writer: Poet/novelist/educator-Harlem Renaissance

W.E.B. Du Bois Great American Thinker: Founder NAACP-Harlem Renaissance

Jacob Lawrence Art: Painter-Dynamic Cubism-Harlem Renaissance

Nella Larsen Writer/Nurse/Librarian-Harlem Renaissance

James Weldon Johnson Writer/Civil Rights Activist-Harlem Renaissance

Aaron Douglas Art: Painter-Harlem Renaissance

Lois Mailou Jones Art: Painter-Harlem Renaissance

James Van Der Zee Art: Photographer-Harlem Renaissance

Richmond Barthe Art: Sculptor-Harlem Renaissance

Archibold Motley Art: Chicago Artist-Harlem Renaissance

Augusta Savage Art: Sculptor-Harlem Renaissance

Jean Toomer Writer

Eric D Walrond Writer