Biography Projects

Click the pictures to watch interviews of these famous people from the past 2500 years!

Before Common Era

Alexander the Great

356 BCE

Archimedes

287 BCE

Cleopatra

69 BCE

1200s

Ghengis Khan

1227

Marco Polo

1254

1400s

Joan of Arc

1412

1500s

Galileo Galilei

1564

1700s

George Washington

1732

Patrick Henry

1736

Betsy Ross

1752

Alexander Hamilton

1755

Marquis de Lafayette

1757

Meriwether Lewis

1774

1800s

Lydia Marie Child

1802

Frederick Douglass

1817

Maria Mitchell

1818

Harriet Tubman

1822

Rosa Bonheur

1822

H.J. Heinz

1844

Nikola Tesla

1856

Milton Hershey

1857

Harry Houdini

1874

Janus Korczak

1878

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Albert Einstein

1879

Helen Keller

1880

Anna Pavlova

1881

Franklin Roosevelt

1882

Amelia Earheart

1897

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1900s

Walt Disney

1901

Julia Child

1912

Rosa Parks

1913

Ella Fitzgerald

1917

JFK

1917

Nelson Mandela

1918

Eugenie Clark

1922

Stan Lee

1922

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Queen Elizabeth II

1926

Maya Angelou

1928

Anne Frank

1929

Neil Armstrong

1930

Hana Brady

1932

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1933

Jane Goodall

1934

Roberto Clemente

1934

John Lennon

1940

Pele

1940

Muhammad Ali

1942

Bob Ross

1942

Arthur Ashe

1943

George Lucas

1944

Bob Marley

1945

Steven Spielberg

1946

Zaha Hadid

1950

Sally Ride

1951

Steve

1955

Bill Gates

1955

Maya Lin

1959

Florence Griffith Joyner

1959

Diana Princess of Wales

1961

Barack Obama

1961

Gabe Newell

1962

Michael Jordan

1963

Kamala Harris

1964

Kim Janey

1965

JK Rowling

1965

Tony Hawk

1968

Elon Musk

1971

Dominique Dawes

1976

Notch

1979

Michelle Kwan

1980

Alicia Keys

1981

Sasha Cohen

1984

Michael Phelps

1985

Megan Rapinoe

1985

Taylor Cummings

1995

Gabby Douglas

1985