December 10, 2009
UW students honor 100 Greatest Americans in 2009 project
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Rosa Parks
3. George Washington
4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Albert Einstein
6. Benjamin Franklin
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Frederick Douglass
10. Harriet Tubman
11. Thomas Alva Edison
12. Susan B. Anthony
13. John Muir
14. Eleanor Roosevelt
15. Cesar Chavez
16. Booker T. Washington
17. Henry David Thoreau
18. Noam Chomsky
19. Theodore Roosevelt
20. Josiah Willard Gibbs
21. Rachel Carson
22. Jackie Robinson
23. Bill & Melinda Gates
24. Harvey Milk
25. Henry Ford
26. John Marshall
27. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
28. Robert Kennedy
29. Thurgood Marshall
30. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
31. James Watson
32. Jonas Salk
33. Gloria Steinem
34. Maya Angelou
35. Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. James Madison
37. Upton Sinclair
38. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
39. Malcolm X
40. Woodrow Wilson
41. Andrew Jackson
42. Greg Mortenson
43. W.E.B. Dubois
44. Andrew Carnegie
45. Barack Obama
46. Ida B. Wells
47. J. Robert Oppenheimer
48. Walt Disney
49. Helen Keller
50. Harvey Cushing
51. Alexander Hamilton
52. George Marshall
53. Ted Kennedy
54. The Wright brothers
55. Dwight D. Eisenhower
56. Jesse Owens
57. Duke Ellington
58. William Faulkner
59. Nikola Tesla
60. John Steinbeck
61. Paul Farmer
62. Miles Davis
63. Jim Henson
64. Alfred Kinsey
65. Louis Armstrong
66. Amelia Earhart
67. Ayn Rand
68. Frank Lloyd Wright
69. Ulysses S. Grant
70. F. Scott Fitzgerald
71. The Tuskegee airmen
72. Paul Newman
73. Elvis Presley
74. Edward R. Murrow
75. Sandra Day O’Connor
76. Jimmy Carter
77. Edgar Allen Poe
78. Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
79. Oprah Winfrey
80. Jimi Hendrix
81. Alexander G. Bell
82. Langston Hughes
83. Steve Jobs
84. Al Gore
85. Orson Welles
86. Jonothan Kozol
87. William Boeing
88. Angela Davis
89. John D. Rockefeller
90. Hillary Clinton
91. Frank Capra
92. Georgia O’Keefe
93. Norman Rockwell
94. Audre Lorde
95. Herman Melville
96. Howard Zinn
97. Ansel Adams
98. Crazy Horse
99. Ruby Bridges
100. Steven Spielberg
