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Most Famous Americans
By oceanguy | February 11, 2008
In an eye-opening poll of 2000 American High-Schoolers, here are the Top Ten Most Famous Americans as determined by researchers… No Presidents or First Ladies allowed.
1. Martin Luther King Jr.: 67%
2. Rosa Parks: 60%
3. Harriet Tubman: 44%
4. Susan B. Anthony: 34%
5. Benjamin Franklin: 29%
6. Amelia Earhart: 25%
7. Oprah Winfrey: 22%
8. Marilyn Monroe: 19%
9. Thomas Edison: 18%
10. Albert Einstein: 16%
My first question is, Was the poll taken during Black History Month? My second question would be, Oprah Winfrey??? I need to run this exercise on my high school junior this evening, I’ll let you know the results.
Below the fold are my 10, in no particular order of fame, infamy nor importance:
Update: one High School Junior’s list is there too.
1. John Paul Jones
2. Babe Ruth
3. General George Patton
4. Henry Ford
5. Bill Gates
6. Robert E Lee
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Davey Crockett
9. Joseph McCarthy
10. J. Edgar Hoover
Here’s my son’s list… I didn’t share any other results with him nor the linked article. I just asked him to list the 10 most famous Americans from Christopher Columbus’ time through today, with no Presidents or First Ladies allowed.
1. Thomas Edison
2. Andrew Carnegie
3. Robert E Lee
4. Martin Luther King
5. Bill Gates
6. John Rockefeller
7. John Hancock
8. Ray Charles
9. Al Gore
10. Elvis Presley
Topics: Life |
February 11th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
good query, but this is black history The father of Jim Crow
February 12th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Symptomatic of a country that will likely assassinate its first Black President. (That’s written with a heavy dose of irony.)
February 19th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
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June 30th, 2010 at 12:58 am
No one will beat the king which is Elvis Presley.-*;
July 19th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
who could have not known the greatest musician of the decade. Elvis is the king.”"`