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Abraham lincoln

He saved the Union, freed slaves and rebuilt America.

George Washington

He not only defeated a king, but also refused to be a king-style president, which made the United States today.

Thomas Jefferson

He wrote the six most important words in American history, "All men are created equal".

4 franklin delano roosevelt

He proved his famous saying that "the only thing we are afraid of is fear itself".

5 alexander hamilton

Soldiers, bankers and political scholars. It was he who led the United States on the road from an agricultural country to an industrial power.

6 Benjamin Franklin

He is a pioneer in all fields-science, printing, writing, diplomacy, invention and so on. Like America, he embraces a wide range of things.

7 john marshall

It was he who defined the duties of the Chief Justice and made the Supreme Court equal to the legislative and executive branches.

8 Martin Luther King, Jr

It is still very difficult to realize the dream of racial equality, and only he has made this dream the biggest step towards reality.

9 Thomas Edison

Not only did he invent the electric light bulb, but the wizards in Menlo Park were the most prolific inventors in American history.

10 Woodrow Wilson

He made the world safer through American intervention rather than democracy.

John rockefeller

Rockefeller of Mobil Oil Company has set an example for business giants-make money first, then donate.

ulysses simpson grant

He is a bad president, but he is Lincoln's right-hand man. He wrote the best political memoir in American history.

James Madison

He was the father of the Constitution and drafted the Bill of Rights.

Henry Ford

He started the assembly line and Model T, which aroused Americans' enthusiasm for cars.

Theodore Roosevelt

Whether it is anti-monopoly or canal construction, he embodies a "hard life" and has made a good start for the United States in the twentieth century.

Mark Twain

The author of American epic and the coolest observer of American life.

Ronald Reagan

A passionate advocate of the return of conservatives and the end of the cold war.

Andrew Jackson

The first great populist, he practiced democracy in this Republic.

19 Thomas Paine

He made the voice of the American revolution, and he was also the first great radical.

20 andrew carnegie

An unusual self-made man made America a steel power, and he was also one of the greatest philanthropists.

Harry Truman

An accidental president, a diligent politician, led us into the atomic age, and then opened the curtain of the Cold War.

22 walt whitman

He praised the United States with poems and shaped the American concept.

23 Wright brothers

They make humans fly.

24 Alexander Graham Bell

He invented the telephone, initiated the communication era and brought the world closer.

25 john adams

His leadership played an important role in the American revolution, and his dedication to the harmonious system made the American revolution successful.

26 Walter Disney

The mode of entertainment businessmen has a great influence on our childhood.

27 eli whitney

His cotton binding machine created the cotton kingdom and maintained the slave empire.

28 dwight eisenhower

He won a war and two elections, and everyone liked him.

29 earl warren

His Supreme Court changed American society and left us with social conflicts.

30 Elizabeth Katie Stanton

As one of the greatest pioneers of feminist movement, she has been fighting for social reform and women's right to vote.

3 1 Henry Clay

America's greatest legislator and speaker, whose compromise bill delayed the Civil War for decades.

Albert.Einstein

He has made great achievements in Europe and won an immortal reputation in America.

33 Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a poet who values personal experience, he tells us to believe in ourselves.

34 jonas salk

His vaccine eradicated polio, the most terrible disease in the world.

35 Jackie Robinson

He broke the color line of baseball and showed the hope of racial integration.

36 william jennings bryan

This "great ordinary man" lost three presidential elections, but his populist ideas changed America.

37 JPMorgan Chase

Great financier and banker, the originator of Wall Street giants.

38 susan anthony

She sent out the strongest voice of women's struggle for equal rights under the law.

39 rachel carson

The author of Silent Spring is also the godmother of the environmental movement.

40 john dewey

He tried to orient school education towards democratic life.

4 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Her work Uncle Tom's Cabin awakened a generation of abolitionists and brewed a civil war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

She used the status of first lady and mass media to make herself the first lady in the world.

43W E B Du powys

One of the greatest intellectuals in America has been working hard for racial issues all his life.

44 lyndon baines johnson.

His talent brought us the Bill of Rights, and his stubbornness brought us the Vietnam War.

45 Samuel Morse

Before the Internet appeared, we all used Morse code.

William Lloyd Garrison

Through his newspaper The Liberator, he called for the abolition of slavery.

47 Frederick Douglass

After escaping from slavery, his description of the evil image of slavery condemned the conscience of the whole country.

48 Robert Oppenheimer

The father of the atomic bomb, he regretted that he had led mankind into the era of nuclear weapons.

49 Frederick Rowe olmsted

A talented designer of new york Central Park, he stirred up the trend of urban greening in the United States.

50 James K. Polk

The Mexican War launched by this one-term president brought California, Texas and most of the southwest.

Margaret Sanger

As a staunch fighter of birth control movement, this movement also brought its by-product-sexual liberation.

52 joseph smith

The founder of Mormonism. The most famous religion originated in America.

53 Little Oliver Wendell Holmes

He was called a "great dissident" and his Supreme Court opinion continued to influence American law.

54 Bill Gates

Rockefeller in the information age, whether it is business or charity, is very similar.

55 john quincy adams

The founder of Monroe Doctrine set the tone for American diplomacy in the19th century.

56 Horace Mann

He persistently advocated public education for the masses and was called "the father of American education".

57 robert lee

He is not only a great general, but also a symbol, as a symbol of the defeated convincing the victorious.

No.58 john caldwell calhoun

Southern representatives who actively supported slavery before the war.

59 Louis Sullivan

The father of modern architecture, he decided the direction of American architecture: skyscrapers.

William Faulkner

Painful and charming southern talented chronicler.

6 1 Samuel Gompers

The greatest labor organizer, he laid the foundation for the prosperity of trade unions.

62 william james

A contributor to pragmatism. The most important philosophy school in America.

George Marshall

As a soldier, he organized the action of American army in World War II. As a politician, he rebuilt western Europe.

64 jane adams

The founder of Hull Club, she is a saint in secular society.

65 henry david thoreau

The earliest American hermit, he inspired people to seek truth in 150 years.

66 Elvis Presley

King of rock music, needless to say.

67 pence, barnum

Circus owner, his love for spectacular performances is ready for future blockbusters and reality shows.

68 james watson

He and others discovered the double helix structure of DNA, revealing that scientists and entrepreneurs have the same code.

69 James Gordon Bennett

As the founder of The New York Herald, he created a modern American newspaper.

70 Lewis and Clark

At first they explored the west, and then countless people followed in their footsteps.

7 1 Noah Webster

He didn't create American English, but his dictionary established the standard of American English.

72 sam walton

We believe his promise of equality every day.

73 Cyrus McCormick

His harvester ended traditional agriculture and opened the era of industrialized agriculture.

74 Brigham Young

Joseph smith founded Mormonism, and Yang developed Mormonism and led its followers to their promised land.

75 George Herman "Barber" Ruth

After the Black Sox scandal, he filled the entertainment vacancy of the people all over the country and set a precedent for sports celebrities.

76 Frank Lloyd Wright

The most important architect in America, he is a pioneer of a unique visual artist.

77 betty friedan

She talked with dissatisfied housewives everywhere, which aroused the revolution of gender status.

78 john brown

Whether a hero, a fanatic or both, he planted a seed for the future civil war.

79 louis armstrong

His personal charm brought jazz from brothels in New Orleans to Broadway in new york, and from television to the wider world.

80 william randolph hearst

He is a publishing giant, and he brought his sensational style of running newspapers to the extreme, which indirectly contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.

Margaret Mead

Her book "Samoan Adults" has made anthropology show its significance and aroused people's debate.

82 George Gallup

He investigates the thoughts of Americans, and politicians pay attention to his findings.

83 James fenimore Cooper

Although his novels are difficult to understand, he is the first great writer to describe frontier legends.

84 thurgood marshall.

As a lawyer and a Supreme Court judge, he was a legal advocate of the civil rights revolution.

85 ernest hemingway

His concise style illustrates the modernity of the United States, and he is still a traditional male style in life.

86 Mary Baker Eddie

She left her hospital bed and founded a Christian church, promising that religious belief could cure everything.

87 benjamin spock

With a book and an unusual method, he changed American parents.

Enrico Fermi No.88

As a giant of physics, he helped develop quantum theory and played an important role in the manufacture of atomic bombs.

89 walter lippmann

The last person to influence the election with newspaper columns.

90 Jonathan Edwards

Forget about hell. His eloquence made him the most influential theologian in this country.

9 1 Lyman Beecher

Harriet Beecher Stowe's pastor father was a famous abolitionist and evangelist.

92 john steinbeck

As the creator of Tom Joad, he recorded the miserable life during the Great Depression.

93 Nate Turner

He was the most successful rebel slave, and his ghost wandered among southern whites for a century.

94 george eastman

The founder of Kodak, he popularized cameras among ordinary people with easy-to-use film.

95 Sam godwin

He has a 40-year production career and is the first Hollywood tycoon.

96 ralph nader

He made our cars safer, and 30 years later, he "helped" George W. Bush to become president.

97 stephen foster

The first great songwriter in America, he brought us "Oh! Susanna and I are at home in Kentucky.

98 Booker Washington

He was a teacher, and as an advocate of self-help, he tried to lead the blacks out of slavery.

99 Richard Nixon

He abolished most of the New Deal since President Roosevelt, and then he ruined his presidency with a scandal that still haunts Americans today.

100 herman melville

Moby Dick was not very popular at that time, but Melville is now regarded as Shakespeare in America.