The below ranking shows the most inspirational historical figures who have left a lasting legacy in education and personal development, as voted for by 3,000 Americans.
Ranking | Historical Mentor | State |
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11 | Thomas Edison | New Jersey |
12 | Orville and Wilbur Wright | Ohio |
13 | Dorothea Dix | Maine |
14 | Mary McLeod Bethune | Florida |
15 | Frank Lloyd Wright | Wisconsin |
16 | Sarah Elizabeth Doyle | Rhode Island |
17 | Sitting Bull | South Dakota |
18 | Martha Hughes Cannon | Utah |
19 | Martha Berry | Georgia |
20 | Jane Addams | Illinois |
21 | Booker T. Washington | West Virginia |
22 | Daniel Webster | New Hampshire |
23 | William Washington | South Carolina |
24 | John D. Rockefeller | Ohio |
25 | Medgar Evers | Mississippi |
26 | Sequoyah | Oklahoma |
27 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Connecticut |
28 | Don Ho | Hawaii |
29 | Georgia O’Keeffe | New Mexico |
30 | Sacagawea | Idaho |
31 | Henry Ford | Michigan |
32 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Missouri |
33 | Cordell Hull | Tennessee |
34 | John Muir | California |
35 | Sharlot Hall | Arizona |
36 | Abigail Scott Duniway | Oregon |
37 | Dennis Chavez | New Mexico |
38 | Noah Webster | Connecticut |
39 | Sarah Josepha Hale | New Hampshire |
40 | Jeannette Rankin | Montana |
41 | Septima Poinsette Clark | South Carolina |
42 | Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville | Louisiana |
43 | Sarah Winnemucca | Nevada |
44 | Chief Seattle | Washington |
45 | Miriam “Ma” Ferguson | Texas |
46 | Hannibal Hamlin | Maine |
47 | Sam Houston | Texas |
48 | Alice Eastwood | California |
49 | Alice Paul | New Jersey |
50 | Benjamin Banneker | Maryland |
51 | Grace Abbott | Nebraska |
52 | Madam C.J. Walker | Indiana |
53 | Maria Fearing | Alabama |
54 | Thurgood Marshall | Maryland |
55 | John A. Kasson | Iowa |
56 | Sophie B. Wright | Louisiana |
57 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | Vermont |
58 | Granville Stuart | Montana |
59 | Roger Williams | Rhode Island |
60 | Mother Joseph Pariseau | Washington |
61 | Adelina Otero-Warren | New Mexico |
62 | Clara Luper | Oklahoma |
63 | James Madison | Virginia |
64 | Eagle Woman | North Dakota |
65 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | New York |
66 | Louisa May Alcott | Massachusetts |
67 | Margaret “Molly” Brown | Colorado |
68 | Muriel Humphrey Brown | Minnesota |
69 | Philo T. Farnsworth | Utah |
70 | William "Buffalo Bill" Cody | Wyoming |
71 | Anne Bailey | West Virginia |
72 | César Chávez | California |
73 | Father William Duncan | Alaska |
74 | Anne Hutchinson | Rhode Island |
75 | Charles Lindbergh | Minnesota |
76 | Charlotte Hawkins Brown | North Carolina |
77 | Emily Griffith | Colorado |
78 | Father Damien | Hawaii |
79 | George Perkins Marsh | Vermont |
80 | John Gregg Fee | Kentucky |
81 | Justin Smith Morrill | Vermont |
82 | Margaret Chase Smith | Maine |
83 | William Faulkner | Mississippi |
84 | Anna Julia Cooper | North Carolina |
85 | Effie McCollum Jones | Iowa |
86 | Frances Willard | Illinois |
87 | John J. Shipherd | Ohio |
88 | Juliette Gordon Low | Georgia |
89 | Paul Robeson | New Jersey |
90 | Barbara Jordan | Texas |
91 | Charles M. Russell | Montana |
92 | Elizabeth Peratrovich | Alaska |
93 | Emma Edwards Green | Idaho |
94 | Helen J. Stewart | Nevada |
95 | Henry Clay | Kentucky |
96 | Herbert Hoover | Iowa |
97 | Horace Mann | Massachusetts |
98 | John McLoughlin | Oregon |
99 | Kate Barnard | Oklahoma |
100 | Kate Chopin | Louisiana |
101 | Maggie L. Walker | Virginia |
102 | Nellie Tayloe Ross | Wyoming |
103 | Robert La Follette | Wisconsin |
104 | Susan Blow | Missouri |
105 | Thaddeus Stevens | Pennsylvania |
106 | Carry A. Nation | Kansas |
107 | Carter G. Woodson | Illinois |
108 | Esther Hobart Morris | Wyoming |
109 | Henry Morrison Flagler | Florida |
110 | Lucretia Mott | Pennsylvania |
111 | Lynn J. Frazier | North Dakota |
112 | Peter Spencer | Delaware |
113 | Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop | Hawaii |
114 | Prudence Crandall | Connecticut |
115 | Tabitha Moffatt Brown | Oregon |
116 | Willa Cather | Nebraska |
117 | William Jennings Bryan | Nebraska |
118 | William O. Douglas | Washington |
119 | Belle Case La Follette | Wisconsin |
120 | Brigham Young | Utah |
121 | Charles Curtis | Kansas |
122 | Charlotte Andrews Stephens | Arkansas |
123 | Elwood Haynes | Indiana |
124 | Father Eusebio Francisco Kino | Arizona |
125 | James E. Shepard | North Carolina |
126 | James H. Hawley | Idaho |
127 | Oscar Howe | South Dakota |
128 | Patrick Anthony McCarran | Nevada |
129 | William H. Grey | Arkansas |
130 | Wilson Pickett | Alabama |
131 | Carlos Montezuma | Arizona |
132 | Horace Tabor | Colorado |
133 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Minnesota |
134 | Ida B. Wells | Mississippi |
135 | James Whitcomb Riley | Indiana |
136 | Linda Slaughter | North Dakota |
137 | Zora Neale Hurston | Florida |