Region

Americas

Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca civilisations and the New World shaping modern global history.

Figures from this region37

Nikola Tesla

1856–1943 CE

Inventor · Electrical Engineer

48s

Frederick Douglass

1818–1895 CE

Abolitionist · Orator · Statesman

48s

Eleanor Roosevelt

1884–1962 CE

First Lady of the United States · UN Delegate · Drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Rosa Parks

1913–2005 CE

Civil Rights Activist · Seamstress

Maya Angelou

1928–2014 CE

Poet · Memoirist · Civil Rights Activist

Abraham Lincoln

1809–1865 CE

16th President of the United States

48s

Susan B. Anthony

1820–1906 CE

Suffragist · Abolitionist

Sitting Bull

c. 1831–1890 CE

Hunkpapa Lakota Holy Man · War Chief

Frida Kahlo

1907–1954 CE

Mexican Painter · Surrealist · Communist

48s

Thomas Edison

1847–1931 CE

Inventor · Entrepreneur · Holder of 1,093 US patents

Richard Feynman

1918–1988 CE

Theoretical Physicist · Manhattan Project · Nobel Laureate

J. Robert Oppenheimer

1904–1967 CE

Theoretical Physicist · Director of the Manhattan Project

Countries

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