Added by Kenji on 27 Apr 2015 11:25

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My Favourite U.S.Americans

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Jane Addams

Progressive social campaigner, Nobel peace prize winner, US social work founder

Kenji's rating:

8.7

Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

Kenji's rating:

8.2

Fred Astaire

Film star, dancer

Kenji's rating:

9.3

Clara Barton

Nurse, US Red Cross founder

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Nellie Bly

Investigative campaigning journalist, record round the world traveller, inventor

Kenji's rating:

8.7

Humphrey Bogart

Film star

Kenji's rating:

7.9

Louise Brooks

Silent film star

Kenji's rating:

8.8

George Washington Carver

Botanist, inventor, crop scientist

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Cyd Charisse

Film star, dancer

Kenji's rating:

6.3

Cesar Chavez

Labour and civil rights activist

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Thubten Chodron

Buddhist nun

Kenji's rating:

7.6

George Clooney

Film star

Kenji's rating:

8.5

Daffy Duck

Everything he's quacked up to be.

Kenji's rating:

8.6

Frederick Douglass

Distinguished statesman, social reformer, former slave

Kenji's rating:

7.8

Melody Gardot

Bluesy jazz singer-songwriter

Kenji's rating:

8.1

Janet Gaynor

Silent film star

Kenji's rating:

7.3

Martha Graham

Dancer, choreographer

Kenji's rating:

8.7

Cary Grant

Film star (British born)

Kenji's rating:

8.7

Winslow Homer

Artist

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Michael Johnson (sprinter)

Athlete

Kenji's rating:

8.7

Buster Keaton

Comic actor

Kenji's rating:

8.8

Helen Keller

Deaf-blind political activist, author..

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Florence Kelley

Social, political reformer

Kenji's rating:

8.2

Martin Luther King

Civil rights leader

Kenji's rating:

5.5

Robert Kramer

Film director

Kenji's rating:

8.3

Dorothea Lange

Photographer

Kenji's rating:

8.4

Groucho Marx

Comedian, film star

Kenji's rating:

8.4

Marilyn Monroe

Film star

Kenji's rating:

8.8

Thomas Paine

Anglo-American political writer, philosopher

Kenji's rating:

7.2

Rosa Parks

Civil rights activist

Kenji's rating:

6.8

Quay Brothers

Film directors

Kenji's rating:

8.2

Paul Robeson

Singer, international political activist

Kenji's rating:

9.5

Eleanor Roosevelt

Politically committed "first lady"

Kenji's rating:

6.5

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President

Kenji's rating:

8.5

Barry Sanders

American football player

Kenji's rating:

8.3

Frank Sinatra

Singer

Kenji's rating:

8.8

Sitting Bull

Native American freedom fighter

Kenji's rating:

7.1

Bruce Springsteen

Singer-songwriter

Kenji's rating:

7.1

Mary Steenburgen

Actress

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Wayne Thiebaud

Artist

Kenji's rating:

9.3

Jim Thorpe

All-round athlete, sportsman

Kenji's rating:

7.7

Top Cat

The indisputable Top Cat

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Sojourner Truth

Women's rights and anti-slavery campaigner

Kenji's rating:

8.5

Mark Twain

Writer

Kenji's rating:

8.3

Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

Kenji's rating:

7.5

Frederica von Stade

Opera singer

Kenji's rating:

8.6

Orson Welles

Film director

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Opal Whiteley

Nature diarist

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I'm including British-born Cary Grant as he became a US citizen and is famous for his Hollywood roles. Thomas Paine too was well known for his influence in USA.

Of course I've left out a lot of famous names: favourites not "greatest". Some others I considered and/or checked out more: Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Al Pacino, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T Washington, Susan B Anthony, George Gershwin, Ralph Nader, Henry David Thoreau....

I like plenty of U.S singers and musicians, but turns out surprisingly few i'm a big fan of. And I need more young/modern ones here too