FAMOUS PERSON GAME

Franklin Pierce, Sr.--(November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869) was an American politician and the 14th President of the United States.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) served as the 32nd President of the United States and was elected to four terms in office.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt--(October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal of her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Civil Rights. After his death she built a career, as author and speaker, as a proponent of the New Deal Coalition and spokesperson for human rights.

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919...Rough Rider, President who assumed the post when his predecessor; one William McKinley was assassinated, also was a Police Commissioner for New York City Police Department who brought about reform, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1906, one time Governor of New York State...




Added trivia: I once lived on East 20th Street at #27, the Theodore Roosevelt birthplace was #28.

Theodore of Mopsuestia. Theodore (c.350 - 428), was bishop of Mopsuestia, a city in what is now Turkey which has since declined into a village and is now known as Yakapinar, from 392 to 428. He is also known as Theodore of Antioch, from the place of his birth and presbyterate. He is the best known representative of the middle Antiochene school of hermeneutics.

Or Theodore, Antioch, Yakapinar Mopsuestia is possibly his full name so that should make it easier for the next poster to inject a little style into these proceedings.

Edward Theodore Gein - (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984), was one of the most notorious murderers in U.S. history.

Edward Jenner, FRS, (May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823) was an English country doctor who studied nature and his natural surroundings from childhood and practiced medicine in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. He is famous as the first doctor to introduce and study the smallpox vaccine.

Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards


On the piste with Eddie Edwards. Michael Edwards (born 5 December 1963), better known as Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards, was the first competitor to represent the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team in Olympic Ski jumping.

Edwards was born in Cheltenham, England, and was working as a plasterer when he qualified, as the sole British applicant, for the 1988 Winter Olympics ski-jumping competition (He had previously represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships, and was ranked 55th in the world at ski jump).

Eddie Fisher - (born Edwin John Fisher, August 10, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American singer and entertainer

Carrie Fisher - Actress immortalised for playing Princess Leia, the token girl in the boys'-own Star Wars trilogy (IV,V & VI). Daughter of Eddie Fisher (above) and his first wife Debbie Reynolds.

Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC - (born 3 May 1946), Australian politician, was born in Lockhart, in the Riverina district of New South Wales, son of a farmer of German descent.

Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten-Windsor--(born 19 February 1960), is a member of the British Royal Family, the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II. He is known as the Duke of York.

Albert Pierepoint- hangman. Pierrepoint was by far the most prolific hangman of the twentieth century having executed an estimated 433 men and 17 women in his twenty four years of service in this country and abroad.

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, teacher, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. Previously, he had served as a Representative and Senator from Tennessee.

Richard Edward 'Eddy' Arnold...country music singer known as the Tennesee Plowboy, songs included Welcome To My World, But For Love, Cattle Call, The Horse In Striped Pajamas, The Valley Below, Two Sleepy People, Cowboy and dozens upon dozens more.

Matthew Arnold. (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School who was celebrated in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Matthew the Evangelist - Tax collector turned apostle, traditionally recognised (though this is questioned) as being the author of the first of the four Gospels of the New Testament.

Matthew Abram Groening - (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist and the creator of the animated television series The Simpsons and Futurama.

Matthew Paige Damon--(born October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and actor.

Alfred Damon - 1884-1946.

American writer known for his stylized, idiomatic stories about Broadway and the New York underworld, such as "Guys and Dolls" (1931).