Who Was...?

Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving pers...

A life in the wild! Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wante...

Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with in...

Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he pain...

As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the m...

As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basket...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male...

Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fi...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 mill...

Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is...

Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a n...

As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world.  Nelso...

Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playw...

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom-...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alab...

Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are...

It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse ...

Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four...

Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who W...

Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent f...

When Derek Jeter was eight years old, he announced that he was going to play baseball for...

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. won the world heavyweight championship at the age of 22, the ...

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out no...

At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight...

After breaking or tying more than sixty records in hockey, it's no wonder that Wayne Gret...

Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world ...

You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black...

Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Okla...

A singer-songerwriter, musician, and artist, Bob Dylan is an American icon. In the past f...

Best known for his screen prints of soup cans and movie stars, this shy young boy from Pi...

Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a found...

Jim Henson broke into television with a five-minute puppetry segment when he was only a f...

Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industr...

Who doesn't love Lucy? The legendary actress, producer, and comedian steps into the Who W...

Bruce Lee was a Chinese American action film star, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, an...

Known as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s uni...

Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Award...

Born in a little cabin in Tennessee, Dolly Parton always dreamed big, and she was right t...

Not only was Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA," he has risen to become a twenty-time Gr...

Get Up, Stand Up! for the king of reggae music!Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is c...

Follow the bad boys of rock and roll from their beginnings in London to their unparallele...

Read the story of the Founding Father who inspired the smash Broadway musical.Born in the...

Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on...

Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women's rights had per...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied ...

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Yea...

Though much of his early life remains a mystery, Blackbeard most likely began his life as...

From the palaces of Austria to the mirrored halls of Versailles, Marie Antoinette led a c...

He came. He saw. He conquered. Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy p...