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In their May 2008 article, "Who Is a Famous American? Charting Historical Memory Across the Generations," Sam Wineburg and Chaunce Monte-Sano reported on their survey of 2,000 high school juniors and seniors. The students were asked, "Starting from Columbus to the present day, jot down the names of the most famous Americans in history." The only qualification was that the people mentioned could not be Presidents or the wives of Presidents. The article listed the top 10 names; here is an expanded table of the top 100. Also see: Famous Americans: How the Study Came to Be
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