Juliette Gordon Low is the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

Sally Hemings was an enslaved African-American woman who’s believed to have had several children with one-time U.S. president Thomas Jefferson.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927.

Jewish businessman Otto Frank hid his family during the Holocaust and published daughter Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl after his release from Auschwitz.

Eva Braun was the mistress and later the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun and Hitler killed themselves on April 30, 1945, the day after their wedding—a decided alternative to falling into the hands of enemy troops.

Pocahontas, later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Native American who assisted English colonists during their first years in Virginia.

Newton Knight, a white Mississippi farmer, led armed opposition to the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War, creating “The Free State of Jones,” a county which supported the Union in the war.

Johnny Appleseed is a folk hero based on frontier nurseryman John Chapman, who established orchards throughout the American Midwest.

Hermine Santruschitz Gies, better known as Miep Gies, helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, and saved her diaries.

Mileva Einstein-Maric was the first wife of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein.

Elsa Einstein was physicist Albert Einstein's second wife, supporting his work, nursing him back to health, and moving with him from Germany to the United States in 1933.

Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare.