Famous Firsts
Michelle Kwan
Olympic Figure Skater and American Diplomat
Oprah Winfrey
TV Host, Author, and Philanthropist
Albert Einstein
Physicist and Professor
Sonya Sotomayor
Judge, Supreme Court Justice, and Author
Uzo Aduba
Actress
Michelle Obama
Attorney and Author
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Attorney and Supreme Court Justice
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor and Producer
Viola Davis
Actress and Producer
Gerald Ford
38th President of the United States
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer, and Entrepreneur
2 Chainz
Rapper
Other Famous Firsts
Barney Franks |
Former US Congressman |
Elizabeth Warren |
US Senator |
Colin Powell |
65th US Secretary of State |
Tom Bradley |
Former Mayor of Los Angeles |
Tennessee Williams |
Award-Winning Playwright |
Clarence Thomas |
Supreme Court Justice |
Michael Blecker |
Executive Director, Swords to Plowshares |
Brian Greene |
Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician |
Ursula Burns |
First African American Woman to head a Fortune 500 Company |
Thurgood Marshall |
First African American Supreme Court Justice |
Kenny Troutt |
Founder and Executive Director of Excel Communications |
Richard Nixon |
37th President of the United States |
Howard Schultz |
CEO of Starbucks |
Viet Nguyen |
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author |
Bill Clinton |
42nd President of the United States |
Ken Langone |
Investor and Home Depot Co-Founder |
John Lewis |
Georgia Congressman and Civil Rights Hero |
Laurie Richer |
Medical Director of the University of San Francisco Trauma Recovery Center |
Ruth Simmons |
First African American Woman to Head a Major College or University |
Margaret Thatcher |
Known as "the Iron Lady" - Britain's First Female Prime Minister |
Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Director, Write, Flimmaker, Historian, and Critic, Harvard Professor |
Dr. Ben Carson |
Neurosurgeon and First Physician to Successfully Seperate Conjoined Twins |