2.  Abigail Adams Abigail Adams He represented the British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre. In 1774, Adams served in the First Continental Congress and, in 1780, drafted the Massachusetts Constitution. Adams became the first Vice President of the United States and the second president.

3. Best Known For American Revolutionary Samuel Adams organized the Boston Tea Party and signed the Declaration of Independence

4. Best Known For Ethan Allen was a soldier and frontiersman, and was leader of the militia group the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution.

5.  Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold

6. Best Known For Crispus Attucks was an African-American man killed during the Boston Massacre, making him the first casualty of the American Revolution.

7. Best Known For British general John Burgoyne is best remembered for his defeat by superior American forces in the Saratoga campaign of 1777, during the American Revolution.

8. Best Known For John Singleton Copley was an American painter of portraits and historical subjects. He is generally acclaimed as the finest artist of colonial America.

9. Best Known For James Armistead was born into slavery and volunteered to fight in the American Revolution. He posed as a spy and infiltrated the British forces.

10.  Best Known For  Born in 1766, James Forten was a wealthy, free African-American man. He was active in abolishing slavery, arguably the most extraordinary black man of his era.

11.  Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin

12.  Best Known For  Nathan Hale graduated from Yale University in 1773, joined the American Revolution and was hanged by the British for espionage in 1776.

13. Best Known For Alexander Hamilton was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, author of the Federalist papers, and secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

14.  Patrick Henry Patrick Henry

15.  Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

16. Best Known For John Paul Jones was an American naval hero in the American Revolution. He was renowned for his victory over British ships of war off the east coast of England.

17. Best Known For James Madison was the fourth President of the United States and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

18. Best Known For James Otis, Jr. was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts and the phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to him.

19. Best Known For Thomas Paine was an English-American writer and pamphleteer whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.

20. Best Known For Molly Pitcher was a patriot who--during the American Revolution--carried pitchers of water to American soldiers for cooling the cannons.

21.  Paul Revere Paul Revere

22. Best Known For According to legend, Betsy Ross made the first American flag. Despite a lack of credible evidence to support this, she remains an icon of American history.

23. Best Known For Benjamin West was an American born painter of historic and religious subjects, including King George III of England.

24. Best Known For Slave poet Phillis Wheatley impressed everyone she met in the late 18th century, proving to the world that dark skin did not indicate intellectual inferiority.

25. Best Known for being the wife of George Washington. She lent her name to support a formal effort to enlist women of the colonies to volunteer on behalf of the Continental Army. In appreciation, American servicemen addressed her as "Lady Washington."