1. RUDOLPH VALENTINO Number one male star of 20’s movies
Called “The Great lover”
Movies Blood & Sand, The Sheik
Died at age 31

2. CLARA BOW Film star known as the “IT” girl because of her sex appeal
Known for her wild private life

3. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Wrote about the young and wealthy
Traveled Europe with wife Zelda
His heroes suffered moral collapse despite social success

4. BESSIE SMITH Legendary black blues singer Well known in Europe
Called “Empress Of the Blues”

5. LOUIS ARMSTRONG Black trumpet player called “Satchmo”
Famous for “Skat” singing Style
Legend in black ghettos in USA and in Europe

6. GEORGE GERSHWIN Composer of songs for stage and movies
“Rhapsody in Blues” his Jazz classic
Folk opera “Porgy & Bess”

7. BABE RUTH George Herman Ruth raised in a Baltimore orphanage
Called Sultan of Swat
60 Hrs for 1927 NY Yankees
Totally changed baseball

8. DOROTHY PARKER Writer for Vogue & The New Yorker
Wrote novels & short stories
“Men never make passes at girls that wear glasses”

9. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Famous American author Wrote “The Sun Also Rises”
Lived in Europe
Ended life by suicide

10. RED GRANGE “Galloping Ghost” for U. of Illinois
3 Time Football All-American
First star in the NFL
Played for the Chicago Bears

11. KNUTE ROCKNE Norwegian immigrant Notre Dame player & coach
Used forward pass to change the game
Coaching record

12. GERTRUDE EDERLE Medal winner in the Olympics
First woman to swim the English Channel
Her time of 14 Hrs 31 Min beat best time for males by more than 2 hours

13. JACK DEMPSEY The “ MANASSA MAULER” went through grade 8
Heavyweight Champ ( )
Lost to Gene Tunney in “Long Count” fight in 1927

14. BOBBY JONES Golfing Legend Won “Grand Slam” In 1930
Built the present day Masters Golf Course

15. BILL TILDEN “BIG BILL” was the greatest player in US tennis history
First US Male to win at Wimbledon in London

16. CARRY NATION Leader of the temperance movement to rid USA of alcohol
She helped pass the 18th Amendment which introduced Prohibition

17. SINCLAIR LEWIS First US novelist to win Nobel Prize for Literature
Wrote Babbit, Main Street & Elmer Gantry
From Sauk Center, MN

18. JOHN HELD JR. The most famous cartoonist of the Roaring Twenties
Especially remembered for his “flapper” girls

19. BILLY SUNDAY Former major league baseball player
Spirited orator who spoke out against the evils of alcohol

20. ELIZABETH STANTON
Provided ideas and wrote the speeches of Susan B. Anthony
Created National Women’s Suffrage Association which was in favor of the 19th Amendment

21. SIGMUND FREUD Father of modern psychology
Believed the Id, Ego and Super-ego were the basis of human personality

22. AL CAPONE “Scarface” Gangster who controlled Chicago “speakeasies”
Jailed for income tax fraud
Died from STD

23. CHARLEY CHAPLIN The “Little Tramp” King of slapstick comedy
Banned from the United States at one time
Lived in Switzerland

24. JOHNNY WEISMULLER
Olympic swimmer and world record holder in swimming (100m)
Played “Tarzan” in the movies

25. WILL ROGERS Famous cowboy comedian and social critic
Star of stage & screen
Famous quote: “I never met a man I didn’t like”

26. KENESAW LANDIS
Saved baseball after the Black Sox scandal in World Series
Baseball commissioner from
Believed in segregation

27. MARGARET SANGER Social reformer
Maternity nurse who devoted her life to informing women on methods of birth control

28. AIMEE McPHERSON Religious evangelist Preached mainly in California
Symbolized the importance of religion during this time period

29. ALEXANDER FLEMING Discovered penicillin
Medical “miracle drug” to attack infectious bacteria
This discovery revolutionized the practice of medicine

30. CARRIE CATT
Leader of the women’s suffrage movement which led to the passage of the 19th Amendment
Created the League of Women Voters organization.