Your students will love reading about these famous, legendary, and influential people from across the globe, including inventors, politicians, celebrities, and humanitarians. Students will also have the opportunity to discuss famous people and topics related to them.

Mark Carney

Susan B. Anthony

Wayne Gretzky

Emily Carr

Viola Desmond

Alexander Hamilton

Nellie McClung

Angela Merkel

Robin Williams

David Beckham

Roméo Dallaire

Malala Yousafzai

Bob Marley

Pierre Trudeau

Jackie Chan

Sir John A. Macdonald

Pablo Picasso

Martin Luther King Jr.

Pelé

Nelson Mandela

Fidel Castro

Madonna

Rubin Hurricane Carter

Tim Horton

Winston Churchill

Albert Einstein

Oprah Winfrey

Steve Jobs

Mahatma Gandhi

Sigmund Freud

Queen Elizabeth

Princess Diana

Bill Gates

John Lennon

Jesse James

Dian Fossey

Gloria Steinem

Terry Fox

Elvis Presley

William Shakespeare

Salvador Allende

Billie Holiday

Lech Walesa

Akio Morita

Bob Dylan

Richard Pryor

Martha Stewart

James Naismith

Pope John Paul II

Alexander Graham Bell

Mikhail Gorbachev

Queen Noor

Thomas Edison

Mother Teresa

Louis Armstrong

Chung Ju-Yung

Charlie Chaplin

Coretta Scott King

Mao Zedong

Karl Marx

Charles Goodyear

Cesar Chavez

Desmond Tutu

Sam Walton

Yuri Gagarin

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Charles de Gaulle

Miguel de Cervantes

Maya Angelou

Joseph Stalin

The Wright Brothers

Christopher Columbus

Frida Kahlo

Charles Darwin

Dr. Kevorkian

Margaret Thatcher

Whitney Houston

Michael Jackson

The Beatles

Louis Riel

Neil Armstrong

Norman Bethune

Hugo Chavez

Kim Yuna 

Oscar Niemeyer

Jane Austen

Prince

Over 150 ready-to-teach ESL lessons on famous and influential people. Featuring short bios, comprehension, vocabulary, and discussion tasks.

ESL Lesson Plans by Ellii – Famous People

Famous People