Historical Figures

Famous people who lived at the same time as John F. Kennedy?

* Political leaders:

* Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union

* Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States (until 1961)

* Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President of the United States (until 1963)

* Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of Cuba

* Charles de Gaulle, President of France

* Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany

* Cultural figures:

* Elvis Presley, musician

* Marilyn Monroe, actress

* Frank Sinatra, singer

* Muhammad Ali, boxer

* Pablo Picasso, artist

* Ernest Hemingway, writer

* Scientists and inventors:

* Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist

* Alan Shepard, first American in space

* Yuri Gagarin, first human in space

* Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine

* John Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor

* Business leaders:

* Henry Ford II, CEO of Ford Motor Company

* J. Paul Getty, oil magnate

* David Rockefeller, banker

* Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft (born in 1955)