| 1. | Betsy Gris⋅com [gris-kuh m] , 1752–1836, maker of the first U.S. flag. |
| 2. | Harold Wallace, 1892–1951, U.S. publisher and editor. |
| 3. | Sir James Clark, 1800–62, English navigator: explorer of the Arctic and the Antarctic. |
| 4. | his uncle, Sir John, 1777–1856, Scottish naval officer and arctic explorer. |
| 5. | John (Coowescoowe or Kooweskoowe ), 1790–1866, Cherokee leader. |
| 6. | Nellie Tay⋅loe [tey-loh] , 1876–1977, U.S. politician and governor of Wyoming: first woman U.S. governor 1925–27. |
| 7. | Sir Ronald, 1857–1932, English physician: Nobel prize 1902. |
| 8. | a male given name. |
Ross (rôs), Sir Ronald. 1857-1932.
British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito.