Becoming A Brilliant Star
Historical Exemplars
 

Developed by:  W. Huitt
First developed: December 1999

Last revised: June 2007


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Can You Find Just One Exemplary Star That Can Serve As A Role Model?
Are There Any That You Would NOT Want to Emulate?
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General
Jimmy Carter
Dr. Charles A. Eastman
Queen Hatshepsut
Helen Keller
Nelson Mandela
Yitzak Rabin
Tecumseh

Character
Winston Churchill
Benito Juárez
Abraham Lincoln
Golda Meir
Jackie Robinson
Zitkala Sha
George Washington

Style
Albert Einstein Mohatma Ghandi Ernest Hemingway Harry Truman

Spiritual

Founders of Major
World Religions
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Black Elk
Martin Luther
St.. Paul
Tahirih
Tenzin Gyatsu

Physical
Muhammed Ali
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
Scott Hamilton
Mia Hamm
Michael Jordan
Rudolph Nureyev
Jesse Owens
Arnold Palmer
Pelé
Wilma Rudolph

Cognitive

Aristotle
Mary McCloud Bethune
Marie Curie
Howard Gardner
Margaret Mead
Isaac Newton
Plato
Abdus Salam

Robert Sternberg
Alan Turing
Booker T. Washington

Affective

Irving Berlin
Don Miguel de Cervantes
Leonardo da Vinci
Isadora Duncan
Bob Dylan
Anne Frank
Robert Frost
Pablo Picasso
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Shakespeare
Mother Teresa

Conative

Maya Angelou
Crazy Horse
Walt Disney
Fredrick Douglas
Amelia Earhart
Jaime Escalante
John Hancock
Paul Robson
Sacagawea
Sojourner Truth

Family

Dorothy & Robert Debolts
 
Millard & Linda Fuller
 
Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter
Cordelia & James Taylor
Zig & Jean Ziglar
Friends

Tony Attwood

Azim Khamisa & Ples Felix George W. Bush & Vicente Fox Huck Finn & Jim

Career
Bob Hope
Katharine Graham
Sandra Day O'Conner
I. M. Pei
Ray Anderson
Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Sally Ride
Financial Warren Buffett
Andrew Carnegie
Bill Gates
Andrew Grove
Suze Orman
John D. Rockefeller
Sam Walton
Oprah Winfrey

Social

Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Mustafa Atatürk
Richard Baker
Clara Barton
David Ben-Gurion
Simon Bolivar
Gaura Devi
Eka Esu-Williams
Henry Ford
Indira Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Chico Mendez
Rosa Parks
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Haile Salassie I
Margaret Sanger
Deng Xiaoping
Sun Yat-sen
Zhu Zhaohua
Mao Zedong


* Hopefully, there is enough controversy in the selections to provide for some discussions.


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