Most of us know almost all of the names on this list, no matter whether we learned them in elementary school or saw a very interesting History Channel documentary about them. Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Harriet Tubman, and more are all some of the most iconic figures from American history.
And they lived long enough to be photographed, too. We don’t have to rely on centuries-old portraits or AI recreations to find out what these historical icons looked like. Put a face to the name and scroll through this article to see what the most famous people from American history actually looked like.