9136 who am i

Read the descriptions of these famous people who overcame obstacles to succeed. Then match the person’s name to his/her
description. Put the number of the famous person in the circle by his/her picture.

Who Am
I?

Hans Christian Anderson
Lance Armstrong
Beethoven
Marc Chagall
Charlie Chapman

Mary Cassat
Dalai Lama
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
Sigmund Freud

Mahatma Gandhi
Steven Hawking
Magic Johnson
Michelangelo
Golda Meir

1.

Christopher Reeve
Jackie Robinson
Nelson Rockefeller
Vincent Van Gogh
Stevie Wonder

2.

I was born into one of the
richest families in the U.S.
and served as Vice President
despite suffering from
dyslexia.

3.

I was a painter who had to
overcome society’s rules
about a woman’s role in life.

I was an actor who became a
paraplegic after falling from a
horse.

4.
I am a very successful musician
despite being blind since I
infancy.

7.

5.
I am a cancer survivor who
won the Tour de France 7
consecutive times (19992005).

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6.

8.

I was the fourth Prime Minister
of Israel and had cancer.

I was an artist who overcame
religious persecution.

I was an English naturalist who
proposed and provided scientific
evidence to support the theory
of evolution.

9.
I fought against racial
discrimination through non-violent
protests.

10.
I am the leader of the
Buddhist faith who fearing
persecution fled China and
now lives in exile in Tibet.

12
11.
I fought against racial prejudice
to become the first African
American major league baseball
player.

13.
I faced religious
discrimination and founded
the psychoanalytic school of
psychology.

I was a brilliant artist who
suffered from mental illness
and eventually committed
suicide.


Answer Key

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16.

15.
I was a very successful
basketball player in the
NBA who retired after
contracting AIDS. After

1.Nelson Rockefeller
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retiring, I became a
successful businessman.

2. Mary Cassatt

I am one of the most
famous classical
composers despite
being deaf.

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3.Christopher Reeve

19.
18.
I wrote fairy tales that
are still read today.

5. Lance Armstrong
17.

6. Golda Meir

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7. Charles Darwin

Although I became deaf
early in life, I invented the
phonograph and many
other devices.

8. Marc Chagall

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I am one of the most famous
physicists in the world. I
established the theory of
“Black Holes”.

9. Mahatma Gandhi

4. Stevie Wonder

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20.
I overcame my
father’s opposition to
one of Robinson
the
10. The Dalai Lama become
11. Jackie
greatest Italian

Renaissance painters.

12. Vincent Van Gogh

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13. Sigmund Freud

14. Charlie Chaplin

15. Beethoven

16. Magic Johnson

17. Stephen Hawking

18. Hans Christian
Anderson

19. Thomas Edison

20. Michelangelo