Inspirational People Biographies

Character Education:
‘Education the mind without educating the heart is no education at all’.

• Aristotle

Teach your pupils about values through learning about the lives of inspirational people. These 38 famous people are great examples of courage, ambition, kindness, perseverance, dignity, determination, strength, wisdom, creativity, leadership, standing up for what is right, empathy, resilience, failure, success, bravery, commitment, compassion, humility, innovation, optimism, selflessness and much, much more!

This resource includes 40 pages, a front cover, a contents page and 38 pages each with a sketch of the famous person for pupils to colour in, an inspirational quote said by each famous person and space to write a short biography, where and when they were born, their values and lessons learned from their life story.

The 38 inspirational people included are:

1. Walt Disney
2. Ruby Bridges
3. Nick Vujicic
4. Malala Yousafzai
5. Albert Einstein
6. Princess Diana
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Mother Teresa
9. Martin Luther King Jr.
10. Rosa Parks
11. Mahatma Gandhi
12. J.K. Rowling
13. Nelson Mandela
14. Liz Murray
15. Winston Churchill
16. Michelle Obama
17. Michael Oher
18. Emmeline Pankhurst
19. Maya Angelou
20. Stephen Hawking
21. Irena Sendlerowa
22. Desmond Tutu
23. Harriet Tubman
24. Thomas Edison
25. Helen Keller
26. Michael Jordan
27. Florence Nightingale
28. Steve Jobs
29. Oprah Winfrey
30. Barack Obama
31. Elizabeth Fry
32. Bill Gates
33. Betty Ann Waters
34. Scott Neeson
35. Anne Frank
36. Lionel Messi
37. John Lennon
38. Audrey Hepburn