9th GRADE RESEARCH PAPER
LIST OF APPROVED TOPICS
U.S. PRESIDENTS
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
William J. Clinton
Barack Obama
John F. Kennedy
WORLD POLITICS
Joseph Stalin
Margaret Thatcher
Leon Trotsky
Fidel Castro
Winston Churchill
Queen Elizabeth II
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Ho Chi Minh
Emiliano Zapata
Pancho Villa
Porfirio Diaz
Vladimir Lenin
Benito Mussolini
Nelson Mandela
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Eva Peron
Rigoberta Menchu
Malala Yousafzai
Hillary Rodham Clinton
SOCIAL REFORMERS
Cesar Chavez
Malcolm X
Gloria Steinem
John Muir
SCIENTISTS/INVENTORS
Nikola Tesla
James Watt
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Sigmund Freud
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
George Eastman (Kodak Co.)
ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS
Pablo Picasso
Diego Rivera
Norman Rockwell
Frank Lloyd Wright
Salvador Dali
Andy Warhol
Louis Tiffany
Vincent van Gogh
Frida Kahlo
Coco Chanel
Gloria Vanderbilt
Oscar de la Renta
Max Factor (Sr.)
ATHLETES
Jim Thorpe
Babe Ruth
Henry Aaron
Muhammad Ali
Joe DiMaggio
Willie Mays
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Billie Jean King
Wilma Rudolph
Joe Namath
Wilt Chamberlain
Jerry West
Johnny Unitas
Irvin “Magic” Johnson
Roberto Clemente
Pele
Diego Maradona
Michael Jordan
Mia Hamm
PRODUCERS/PERFORMERS
Walt Disney
Charlie Chaplin
James Dean
Alfred Hitchcock
Grace Kelly
Lucille Ball
W.C. Fields
Bruce Lee
Marilyn Monroe
Bob Hope
Harry Houdini
Shirley Temple (Black)
Groucho Marx
Anthony Quinn
Steven Spielberg
Jane Fonda
Bette Davis
Rita Moreno
Audrey Hepburn
MUSICIANS
Tito Puente
Duke Ellington
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Louis Armstrong
Frank Sinatra
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Jim Morrison
Irving Berlin
Bob Dylan
Ricky Martin
Juanes
Chuck Berry
Bono (from the band U2)
Eminem
Kurt Cobain (from the band Nirvana)
Selena (Quintanilla)
MISCELLANEOUS
Diana, Princess of Wales
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
William Randolph Hearst
Franz Kafka
Rudyard Kipling
Mother Teresa
Amelia Earhart
John Glenn
Billy Graham
Pope John Paul II
Charles Lindbergh
Douglas MacArthur
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oskar Schindler
Pope Francis
William Armstrong
RuPaul
Charles Darwin
Oprah Winfrey
*If you would like to do your paper about a person not on this list, you must get approval from English teacher prior to beginning your research.
Updated 1/8/15