This president known as Tommy as a child began using his middle name because he thought it was more dignified.

A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stand Watie is the only Native American to achieve this.

Margaret Elizabeth Noble is better known by this name.

Considered the greatest pianist of the 1800s and possibly of all time, this composer later entered a Franciscan order.

In 1797, Oney Judge escaped slavery to this woman by fleeing the woman’s Philadelphia home and traveling to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she enjoyed freedom, but remained a fugitive.

Women and girls in China bound their feet so the feet would remain this size.

Three years after his wife’s death in 1918 and 24 years before his own death, Milton Hershey gave his personal fortune to this.