2. Nelson Mandela
Location of the statue: 3101 Massachusetts
Ave NW
Nelson Mandela civil right activist.
He became the first black president of South
Africa in 1994, serving until 1999.
A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
3. Tomas Garrigue
Masaryk
Location of the statue: 2100 Massachusetts
NW, 22 St NW.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak
politician, sociologist and philosopher.
An advocate of Czechoslovak independence
during World War.
4. Eleftherios Venizelos
Location of the statue: 2100 Massachusetts
Av NW,And 2200 Sheridan Circle NW
He was an eminent Greek leader of Greek
national liberation movement.
A charismatic statesman of the early 20th
century.
He is remembered for his promotion of
liberal-democratic policies.
5. Philip Henry Sheridan
Location of the statue: Sheridan Circle NW
Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States
Army officer and a Union general in the American
Civil War.
He is most famous for his destruction of the
Shenandoah Valley in 1864, called “The Burning”
by its residents.
6. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Location of the statue: 23 St NW,
Ataturk established a provisional government in
Ankara.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army
officer, reformist statesman.
He is credited with being the founder of the
Republic of Turkey.
Turkey became a secular republic with Ataturk
as its president.
7. Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk
Location of the statue: 2525
Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC
20008.
Ataturk established a provisional
government in Ankara.
The following year the Ottoman Sultanate
was formally abolished and in 1923,
Turkey became a secular republic with
Ataturk as its president.
8. Dr. Philip Jaisohn
Location of the statue:Sheridan Circle NW.
He is champion for Korea's independence,
journalist.
The first Korean to become a naturalized citizen
of the United States.
The founder of the first Korean newspaper in
Hangul, the Independent News.
9. Jeju Dol Hareubang
Location of the statue: Massachusetts Ave
NW
The shamanistic statues are believed to be
offering protection and warding off demons
10. ST. Jerome the Priest
Location of the statue: 2343 Massachusetts Ave NW.
Jerome was one of the most important scholars of
the early Christian Church.
His translation of the Bible into Latin would become
the standard edition throughout the Middle Ages, and
his viewpoints on monasticism would be influential
over the centuries.
11. Robert Emmet
Location of the statue:Massachusetts Ave
NW, And 24 St NW.
He was an Irish nationalist and Republican,
orator and rebel leader.
He led an abortive rebellion against British
rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and
executed for high treason.
12. Kahlil Gibran
Location of the statue: Massachusetts
Ave NW
In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as
a literary and political rebel.
He is chiefly known in the English-
speaking world for his 1923 book The
Prophet.
The Prophet. an early example of
inspirational fiction including a series of
philosophical essays written in poetic
English prose.
13. Sir Winston Churchill
Location of the statue: 3100 Massachusetts
Ave NW
He was a British politician.
He was the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from
1951 to 1955.
14. Seward Johnson J
Location of the statue: 2346 Massachusetts Ave
NW
He is best known for his life size bronze statues,
which actually are castings of living people of all
ages
15. Alberto Santos Dumont
Location of the statue: 1701 22nd St and Dimitar
Peshev Plaza
In 1901 on a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower,
made him one of the most famous people in the
world during the early 20th century
He achieved the first officially observed powered
European flight on October 23, 1906.
16. Juan Pablo Duarte y
Diez
Location of the statue: 1715 22nd
St
NW
He is one of the founding fathers of
the Dominican Republic
He was a visionary and liberal thinker.
Duarte helped supervise and finance
the Dominican War of Independence,
paying a heavy toll which would
eventually ruin him financially.
17. Crown Princess Martha of
Norway
Location of the statue: Massachusetts Avenue at 34th St
NW
Princess Martha became the first crown princess of
independent Norway in modern times.
Crown Princess Märtha soon became a popular and
respected member of the Royal Family. She undertook a
range of official engagements, and she also gave many
speeches, which was unusual for females in the Royal
Family at that time.
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