National Garden of American Heroes

The **National Garden of American Heroes** is a proposed monument to "historically significant Americans." The people represented  by realistic statues will include political people, military people, entertainers, athletes, adventurers and explorers,  civil rights and labor leaders, inventors and religious leaders. In the presidential order for the garden, thirty-one men and women are named.  The location of the garden has not been made yet.  It was to open by July 4, 2026. It was announced by the president of the United States Donald Trump on July 3, 2020.   He made the announcement at an Independence Day celebration event at Mount Rushmore National Monument, in South Dakota.

Later, the next president, Joe Biden, stopped the  presidential order.  But after Donald Trump was elected president again, Trump made the order active again.

## Proposed statues

People with an asterisk (*) were listed in the first executive order.

- Ansel Adams
- John Adams*
- Samuel Adams
- Muhammad Ali
- Luis Walter Alvarez
- Susan B. Anthony*
- Hannah Arendt
- Louis Armstrong
- Neil Armstrong
- Crispus Attucks
- John James Audubon
- Lauren Bacall
- Clara Barton*
- Todd Beamer
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Roy Benavidez
- Ingrid Bergman
- Irving Berlin
- Humphrey Bogart
- Daniel Boone*
- Norman Borlaug
- William Bradford
- Herb Brooks
- Kobe Bryant
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Sitting Bull
- Frank Capra
- Andrew Carnegie
- Charles Carroll
- John Carroll
- George Washington Carver
- Johnny Cash
- Joseph H. De Castro
- Joshua Chamberlain*
- Whittaker Chambers
- Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman
- Ray Charles
- Julia Child
- Gordon Chung-Hoon
- William Clark
- Henry Clay*
- Roberto Clemente
- Grover Cleveland
- Red Cloud
- William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
- Nat King Cole
- Samuel Colt
- Christopher Columbus
- Calvin Coolidge
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Davy Crockett*
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
- Miles Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Emily Dickinson
- Walt Disney
- William J. Donovan
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Desmond Doss
- Frederick Douglass*
- Herbert Henry Dow
- Katharine Drexel
- Peter Drucker
- Amelia Earhart*
- Thomas Edison
- Jonathan Edwards
- Albert Einstein
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Duke Ellington
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Prince Estabrook
- Medgar Evers
- David Farragut
- Mary Fields
- Henry Ford
- George L. Fox
- Aretha Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin*
- Milton Friedman
- Robert Frost
- Gabby Gabreski
- Bernardo de Gálvez
- Lou Gehrig
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
- Cass Gilbert
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- John Glenn
- Barry Goldwater
- Samuel Gompers
- Alexander D. Goode
- R. C. Gorman
- Billy Graham*
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Nellie Gray
- Nathanael Greene
- Woody Guthrie
- Nathan Hale
- William Halsey Jr.
- Alexander Hamilton*
- Ira Hayes
- Hans Christian Heg
- Ernest Hemingway
- Patrick Henry
- Charlton Heston
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Billie Holiday
- Bob Hope
- Johns Hopkins
- Grace Hopper
- Sam Houston
- Whitney Houston
- Julia Ward Howe
- Edwin Hubble
- Daniel Inouye
- Andrew Jackson
- Robert H. Jackson
- Mary Jackson
- John Jay
- Thomas Jefferson*
- Steve Jobs
- Katherine Johnson
- Barbara Jordan
- Chief Joseph
- Elia Kazan
- Helen Keller
- John F. Kennedy
- Francis Scott Key
- Martin Luther King Jr.*
- Coretta Scott King
- Russell Kirk
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Henry Knox
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Lafayette
- Harper Lee
- Pierre Charles L'Enfant
- Meriwether Lewis
- Abraham Lincoln*
- Vince Lombardi
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Douglas MacArthur*
- Dolley Madison*
- James Madison*
- George C. Marshall
- Thurgood Marshall
- William Mayo
- Christa McAuliffe*
- William McKinley
- Louise McManus
- Herman Melville
- Thomas Merton
- Billy Mitchell
- George P. Mitchell
- Maria Mitchell
- Samuel Morse
- Lucretia Mott
- John Muir
- Audie Murphy*
- Edward R. Murrow
- John Neumann
- John von Neumann
- Annie Oakley
- Jesse Owens
- Rosa Parks
- George S. Patton Jr.*
- Charles Willson Peale
- William Penn
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- John J. Pershing
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Clark V. Poling
- John Russell Pope
- Elvis Presley
- Jeannette Rankin
- Ronald Reagan*
- Walter Reed
- William Rehnquist
- Paul Revere
- Henry Hobson Richardson
- Hyman G. Rickover
- Sally Ride
- Matthew Ridgway
- Jackie Robinson*
- Norman Rockwell
- Caesar Rodney
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Betsy Ross*
- Babe Ruth
- Sacagawea
- Jonas Salk
- John Singer Sargent
- Antonin Scalia*
- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
- Junípero Serra
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
- Robert Gould Shaw
- Fulton J. Sheen
- Alan Shepard
- Frank Sinatra
- Bessie Smith
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- James Stewart
- Harriet Beecher Stowe*
- Gilbert Stuart
- Anne Sullivan
- William Howard Taft
- Maria Tallchief
- Maxwell D. Taylor
- Tecumseh
- Kateri Tekakwitha
- Shirley Temple
- Nikola Tesla
- Jefferson Thomas
- Henry David Thoreau
- Jim Thorpe
- Augustus Tolton
- Alex Trebek
- Harry S. Truman
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman*
- Mark Twain
- Dorothy Vaughan
- C. T. Vivian
- Thomas Ustick Walter
- Sam Walton
- John P. Washington
- Booker T. Washington*
- George Washington*
- John Wayne
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Phillis Wheatley
- Walt Whitman
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Roger Williams
- John Winthrop
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Orville Wright*
- Wilbur Wright*
- Alvin York
- Cy Young
- Lorenzo de Zavala