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==People== ===Science, Engineering and Technology=== [[File:Einstein1921 by F Schmutzer 4.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Albert Einstein]], 1921]] {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Albert Einstein]] * [[Sigmund Freud]] * [[Alexander Fleming]] * [[Frederick Banting]] * [[Niels Bohr]] * [[Werner Heisenberg]] * [[Louis DeBroglie]] * [[Howard Carter]] * [[Georges Lemaître]] * [[Edwin Powell Hubble]] * [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposkhin]] * [[Vladimir K. Zworykin|Vladimir Zworykin]] * [[John Loggie Baird]] * [[Garrett Morgan]] {{div col end}} ===Literature=== [[File:F. Scott Fitzgerald (1929 photo portrait by Nickolas Muray) Cropped.jpg|thumb|150px|[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], 1929]] {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Alexander Belyaev]] * [[Bertolt Brecht]] * [[Countee Cullen]] * [[Nancy Cunard]] * [[T. S. Eliot]] * [[William Faulkner]] * [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] * [[Zelda Fitzgerald]] * [[Ernest Hemingway]] * [[Langston Hughes]] * [[Zora Neale Hurston]] * [[James Weldon Johnson]] * [[Erich Kastner]] * [[Sinclair Lewis]] * [[Alain Locke]] * [[Thomas Mann]] * [[Claude McKay]] * [[Carl Sandburg]] * [[William Butler Yeats]] {{div col end}} ===Entertainers=== [[File:Charlie Chaplin.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Charlie Chaplin]] during the 1920s]] [[File:The Frozen North (1922) - 2.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Buster Keaton]] in the 1922 short film ''[[The Frozen North]]'']] {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Charlie Chaplin]] * [[Buster Keaton]] * [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]] * [[Mary Astor]] * [[Josephine Baker]] * [[Tallulah Bankhead]] * [[Ethel Barrymore]] * [[John Barrymore]] * [[Lionel Barrymore]] * [[Clara Bow]] * [[Louise Brooks]] * [[Lon Chaney, Sr.|Lon Chaney]] * [[Katharine Cornell]] * [[Joan Crawford]] * [[Bebe Daniels]] * [[Betty Bronson]] * [[Mary Brian]] * [[Marion Davies]] * [[Douglas Fairbanks]] * [[Eva Le Gallienne]] * [[Greta Garbo]] * [[Janet Gaynor]] * [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]] * [[Dorothy Gish]] * [[Lillian Gish]] * [[William Haines]] * [[William S. Hart]] * [[Harry Houdini]] * [[Emil Jannings]] * [[Al Jolson]] * [[Harold Lloyd]] * [[Tom Mix]] * [[Colleen Moore]] * [[Mae Murray]] * [[Pola Negri]] * [[Ramón Novarro]] * [[Will Rogers]] * [[Mary Pickford]] * [[Norma Shearer]] * [[Gloria Swanson]] * [[Chief Tahachee]] * [[Norma Talmadge]] * [[Rudolph Valentino]] * [[Anna May Wong]] * [[Betty White]] {{div col end}} ====Musicians==== [[File:Berlin-Jolson27.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Irving Berlin]] (left) and [[Al Jolson]], {{circa|1927}}]] {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[George Gershwin]] * [[Al Jolson]] * [[Louis Armstrong]] * [[Richard Tauber]] * [[Irving Berlin]] * [[Eddie Cantor]] * [[Duke Ellington]] * [[Kelly Harrell]] * [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmy Rodgers]] * [[Jelly Roll Morton]] * [[Cole Porter]] * [[Rudy Vallée]] * [[Paul Whiteman]] * [[Fats Waller]] * [[Fletcher Henderson]] * [[Eddie Lang]] * [[Joe Venuti]] * [[Bix Beiderbecke]] * [[Art Tatum]] * [[Béla Bartók]] * [[Lonnie Johnson (musician)|Lonnie Johnson]] * [[Bessie Smith]] * [[Count Basie]] * [[King Oliver]] * [[Sidney Bechet]] * [[Blind Willie Johnson]] {{div col end}} === Film makers === {{Main|1920s in film}} [[File:D W Griffith.jpeg|thumb|220px|[[D. W. Griffith]] at a rolltop desk, {{circa|1925}}]] {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Harry Beaumont]] * [[Busby Berkeley]] * [[Frank Borzage]] * [[Charles Chaplin]] * [[Alan Crosland]] * [[Cecil B. DeMille]] * [[William C. DeMille]] * [[Sergei Eisenstein]] * [[Victor Fleming]] * [[John Ford]] * [[D. W. Griffith]] * [[Alfred Hitchcock]] * [[Rex Ingram (director)|Rex Ingram]] * [[Buster Keaton]] * [[Fritz Lang]] * [[Ernst Lubitsch]] * [[Lewis Milestone]] * [[Erich von Stroheim]] * [[King Vidor]] * [[Robert Wiene]] {{div col end}} ===Artists=== [[File:Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keeffe - Google Art Project, sepia.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Georgia O'Keeffe]] in 1920, photographed by [[Alfred Stieglitz]]]] [[File:GeorgeGrosz.jpg|thumb|150px|[[George Grosz]] in 1921]] {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Hans Arp]] * [[Max Beckmann]] * [[Georges Braque]] * [[André Breton]] * [[Patrick Henry Bruce]] * [[Alexander Calder]] * [[Carlo Carrà]] * [[Marc Chagall]] * [[Giorgio de Chirico]] * [[Salvador Dalí]] * [[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]] * [[Charles Demuth]] * [[Otto Dix]] * [[Theo van Doesburg]] * [[Arthur Dove]] * [[Marcel Duchamp]] * [[Max Ernst]] * [[Alberto Giacometti]] * [[Julio González (sculptor)|Julio Gonzalez]] * [[Juan Gris]] * [[George Grosz]] * [[Marsden Hartley]] * [[Wassily Kandinsky]] * [[Paul Klee]] * [[Gaston Lachaise]] * [[Fernand Léger]] * [[Tamara de Lempicka]] * [[René Magritte]] * [[Georges Malkine]] * [[John Marin]] * [[André Masson]] * [[Henri Matisse]] * [[Joan Miró]] * [[Piet Mondrian]] * [[Henry Moore]] * [[Max Morise]] * [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] * [[Francis Picabia]] * [[Pablo Picasso]] * [[Man Ray]] * [[Morgan Russell]] * [[Kurt Schwitters]] * [[Charles Sheeler]] * [[Chaïm Soutine]] * [[Yves Tanguy]] * [[Stanton Macdonald-Wright]] {{div col end}} ===Architects=== {{See also|Bauhaus}} [[File:Frank_Lloyd_Wright_LC-USZ62-36384.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Frank Lloyd Wright]], 1926]] * [[Marcel Breuer]] * [[Le Corbusier]] * [[Walter Gropius]] * [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] * [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] * [[Mario Palanti]] ===Sports figures=== {{See also|History of baseball in the United States#Babe Ruth and the end of the dead-ball era}} <!-- alphabetical order --> [[File:Babe_Ruth_(cropped).jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Babe Ruth]] in 1920]] [[File:Paavo Nurmi (Paris 1924).jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Paavo Nurmi]] in [[1924 Summer Olympics]]]] {{div col|colwidth=35em}} * [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Ty Cobb]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Eddie Collins]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Walter Johnson]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Rogers Hornsby]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Babe Ruth]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Tris Speaker]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Lou Gehrig]] (American [[baseball]] player) * [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]] (American [[Baseball]] Commissioner) * [[Gene Tunney]] (American boxer) * [[Jack Dempsey]] (American boxer) * [[Francisco Guilledo]] (Filipino boxer) * [[Warwick Armstrong]] (Australian [[cricket]] captain) * [[Wilfred Rhodes]] (Yorkshire and England cricketer) * [[Jack Hobbs]] (Surrey and England cricketer) * [[Herbert Sutcliffe]] (Yorkshire and England cricketer) * [[Maurice Tate]] (Sussex and England cricketer) * [[Jack Gregory (cricketer)|Jack Gregory]], Australian cricketer * [[Bert Oldfield]] (Australian cricketer) * [[Herbie Taylor]] (South African cricketer) * [[Alex Grove]] (American bowler) * [[Red Grange]] ([[American football]] player) * [[Knute Rockne]] (American football player and coach) * [[Alex James (footballer)|Alex James]] (Arsenal and Scotland [[soccer]] player) * [[Gordon Coventry]] ([[Australian rules football]] player) * [[Walter Hagen]] (American [[golf]]er) * [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]] (American golfer) * [[Paavo Nurmi]] (Finnish runner) * [[Bobbie Rosenfeld|Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld]] (Canadian athlete) * [[Earl Sande]] (jockey) * [[Gertrude Ederle]] (swimming) * [[Johnny Weissmuller]] (swimming) * [[Suzanne Lenglen]] (French [[tennis]] player) * [[Helen Wills Moody]] (American tennis player) * [[Bill Tilden]] (American tennis player) {{div col end}}
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