# Who most deserves to be on American money?

> Four faces already hold the paper currency. This list runs a good deal longer than four.

*By YPB Team · Published August 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-most-deserves-to-be-on-american-money*

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## Current results (0 votes)

1. **Benjamin Franklin**
   Has been on the hundred-dollar note since the first $100 Federal Reserve Notes of 1914.
2. **George Washington**
   On the one-dollar bill and the quarter, the most widely circulated face in American history.
3. **Abraham Lincoln**
   On both the five-dollar bill and the penny, the only figure on two circulating denominations.
4. **Harriet Tubman**
   Escaped slavery and led dozens of others north; long proposed for the twenty-dollar note.
5. **Martin Luther King Jr.**
   Led the civil rights movement and has a federal holiday but no banknote.
6. **Thomas Jefferson**
   On the two-dollar bill and the nickel, and the author of the Declaration.
7. **Alexander Hamilton**
   On the ten-dollar bill as the founder of the Treasury that prints it.
8. **Susan B. Anthony**
   Campaigned for women's suffrage and appeared on a short-lived dollar coin.
9. **Frederick Douglass**
   Escaped slavery to become the most formidable abolitionist orator and writer in America.
10. **Franklin D. Roosevelt**
   On the dime, the president who took the country through the Depression and the war.
11. **Sacagawea**
   Guided the Lewis and Clark expedition and appears on the golden dollar coin.
12. **Rosa Parks**
   Her refusal to move seats in Montgomery in 1955 set the bus boycott in motion.
13. **Neil Armstrong**
   First person to walk on the Moon, and the face of American technical ambition.
14. **Eleanor Roosevelt**
   Redefined the role of First Lady and chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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