Honorees include many names that are still famous ([[Wilbur Wright|Wilbur]] and [[Orville Wright]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[John Philip Sousa]]) and some that seem quite obscure: (Naval officer and oceanographer [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], astronomer [[Maria Mitchell]], jurist [[Rufus Choate]]).
The Hall of Fame includes a 630-foot outdoor colonnade featuring 98 bronze busts and commemorative plaques. The colonnade has places for 102 busts and 102 honorees have been elected, but due to lack of funding, four busts have not been commissioned or installed: those of [[Andrew Carnegie]], [[Clara Barton]], [[Luther Burbank]] and [[Louis Brandeis]].<ref name=mcshane/> The 97th to be installed was that of [[George Washington Carver]] in 1977;<ref>Johnston, Laurie (1977), "The Enshrinement of George Washington Carver, ''The New York Times,'' April 23, 1977, p. 50</ref>; the 98th, that of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], was installed in 1992<ref name=mcshane/> in connection with [[Bill Clinton]]'s election.
Many of the busts are the work of notable sculptors such as [[Daniel Chester French]] and [[Augustus St. Gaudens]], and the National [[Sculpture]] Society once designated the colonnade "the finest collection of bronzes in America."<ref name=sheraton/>
*[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]
*[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
*[[Augustus Saint-Gaudens ]]
*[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]
*[[John Philip Sousa]]
*[[Sylvanus Thayer]]
*[[Henry David Thoreau]]
*[[Lillian D. Wald ]]*[[Booker T. Washington ]]
*[[George Washington]]
*[[Daniel Webster]]