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511 famous people found
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Augustin FABRE
French physician
1836 - 1884 -
Francis PARKMAN
American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America
1823 - 1893 -
Antoine HERON DE VILLEFOSSE
French archaeologist
1845 - 1919 -
René KERVILER
French engineer
1842 - 1907 -
Mary Edwards WALKER
American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon
1832 - 1919 -
Jules PEAN
One of the great French surgeons of the 19th century
1830 - 1898 -
Asaph HALL
American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos
1829 - 1907 -
John Gill LEMMON
American botanist and Civil War veteran and former prisoner of Andersonville
1832 - 1908 -
Sara PLUMMER LEMMON
American botanist
1836 - 1923 -
Crawford LONG
American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic
1815 - 1878 -
L. L. LANGSTROTH
American apiarist, clergyman and teacher, considered the "Father of American Beekeeping."
1810 - 1895 -
William EUSTIS
American physician, politician, and statesman
1753 - 1825 -
Léon PROVANCHER
Canadian Catholic parish priest and naturalist
1820 - 1892 -
Robert FULTON
Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
1765 - 1815 -
Zénobe GRAMME
Belgian electrical engineer
1826 - 1901 -
Henry David THOREAU
American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist
1817 - 1862 -
Mark HOPKINS
American educator and Congregationalist theologian, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872
1802 - 1887 -
Luther BURBANK
American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science
1849 - 1926 -
Antoine PORTAL
French anatomist, doctor, medical historian and founding president of the Académie Nationale de Médecine
1742 - 1832 -
Henri NAVIER
French engineer and physicist
1785 - 1836