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1438 famous people found
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Germaine TILLION
French ethnologist, and a member of the French resistance
1907 - 2008 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
François VIÈTE
French mathematician
1540 - 1603 -
Jean BERNOULLI
Swiss mathematician
1667 - 1748 -
Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783 -
John Harvey KELLOGG
American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman
1852 - 1943 -
Philippe COUSTEAU
French documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography
1940 - 1979 -
Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829 -
Tim BERNERS-LEE
British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
1955 -
Steve WOZNIAK
American computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer
1950 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
Edwin HUBBLE
American astronomer
1889 - 1953 -
Ada LOVELACE
English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine
1815 - 1852 -
Vagn Walfrid EKMAN
Swedish oceanographer
1874 - 1954 -
François Braun
French politician
1962 -
Théodore BACHELET
French historian
1820 - 1879 -
Nicanor PARRA
Poet, physicist, Cervantes Prize 2011
1914 - 2018 -
Serge Haroche
French physicist
1944 -
Cécile DEWITT-MORETTE
French mathematician and physicist
1922 - 2017