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477 famous people found
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Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN
French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, founder of Quebec
1574 - 1635 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
Diego VELÁZQUEZ
Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age
1599 - 1660 -
Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824 -
Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825 -
BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650 -
Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
French Neoclassical painter
1780 - 1867 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
Eugène DELACROIX
French Romantic artist
1798 - 1863 -
REMBRANDT
Dutch painter and etcher
1606 - 1669 -
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Prolific and influential composer of the Classical era
1756 - 1791 -
Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727 -
William SHAKESPEARE
English poet and playwright
1564 - 1616 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
German composer and pianist
1770 - 1827 -
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU
French composer and music theorist
1683 - 1764 -
Wilhelm GRIMM
German author and anthropologist
1786 - 1859 -
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
French painter and printmaker
1732 - 1806 -
François COUPERIN
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist
1668 - 1733