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624 famous people found
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Benjamin FRANKLIN
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
1706 - 1790 -
Jean de LA FONTAINE
French fabulist
1621 - 1695 -
Honoré DE BALZAC
French novelist and playwright
1799 - 1850 -
Dominique Vivant DENON
French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist
1747 - 1825 -
Hyacinthe RIGAUD
French painter
1659 - 1743 -
Virginie DÉJAZET
French actress
1798 - 1875 -
Laurent MOURGUET
French puppeteer, creator of the famous puppet Guignol
1769 - 1844 -
Sophie DE CONDORCET
French prominent salon hostess
1764 - 1822 -
Armand CARREL
French journalist and political writer
1800 - 1836 -
Paul DELAROCHE
French painter
1797 - 1856 -
Nicolas Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
French novelist
1734 - 1806 -
Horace VERNET
French painter
1789 - 1863 -
Louis HACHETTE
French publisher
1800 - 1864 -
Miguel de CERVANTES
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
1547 - 1616 -
Madame DE LA FAYETTE
French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature
1634 - 1693 -
Olympe DE GOUGES
French playwright and political activist
1748 - 1793 -
Antoine LAVOISIER
French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology
1743 - 1794 -
Nicolas DE CONDORCET
French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist
1743 - 1794 -
Johann Sebastian BACH
German composer, organist, violist, and violinist
1685 - 1750 -
VOLTAIRE
French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
1694 - 1778