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1,161 famous people found
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Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
Jane GOODALL
English primatologist and anthropologist
1934 -
Sergey BRIN
American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
1973 -
Anne WOJCICKI
American entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe
1973 -
Howard CARTER
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun
1874 - 1939 -
Marie CURIE
French-Polish chemist and physicist
1867 - 1934 -
Alan TURING
English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist
1912 - 1954 -
Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Arthur CONAN DOYLE
Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes
1859 - 1930 -
Sigmund FREUD
Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1856 - 1939 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727 -
Albert EINSTEIN
American theoretical physicist
1879 - 1955 -
Charles DARWIN
English naturalist
1809 - 1882 -
Louis PASTEUR
French biologist, microbiologist and chemist
1822 - 1895 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Larry PAGE
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
1973 -
Hubert REEVES
French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
1932 -
Pierre NORA
French historian
1931