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257 famous people found
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832
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André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836
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Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783
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Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664
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Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874
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François VIÈTE
French mathematician
1540 - 1603
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Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783
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Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829
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René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826
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Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880
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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer and geodesist
1713 - 1762
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Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802
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Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804
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Antoine BECQUEREL
French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
1788 - 1878
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Olivier DE SERRES
French author and soil scientist
1539 - 1619
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Guillaume François LAENNEC
French physician
1748 - 1822
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Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847
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Jean Dominique CASSINI
French astronomer
1748 - 1845
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NOSTRADAMUS
French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies
1503 - 1566
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Emilie DU CHATELET
French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment
1706 - 1749