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337 famous people found
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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 -
André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617 -
Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664 -
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 -
Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
Henri Pitot
French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube
1695 - 1771 -
Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer and geodesist
1713 - 1762 -
Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Olivier DE SERRES
French author and soil scientist
1539 - 1619