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392 famous people found
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836 -
Louis PASTEUR
French biologist, microbiologist and chemist
1822 - 1895 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938 -
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 -
Charles Martial GALLET
Co-founder of the French perfume company Roger & Gallet
1824 - 1901 -
Prosper MERIMEE
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer
1803 - 1870 -
Guillaume François LAENNEC
French physician
1748 - 1822 -
Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847 -
Jean Dominique CASSINI
French astronomer
1748 - 1845 -
Antoine Augustin PARMENTIER
French promoter of the potato as a food source in France and throughout Europe
1737 - 1813 -
Armand TROUSSEAU
French internist
1801 - 1867 -
Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist
1806 - 1875 -
Auguste BRAVAIS
French physicist
1811 - 1863 -
Théophile-Jules PELOUZE
French chemist
1807 - 1867 -
Léo TESTUT
French physician and anatomist
1849 - 1925