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486 famous people found
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Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
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 -
Charles DARWIN
English naturalist
1809 - 1882 -
Louis PASTEUR
French biologist, microbiologist and chemist
1822 - 1895 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Ada LOVELACE
English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine
1815 - 1852 -
Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938 -
John MUIR
Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America
1838 - 1914 -
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