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672 famous people found
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Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
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 -
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 -
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
1879 - 1955 -
Irène JOLIOT-CURIE
French scientist
1897 - 1956 -
Charles DARWIN
English naturalist
1809 - 1882 -
Louis PASTEUR
French biologist, microbiologist and chemist
1822 - 1895 -
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December
1865 - 1922 -
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 -
Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
John Harvey KELLOGG
American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman
1852 - 1943 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
Edwin HUBBLE
American astronomer
1889 - 1953 -
Ada LOVELACE
English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine
1815 - 1852 -
Théodore BACHELET
French historian
1820 - 1879