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1,179 famous people found
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René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826
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Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880
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Ada LOVELACE
English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine
1815 - 1852
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Claude ALLEGRE
French politician and scientist
1937
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Jean-François MATTEI
French doctor and politician
1943
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Jean-Christophe RUFIN
French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist
1952
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Jean BOIRON
French pharmacist
1906 - 1996
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Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938
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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
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Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802
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Edgar MORIN
French philosopher and sociologist
1921
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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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Régine PERNOUD
French historian and archivist
1909 - 1998
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Jean-Pierre AZEMA
French historian
1937
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Alain REY
French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality
1928 - 2020
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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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Jean TULARD
French academic and historian
1933
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Phil MCGRAW
American television personality, author, psychologist, and the host of the television show Dr. Phil
1950
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François DE GROSSOUVRE
French politician
1918 - 1994