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1,196 famous people found
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René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
Ada LOVELACE
English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine
1815 - 1852 -
Axel KAHN
French scientist, geneticist and essayist
1944 -
Claude ALLEGRE
French politician and scientist
1937 -
Jean-François MATTEI
French doctor and politician
1943 -
Jean-Christophe RUFIN
French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist
1952 -
Monique PINCON-CHARLOT
French sociologist
1946 -
Jean BOIRON
French pharmacist
1906 - 1996 -
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 -
Edgar MORIN
French philosopher and sociologist
1921 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Régine PERNOUD
French historian and archivist
1909 - 1998 -
Jean-Pierre AZEMA
French historian
1937 -
Alain REY
French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality
1928 - 2020 -
Antoine BECQUEREL
French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
1788 - 1878 -
Olivier DE SERRES
French author and soil scientist
1539 - 1619 -
Jean TULARD
French academic and historian
1933