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105 famous people found
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Olivier DE SERRES
French author and soil scientist
1539 - 1619 -
NOSTRADAMUS
French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies
1503 - 1566 -
Antoine Augustin PARMENTIER
French promoter of the potato as a food source in France and throughout Europe
1737 - 1813 -
Auguste de Saint-Hilaire
French botanist and traveler
1779 - 1853 -
Pierre André LATREILLE
French zoologist
1762 - 1833 -
Mathieu de DOMBASLE
French agronomist
1777 - 1843 -
André Jean Baptiste ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY
French physician and entomologist
1799 - 1857 -
Louis DUCHANOY
French engineer
1781 - 1847 -
Charles-François BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE
French hydrographer, hydrographic engineer and cartographer
1766 - 1854 -
Jacques-Constantin PERIER
French businessman
1742 - 1818 -
Claude Henri DE ROUVROY DE SAINT-SIMON
French political and economic theorist and businessperson
1760 - 1825 -
Joseph Bienaimé CAVENTOU
French pharmacist
1795 - 1877 -
Pierre GOURJU
French scholar
1762 - 1814 -
Antide JANVIER
French clockmaker
1751 - 1835 -
Déodat GRATET DE DOLOMIEU
French geologist
1750 - 1801 -
Henri BRACONNOT
French chemist and pharmacist
1780 - 1855