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208 famous people found
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Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650 -
William SHAKESPEARE
English poet and playwright
1564 - 1616 -
Wilhelm GRIMM
German author and anthropologist
1786 - 1859 -
Jacob GRIMM
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist
1785 - 1863 -
Jean DE LA BRUYÈRE
French philosopher and moralist
1645 - 1696 -
Louis-Jules MANCINI-MAZARINI
French diplomat and writer
1716 - 1798 -
Denis DIDEROT
French philosopher, art critic, and writer
1713 - 1784 -
Walter SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771 - 1832 -
Honoré DE BALZAC
French novelist and playwright
1799 - 1850 -
Jean de LA FONTAINE
French fabulist
1621 - 1695 -
Benjamin FRANKLIN
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
1706 - 1790 -
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment
1712 - 1778 -
Sophie DE CONDORCET
French prominent salon hostess
1764 - 1822 -
Armand CARREL
French journalist and political writer
1800 - 1836 -
Nicolas Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
French novelist
1734 - 1806 -
Miguel de CERVANTES
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
1547 - 1616 -
Madame DE LA FAYETTE
French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature
1634 - 1693