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48 famous people found
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René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650 -
Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727 -
Jean DE LA BRUYÈRE
French philosopher and moralist
1645 - 1696 -
Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783 -
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment
1712 - 1778 -
Antoine LAVOISIER
French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology
1743 - 1794 -
Nicolas DE CONDORCET
French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist
1743 - 1794 -
VOLTAIRE
French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
1694 - 1778 -
Adam SMITH
British economist, philosopher, and author
1723 - 1790 -
Marquis DE SADE
Aristocrat, writer and libertine
1740 - 1814 -
Blaise PASCAL
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher
1623 - 1662 -
Félicité de LA MENNAIS
French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist
1782 - 1854 -
Pierre-Simon BALLANCHE
French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher
1776 - 1847 -
Joseph WILLM
French philosopher
1792 - 1853 -
Claude Henri DE ROUVROY DE SAINT-SIMON
French political and economic theorist and businessperson
1760 - 1825 -
Giovanni PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
Italian Renaissance philosopher
1463 - 1494 -
Jean-Pierre DE CROUSAZ
Swiss theologian and philosopher
1663 - 1750 -
Charles DE RéMUSAT
French politician and writer
1797 - 1875 -
Michel DE MONTAIGNE
One of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance
1533 - 1592 -
Auguste COMTE
French philosopher
1798 - 1857