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364 famous people found
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Wernher von Braun
German and American aerospace engineer and space architect
1912 - 1977 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
Jane GOODALL
English primatologist and anthropologist
1934 -
Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December
1865 - 1922 -
Hubert REEVES
French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
1932 - 2023 -
Pierre NORA
French historian
1931 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
Germaine TILLION
French ethnologist, and a member of the French resistance
1907 - 2008 -
Philippe COUSTEAU
French documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography
1940 - 1979 -
Steve WOZNIAK
American computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer
1950 -
Nicanor PARRA
Poet, physicist, Cervantes Prize 2011
1914 - 2018 -
James Bond
American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean
1900 - 1989 -
Johan HUIZINGA
Dutch historian
1872 - 1945 -
Philippe CONTAMINE
French historian
1932 - 2022 -
Axel KAHN
French scientist, geneticist and essayist
1944 - 2021 -
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