Sciences - Other
486 famous people found
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
Georges DUMÉZIL
French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar
1898 - 1986 -
Pierre NORA
French historian
1931 -
Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
Didier RAOULT
French biology researcher
1952 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664 -
Germaine TILLION
French ethnologist, and a member of the French resistance
1907 - 2008 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
Philippe COUSTEAU
French documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography
1940 - 1979 -
Théodore BACHELET
French historian
1820 - 1879 -
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 -
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