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Catholic priest

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Henry O'Connell
American Roman Catholic cardinal United States of America 1859-12-08 1944-04-22 Lowell Boston Q1348458
Johannes Quasten Roman Catholic theologian (1900–1987) Germany 1900-05-03 1987-03-10 Duisburg Freiburg im Breisgau Q71066


Judaic scholar

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Harry Austryn Wolfson American academic Belarus 1887-11-02 1974-09-20
1974-09-19
Astryna Cambridge Q1389056
Moshe Greenberg American rabbi United States of America
Israel
1928-07-10 2010-05-15 Philadelphia Jerusalem Q120647
Peter Schäfer
German judaic scholar Germany 1943-06-29 Hückeswagen Q97091


academic

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Hugh Latimer Dryden
American aeronautical scientist and civil servant United States of America 1898-07-02 1965-12-02 Worcester County Washington, D.C. Q1349364
Torsten Nils Wiesel
Swedish neuroscientist Sweden
United States of America
1924-06-03 Uppsala Q271421


actor

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926) United Kingdom 1926-05-08 Isleworth
London
Q183337
Beverly Sills
American operatic soprano (1929-2007) United States of America 1929-05-25 2007-07-02 Brooklyn New York City Q235517
Jacques d'Amboise
American dancer and choreographer (1934-2021) United States of America 1934-07-28 2021-05-02 Dedham Manhattan Q1336262
Alan Alda
American actor United States of America 1936-01-28 Manhattan Q310394
Ariane Mnouchkine
French theater and film director, theater director and author France 1939-03-03 Boulogne-Billancourt Q179449
Buffy Sainte-Marie
American musician United States of America 1941-02-20 Stoneham Q467027
Sam Shepard
American playwright and actor (1943–2017) United States of America 1943-11-05 2017-07-27 Fort Sheridan Midway Q294583
Wallace Shawn
American actor United States of America 1943-11-12 New York City Q311068
Sally Field
American actress United States of America 1946-11-06 Pasadena Q187033
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor Soviet Union
United States of America
Latvia
1948-01-27
1948-01-28
Riga Q295420
Michelle Yeoh
Malaysian actress (born 1962) Malaysia 1962-08-06 Ipoh Q214289
Quentin Tarantino
American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor United States of America 1963-03-27 Knoxville Q3772
Audra McDonald
American actress and singer (born 1970) United States of America 1970-07-03 Berlin Q267676


analytic philosopher

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Rudolf Carnap German philosopher and logician German Empire
United States of America
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
1891-05-18 1970-09-14 Ronsdorf Santa Monica Q76519
Charles L. Stevenson American analytic philosopher (1908-1979) United States of America 1908-06-27 1979-03-14
1979-03-13
Cincinnati Bennington Q264334


anatomist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840) Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1752-05-11 1840-01-22 Gotha Göttingen Q58588
Caspar Wistar
American physician (1761-1818) United States of America 1761-09-13 1818-01-22 Philadelphia Philadelphia Q347595
Friedrich Tiedemann
German zoologist Electorate of Hesse 1781-08-23 1861-01-22 Kassel Munich Q64049
Carl Gegenbaur
German scientist (1826–1903) Kingdom of Bavaria
German Empire
1826-08-21 1903-06-14 Würzburg Heidelberg Q61300
János Szentágothai
Hungarian anatomist, university professor, MP, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1912–1994) Hungary 1912-10-31 1994-09-08 Pestújhely Budapest Q662084


anthropologist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803) Kingdom of Great Britain 1730-12-13 1803-04-06 Henley-on-Thames London Q15462
Samuel George Morton
American physician and naturalist (1799–1851) United States of America 1799-01-26 1851-05-15 Philadelphia Philadelphia Q920542
Karl Richard Lepsius
German archaeologist, egyptologist and librarian (1810-1884) German Reich 1810-12-23 1884-07-10 Naumburg Berlin Q77231
Ernst Curtius
German archaeologist and historian (1814–1896) Lübeck 1814-09-02 1896-07-11 Lübeck Berlin Q61407
Lewis H. Morgan
United States ethnologist (1818-1881) United States of America 1818-11-21 1881-12-17 Aurora Rochester Q313458
Henry James Sumner Maine
British jurist and historian (1822–1888) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1822-08-15 1888-02-03 Kelso Cannes Q1195523
John Evans
English archaeologist and geologist (1823–1908) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1823-11-17 1908-05-31 Burnham Berkhamsted Q1246324
Luigi Palma di Cesnola
Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur archaeologist; United States Army Medal of Honor recipient United States of America 1832-07-29
1832
1832-06-29
1904-11-20 Rivarolo Canavese Manhattan Q528099
Gustaf Retzius
Swedish histologist (1842–1919) Sweden 1842-10-17 1919-07-21 Kungsholm parish Adolf Fredriks parish Q640991
Eduard Seler
German academic Germany 1849-12-05 1922-11-23 Krosno Odrzańskie Berlin Q68705
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German architect and archaeologist (1853–1940) German Empire
German Reich
1853-12-26 1940-04-25 Barmen Lefkada Q60239
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist Kingdom of Prussia
United States of America
Germany
German Empire
1858-07-09 1942-12-21 Minden New York City Q76857
Arthur Keith
British anatomist and anthropologist (1866–1955) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1866-02-05 1955-01-07 Aberdeenshire Kent Q240596
Roland Burrage Dixon
American anthropologist United States of America 1875-11-06 1934-12-19
1934
Worcester Q1238154
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist United States of America 1876-06-11 1960-10-05 Hoboken Paris Q311538
David Moore Robinson
American Classical archaeologist credited with the discovery of the ancient city of Olynthus United States of America 1880-09-21 1958-01-02 Auburn Oxford Q1175734
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist (1885-1963) United States of America 1885-10-29 1963-06-11 Marquette Cambridge Q1400749
Ralph Linton
American anthropologist United States of America 1893-02-27 1953-12-24 Philadelphia New Haven Q720118
Robert Redfield American anthropologist United States of America 1897-12-04 1958-10-16
1958-10-17
Chicago Chicago Q1773328
W. Lloyd Warner
American anthropologist United States of America 1898-10-26 1970-05-23 Redlands Chicago Q721643
Gilberto Freyre
Brazilian politician and academic (1900-1987) Brazil 1900-03-15 1987-07-18 Recife Recife Q677769
Raymond Firth
ethnologist from New Zealand New Zealand 1901-03-25 2002-02-22 Auckland London Q1746323
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist (1901—1978) United States of America 1901-12-16 1978-11-15 Philadelphia New York City Q180099
Oliver La Farge American novelist, anthropologist United States of America 1901-12-19 1963-08-02 New York City Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Q761453
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980) United Kingdom
United States of America
1904-05-09 1980-07-04 Grantchester San Francisco Q314252
Meyer Fortes South African anthropologist United Kingdom
South Africa
1906-04-25 1983-01-27 Britstown Cambridge Q346927
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago Kingdom of Romania
Socialist Republic of Romania
United States of America
1907-03-09 1986-04-22 Bucharest Chicago Q41590
Ignace Gelb American historian (1907-1985) United States of America
Poland
1907-10-14 1985-12-22 Tarnów Chicago Q76890
Emeline Hill Richardson American archaeologist (1910-1999) United States of America 1910-06-06 1999-08-29 Buffalo Durham Q538113
Max Gluckman South African anthropologist South Africa 1911-01-26 1975-04-13 Johannesburg Jerusalem Q924714
Louis Dumont
French anthropologist (1911-1998) France 1911-08-01 1998-11-19 Thessaloniki 5th arrondissement of Paris Q299863
Herbert Bloch German archaeologist (1911-2006) Germany 1911-08-18 2006-09-06 Berlin Cambridge Q77631
Walter J. Ong
American philosopher and historian United States of America 1912-11-30 2003-08-12 Kansas City St. Louis Q722347
Jean-Pierre Vernant
French historian and anthropologist (1914–2007) France 1914-01-04 2007-01-09 Provins Sèvres Q472206
Floyd Lounsbury American mesoamericanist (1914–1998) United States of America 1914-04-25 1998-05-14 Stevens Point East Haven Q1392052
Oscar Lewis
American anthropologist United States of America 1914-12-25 1970-12-16 New York City New York City Q1381703
Joseph Greenberg American linguist United States of America 1915-05-28 2001-05-07
2011-05-07
Brooklyn Stanford Q309997
Mabel Lang American archaeologist and classical scholar (1917–2010) United States of America 1917-11-12 2010-07-21 Utica Bryn Mawr Q520359
David M. Schneider American anthropologist United States of America 1918-11-11 1995-10-30 Brooklyn Santa Cruz Q1176536
Jack Goody
British anthropologist (1919-2015) United Kingdom 1919-07-27 2015-07-16 Hammersmith Cambridge Q636191
Detlev Ploog German anthropologist (1920-2005) Germany 1920-11-29 2005-12-07 Hamburg Munich Q114951
Roy Rappaport American anthropologist United States of America 1926-03-25 1997-10-09 Brooklyn Ann Arbor Q711425
Clifford Geertz American anthropologist United States of America 1926-08-23 2006-10-30 San Francisco Philadelphia Q310956
Emily Vermeule American archaeologist (1928-2001) United States of America 1928-08-11 2001-02-06 New York City Cambridge Q1337629
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist Norway 1928-12-22 2016-01-24 Leipzig Oslo Q466998
Marshall Sahlins
American anthropologist (1930-2021) United States of America 1930-12-27 2021-04-05 Chicago Chicago Q345300
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Japanese-born anthropologist United States of America 1934 Japan Q932653
Hans Belting
German art historian (1935–2023) Germany 1935-07-07 2023-01-09 Andernach Berlin Q66209
David Harvey
British geographer and anthropologist United Kingdom 1935-10-31 Gillingham Q343055
Brent Berlin American anthropologist United States of America 1936 Q533102
Ulf Hannerz
Swedish anthropologist Sweden 1942-06-09 Malmö Q713023
Dan Sperber
French academic France 1942-06-20 Cagnes-sur-Mer Q187363
Richard Shweder American anthropologist United States of America 1945-02-17 New York Q241488
James Clifford
American historian United States of America 1945-06-26 Q984620
Joyce Marcus American archaeologist United States of America 1948 Q379139
Israel Finkelstein
Israeli archaeologist Israel 1949-03-29 Petah Tikva
Tel Aviv
Q726264
Philippe Descola
French anthropologist France 1949-06-19 Paris Q1197333
Michael Tomasello American developmental psychologist United States of America 1950-01-18 Bartow Q714346
Ruth Behar
Jewish Cuban American writer United States of America
Cuba
1956-11-12 Havana Q1699866


arabist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Franz Rosenthal German Arabist (1914–2003) Germany
United States of America
1914-08-31 2003-04-08 Berlin New Haven
Branford
Q66227
Angelika Neuwirth German academic Nazi Germany
West Germany
Germany
1943-11-04 Nienburg/Weser Q534480


archaeologist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Benjamin Dean Meritt American classical scholar and epigraphist (1899–1989) United States of America 1899-03-31 1989-07-07 Durham Austin Q817446
Karl W. Butzer
American geographer United States of America 1934-08-19 2016-05-04 Mülheim an der Ruhr Austin Q214478


architect

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Charles Bulfinch
American architect United States of America 1763-08-08 1844-04-15 Boston Boston Q1063849
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect (1814-1879) France 1814-01-27 1879-09-17 Paris Lausanne Q272912
Henry Hobson Richardson
American architect (1838–1886) United States of America 1838-09-29 1886-04-27 St. James Parish Brookline Q723234
Victor Laloux
French architect France 1850-11-15 1937-07-13 Tours Paris Q924704
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969) German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Germany
1883-05-18 1969-07-05 Berlin Boston Q61071
Martin Wagner German architect (1885-1957) Germany
United States of America
1885-11-05 1957-05-28 Königsberg Cambridge
Cambridge
Q77553
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect Germany
United States of America
1886-03-27 1969-08-17 Aachen Chicago Q41508
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965) Switzerland
France
1887-10-06 1965-08-27 La Chaux-de-Fonds Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Q4724
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990) United States of America 1895-10-19 1990-01-26 Flushing Amenia Q469888
Louis Kahn
Estonian-American architect (1901–1974) United States of America
Russian Empire
Estonia
1901-02-20 1974-03-17 Kuressaare Pennsylvania Station
New York City
Q210134
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian-American architect United States of America
Hungary
1902-05-21 1981-07-01 Pécs New York City Q57588
Josep Lluís Sert
architect (1902-1983) Spain 1902-07-01 1983-03-15 Barcelona Barcelona Q467712
Philip Johnson
American architect (1906–2005) United States of America 1906-07-08 2005-01-25 Cleveland New Canaan Q183528
Hugh Stubbins American architect United States of America 1912-01-11 2006-07-05 Birmingham Cambridge Q713546
Minoru Yamasaki
American architect (1912–1986) United States of America 1912-12-01 1986-02-06
1986-02-07
Seattle Bloomfield Hills Q347215
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect (1917–2019) United States of America
Taiwan
1917-04-26 2019-05-16 Guangzhou Manhattan Q46868
Kevin A. Lynch American urban planner and author (1918-1984) United States of America 1918-01-07 1984-04-25 Chicago Martha's Vineyard Q445008
Giancarlo De Carlo
Italian architect (1919-2005) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1919-12-12 2005-06-04 Genoa Milan Q1347657
Robert Venturi
American architect (1925-2018) United States of America 1925-06-25 2018-09-18 Philadelphia Philadelphia Q212312
Charles Moore American architect (1925-1993) United States of America 1925-10-31 1993-12-16 Benton Harbor Austin Q1066442
Fumihiko Maki
Japanese architect (1928-2024) Japan
Empire of Japan
1928-09-06
1928-09-16
2024-06-06 Tokyo Q312827
Frank Gehry
Canadian-American architect United States of America
Canada
1929-02-28 Toronto Q180374
James Ingo Freed American architect United States of America
Germany
1930-06-23 2005-12-15 Essen Manhattan
New York City
Q95330
Peter Eisenman
American architect United States of America 1932-08-11 Newark Q317164
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Portuguese architect (1933-) Portugal 1933-06-25 Matosinhos Q251365
Richard Meier
American architect United States of America
Germany
1934-10-12 Newark Q159612
Rafael Moneo
Spanish architect Spain 1935-05-09 Tudela Q311692
Peter Zumthor
Swiss architect Switzerland 1943-04-26 Basel Q123179
Thom Mayne
American architect (b.1944) United States of America 1944-01-19 Waterbury Q312847
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Portuguese architect (1952-) Portugal 1952-07-25 Porto Q312831
Maya Lin
American sculptor and architect United States of America 1959-10-05 Athens Q235063
Jeanne Gang
American architect United States of America 1964-03-19 Belvidere Q444257


art collector

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Walter Annenberg
American businessman, ambassador, and philanthropist (1908–2002) United States of America 1908-03-13 2002-10-01 Milwaukee Wynnewood Q1750541
Eric Schmidt
software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO United States of America 1955-04-27 Washington, D.C. Q92747


art historian

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Herman Grimm
German scholar, writer (1828-1901) Kingdom of Prussia 1828-01-06 1901-06-16 Kassel Berlin Q65292
Allan Marquand
American art historian United States of America 1853 1924 New York City Q117093
Marcel Aubert
French art historian (1884-1962) France 1884-04-09 1962-12-28 10th arrondissement of Paris Paris Q447581
Sigfried Giedion Swiss architectural historian Switzerland 1888-04-14 1968-04-09
1968-04-10
Prague Zürich Q123143
Erwin Panofsky German art historian Germany
United States of America
1892-03-30 1968-03-14 Hanover Princeton Q57656
Kenneth John Conant
architectural historian from the United States United States of America 1894-06-28 1984-03-03 Neenah Bedford Q29404
André Grabar
art historian Russian Empire
France
1896-07-26 1990-10-05 Kyiv 16th arrondissement of Paris Q519108
Edgar Wind German-born British interdisciplinary art historian Germany 1900-05-14 1971-09-12 Berlin London Q72294
Rudolf Wittkower German-American art historian United Kingdom
United States of America
1901-06-22 1971-10-11 Berlin New York City Q215999
Alfred H. Barr American art historian and museum director (1902-1981) United States of America 1902-01-28 1981-08-15 Detroit Salisbury Q711362
Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar (1902-1983) United Kingdom
Germany
1902-01-30 1983-08-18 Leipzig London Q61682
Kenneth Clark
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903–1983) United Kingdom 1903-07-13 1983-05-21 London Hythe Q371258
Kurt Weitzmann German-American art historian (1904–1993) Germany 1904-03-07 1993-06-07 Kleinalmerode Princeton Q70362
Meyer Schapiro
American historian of Art United States of America 1904-09-23 1996-03-03 Šiauliai New York City Q533444
Jean Seznec French historian and mythographer (1905-1983) France 1905-03-18 1983-11-21 Morlaix Oxford Q368471
Julius S. Held German- American art historian and collector (1905-2002) Germany
United States of America
1905-04-15 2002-12-22 Mosbach Bennington Q1712683
Raymond Klibansky German-Canadian historian of philosophy France
Canada
1905-10-15 2005-08-05 Paris Montreal Q213996
Richard Ettinghausen German art historian (1906-1979) United States of America 1906-02-05 1979-04-02 Frankfurt Princeton
Mercer County
Q216041
Ernst Gombrich
Austrian art historian United Kingdom
Austria
1909-03-30 2001-11-03 Vienna London Q78504
H. W. Janson American art historian, museum director United States of America 1913-10-04 1982-09-30 Saint Petersburg Q215614
Francis Haskell British art historian (1928-2000) United Kingdom 1928-04-07 2000-01-18 London Oxford Q320477
Louis Marin French philosopher France 1931-05-22 1992-10-29 La Tronche 20th arrondissement of Paris Q370389
Svetlana Alpers artist, art historian and critic United States of America 1936-02-10 Cambridge Q449499
Salvatore Settis
Italian archaeologist and art historian Italy 1941-06-11 Rosarno Q520802
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University Germany 1941-11-15 Cologne Q70092
Martin Kemp
British art historian United Kingdom 1942-03-05 Windsor Q524743
Simon Schama
British University Professor of Art History and History United Kingdom 1945-02-13 London Q472272
Neil MacGregor
British art historian (born 1946) United Kingdom 1946-06-16 Glasgow Q1226759
Horst Bredekamp
German art historian Germany 1947-04-29 Kiel Q111643


astronaut

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Mary L. Cleave
American engineer and NASA astronaut United States of America 1947-02-05 2023-11-27 Southampton Annapolis Q21842
Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
American NASA astronaut, physician United States of America 1956-06-26 Temple Q822249


astronomer

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin
Swedish astronomer (1717-1783) Sweden 1717-09-22
1717
1783-12-13
1883
Sunne Stockholm Q720861
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822) Kingdom of Hanover
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1738-11-15 1822-08-25 Hanover Slough Q14277
Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini
French astronomer France 1748-06-30 1845-10-18 Paris Thury-sous-Clermont Q499236
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre
French mathematician and astronomer France 1749-09-19 1822-08-19 Amiens Paris Q246517
Franz Xaver von Zach
astronomer (1754-1832) Austrian Empire 1754-06-04 1832-09-02 Bratislava Paris Q60662
Theodor von Schubert
Russian mathematician (1758-1825) Germany
Russian Empire
Russia
1758-10-30 1825-10-21 Helmstedt Saint Petersburg Q78421
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1773-06-13 1829-05-10 Milverton London Q25820
Bernhard von Lindenau
German astronomer, lawyer and politician Kingdom of Saxony
Saxe-Altenburg
1780-06-11
1779-06-11
1854-05-21 Altenburg Altenburg Q73063
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
German-Danish astronomer (1780-1850) Duchy of Holstein 1780-09-03 1850-12-28 Bad Bramstedt Altona Q63140
Giovanni Plana
Italian astronomer (1781-1864) Kingdom of Italy 1781-11-06 1864-01-20 Voghera Turin Q373799
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician Kingdom of Prussia 1784-07-22 1846-03-17 Minden Königsberg Q75845
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853) France 1786-02-26 1853-10-02 Estagel Paris Q154353
William Henry Smyth
English naval officer and hydrographer (1788-1865) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1788-01-21 1865-09-09 Westminster Stone Q1334102
Edward Sabine
British Army general (1788-1883) Kingdom of Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1788-10-14 1883-06-26 Dublin East Sheen Q311223
William Cranch Bond
American astronomer United States of America 1789-09-09 1859-01-29 Portland Cambridge Q314565
Johann Franz Encke
German astronomer Kingdom of Prussia 1791-09-23 1865-08-26 Hamburg Berlin
Spandau
Q57294
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1792-03-07 1871-05-11 Slough Kent Q14278
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer Duchy of Holstein
Russian Empire
1793-04-15 1864-11-23 Altona Pulkovo Q57164
Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist (1796-1874) Belgium 1796-02-22 1874-02-17 Ghent City of Brussels Q20012
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
German astronomer Kingdom of Prussia 1799-03-22 1875-02-17 Klaipėda Bonn Q58685
Alvan Clark
American astronomer and artist (1804-1887) United States of America 1804-03-08 1887-08-19 Ashfield Cambridge Q448267
Christian August Friedrich Peters
German astronomer (1806-1880) Hamburg 1806-09-07 1880-05-08 Hamburg Kiel Q62612
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
German-American academic and astronomer (1813–1890) Kingdom of Denmark
Kingdom of Prussia
United States of America
1813-09-19 1890-07-18 Koldenbüttel Clinton Q57960
Hervé Faye
French astronomer France 1814-10-01 1902-07-04 Saint-Benoît-du-Sault Paris Q472118
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer (1816-1872) France 1816-04-09 1872-08-05 Lusigny-sur-Barse Cherbourg-Octeville Q375351
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer United States of America 1818-08-01 1889-06-29 Nantucket Lynn Q239229
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer Russian Empire
German Empire
1819-05-07 1905-04-14 Tartu Karlsruhe Q58847
William Huggins
British astronomer (1824–1910) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1824-02-07 1910-05-12 London London Q160681
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer United States of America 1824-09-27 1896-11-26 Boston Cambridge Q520915
George Phillips Bond
American astronomer (1825 – 1865) United States of America 1825-05-20 1865-02-17 Dorchester Cambridge Q314667
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
astronomer, entomologist and lithographer from France (1827-1895) France 1827-12-26 1895-04-22 Guyencourt Meudon Q32426
Eduard Schönfeld
German astronomer (1828-1891) Saxe-Meiningen 1828-12-22 1891-05-01 Hildburghausen Bonn Q66398
Alvan Graham Clark
American astronomer United States of America 1832-07-10 1897-06-09 Fall River Cambridge Q247076
Charles Augustus Young
American astronomer United States of America 1834-12-15 1908-01-03 Hanover Hanover Q728434
James Craig Watson
astronomer (1838-1880) United States of America
Canada
1838-01-28 1880-11-22 Fingal Madison Q311220
George William Hill
American astronomer and mathematician (*1838 – †1914) United States of America 1838-03-03 1914-04-16 New York City Nyack Q370136
Arthur Auwers
German astronomer Kingdom of Prussia 1838-09-12 1915-01-24 Göttingen Groß-Lichterfelde Q57349
Hermann Carl Vogel
German astronomer (1841-1907) Kingdom of Saxony 1841-04-03 1907-08-13 Leipzig Potsdam Q58812
Hugo Gyldén
Finnish-Swedish astronomer (1841-1896) Sweden 1841-05-29 1896-11-09 Helsinki Adolf Fredriks parish
Stockholm
Q250560
David Gill
Scottish astronomer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1843-06-12 1914-01-24 Aberdeen London Q319969
Edward Charles Pickering
American astronomer United States of America 1846-07-19 1919-02-03 Boston Cambridge Q156896
Lewis Boss
American astronomer (1846-1912) United States of America 1846-10-26 1912-10-05 Providence Albany Q710672
Edward S. Holden
American astronomer (1846-1914) United States of America 1846-11-05 1914-03-16 St. Louis West Point Q710776
Solon Irving Bailey
American astronomer United States of America 1854-12-29 1931-06-05 Lisbon Boston Q1399047
William Henry Pickering
American astronomer (1858–1938) United States of America 1858-02-15 1938-01-17
1938-01-16
Boston Mandeville Q310222
George Ellery Hale
American solar astronomer United States of America 1868-06-29 1938-02-21 Chicago Pasadena Q312288
Frank Schlesinger
United States astronomer (1871-1943) United States of America 1871-05-11 1943-07-10 New York City Old Lyme Q918310
Willem de Sitter
Dutch cosmologist (*1872 – †1934) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1872-05-06 1934-11-20 Sneek Leiden Q313059
Charles Greeley Abbot
American astrophysicist and the 5th Secretary of the Smithsonian United States of America 1872-05-31 1973-12-17 Wilton Riverdale Park Q210126
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer and chemist Kingdom of the Netherlands
Kingdom of Denmark
1873-10-08 1967-10-21 Frederiksberg Roskilde Q295099
Vesto Slipher American astronomer United States of America 1875-11-11 1969-11-08 Mulberry Flagstaff Q312248
Walter Sydney Adams
American astronomer United States of America 1876-12-20 1956-05-11 Antioch Pasadena Q312806
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer United States of America 1877-10-25 1957-02-18 Oyster Bay Princeton Q273159
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944) United Kingdom 1882-12-28 1944-11-22 Kendal Cambridge Q215022
Paul W. Merrill
American astronomer United States of America 1887-08-15 1961-07-19 Minneapolis Los Angeles County Q710615
Harold Spencer Jones British astronomer United Kingdom 1890-03-29 1960-11-03 Kensington
London
London Q520309
Harold Urey
American physical chemist United States of America 1893-04-29 1981-01-05 Walkerton La Jolla Q179777
Harry Hemley Plaskett Canadian astronomer (1893-1980) Canada 1893-07-05 1980-01-26 Toronto Q1384391
Ernst Öpik
Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist Estonia
Russian Empire
1893-10-22 1985-09-10 Kunda
United States of America
Bangor Q318126
Ira S. Bowen
American physicist and astronomer United States of America 1898-12-21 1973-02-06 Seneca Falls Q520866
Willem Jacob Luyten Dutch-American astronomer (1899–1994) Kingdom of the Netherlands
United States of America
1899-03-07 1994-11-21 Semarang Minneapolis Q58961
Jan Hendrik Oort
Dutch astronomer (1900–1992) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1900-04-28
1900
1992-11-05
1992
Franeker Leiden Q309861
Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer United Kingdom
United States of America
1900-05-10 1979-12-07 Wendover Cambridge Q234909
Donald Howard Menzel
American astronomer (1901–1976) United States of America 1901-04-11 1976-12-14 Florence Boston Q1240181
Dirk Brouwer Dutch-American astronomer Kingdom of the Netherlands
United States of America
1902-09-01 1966-01-31 Rotterdam New Haven Q449935
Gerhard Herzberg
German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999) Canada
Germany
Nazi Germany
1904-12-25 1999-03-03 Hamburg Ottawa Q76602
Bruno Rossi
Italian experimental physicist (1905–1993) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
United States of America
1905-04-13 1993-11-21 Venice Cambridge Q993725
Albert Whitford American astronomer United States of America 1905-10-22 2002-03-28 Milton Madison Q1703286
Fred Lawrence Whipple
American astronomer United States of America 1906-11-05 2004-08-30 Red Oak Cambridge Q319225
Jesse L. Greenstein American astronomer United States of America 1909-10-15 2002-10-21 New York City Q1345994
William Alfred Fowler
American nuclear physicist (1911-1995) United States of America 1911-08-09 1995-03-14 Pittsburgh Pasadena Q46120
Martin Schwarzschild German astronomer (1912-1997) Germany
United States of America
1912-05-31 1997-04-10 Potsdam Langhorne Q60891
Horace W. Babcock American astronomer United States of America 1912-09-13 2003-08-29 Pasadena Santa Barbara Q712375
Bernard Lovell
English physicist and radio astronomer United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1913-08-31 2012-08-06 Oldland Common Swettenham Q319234
Lawrence H. Aller astronomer (1913-2003) United States of America 1913-09-24 2003-03-16 Tacoma Q1351860
Robert Herman American astronomer United States of America 1914-08-29 1997-02-13 New York City Austin Q1339278
James Gilbert Baker
American astronomer (1914-2005) United States of America 1914-11-11 2005-06-29 Louisville Bedford Q337213
Iosif Shklovsky
Soviet astronomer Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1916-06-18 1985-03-03 Hlukhiv Moscow Q93909
Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919-2020) United Kingdom
United States of America
1919-08-12 2020-04-05 Davenport San Francisco Q235712
George Herbig American astronomer United States of America 1920-01-02 2013-10-12 Wheeling Honolulu Q470827
Thomas Gold Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004) United States of America
Austria
1920-05-22 2004-06-22 Vienna Ithaca Q93562
Antony Hewish
English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021) United Kingdom 1924-05-11 2021-09-13 Fowey Q189990
Donald Edward Osterbrock American astronomer United States of America 1924-07-13 2007-01-11 Cincinnati Santa Cruz Q1240217
Gordon Pettengill American radio astronomer and planetary physicist (1926-2021) United States of America 1926-02-10 2021-05-08 Providence Concord Q725090
Eugene Parker
American astronomer United States of America 1927-06-10 2022-03-15 Houghton Chicago Q503360
Bernard Flood Burke American astronomer United States of America 1928-06-07 2018-08-05 Brighton Cambridge Q822417
Owen Gingerich American astronomer (1930–2023) United States of America 1930-03-24 2023-05-28 Washington Q1202177
Frank Drake
American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022) United States of America 1930-05-28
1930
2022-09-02
2022
Chicago Aptos Q299149
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian American astrophysicist Italy
United States of America
Kingdom of Italy
1931-10-06 2018-12-09 Genoa San Diego Q186481
John N. Bahcall
American physicist (1934-2005) United States of America 1934-12-30 2005-08-17 Shreveport New York City Q710842
Donald Lynden-Bell
English astrophysicist (1935-2018) United Kingdom 1935-04-05 2018-02-06 Dover Cambridge Q1240090
Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics Canada
United States of America
1935-04-25 Winnipeg Q728331
David Todd Wilkinson
American cosmologist United States of America 1935-05-13 2002-09-05 Hillsdale Princeton Q1176864
Jeremiah P. Ostriker American astronomer United States of America 1937-04-13 New York City Q1351917
Arthur M. Wolfe American astrophysicist United States of America 1939-04-29 2014-02-17 Brooklyn La Jolla Q302379
Eric Becklin American astronomer United States of America 1940-04-06 Q1351089
Frank Shu
American astronomer United States of America 1943-06-02 2023-04-23 Kunming United States of America Q716516
Donald E. Brownlee American astronomer United States of America 1943-12-21 Las Vegas Q1239832
Jill Tarter
American astronomer United States of America 1944-01-16 New York City Q445596
Sandra Faber
American astrophysicist United States of America 1944-12-28 Boston Q266972
David Schramm American astrophysicist (1945-1997) United States of America 1945-10-25 1997-12-19 St. Louis Denver Q260040
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist United States of America 1947-02-27 New Brunswick Q323316
Margaret Geller
American astronomer United States of America 1947-12-08 Ithaca Q266131
Charles R. Alcock
New Zealand astronomer New Zealand
United States of America
1951-06-15 Windsor Q1065824
Alan Boss
American astronomer United States of America 1951-07-20 Lakewood Q983471
Charles L. Bennett
American astronomer United States of America 1956-11-16 New Brunswick Q1065219
John Carlstrom American astrophysicist United States of America 1957 Hyde Park Q1245714
Steven Squyres
American astronomer United States of America 1957-01-09 New Jersey Q931198
David Clifford Jewitt
British astronomer United States of America 1958 London Q382992
R. Paul Butler
American astronomer United States of America 1960 San Diego Q1387698
David Spergel
American astronomer United States of America 1961-03-25 Rochester Q744057
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer United States of America 1965-06-16
1965
New York City Q493956
Matias Zaldarriaga Argentine cosmologist Argentina
United States of America
1971-02-20 Coghlan, Buenos Aires Q1383655


astrophysicist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Grigory Abramovich Shajn Soviet astronomer (1892-1956) Soviet Union
Russian Empire
1892-04-07 1956-08-04 Odesa Moscow Q720719
Gerald J. Wasserburg American geologist (1927-2016) United States of America 1927-03-25 2016-06-13 New Brunswick Florence Q1388562
Irwin I. Shapiro American astrophysicist United States of America 1929-10-10 New York City Q1229000
James Moran
American astrophysicist United States of America 1943-01-03 Plainfield Q1755802
William H. Press
astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, and computational biologist United States of America 1948-05-23 New York City Q376909
Neil deGrasse Tyson
African-American astrophysicist and science communicator United States of America 1958-10-05 Manhattan Q310903
Nergis Mavalvala
Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist United States of America 1968 Lahore Q1702331


audio engineer

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Leo Beranek
American acoustical engineer United States of America 1914-09-15 2016-10-10 Solon Westwood Q1344028
Sidney Harman American businessman United States of America 1918-08-04 2011-04-12 Montreal Washington, D.C. Q469735


author

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Ralph Barton Perry
American philosopher (1875–1957) United States of America 1876-07-03 1957-01-22 Poultney Cambridge Q32679
Brooks Atkinson
American critic United States of America 1894-11-28 1984-01-14 Melrose Huntsville Q343916
Erich Heller British scholar of German literature and philosophy United Kingdom 1911-03-27 1990-11-05 Chomutov Evanston Q215444
Walter Mischel Austrian-born Jewish American psychologist United States of America 1930-02-22 2018-09-12 Vienna Manhattan Q215978
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Indian historian India 1948-12-15 Kolkata Q251282


ballet dancer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer United States of America 1894-05-11 1991-04-01 Allegheny New York Q487604
Galina Ulanova
Soviet ballet dancer (1910-1998) Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russia
1909-12-26
1910-01-08
1998-03-21 Saint Petersburg Moscow Q28885
Merce Cunningham
American choreographer, dancer, experimental filmmaker, teacher United States of America 1919-04-16 2009-07-26 Centralia New York City Q318364


banker

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Lewis Thompson Preston American banker (1926-1995) United States of America 1926-08-05 1995-05-04 New York City Washington, D.C. Q718911
Richard Holbrooke
American diplomat (1941-2010) United States of America 1941-04-24 2010-12-13 New York City Washington, D.C. Q155649
David René de Rothschild
American banker; member of the French branch of the Rothschild family United States of America
France
1942-12-15 New York City Q1176310


beekeeper

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Karl von Frisch
German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982) Austria 1886-11-20 1982-06-12 Vienna Munich Q60060
Martin Lindauer German scientist (1918-2008) Germany 1918-12-19 2008-11-13 Bad Kohlgrub Munich Q95573


biochemist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Call Dalton
American biochemist (1825-1889) United States of America 1825-02-02 1889-02-12 Chelmsford Q1699523
Emil Fischer
German chemist (1852-1919) German Empire 1852-10-09 1919-07-15 Euskirchen Berlin Q70554
Otto Folin
American biochemist United States of America
Sweden
1867-04-04 1934-10-23 Åseda Boston Q909297
James Collip
Canadian biochemist, part of group that isolated insulin (1892–1965) Canada 1892-11-20 1965-06-19 Belleville London Q59631
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986) Hungary 1893-09-16 1986-10-22 Budapest Woods Hole Q180468
Felix Haurowitz American biochemist Czechoslovakia
United States of America
Austria-Hungary
1896-03-01
1896-03-03
1896
1987-12-02 Prague Bloomington Q1403675
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovakia
United States of America
1896-12-05 1984-10-20 Prague Cambridge Q78501
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist Germany
United States of America
1899-06-12 1986-07-24 Königsberg Poughkeepsie Q77104
Karl Meyer German biochemist (1899-1990) Germany 1899-09-04 1990-05-18 Kerpen Cresskill Q1732372
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981) Germany
United Kingdom
1900-08-25 1981-11-22 Hildesheim Oxford Q57191
John Tileston Edsall American biochemist United States of America 1902-11-03 2002-06-12 Philadelphia Boston Q910828
Hugo Theorell
biochemist (1903-1982) Sweden 1903-07-06 1982-08-15 Linköping Cathedral Congregation Stockholm Q156480
Daniel Bovet
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992) Italy
Switzerland
Kingdom of Italy
1907-03-23 1992-04-08 Fleurier
Neuchâtel
Rome Q115448
Alwin Max Pappenheimer Jr. biochemist United States of America 1908-11-25 1995-03-21 Cedarhurst Cambridge Q449849
Edward Tatum
genetics scientist United States of America 1909-12-14 1975-11-05 Boulder New York City Q237499
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen
German biochemist, Nobel Laureate Germany 1911-04-06 1979-08-06 Munich Munich Q44597
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist Germany
United States of America
1912-01-21 2000-10-15 Nysa Lexington Q35698
Efraim Racker
American biochemist United States of America 1913-06-28 1991-09-09 Nowy Sącz Syracuse Q907279
Mildred Cohn
American biochemist United States of America 1913-07-12 2009-10-12 The Bronx Philadelphia Q7465
Britton Chance
American biochemist and Olympic sailor United States of America 1913-07-24 2010-11-16 Wilkes-Barre Philadelphia Q638558
Stanford Moore American biochemist (1913-1982) United States of America 1913-09-04 1982-08-23 Chicago New York City Q110952
Robert H. Burris American biochemist United States of America 1914-04-13 2010-05-11 Brookings Q258987
Sune Bergström
Swedish biochemist (1916–2004) Sweden 1916-01-10 2004-08-15 Kungsholm parish Stockholm Q295696
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist (1916-2009) United States of America 1916-06-04 2009-05-19 Charleston Seattle Q108880
Albert L. Lehninger American biochemist United States of America 1917-02-17 1986-03-04 Bridgeport Baltimore Q907534
Rodney Robert Porter
English biochemist and Nobel laureate (1917-1985) United Kingdom 1917-10-08 1985-09-06 Newton-le-Willows Winchester Q295700
Edwin G. Krebs American biochemist (1918-2009) United States of America 1918-06-06 2009-12-21 Lansing Seattle Q109731
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992) Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
United States of America
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
1920-01-02 1992-04-06 Petrovichi Manhattan Q34981
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist Switzerland
United States of America
Italy
1920-04-06 2021-08-27 Shanghai French Concession Seattle Q109726
Elizabeth C. Miller
American biochemist United States of America 1920-05-02 1987-10-14 Minneapolis Q1331166
Peter D. Mitchell
British biochemist (1920-1992) United Kingdom 1920-09-29 1992-04-10 Surrey Bodmin Q207992
Harold Edwin Umbarger American biochemist (1921-1999) United States of America 1921-07-17 1999-11-15 Shelby Q998591
Robert W. Holley
American biochemist (1922-1993) United States of America 1922-01-28 1993-02-11 Urbana Los Gatos Q108891
Jack L. Strominger American biochemist United States of America 1925-08-07 New York City Q1398103
David Hogness American biochemist United States of America 1925-11-17 2019-12-24 Oakland Stanford University Q1176459
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist (1925-1998) United States of America 1925-12-01 1998-12-07 Baltimore Chapel Hill Q60031
Paul Greengard
American neuroscientist (1925-2019) United States of America 1925-12-11 2019-04-13 New York City Manhattan Q309979
Heinz-Günter Wittmann German biochemist Germany 1927-01-16 1990-03-31 Sterławki Wielkie Berlin Q114964
John Vane
English pharmacologist (1927-2004) United Kingdom 1927-03-29 2004-11-19 Wythall
Tardebigge
Princess Royal University Hospital Q309971
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist United States of America 1928-10-30 1999-11-16 Wilmington Baltimore Q295706
Irwin Fridovich
American biochemist United States of America 1929-08-02 2019-11-02 New York City Q476534
Julius Adler American biochemist United States of America 1930-04-30 2024-04-02 Edelfingen Q1712457
Bengt I. Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist Sweden 1934-05-21 2024-07-05 Halmstad Mölle Q295768
Pedro Cuatrecasas
American biochemist Spain
United States of America
1936-09-27 Madrid Q303086
David MacLennan
Canadian medical researcher Canada 1937-07-03 2020-06-23 Swan River Toronto Q1175415
David Eisenberg
American biophysicist United States of America 1939-03-15 Chicago Q1174318
Thomas A. Steitz
American biochemist United States of America 1940-08-23 2018-10-09 Milwaukee Branford Q109559
Louise Johnson British biochemist and protein crystallographer (1940-2012) United Kingdom 1940-09-26 2012-09-25 Worcester Cambridge Q29612
Louis Ignarro
American physiologist United States of America 1941-05-31 Brooklyn Q309820
James Spudich American biochemist United States of America 1942-01-07 Benld Q906557
Tim Hunt
Biochemist; Nobel laureate United Kingdom 1943-02-19 Neston Q309977
Richard Axel
American molecular biologist United States of America
Sweden
1946-07-02 Brooklyn Q211940
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman United States of America 1946-10-14 Salt Lake City Q311003
Alexander Varshavsky
American biochemist United States of America 1946-11-08 Moscow Q442466
Robert Tjian American biochemist United States of America 1949 Hong Kong Q906579
Bruce William Stillman
Australian biochemist and director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (born 1953) Australia 1953-10-16 Melbourne Q991815
Thomas C. Südhof
German biochemist Germany
United States of America
1955-12-22 Göttingen Q97270
Stuart Schreiber
American chemist United States of America 1956-02-06 Virginia Q906562
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
Professor of Chemistry People's Republic of China
United States of America
1962 Beijing Q906616
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist United States of America 1964-02-19 Washington, D.C. Q56068


biologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist Electorate of Saxony
Russian Empire
1771-10-13 1853-10-18 Waldheim Moscow Q57802
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist (1795–1876) Kingdom of Prussia 1795-04-19 1876-06-27 Delitzsch Berlin Q76549
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
French noble, biologist, politician and art collector (1803–1857) France 1803-05-24 1857-07-29 Paris Paris Q157521
Theodor Schwann
German physiologist Germany 1810-12-07 1882-01-11 Santiago Cologne Q76745
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German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902) Kingdom of Prussia 1821-10-13 1902-09-05 Świdwin Berlin Q76432
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist (1824-1877) Kingdom of Saxony 1824-05-18 1877-01-12 Leipzig Lindenau Q215935
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1825-05-04 1895-06-29 Ealing Eastbourne Q184366
John Donnell Smith
American biologist and taxonomist (1829-1928) United States of America 1829-06-05 1928-12-02 Baltimore Baltimore Q368277
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910) Kingdom of Hanover
German Empire
1843-12-11 1910-05-27 Clausthal Baden-Baden Q37193
Edwin Grant Conklin
American biologist and zoologist United States of America 1863-11-24 1952-11-20
1952-11-21
Waldo Princeton Q21595
William Ernest Castle American geneticist United States of America 1867-10-25 1962-06-03 Ohio Berkeley Q324408
Hans Spemann
German embryologist Germany 1869-06-27 1941-09-12 Stuttgart Freiburg im Breisgau Q57568
Min Chueh Chang
Chinese biologist China
United States of America
1871-08-12 1991-06-05 Taiyuan Q987166
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon and biologist France 1873-06-28 1944-11-05 Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Paris Q185777
Oswald Avery
Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher Canada
United States of America
1877-10-21 1955-02-02 Halifax Nashville Q315129
Raymond Pearl
American biogerontologist (1879-1940) United States of America 1879-06-03 1940-11-17 Farmington Hershey Q913632
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977) United Kingdom 1886-09-26 1977-06-03 Bristol Cambridge Q155375
David Keilin
British entomologist United Kingdom 1887-03-21 1963-02-27
1963
Moscow Cambridge Q1174949
Bernhard Rensch German zoologist (1900-1990) Germany 1900-01-21 1990-04-04 Thale Münster Q68731
Vincent du Vigneaud
American biochemist United States of America 1901-05-18 1978-12-11 Chicago White Plains Q33128
Francis O. Schmitt American academic United States of America 1903-11-23 1995-10-03 St. Louis Weston Q344882
Tracy Sonneborn American biologist United States of America 1905-10-19 1981-01-26 Baltimore Bloomington Q1765828
George Wald
Nobel laureate United States of America 1906-11-18 1997-04-12 New York City Cambridge Q295724
Niko Tinbergen
Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988) Kingdom of the Netherlands
United Kingdom
1907-04-15 1988-12-21 The Hague Oxford Q153890
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch German-born US developmental geneticist (1907-2007) Germany
United States of America
1907-10-06 2007-11-07 Gdańsk New York City Q122065
Miriam Rothschild
British natural scientist and author (1908-2005) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1908-08-05 2005-01-20 Ashton Oundle Q442167
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist United Kingdom 1910-05-12 1994-07-29 Cairo Ilmington Q7487
Carlos Chagas Filho
Brazilian scientist (1910-2000) Brazil 1910-09-12 2000-02-16 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Q1042813
Daniel I. Arnon Polish-born American plant physiologist (1910–1994) United States of America 1910-11-14 1994-12-20 Warsaw Berkeley Q323030
William Howard Stein American biochemist (1911–1980) United States of America 1911-06-25 1980-02-02 New York City New York City Q156492
Keith R. Porter American biologist (1912-1997) Canada
United States of America
1912-06-11 1997-05-02 Yarmouth Bryn Mawr Q1738082
Norman Borlaug
American biologist United States of America 1914-03-25 2009-09-12 Cresco Dallas Q154824
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002) United Kingdom
Austria
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1914-05-19 2002-02-06 Vienna Cambridge Q78480
Thomas Huckle Weller
American virologist (1915-2008) United States of America 1915-06-15 2008-08-23 Ann Arbor Needham Q310131
Ephraim Katzir
Israeli scientist, 4th President of Israel (1916-2009) Israel 1916-05-16
1916-05-03
2009-05-30 Kyiv Rehovot Q110330
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA United Kingdom 1916-06-08 2004-07-28 Northampton La Jolla Q123280
Roger Stanier Canadian microbiologist Canada 1916-10-22 1982-01-29 Victoria Bullion Q661215
Don W. Fawcett
American biologist United States of America 1917-03-14 2009-05-07 Iowa
Iowa City
Missoula Q1239564
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist United States of America 1918-01-23 1999-02-21 New York Chapel Hill Q35703
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004) United Kingdom 1920-01-06 2004-04-19 London Lewes Q323207
Elwood V. Jensen
American biologist (1920-2012) United States of America 1920-01-13 2012-12-16 Fargo Cincinnati Q264842
Beatrice Mintz
American biologist United States of America 1921-01-24 2022-01-03 New York City Elkins Park Q265353
Hugh Huxley English biologist (1924-2013) United Kingdom 1924-02-25 2013-07-25 Birkenhead Woods Hole Q1387590
Vernon Ingram German biologist Germany
United States of America
1924-05-19 2006-08-17 Wrocław Boston Q112849
Motoo Kimura
Japanese scientist Empire of Japan
Japan
1924-11-13 1994-11-13 Okazaki Japan Q471816
Howard Green American biologist and university teacher (1925-2015) United States of America 1925-09-10 2015-10-31 Toronto Boston Q1405094
Hans Kornberg
British biochemist (1928-2019) United Kingdom
Germany
1928-01-14 2019-12-16 Herford Falmouth
Boston
Q75111
Joseph G. Gall American biologist United States of America 1928-04-14 2024-09-12 Washington, D.C. Q1707057
Ewald Weibel
Swiss biologist (1929-2019) Switzerland 1929-03-05 2019-02-19 Buchs Q119728
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist and geneticist Switzerland 1929-06-03 Gränichen Q115495
Thomas Eisner American chemical ecologist (1929-2011) United States of America 1929-06-25 2011-03-25 Berlin Ithaca Q256662
Gerald Edelman
American biologist United States of America 1929-07-01 2014-05-17 Queens La Jolla Q271766
Robert MacArthur American ecologist (1930–1972) United States of America 1930-04-07 1972-11-01 Toronto Princeton Q1339894
Matthew Meselson
American geneticist and molecular biologist United States of America 1930-05-24 Denver Q261276
Maxine Singer
American molecular biologist (1931–2024) United States of America 1931-02-15 2024-07-09 Brooklyn Washington, D.C. Q7309
Donald Kennedy
American biologist (1931-2020) United States of America 1931-08-18 2020-04-21 New York City Redwood City Q1240022
Judah Folkman American biologist United States of America 1933-02-24 2008-01-14 Cleveland Denver Q710619
Ruth Arnon
Israeli biochemist Israel 1933-06-01 Tel Aviv Q7431
Emil R. Unanue American immunologist United States of America 1934-09-13 2022-12-16 Havana St. Louis Q1336691
J. Michael Bishop
American immunologist and microbiologist United States of America 1936-02-22 York Q311358
Günter Blobel
German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize) Nazi Germany
Germany
United States of America
1936-05-21 2018-02-18 Niegosławice New York City Q60108
Michael E. Soulé American biologist United States of America 1936-05-28 2020-06-17 San Diego Grand Junction Q1337774
Jared Diamond
American scientist and author United States of America 1937-09-10 Boston Q205772
Mario Capecchi
molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate United States of America 1937-10-06 Verona Q215574
Hubert Markl German biologist (1938-2015) Germany 1938-08-17 2015-01-08 Regensburg Constance Q110001
Gerald Fink American biologist United States of America 1940-07-01 Brooklyn Q1393576
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist (1941-2015) United States of America 1941-07-01 2015-12-23 New Haven Dallas Q296423
Douglas J. Futuyma
American biologist United States of America 1942-04-24 New York City Q712110
Bert Sakmann
German biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize) Germany
Nazi Germany
1942-06-12 Stuttgart Q77081
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize) Germany 1942-10-20 Magdeburg Q77174
Richard Roberts
English biochemist and molecular biologist United Kingdom 1943-09-06 Derby Q309816
Marc Kirschner
American biologist United States of America 1945-02-28 Chicago Q372597
Brian Charlesworth
British biologist United Kingdom 1945-04-29 Q911997
Michael Grunstein
Biologist and academic (1946–2024) United States of America 1946-08-30 2024-02-18 Romania Q31484
H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist United States of America 1947-05-08 Chicago Q295659
Eric F. Wieschaus
American geneticist United States of America 1947-06-08 South Bend Q301438
Tom Rapoport
German biologist United States of America 1947-06-17 Cincinnati Q122876
Richard G. Morris British neuroscientist United Kingdom 1948 Q28263
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian-born American biological researcher Australia
United States of America
1948-11-26 Hobart Q26321
Susan Lindquist
American geneticist (1949-2016) United States of America 1949-06-05 2016-10-27 Chicago Boston Q520992
James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate United States of America 1950-11-03 Haverhill Q444270
Arthur L. Horwich
American biologist United States of America 1951 Oak Park Q449737
Susan Hockfield
American neuroscientist United States of America 1951-03-24 Chicago Q985719
Takashi Gojobori
Japanese biologist Japan 1951-10-24 Fukuoka Q532387
Denis Duboule
Swiss-French biologist Switzerland
France
1955-02-17 Geneva Q116932
Eric N. Olson
American molecular biologist United States of America 1955-09-27 Rochester Q1351494
Richard Lenski
American evolutionary biologist United States of America 1956-08-13 Q713637
Jorge E. Galán Argentinian biologist and scientist Argentina
United States of America
1956-10-19 Pellegrini Q822661
Tamás Freund
Hungarian neurobiologist Hungary 1959-06-14 Zirc Q1003857
Craig Mello
American biologist United States of America 1960-10-18 New Haven Q206455
Carol Greider
American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate United States of America 1961-04-15 San Diego Q26322
Detlef Weigel
German-American biologist Germany
United States of America
1961-12-15 Dannenberg (Elbe) Q109599
Ivan Đikić
cancer researcher Croatia 1966-05-28 Zagreb Q832302


biophysicist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist New Zealand 1916-12-15 2004-10-05 Pongaroa Blackheath Q184659
Erwin Neher
German biophysicist Nazi Germany
Germany
1944-03-20 Landsberg am Lech Q77126


botanist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Abraham Rees
Welsh encyclopedist and botanist (1743–1825) Wales 1743 1825-06-09 Llanbrynmair Finsbury Q922838
Joseph Banks
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1743-02-24
1743-02-13
1743-02-02
1820-06-19 Soho Isleworth Q153408
Olof Swartz
Swedish botanist & taxonomist Sweden 1760-09-22 1817-09-18 Norrköpings S:t Johannes parish
Norrköping
Adolf Fredriks parish Q632088
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1773-12-21 1858-06-10 Montrose London Q155764
John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851) United States of America
France
1785-04-26 1851-01-27 Les Cayes New York City Q182882
William Jackson Hooker
English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1785-07-06 1865-08-12 Norwich Kew Q472639
Thomas Nuttall
English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1786-01-05 1859-09-10 Settle Lancashire Q728337
Jacob Bigelow
American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879) United States of America 1787-02-27 1879-01-10 Watertown Boston Q1236142
Edward Hitchcock
United States geologist and Congregationalist clergyman (1793-1864) United States of America 1793-05-24
1793
1864-02-27
1864
Franklin County Massachusetts Q322185
Elias Magnus Fries
Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms (1794–1878) Sweden 1794-08-15 1878-02-08 Femsjö Uppsala Cathedral Assembly Q15405
John Torrey
U.S. botanist (1796–1873) United States of America 1796-08-15 1873-03-10 New York City New York City Q1346660
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
French botanist (1797-1853) France 1797-12-23 1853-06-29 Paris Paris Q377094
John Lindley
English botanist, gardener, orchidologist, editor, scientific illustrator (1799–1865) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1799-02-05 1865-11-01 Old Catton Turnham Green Q378629
William Starling Sullivant
US bryologist (1803-1873) United States of America 1803-01-15
1803
1873-04-30
1873
Franklinton Columbus Q1343134
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
German physiologist and zoologist (1804-1885) Kingdom of Bavaria 1804-02-16 1885-04-07 Würzburg Munich Q64262
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist (1804–1849) Austrian Empire 1804-06-24 1849-03-28 Bratislava Vienna Q78605
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist (1805–1872) Kingdom of Württemberg 1805-04-08 1872-04-01 Stuttgart Tübingen Q61635
George Engelmann
German-American physician and botanist (1809-1884) United States of America
Free City of Frankfurt
1809-02-02 1884-02-04 Frankfurt St. Louis Q214946
Alvan Wentworth Chapman
American botanist and physician (1809–1899) United States of America 1809-09-28 1899-04-06 Southampton Apalachicola Q448279
Jacob Georg Agardh
Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist (1813-1901) Sweden 1813-12-08 1901-01-17 Lund Cathedral parish Lund Cathedral parish Q520594
Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1817-06-30 1911-12-10
1911
Halesworth Sunningdale Q157501
John William Dawson
Canadian geologist, principal of McGill University (1820–1899) Canada 1820-10-13 1899-11-19 Pictou Montreal Q1702168
Karl Maximovich
botanist from Russia (1827-1891) Russian Empire 1827-11-11 1891-02-04 Tula Saint Petersburg Q77640
Julius von Sachs
German botanist (1832-1897) Kingdom of Prussia
German Reich
1832-10-02 1897-05-29 Wrocław Würzburg Q61650
August W. Eichler
German botanist (1839-1887) Kingdom of Prussia 1839-04-22 1887-03-02 Neukirchen Berlin Q62142
Thomas Jonathan Burrill
American botanist and plant pathologist (1839-1916) United States of America 1839-04-25 1916-04-14 Pittsfield Q626705
Karl Alfred von Zittel
German geologist and paleontologist (1839–1904) Grand Duchy of Baden
German Empire
1839-09-25 1904-01-05 Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl Munich Q61904
Nathaniel Shaler
American paleontologist and geologist (1841–1906) United States of America 1841-02-20 1906-04-10 Newport Cambridge Q263541
Charles Sprague Sargent
American botanist (1841-1927) United States of America 1841-04-24 1927-03-22 Boston Boston Q1066128
William Tufts Brigham
American geologist, botanist, ethnologist and the first director of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (1841-1926) United States of America 1841-05-24 1926-01-30 Boston Honolulu Q1728647
Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
German botanist (1842–1915) Grand Duchy of Hesse 1842-12-23 1915-11-24 Laubach Strasbourg Q67692
Eduard Strasburger
Polish-German botanist (1844–1912) German Empire
Poland
Russian Empire
1844-02-01 1912-05-19 Warsaw Bonn Q58834
Adolf Engler
German botanist (1844-1930) Weimar Republic 1844-03-25 1930-10-10 Żagań Berlin Q60718
Wilhelm Pfeffer
German botanist (1845–1920) Kingdom of Prussia 1845-03-09 1920-01-31 Grebenstein Leipzig Q62767
Ignatz Urban
German botanist (1848–1931) Kingdom of Prussia
German Reich
1848-01-07 1931-01-07 Warburg Berlin Q64845
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist (1848-1935) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1848-02-16 1935-05-21 Haarlem Lunteren Q160192
Joseph Charles Arthur
American botanist (1850-1942) United States of America 1850-01-11 1942-04-30 Lowville Brook Q1706753
John Merle Coulter
U.S. Botanist (1851-1928) United States of America 1851-11-20 1928-12-23 Ningbo Yonkers Q1701075
William Trelease American botanist and entomologist United States of America 1857-02-22 1945-01-01 Mount Vernon Urbana Q1380171
Liberty Hyde Bailey
U.S. botanist (1858-1954) United States of America 1858-03-15 1954-12-25 Ithaca
South Haven
Ithaca Q152366
Richard Wettstein
Austrian botanist (1863-1931) Austria-Hungary
Austria
1863-06-30 1931-08-10 Vienna Trins Q78599
Alfred Rehder
German-American professor of botany (1863-1949) Germany
United States of America
1863-09-04 1949-07-25
1949-07-21
Waldenburg
Waldenburg
Jamaica Plain Q68949
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson
U.S. botanist (1864–1935) United States of America 1864-11-08 1935-07-27 Bloomington Jaffrey Q817600
Willis Linn Jepson
American botanist United States of America 1867-08-19 1946-11-07 Vacaville Berkeley Q324259
Maurice Caullery
French botanist and zoologist (1868-1958) France 1868-09-05 1958-07-13 Bergues Paris Q919914
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.
U.S. zoologist and botanist (1869–1956) United States of America 1869-12-06 1956-02-24 Peterboro Washington, D.C. Q538252
John Isaac Briquet
Swiss botanist (1870-1931) Switzerland 1870-03-13 1931-10-26 Geneva Geneva Q746034
Ludwig Diels German botanist (1874–1945) German Reich 1874-09-24 1945-11-30 Hamburg Berlin Q77123
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist (1874-1954) United States of America 1874-11-09
1874-11-08
1954-11-16 Geneseo Northampton Q728749
Arthur Stanley Pease American classical philologist and botanist (1881-1964) United States of America 1881-09-22 1964-01-07 Somers Concord Q711591
Otto Renner German botanist, geneticist and university teacher (1883-1960) Germany 1883-04-25
1883
1960-07-08
1960
Neu-Ulm Munich Q70672
Alfred Sturtevant American biologist (1891–1970) United States of America 1891-11-21 1970-04-05 Jacksonville Pasadena Q535384
G. Evelyn Hutchinson British zoologist (1903-1991) United Kingdom
United States of America
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1903-01-30 1991-05-17 Cambridge London Q302752
Kenneth Bryan Raper American botanist and mycologist (1908-1987) United States of America 1908-07-11 1987-01-15 Davidson County
Welcome
Madison Q1738840
Folke K. Skoog
Swedish botanist (1908-2001) Sweden
United States of America
1908-07-15 2001-02-15 Halland County Madison Q750802
Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn American botanist and paleontologist (1915-1984) United States of America 1915-06-30 1984-01-27 New York City Q1333852
Robert Whittaker American ecologist (1920–1980) United States of America 1920-12-27 1980-10-20 Wichita Ithaca Q336893


business executive

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Bob Iger
American businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company United States of America 1951-02-10 Oceanside Q532423
Samuel J. Palmisano
American businessman United States of America 1951-07-29 Baltimore Q782805
Meg Whitman
American business executive United States of America 1956-08-04 Cold Spring Harbor Q55174
Abigail Johnson
American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire United States of America 1961-12-19 Boston Q321125


businessperson

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman Japan
Empire of Japan
1921-01-26 1999-10-03 Tokoname Tokyo Q310845
Edward Johnson, III American investor and businessperson (1930–2022) United States of America 1930-06-29 2022-03-23 Milton Wellington Q382502
Aga Khan IV
49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism United Kingdom
Portugal
1936-12-13 Geneva Q311793
Michael Bloomberg
American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City United States of America 1942-02-14 Boston Q607
Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
American businessperson and board member, former Chairman and CEO of DuPont United States of America 1948-03-09 Nashville Q1065665
Indra Nooyi
Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo India
United States of America
1955-09-28 Chennai Q264913
Aliko Dangote
Nigerian entrepreneur Nigeria 1957-04-10 Kano Q1394965


cardiologist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Helen B. Taussig Jewish-American cardiologist (1898-1986) United States of America 1898-05-24 1986-05-20 Cambridge Kennett Square Q271531
Bernard Lown
American cardiologist, developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter (1921-2021) Lithuania
United States of America
1921-06-07 2021-02-16 Utena Chestnut Hill Q723263
Eugene Braunwald American cardiologist United States of America 1929-08-15 Vienna Q322114
David J. Skorton
13th Secretary of the Smithsonian, cardiologist and university professor United States of America 1949-11-22 Milwaukee Q1174836


cellist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Pau Casals
Catalan cellist and conductor Spain 1876-12-29 1973-10-22
1973-08-14
El Vendrell San Juan Q208537
János Starker
Hungarian-American cellist (1924–2013) United States of America 1924-07-05 2013-04-28 Budapest Bloomington Q617920


chemist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, author United States of America
Kingdom of Great Britain
1746-01-04 1813-04-19 Byberry Philadelphia Q656478
William Hyde Wollaston
English chemist and physicist (1766–1828) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1766-08-06 1828-12-22 Norfolk London Q312975
Benjamin Silliman, Sr.
early American chemist and science educator (1779-1864) United States of America 1779-08-08 1864-11-24 Stratford New Haven Q817692
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist (1786-1889) France 1786-08-31 1889-04-09 Angers 5th arrondissement of Paris
Paris
Q271651
Eilhard Mitscherlich
German chemist Grand Duchy of Oldenburg 1794-01-07
1794
1863-08-28
1863
Oldenburg Berlin Q62518
Heinrich Rose
German chemist Kingdom of Prussia 1795-08-06 1864-01-27 Berlin Berlin Q77286
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist (1800-1882) Kingdom of Prussia
Electorate of Hesse
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
German Empire
1800-07-31 1882-09-23 Eschersheim Göttingen Q58575
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873) Grand Duchy of Hesse 1803-05-12 1873-04-18 Darmstadt Munich Q16571
Charles Upham Shepard
American prof. of chemistry, Medical College of the State of South Carolina (1804-1886) United States of America 1804-06-29 1886-05-01 Q1066283
Charles Thomas Jackson
chemist United States of America 1805-06-21 1880-08-28 Plymouth Somerville Q715644
Robert Bunsensen
German chemist (1811-1899) Kingdom of Prussia 1811-03-30 1899-08-16 Göttingen Heidelberg Q71031
John William Draper
British-American academic (1811-1882) United States of America 1811-05-05 1882-01-04 St Helens Hastings-on-Hudson Q472490
Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg
German chemist and university teacher (1813-1899) Kingdom of Prussia 1813-04-01 1899-12-28 Berlin Groß-Lichterfelde Q67067
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist (1818-1892) Grand Duchy of Hesse 1818-04-08 1892-05-05 Giessen Berlin Q76360
J. Lawrence Smith
American chemist, mineralogist, and student of meteorites (1818-1883) United States of America 1818-12-17 1883-10-12 Kentucky Louisville Q524236
Frederick Augustus Genth
United States chemist and mineralogist (1820-1893) Germany
United States of America
1820-05-16 1893-02-02 Wächtersbach Philadelphia Q907994
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
American chemist (1822-1908) United States of America 1822-02-21 1908-12-09 New York City Newport Q369422
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician (1827-1907) France 1827-10-25 1907-03-18 former 7th arrondissement of Paris Paris Q18425
August Kekulé
German organic chemist Kingdom of Prussia
German Reich
1829-09-07 1896-07-13 Darmstadt Bonn Q76784
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist (1833-1915) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1833-01-07 1915-12-18 London Woodcote Q337430
Dmitri Mendeleiev
Russian chemist Russian Empire 1834-02-08 1907-01-20 Tobolsk
Verkhnie Aremzyani
Saint Petersburg Q9106
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist (1835-1917) German Empire 1835-10-31 1917-08-20 Berlin Starnberg
Munich
Q57078
James Crafts
American chemist (1839-1917) United States of America 1839-03-08 1917-06-20 Boston Ridgefield Q383802
Charles Loring Jackson American chemist United States of America 1845-04-04 1935-10-31 Boston Q1065359
Ira Remsen
American chemist (1846–1927) United States of America 1846-02-10 1927-03-04 New York City Carmel-by-the-Sea Q49356
Viktor Meyer
German chemist (1848-1897) Kingdom of Prussia 1848-09-08 1897-08-08 Berlin Heidelberg Q76622
Henry Louis Le Châtelier
French chemist France 1850-10-08 1936-09-17 Paris Miribel-les-Échelles Q121926
Frank Austin Gooch
American chemist (1852-1929) United States of America 1852-05-02 1929-08-12 Watertown New Haven Q663550
Arthur Michael American chemist United States of America 1853-08-07 1942-02-08 Buffalo Orlando Q710648
Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist Livonia Governorate
Germany
Russian Empire
1853-09-02 1932-04-04 Riga Großbothen Q12658
William A. Noyes
American chemist United States of America 1857-11-06 1941-10-24 Q983814
John Ulric Nef chemist United States of America
Switzerland
1862-06-14 1915-08-13
1911-08-13
Herisau Carmel-by-the-Sea Q1701984
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist United States of America 1867-05-26 1937-01-10 Hoboken Chicago Q910819
Wilder Dwight Bancroft
American physical chemist United States of America 1867-10-01 1953-02-07 Middletown Ithaca Q907107
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
Danish chemist Kingdom of Denmark 1868-01-09 1939-02-12 Havrebjerg Copenhagen Q319325
Theodore William Richards
United States chemist United States of America 1868-01-31 1928-04-02 Germantown Cambridge Q189465
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize German Empire
Weimar Republic
1868-12-09 1934-01-29 Wrocław Basel Q57075
Bertram Boltwood
American geologist (1870-1927) United States of America 1870-07-27 1927-08-15 Amherst Hancock Q828438
Gilbert N. Lewis American physical chemist United States of America 1875-10-23 1946-03-23 Weymouth University of California, Berkeley Q208858
Heinrich Wieland
German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957) German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
West Germany
1877-06-04 1957-08-05 Pforzheim Starnberg Q76610
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
Danish physical chemist (1879–1947) Kingdom of Denmark 1879-02-22 1947-12-17 Varde Copenhagen Q180142
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist West Germany
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
1879-03-08 1968-07-28 Frankfurt Göttingen Q57065
Warren K. Lewis American chemical engineer United States of America 1882-08-21 1975-03-09 Laurel Plymouth Q1385317
Theodor Svedberg
Swedish chemist (1884-1971) Sweden 1884-08-30 1971-02-25 Valbo church parish Örebro Q186391
George de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist (1885–1966) Hungary
Sweden
1885-08-01 1966-07-05 Budapest Freiburg im Breisgau Q76951
Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist (1886-1972) United States of America 1886-03-08 1972-05-04 South Norwalk Princeton Q110101
Robert Robinson
English chemist (1886-1975) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1886-09-13 1975-02-08 Rufford Great Missenden Q49351
Friedrich Adolf Paneth Austrian-born British chemist Germany
Austria
1887-08-31 1958-09-17
1958-09-23
Vienna Mainz Q72631
Leopold Ružička
Croatian scientist (1887-1976) Austria-Hungary
Switzerland
1887-09-13 1976-09-26 Vukovar Mammern Q122996
Michael Heidelberger
American immunologist (1888-1991) United States of America 1888-04-29 1991-06-25 New York City New York City Q610072
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czech chemist (1890-1967) Czechoslovakia 1890-12-20 1967-03-27 Prague Prague Q157701
James Bryant Conant
American chemist (1893–1978) United States of America 1893-03-26 1978-02-11 Dorchester Hanover Q49355
William Giauque American chemist (1895-1982) United States of America
Canada
1895-05-12 1982-03-28 Niagara Falls Berkeley Q110073
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996) Switzerland
Poland
1897-07-20 1996-08-01 Włocławek Basel Q115490
Linus Pauling
American scientist United States of America 1901-02-28 1994-08-18 Portland Big Sur Q48983
Carl Wagner German chemist (1901–1977) Germany 1901-05-25 1977-12-10 Leipzig Göttingen Q96376
Lucy Weston Pickett
American chemist (1904-1997) United States of America 1904-01-19 1997-11-23 Beverly Bradenton Q7236
Joseph Edward Mayer American chemist United States of America 1904-02-05 1983-10-15 New York City San Diego County Q906477
John Gamble Kirkwood American scientist United States of America 1907-05-30
1907
1959-08-09
1959-08-07
1959
Oklahoma New Haven Q649387
Paul Doughty Bartlett
American chemist United States of America 1907-08-14 1997-10-11 Ann Arbor Lexington Q1722334
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist (1907-1997) United Kingdom 1907-10-02 1997-01-10 Glasgow Cambridge Q157242
Alfred Hershey
American chemist United States of America 1908-12-04 1997-05-22 Owosso Syosset Q271703
Eugene G. Rochow
American chemist United States of America 1909-10-04 2002-03-21 Newark Fort Myers Q907045
Henry Guerlac American historian (1910-1985) United States of America 1910-06-14 1985-05-29 New York Ithaca Q907710
Ewart Jones Welsh organic chemist and academic administrator Wales 1911-03-16 2002-05-07 Wrexham Q634238
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist United States of America 1911-04-08 1997-01-08 Saint Paul Berkeley Q49347
Frank Westheimer American chemist United States of America 1912-01-15 2007-04-14 Baltimore Cambridge Q907789
Charles D. Coryell
American chemist United States of America 1912-02-21 1971-01-07 Los Angeles Lexington Q260328
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999) United States of America 1912-04-19 1999-02-25 Ishpeming Lafayette Q48973
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist United States of America
Poland
1912-05-30 2004-12-29 New York City Bethesda Q110106
Kenneth Pitzer
American chemist United States of America 1914-01-06 1997-12-26 Pomona Berkeley Q608387
Elvin A. Kabat
American immunologist United States of America 1914-09-01 2000-06-16 New York City Q1334219
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
British chemist and university administrator (1914-1997) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1914-11-11 1997-12-05 Sheffield Q335877
David Turnbull American materials scientist United States of America 1915-02-18 2007-04-28 Kewanee Cambridge Q907738
William O. Baker
(1915-2005) American chemist United States of America 1915-07-15 2005-10-31 Maryland New Jersey Q337885
Henry Taube
Canadian-born American chemist (1915–2005) United States of America 1915-11-30 2005-11-16 Neudorf Palo Alto Q235983
Bernhard Witkop American-German organic chemist Germany
United States of America
1917-05-09 2010-11-22 Freiburg im Breisgau Chevy Chase Q111919
William von Eggers Doering American chemist United States of America 1917-06-22 2011-01-03 Fort Worth Waltham Q908247
Ernst Otto Fischer
German chemist Germany 1918-11-10 2007-07-23 Solln Munich Q44594
Richard M. Noyes
American physical chemist United States of America 1919-04-06 1997-11-25 Champaign Q906337
Herbert S. Gutowsky American physical chemist United States of America 1919-11-08 2000-01-13 Bridgman Urbana Q907778
William Lipscomb
Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist United States of America 1919-12-09 2011-04-14 Cleveland Cambridge Q110935
George Cowan
American physical chemist, businessman and philanthropist (1920–2012) United States of America 1920-02-15 2012-04-20 Worcester Los Alamos Q448993
George S. Hammond
American chemist (1921–2005) United States of America 1921-05-22 2005-10-05 Auburn Portland Q1934650
Geoffrey Wilkinson
British Nobel laureate in Chemistry United Kingdom 1921-07-14 1996-09-26 Todmorden London Q274128
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian chemist Canada
United States of America
1923-07-21 Montreal Q239067
Carl Djerassi
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright Austria
United States of America
Bulgaria
1923-10-29 2015-01-30 Vienna San Francisco Q78608
Günther Wilke German chemist Germany 1925-02-23 2016-12-09 Heidelberg Q109847
Alan R. Battersby
British chemist (1925-2018) United Kingdom 1925-03-04 2018-02-10 Leigh Q907583
Albert Eschenmoser
Swiss chemist Switzerland 1925-08-05 2023-07-14 Erstfeld Q116960
Darleane C. Hoffman
American nuclear chemist United States of America 1926-11-08 Terril Q56174
Manfred Eigen
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019) Germany 1927-05-09 2019-02-06 Bochum Göttingen Q76600
Andreas Christoph Albrecht American chemist United States of America 1927-06-03 2002-09-26 California Q495708
F. Sherwood Rowland
American chemist (1927–2012) United States of America 1927-06-28 2012-03-10 Delaware Newport Beach Q111190
Harden M. McConnell American chemist (1927-2014) United States of America 1927-07-18 2014-10-08 Richmond Q910100
Benjamin Widom American theoretical chemist United States of America 1927-10-13 Newark Q775666
John W. Cahn
American materials scientist (1928–2016) United States of America 1928-01-09 2016-03-14 Cologne Seattle Q907642
Duilio Arigoni
Swiss chemist (1928-2020) Switzerland 1928-12-06 2020-06-10 Lugano Q121042
John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist Canada
Hungary
Germany
1929-01-23 Berlin Q237825
Edith M. Flanigen
American chemist United States of America 1929-01-28 Buffalo Q446848
John S. Waugh
American chemist United States of America 1929-04-25 2014-08-22 Willimantic Concord Q1701664
David Buckingham Australian chemist and cricketer Australia 1930-01-28 2021-02-04 Sydney Q74948
Ronald Breslow
American chemist United States of America 1931-03-14 2017-10-25 Rahway New York City Q907664
Mary L. Good
American chemist (1931-2019) United States of America 1931-06-20 2019-11-20 Grapevine Little Rock Q7481
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist United States of America 1932-06-18 San Jose Q243196
Joshua Jortner
Israeli chemist Israel 1933-03-14 Tarnów Q445138
Mostafa El-Sayed
Egyptian chemist Egypt
United States of America
1933-05-08 Abu Kabir Q265310
Richard R. Ernst
Nobel laureate in chemistry (1933–2021) Switzerland 1933-08-14 2021-06-04 Winterthur Winterthur Q122272
Robert Curl
American chemist United States of America 1933-08-23 2022-07-03 Alice Houston Q110930
Jeremy R. Knowles British chemist (1935-2008) United Kingdom 1935-04-28 2008-04-03 Rugby Cambridge Q301313
Harry B. Gray
American chemist United States of America 1935-11-14 Woodburn Q369975
Samuel J. Danishefsky American chemist United States of America 1936-03-10 Bayonne Q724239
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese chemist Taiwan
United States of America
1936-11-19 Shinchiku City Q243190
Yoshito Kishi
Japanese Professor of Chemistry Japan
Empire of Japan
1937-04-13 2023-01-09 Nagoya Q906949
Stephen J. Benkovic
American chemist United States of America 1938-04-20 Orange Q908510
Jack Baldwin British chemist United Kingdom 1938-08-08 2020-01-04 London Oxford Q743546
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - ) Japan 1938-09-03 Ashiya Q157210
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss chemist Switzerland 1938-10-04 Aarberg Q110957
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941) United States of America 1941-04-28 Philadelphia Q110925
Barry Trost
American chemist United States of America 1941-06-13 Philadelphia Q725840
Fraser Stoddart
Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines United States of America
United Kingdom
1942-05-24 Edinburgh Q376243
Helen M. Berman
American chemist United States of America 1943 Chicago Q7441
Larry E. Overman
American chemist United States of America 1943 Chicago Q765613
Alan Fersht
British chemist United Kingdom 1943-04-21 London Borough of Hackney Q537479
Helmut Schwarz German chemist Germany 1943-08-06 Nickenich Q109832
Alexander Pines
Israeli-born American chemist United States of America 1945-06-22 Tel Aviv Q908521
Peter Dervan
American chemist United States of America 1945-06-28 Boston Q907746
JoAnne Stubbe
American chemist United States of America 1946-06-11 Champaign Q55280
Michael D. Fayer American chemist United States of America 1947-09-12 Los Angeles Q1927214
Joachim Sauer
German chemist and Second Gentleman of Germany Germany
German Democratic Republic
1949-04-19 Hosena Q62085
Carlos Bustamante
Peruvian-American biophysicist United States of America
Peru
1951-05-06 Lima Q1042767
William E. Moerner
Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist United States of America 1953-06-24 Pleasanton Q1387059
Sylvia T. Ceyer American chemist United States of America 1953-12-18 Chicago Q55213
Carol V. Robinson
British chemist and professor United Kingdom 1956-04-10 Kent Q56190
Natalie Ahn American chemist United States of America 1957 Q56077
Charles M. Lieber
American chemist (1959-) United States of America 1959-04-09 Philadelphia Q1750101
Eric Jacobsen American chemist United States of America 1960-02-22 New York City Q1351364
Laura Lee Kiessling American chemist United States of America 1960-09-21 Lake Mills Q56183
Carolyn Bertozzi
American chemist (born 1966) United States of America 1966-10-10 Boston Q7442
Peidong Yang
American chemist United States of America 1971 Suzhou Q1236460
Thomas J. Katz American chemist United States of America 20th century Prague Q723422


church historian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Friedrich Delitzsch
German assyriologist (1850-1922) Germany
Kingdom of Saxony
1850-09-03 1922-12-19 Erlangen Bad Schwalbach Q72141
Wilhelm Pauck
theologian (1901-1981) Germany 1901-01-31 1981-09-03 Bad Laasphe Palo Alto Q109592
Enrique Dussel
Argentine-Mexican philosopher Argentina 1934-12-24 2023-11-05 La Paz Mexico City Q473518


civil engineer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Fairbairn
Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1789-02-19 1874-08-18 Kelso Moor Park
Compton
Q929499
Benjamin Baker
British engineer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1840-03-31 1907-05-19 Bath Pangbourne Q817394
John Frank Stevens
American canal engineer (1853–1943) United States of America 1853-04-25 1943-06-02 West Gardiner Southern Pines Q1700114
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer (1891-1979) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1891-06-21 1979-01-09 Sondrio Rome Q313528
Arthur T. Ippen American hydrologist and engineer United States of America 1907-07-28 1974-04-05 London Belmont Q73333


classical philologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Clifford Herschel Moore
American classical philologist and religious studies scholar (1866-1931) United States of America 1866-03-11 1931-08-31 Massachusetts Cambridge Q64793
Martin P. Nilsson
scholar of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems Sweden 1874-07-12 1967-04-07 Στόμπι Lund Q321959
Werner Jaeger
German-American classical philologist (1888-1961) Germany
United States of America
1888-07-30 1961-10-19 Lobberich Cambridge Q61882
Roger Mynors
British classical scholar United Kingdom 1903-07-28 1989-10-17 Wiltshire Herefordshire Q446625
Friedrich Solmsen
German classical scholar (1904-1989) United States of America
Germany
1904-02-04 1989-01-30 Bonn Chapel Hill Q214712
Denys Page British classical scholar and academic (1908-1978) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1908-05-11 1978-07-06 Reading Tarset Q523175
Jacqueline de Romilly French philologist, classical scholar (1913–2010) France
Greece
1913-03-26 2010-12-18 Chartres Boulogne-Billancourt Q261687
Bernard Knox British-American classical scholar (1914–2010) United States of America 1914-11-24 2010-07-22 Bradford Bethesda Q822582
Martin Ostwald German-American classical scholar (1922–2010) Germany
United States of America
1922-01-15 2010-04-10 Dortmund Swarthmore Q110740
Hugh Lloyd-Jones British classical philologist (1922–2009) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1922-09-21 2009-10-05 Saint Peter Port Wellesley Q301474
Wendell Vernon Clausen American classical philologist United States of America 1923-04-02 2006-10-12 Coquille Belmont Q1341234
Charles Segal American classical philologist (1936–2002) United States of America 1936-03-19 2002-01-01 Boston Boston Q1066038
Simon Goldhill
British classicist (born 1957) United Kingdom 1957-03-17 Q1247022


classical pianist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Menahem Pressler
German-born American classical pianist United States of America
Germany
1923-12-16 2023-05-06 Magdeburg London Q70142
Mitsuko Uchida Japanese-British pianist, conductor (1948-) Japan
United Kingdom
1948-12-20 Atami Q238290


columnist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Safire
American journalist and presidential speechwriter (1929–2009) United States of America 1929-12-17 2009-09-27 New York City Rockville Q254983
Thomas Friedman
American journalist and author United States of America 1953-07-20 St. Louis Park Q310950
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Dutch politician, mathematical physicist and string theorist Kingdom of the Netherlands 1960-01-24 Ridderkerk Q710978


composer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Charles Martin Loeffler
American violinist and composer (1861-1935) United States of America 1861-01-30 1935-05-19 Mulhouse Medfield Q1065471
Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer (1865–1957) Finland 1865-12-08 1957-09-20 Hämeenlinna Ainola Q45682
Frederick Converse
American classical music composer (1871-1940) United States of America 1871-01-05 1940-06-08 Newton Westwood Q323613
Henri Rabaud
French composer (1873-1949) France 1873-11-10 1949-09-11 8th arrondissement of Paris Paris Q503861
David Stanley Smith American composer (1877-1949) United States of America 1877-07-06 1949-12-17 Toledo New Haven Q1176713
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971) France
Russian Empire
United States of America
Russia
Switzerland
1882-06-05 1971-04-06 Lomonosov New York City Q7314
Alfredo Casella
Italian composer, pianist and conductor (1883-1947) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1883-07-25 1947-03-05 Turin Rome Q337343
Archibald Thompson Davison
American conductor (1883-1961) United States of America 1883-10-11 1961-02-06 Boston Q633492
Charles Seeger
American musicologist United States of America 1886-12-14 1979-02-07 Mexico City Bridgewater Q1066045
Ross Lee Finney American composer United States of America 1906-12-23 1997-02-04 Wells Carmel-by-the-Sea Q323394
Elliott Carter
American composer United States of America 1908-12-11 2012-11-05 Manhattan New York City Q318835
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992) United States of America 1912-09-05
1912-10-05
1992-08-12 Good Samaritan Hospital New York City Q180727
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer (1916-1983) Argentina 1916-04-11 1983-02-20 Buenos Aires Geneva Q311389
George Rochberg American composer (1918-2005) United States of America 1918-07-05 2005-05-29 Paterson Bryn Mawr
Philadelphia
Q710733
Leon Kirchner American composer (1919-2009) United States of America 1919-01-24 2009-09-17 Brooklyn Manhattan Q928971
György Ligeti
Hungarian composer (1923-2006) Hungary
Austria
Romania
1923-05-28 2006-06-12
2006-06-11
Târnăveni Vienna Q154331
György Kurtág
Hungarian composer Hungary
Romania
France
1926-02-19 Lugoj Q48184
Betsy Jolas
French composer France 1926-08-05 Paris Q262420
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer Germany 1928-08-22 2007-12-05 Mödrath castle Kürten Q154556
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer United States of America 1930-09-07 Harlem
New York City
Q299208
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer (1933–2023) United States of America 1933-08-25 2023-03-02 Newark Los Angeles Q317161
Mario Davidovsky Argentine-American composer (1934-2019) Argentina 1934-03-04 2019-08-23 Médanos New York City Q322790
Christian Wolff
American composer and classicist United States of America
France
1934-03-08 Nice Q658733
John Chowning
American composer and inventor, developed a groundbreaking technology for synthesizers United States of America 1934-08-22 Salem Q796345
Steve Reich
American composer United States of America 1936-10-03 New York City Q262791
Philip Glass
American composer (born 1937) United States of America 1937-01-31 Baltimore Q189729
Kaija Saariaho
Finnish composer (1952–2023) Finland 1952-10-14 2023-06-02 Helsinki 8th arrondissement of Paris Q241432
Magnus Lindberg
Finnish composer and pianist Finland 1958-06-27 Helsinki Q503672
Wynton Marsalis
American jazz musician and educator United States of America 1961-10-18 New Orleans Q273076


computer scientist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974) United States of America 1890-03-11 1974-06-28 Everett Belmont Q299595
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist United Kingdom 1913-06-26 2010-11-29 Dudley Cambridge Q62857
J. C. R. Licklider
American psychologist and computer scientist United States of America 1915-03-11 1990-06-26 St. Louis Arlington Q92778
Robert Fano
Italian-American computer scientist (1917-2016) United States of America 1917-11-11 2016-07-13 Turin Naples Q93052
Donald Michie
British artificial intelligence researcher United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1923-11-11 2007-07-07 Yangon North Weald Bassett Q93119
David C. Evans American computer scientist (1924-1998) United States of America 1924-02-24 1998-10-03 Salt Lake City Q92712
Fernando J. Corbató
American computer scientist United States of America 1926-07-01 2019-07-12 Oakland Newburyport Q92625
Frances Allen
American computer scientist (1932–2020) United States of America 1932-08-04 2020-08-04 Peru Schenectady Q9602
Ruzena Bajcsy
American computer scientist Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Czech Republic
United States of America
1933 Bratislava Q10959
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024) Switzerland 1934-02-15 2024-01-01 Winterthur Zürich Q92604
Carver Mead
American computer scientist United States of America 1934-05-01 Bakersfield Q62910
Gordon Bell
American computer engineer United States of America 1934-08-19 2024-05-17 Kirksville Coronado Q92875
Edward Feigenbaum
American computer scientist United States of America 1936-01-20 Weehawken Q92823
Robert W. Floyd American computer scientist (1936-2001) United States of America 1936-06-08 2001-09-25 New York City Stanford Q92641
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist United States of America 1936-09-04 Tel Aviv Q92824
Raj Reddy
Indian-American computer scientist British Raj
India
United States of America
1937-06-13 Katur Q92820
Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist United States of America 1937-12-21 2018-12-26 Westport Redwood City Q92935
Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist United States of America 1938-04-26 Caracas Q92626
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer United States of America 1938-05-16 Hastings Q62866
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist United States of America 1938-12-23 New York City Q62843
John Edward Hopcroft
American computer scientist United States of America 1939-10-07 Seattle Q62874
Stephen Cook
American-Canadian computer scientist United States of America
Canada
1939-12-14 Buffalo Q62870
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940) United States of America 1940-05-17 Springfield Q92742
John Warnock
American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023) United States of America 1940-10-06 2023-08-19 Salt Lake City Los Altos Q1344392
Joel Moses MIT professor (b. 1941) United States of America 1941 2022-05-29 Mandatory Palestine Q93129
Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist Canada 1941-08-09 Timmins Q62898
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system Canada
United States of America
1942-01-01
1942-01-30
Toronto Q92608
Anita K. Jones
American computer scientist and former U.S. government official United States of America 1942-03-10 Fort Worth Q9895
Susan L. Graham
American computer scientist United States of America 1942-09-16 Cleveland Q11612
Jeffrey David Ullman American computer scientist United States of America 1942-11-22 New York City Q92794
Charles P. Thacker
American computer pioneer United States of America 1943-02-26 2017-06-12 Pasadena Palo Alto Q92828
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943) United States of America 1943-06-23 New Haven Q92743
Michael Stonebraker
American computer scientist United States of America 1943-10-11 Milton Q92758
Butler Lampson
American computer scientist United States of America 1943-12-23 Washington, D.C. Q92644
Jim Gray
American computer scientist United States of America 1944-01-12 2012-01-28 San Francisco Pacific Ocean Q92606
Margaret H. Wright
American computer scientist and academic United States of America 1944-02-18 Hanford Q16494
David D. Clark
American computer scientist United States of America 1944-04-07 Q92657
Ronald Fagin
American computer scientist United States of America 1945-05-01 Oklahoma City Q93124
Edmund M. Clarke
American computer scientist United States of America 1945-07-27 2020-12-22 Newport News Pittsburgh Q92819
Takeo Kanade
Japanese computer scientist Japan 1945-10-24 Hyōgo Prefecture Q92675
Leonard Adleman
American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California United States of America 1945-12-31 California Q918650
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer United States of America 1946-04-07 Brooklyn Q92766
Andrew Yao
computer scientist and computational theorist People's Republic of China
United States of America
1946-12-24 Shanghai Q62888
Iosif Sifakis
Greek-French computer scientist Greece
France
1946-12-26 Heraklion Q92781
David A. Patterson
American computer scientist United States of America 1947-11-16 Evergreen Park Q92851
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist United Kingdom
Canada
1947-12-06 Wimbledon Q92894
Nancy Lynch American computer scientist United States of America 1948-01-19 Brooklyn Q11779
Leslie Valiant
British computer scientist United Kingdom
United States of America
1949-03-28 Budapest Q93154
עמית מועלם
American businessman United States of America 1949-08-23 Cleveland Q1393271
Leah Jamieson American engineer United States of America 1949-08-27 Trenton Q11688
Francine Berman
American computer scientist United States of America 1951-02-07 Glendale Q11433
John Doerr
American businessman United States of America 1951-06-29 St. Louis Q1380459
John L. Hennessy
American computer scientist United States of America 1952-09-22 Huntington Q92854
Mihalis Yannakakis
Greek theoretical computer scientist Greece
United States of America
1953-09-13 Athens Q92825
Guy L. Steele
American computer scientist United States of America 1954-10-02 Missouri Q92991
Bill Joy
American computer scientist United States of America 1954-11-08 Farmington Hills Q335047
Rodney Brooks
Australian roboticist Australia 1954-12-30 Adelaide Q92809
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955) United Kingdom 1955-06-08 London Q80
Jeannette Wing
American computer scientist United States of America 1956-12-04 Newark Q16490
Peter Norvig
American computer scientist United States of America 1956-12-05
1956-12-14
Q92832
Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska
British computer scientist Poland 1957-02-26 Q11760
Cynthia Dwork
American computer scientist United States of America 1958-06-27 Q11580
Deborah Estrin
American computer scientist United States of America 1959-12-06 Los Angeles Q7526
Anna Karlin
American computer scientist United States of America 1960-03-19 Q11748
Daniela L. Rus
Romanian-born American roboticist United States of America 1963 Cluj-Napoca Q14223
Edward Felten
professor of computer science and public affairs United States of America 1963-03-25 Q92932
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964) United States of America 1964-01-12 Albuquerque Q312556
Madhu Sudan
Indian computer scientist India
United States of America
1966-09-12 Chennai Q93149
Lydia E. Kavraki Greek computer scientist United States of America
Greece
1967 Crete Q11749
Sanjeev Arora
Theoretical computer scientist United States of America 1968-01 Jodhpur Q92664
Daphne Koller
Israeli-American computer scientist Israel
United States of America
1968-08-27 Jerusalem Q11755
Jon Kleinberg
American computer scientist United States of America 1971 Boston Q92978
Ayanna Howard
American roboticist United States of America 1972-01-24 Q11644
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973) United States of America 1973-08-21 Moscow Q92764
Mary Jane Irwin American computer scientist United States of America 20th century Q11648


conductor

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer (1872–1958) United Kingdom 1872-10-12 1958-08-26 Down Ampney London Q207947
Charles Munch
French musician (1891-1968) France 1891-09-26 1968-11-06 Strasbourg Richmond Q503940
Darius Milhaud
French composer (1892–1974) France 1892-09-04 1974-06-22 Marseille
Aix-en-Provence
Geneva Q186264
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist United States of America 1896-10-28 1981-02-26 Wahoo Rochester Q382748
George Szell
Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970) Hungary
United States of America
Germany
1897-06-07 1970-07-30 Budapest Cleveland Q310638
Arthur Mendel American conductor United States of America 1905-06-06 1979-10-14 Boston Newark Q710626
David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist (1908-1974) Russian Empire
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
1908-09-17 1974-10-24 Odesa Amsterdam Q47120
William Schuman American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992) United States of America 1910-08-04 1992-02-15 The Bronx
New York City
New York City Q503225
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1911-07-07 2007-02-01 Cadegliano Viconago Monte Carlo
Monaco
Q270662
Erich Leinsdorf
American conductor (1912-1993) United States of America
Austria
1912-02-04 1993-09-11 Vienna Zürich Q78602
Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916–1999) United States of America
United Kingdom
Switzerland
1916-04-22 1999-03-12 New York City Berlin Q156814
Elliot Forbes
American conductor (1917–2006) United States of America 1917-08-30 2006-01-10 Cambridge Cambridge Q1332243
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990) United States of America 1918-08-25 1990-10-14 Lawrence New York City Q152505
Lukas Foss
American composer United States of America 1922-08-15 2009-02-01 Berlin Manhattan Q213709
Pierre Boulez
French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016) France 1925-03-26 2016-01-05 Montbrison Baden-Baden Q156193
André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019) Germany
United States of America
1929-04-06 2019-02-28 Berlin Manhattan
New York City
Q155712
Helmuth Rilling
German choral conductor Germany 1933-05-29 Stuttgart Q61644
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor (1935–2024) Japan
Empire of Japan
1935-09-01 2024-02-06 Shenyang Setagaya-ku Q313649
Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor United States of America 1938-09-06 New Rochelle Q293218
Heinz Holliger
Swiss oboist, composer and conductor Switzerland 1939-05-21 Langenthal Q123359
James Levine
American conductor and pianist United States of America 1943-06-23 2021-03-09 Cincinnati Palm Springs Q336388
Dennis Russell Davies
American conductor and pianist United States of America 1944-04-16 Toledo Q475198
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer United States of America 1944-12-21 Los Angeles Q520493
Marin Alsop
American conductor and violinist United Kingdom 1956-10-16 Manhattan Q242931
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer Finland 1958-06-30 Helsinki Q314587
David Robertson American conductor United States of America 1958-07-19 Santa Monica Q1176353
Yu Long
Chinese conductor People's Republic of China 1964-07-01 Shanghai Q838077
Alan Gilbert
American conductor and violinist United States of America 1967-02-23 New York City Q673146
Gustávo Dudamel
Venezuelan conductor and violinist Venezuela 1981-01-26 Barquisimeto Q160390


cryptographer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Charles Wheatstone
British physicist (1802-1875) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1802-02-06 1875-10-19 Gloucester Paris Q156942
Silvio Micali
Italian-American computer scientist United States of America 1954-10-13 Palermo Q93080
Shafrira Goldwasser
American computer scientist United States of America
Israel
1958-11-14 New York City Q11609


cultural historian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Irish politician (1838-1903) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1838-03-26 1903-10-22 Dublin London
Dublin
Q725927
Jacques Barzun
French-born American historian (1907-2012) United States of America
France
1907-11-30 2012-10-25 Créteil San Antonio Q712946


curator

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856) England 1784-03-12 1856-08-14 Axminster Islip Q312389
Oswald Heer
Swiss naturalist (1809–1883) Switzerland 1809-08-31 1883-09-27 Uzwil Lausanne Q117021
Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden
Belgian zoologist Belgium 1809-12-19
1809-12-15
1894-01-08 Mechelen Leuven Q1386589
Asa Gray
American botanist (1810–1888) United States of America 1810-11-18 1888-01-30 Paris
New York City
Cambridge Q347356
Joel Asaph Allen
American zoologist and ornithologist (1838–1921) United States of America 1838-07-19 1921-08-29 Springfield New York City Q502994
Hendrik Lorentz
Dutch physicist (1853–1928) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1853-07-18 1928-02-04 Arnhem Haarlem Q41688
Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist (1902–1984) United States of America 1902-06-16 1984-10-06 Chicago Tucson Q319603
Ernst Mayr
German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005) United States of America
Germany
1904-07-05 2005-02-03 Kempten Bedford Q5354


diplomat

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Pedro Francisco de Luján y Góngora, 1st Duke of Almodóvar del Río
Spanish diplomat (1727-1794) Spain 1727-09-18
1727
1794-05-14
1794
Madrid Madrid Q650390
Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen
German diplomat and scholar (1791-1860) Kingdom of Prussia 1791-08-25 1860-11-28 Korbach Bonn Q67409
Ferdinand de Lesseps
French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal France 1805-11-19 1894-12-07 Versailles Guilly Q209169
Américo Castro
Spanish historian Spain 1885-05-04 1972-07-25 Cantagalo Lloret de Mar Q482275
Jean Monnet
French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979) France 1888-11-09 1979-03-16 Cognac The Jean Monnet House Q159700
W. Averell Harriman
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1891–1986) United States of America 1891-11-15 1986-07-26 New York City Yorktown Heights Q345531
Hu Shih
Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomate (1891–1962) Taiwan
Republic of China
Qing dynasty
1891-12-17 1962-02-24 Shanghai Taipei Q47667
Sumner Welles
American government official and diplomat (1892-1961) United States of America 1892-10-14 1961-09-24 New York City Bernardsville Q1234032
Thomas K. Finletter
American diplomat (1893-1980) United States of America 1893-11-11 1980-04-24 Philadelphia New York City Q1723653
Ellsworth Bunker
American diplomat (1894–1984) United States of America 1894-05-11 1984-09-27 Yonkers Brattleboro Q63708
John Moors Cabot
American ambassador (1901-1981) United States of America 1901-12-11 1981-02-24 Boston Washington, D.C. Q1701131
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005) United States of America 1904-02-16 2005-03-17 Milwaukee Princeton Q156058
Ralph Bunche
US-American diplomat, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904-1971) United States of America 1904-08-07 1971-12-09 Detroit New York City Q213500
Charles E. Bohlen
American diplomat United States of America 1904-08-30 1974-01-01 Clayton Washington, D.C. Q776165
Charles Malik
Lebanese politician (1906-1987) Lebanon 1906 1987-12-28 Btourram Beirut Q607841
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990) United States of America 1910-10-15 1990-09-01 Tokyo La Jolla Q183253
Lincoln Gordon
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and university president United States of America 1913-09-10 2009-12-19 New York City Mitchellville Q931928
Thomas Watson
American businessman and diplomat (1914-1993) United States of America 1914-01-14 1993-12-31 Dayton Greenwich Q46000
Patricia Harris
American politician and diplomat (1924–1985) United States of America 1924-05-31 1985-03-23 Mattoon Washington, D.C. Q444106
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018) Ghana 1938-04-08 2018-08-18 Kumasi Bern Q1254
Stephen W. Bosworth
former Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a United States diplomat United States of America 1939-12-04 2016-01-03
2016-01-04
Grand Rapids Boston Q488066
Martti Koskenniemi Finnish lawyer and diplomat Finland 1953-03-18 Turku Q1239148
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigerian-American economist Nigeria 1954-06-13 Ogwashi-Uku Q289350
R. Nicholas Burns
American diplomat and academic United States of America 1956-01-28 Buffalo Q519825


economic historian

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Michael Rostovtzeff
Russian historian of ancient history Russian Empire
United States of America
1870-11-10 1952-10-20 Zhytomyr New Haven Q502983
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. American historian (1918–2007) United States of America 1918-09-15 2007-05-09
2007-05-12
New Castle County Cambridge Q1336939


economist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture (1754–1835) Kingdom of Great Britain 1754-05-10 1835-12-21 Thurso Edinburgh Q337499
Alfred Marshall
British economist United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1842-07-26 1924-07-13 London Cambridge Q13529
Werner Sombart
German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941) German Reich 1863-01-19 1941-05-18 Ermsleben Berlin Q58031
Irving Fisher
American economist and statistician (1867–1947) United States of America 1867-02-27
1867-02-07
1947-04-29 Saugerties New York City Q312739
Alfred Weber
German geographer and economist (1868–1958) Germany 1868-07-30 1958-05-02 Erfurt Heidelberg Q76514
Luigi Einaudi
(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955 Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1874-03-24 1961-10-30 Carrù Rome Q1242
Arthur Cecil Pigou
British economist United Kingdom 1877-11-18 1959-03-07 Ryde Cambridge Q313034
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian economist Austria-Hungary
United States of America
Austria
Germany
1883-02-08 1950-01-08 Třešť Salisbury
Connecticut
Q78477
Edwin Griswold Nourse
American economist United States of America 1883-05-20 1974-05-07 Lockport Bethesda Q248385
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1883-06-05 1946-04-21 Cambridge Firle Q9317
John Maurice Clark American economist United States of America 1884-11-30 1963-06-27 Northampton Westport Q1700999
Ragnar Frisch
Norwegian economist Norway 1895-03-03 1973-01-31 Christiania Oslo Q187988
Alfred Sauvy
demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy France 1898-10-31 1990-10-30 Villeneuve-de-la-Raho Paris Q13524
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
British economist (1898 – 1984) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1898-11-22 1984-05-15 Sipson London Q335199
Gunnar Myrdal
Swedish economist (1898–1987) Sweden 1898-12-06 1987-05-17 Skattunge Parish Danderyd Q152452
Bertil Ohlin
Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979) Sweden 1899-04-23 1979-08-03 Parish of Klippan Vålådalens Fjällstation Q179493
Oskar Morgenstern Austrian economist United States of America
Germany
1902-01-24 1977-07-26 Görlitz Princeton Q94028
Fritz Machlup Austrian economist United States of America
Austria
1902-12-15 1983-01-30 Wiener Neustadt Princeton Q78604
Jan Tinbergen
Dutch economist (1903–1994) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1903-04-12 1994-06-09 The Hague The Hague Q183181
Abba P. Lerner
American economist (1903-1982) United States of America 1903-10-28 1982-10-27 Bessarabia Governorate Tallahassee Q305781
John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1904-04-08 1989-05-20 Warwick
Royal Leamington Spa
Blockley Q184862
Alexander Gerschenkron American economist United States of America 1904-10-01 1978-10-26 Odesa Cambridge Q709886
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999) Russian Empire
United States of America
1906-08-05 1999-02-05 Saint Petersburg New York City Q44061
William McChesney Martin
chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank from 1951 to 1970 United States of America 1906-12-17 1998-07-27
1998-07-29
St. Louis Washington, D.C. Q1349310
James Meade
British economist United Kingdom 1907-06-23 1995-12-22 Swanage Cambridge Q235843
Ragnar Nurkse American-Estonian economist Estonia
United States of America
1907-10-05 1959-05-06 Käru Vevey Q716234
Nicholas Kaldor
Hungarian-British economist Hungary
United Kingdom
1908-05-12 1986-09-30 Budapest Cambridge Q335153
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006) Canada
United States of America
1908-10-15 2006-04-29 Iona Station Cambridge Q186042
Tjalling Koopmans
Dutch American economist Kingdom of the Netherlands
United States of America
1910-08-28 1985-02-26 's-Graveland New Haven Q110968
Charles Poor Kindleberger American economic historian (1910-2003) United States of America 1910-10-12 2003-07-07 New York City Cambridge Q1065713
Richard Musgrave American economist (1910-2007) Germany
United States of America
1910-12-14 2007-01-15 Königstein im Taunus Santa Cruz Q68183
Ronald Coase
British economist and author (1910-2013) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1910-12-29 2013-09-02 Willesden Chicago Q188113
George Stigler American economist United States of America 1911-01-17 1991-12-01 Seattle
Renton
Chicago Q243534
Robert Marjolin
French economist and politician (1911-1986) France 1911-07-27 1986-04-15 Paris Paris Q539315
Robert Triffin American economist (1911–1993) United States of America
Belgium
1911-10-05 1993-02-23 Flobecq Ostend Q1710365
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006) United States of America 1912-07-31 2006-11-16 Brooklyn San Francisco Q47426
Armen Alchian American economist United States of America 1914-04-12 2013-02-19 Fresno Los Angeles Q240448
William Vickrey Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (1914-1996) United States of America
Canada
1914-06-21 1996-10-11 Victoria Harrison
New York City
Q295673
Arthur Lewis Saint Lucian economist Saint Lucia
United Kingdom
1915-01-23 1991-06-15 Castries Bridgetown Q272519
Albert O. Hirschman
German-American economist; member of the French Resistance United States of America
Germany
1915-04-07 2012-12-10 Berlin Ewing Township Q215949
Herbert Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001) United States of America 1916-06-15 2001-02-09 Milwaukee Pittsburgh Q181529
Kermit Gordon
American economist, public servant United States of America 1916-07-03 1976-06-21 Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Q1701789
Hollis B. Chenery American economist United States of America 1918-01-06 1994-09-01 Richmond Santa Fe Q1747459
James Tobin
American economist United States of America 1918-03-05 2002-03-11 Champaign New Haven Q211776
Franco Modigliani
Italian-American economist (1918–2003) Italy
United States of America
Kingdom of Italy
1918-06-18 2003-09-25 Rome Cambridge Q205850
Carl Kaysen American economist United States of America 1920-03-05 2010-02-08 Philadelphia Cambridge Q1039196
John Harsanyi Hungarian economist (1920-2000) Hungary
United States of America
1920-05-29 2000-08-09 Budapest Berkeley Q272510
Lawrence Klein
American economist (1920-2013) United States of America 1920-09-14 2013-10-20 Omaha Gladwyne Q295761
Douglass North
American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015) United States of America 1920-11-05 2015-11-23 Cambridge Benzonia Q243193
George Shultz
American economist, statesman, and businessman (1920-2021) United States of America 1920-12-13 2021-02-06 New York City Stanford Q313411
Juanita M. Kreps
United States Secretary of Commerce (1921-2010) United States of America 1921-01-11 2010-07-05 Lynch Durham Q183469
Thomas Schelling
American economist (1921-2016) United States of America 1921-04-14 2016-12-13 Oakland Bethesda Q206460
Gordon Tullock
American economist United States of America 1922-02-13 2014-11-03 Rockford Des Moines Q518859
William Baumol American economist (1922-2017) United States of America 1922-02-26 2017-05-04 New York City New York City Q520631
Edmond Malinvaud
French economist France 1923-04-25 2015-03-07 Limoges 15th arrondissement of Paris Q473926
Merton Miller American economist United States of America 1923-05-16 2000-06-03 Boston Chicago Q157255
Lloyd Shapley
American economist and mathematician United States of America 1923-06-02 2016-03-12 Cambridge Tucson Q244739
David Landes American economic historian (1924-2013) United States of America 1924-04-29 2013-08-17 New York City Haverford Q931541
Robert Solow
American economist (1924~2023) United States of America 1924-08-23 2023-12-21 Brooklyn Lexington Q157268
Robert Fogel
American economist and historian (1926-2013) United States of America 1926-07-01
1927-07-01
2013-06-11 New York City Oak Lawn Q237821
Vernon L. Smith
American economist United States of America 1927-01-01 Wichita Q295717
Murray Weidenbaum
United States Assistant Secretary to the Treasury United States of America 1927-02-10 2014-03-20 The Bronx Clayton Q521337
Harry Markowitz American economist United States of America 1927-08-24 2023-06-22 Chicago San Diego Q272508
János Kornai
Hungarian economist (1928-2021) Hungary 1928-01-21 2021-10-18 Budapest Budapest Q179735
Richard R. Nelson American professor of economics (born 1930) United States of America 1930-05-04 New York City Q930539
Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian United States of America 1930-09-28 2019-08-31 New York City Branford Q494287
Reinhard Selten
German economist (1930-2016) Germany 1930-10-05 2016-08-23 Wrocław Poznań Q12830
Mancur Olson American economist United States of America 1932-01-22 1998-02-19 Grand Forks College Park Q519898
Dale W. Jorgenson
American economist United States of America 1933-05-07 2022-06-08 Bozeman Cambridge Q256745
Elinor Ostrom
American political economist (1933-2012) United States of America 1933-08-07 2012-06-12 Los Angeles Bloomington Q153761
James Wolfensohn
President of the World Bank United States of America
Australia
1933-12-01 2020-11-25 Sydney Manhattan Q504387
Anne Osborn Krueger
American economist United States of America 1934-02-12 Endicott Q261517
Clive Granger
British economist United Kingdom 1934-09-04 2009-05-27 Swansea La Jolla Q312575
Takeshi Amemiya economist Japan 1935-03-29 Tokyo Q1324450
David Cass American economist (1937-2008) United States of America 1937-01-19 2008-04-15 Honolulu Philadelphia Q321101
Robert B. Wilson American economist and Nobel laureate United States of America 1937-05-16 Geneva Q377265
Daniel McFadden
American economist United States of America 1937-07-29 Raleigh Q312560
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
German economist Germany 1938-01-28 Berlin Q1037331
Edward George, Baron George
Governor of the Bank of England (1938-2009) United Kingdom 1938-09-16
1938-09-11
2009-04-18 Carshalton St Tudy Q335467
Dale T. Mortensen
American economist (1939-2014) United States of America 1939-02-02 2014-01-09 Enterprise Wilmette Q109721
Romano Prodi
Italian politician and economist (born 1939) Italy 1939-08-09 Scandiano Q38484
Michael Jensen American economist United States of America 1939-11-30 2024-04-02 Rochester Sarasota Q290017
Peter Diamond
Nobel prize in economics winner United States of America 1940-04-29 New York City Q109570
Edward C. Prescott
American economist (1940-2022) United States of America 1940-12-26 2022-11-06 Glens Falls Paradise Valley Q312585
Guillermo Calvo
Argentine-American economist Argentina 1941 Buenos Aires Q1326679
Myron Scholes
Canadian economist Canada 1941-07-01 Timmins Q295647
Rudi Dornbusch
German economist United States of America 1942-06-08 2002-07-25 Krefeld Washington, D.C. Q653517
Christopher A. Sims
American econometrician and macroeconomist United States of America 1942-10-21 Washington, D.C. Q109737
Robert F. Engle
American economist and Nobel laureate (born 1942) United States of America 1942-11-10
1941
Syracuse Q295653
Ehud Kalai
Game Theorist Israel 1942-12-07 Tel Aviv Q181148
Joseph E. Stiglitz
American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics United States of America 1943-02-09 Gary Q18430
Stanley Fischer
American economist Israel
United States of America
1943-10-15 Mazabuka Q447236
Michael Spence
American economist United States of America 1943-11-07 Montclair Q157245
Stephen Ross American economist United States of America 1944-02-03 2017-03-03 Boston Q531857
David Forbes Hendry
British econometrician United Kingdom 1944-03-06 Nottingham Q322432
James Heckman
American economist United States of America 1944-04-19 Chicago Q312561
Avinash Dixit
American economist British Raj
Dominion of India
India
United States of America
1944-06-08 Mumbai Q791030
Robert C. Merton
American economist (1944-) United States of America 1944-07-31 New York City Q287542
Richard Thaler
American economist United States of America 1945-09-12
1945-12-09
East Orange Q371212
Robert J. Shiller
American economist United States of America 1946-03-29 Detroit Q338151
Elhanan Helpman
Israeli-American economist Israel
United States of America
1946-03-30 Jalal-Abad Q726265
Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
British economist and academic (born 1946) United Kingdom 1946-04-22 Hammersmith
London
Q335441
Robert Reich
American political economist United States of America 1946-06-24 Scranton Q718828
Janet Yellen
United States Secretary of the Treasury since 2021 United States of America 1946-08-13 Brooklyn Q263725
Jean-Jacques Laffont
French economist France 1947-04-13 2004-05-01 Toulouse Colomiers Q1005479
Edward Lazear
American economist (1948-2020) United States of America 1948-08-17 2020-11-23 New York City Reno Q448413
Olivier Blanchard
French economist and professor France 1948-12-27 Amiens Q241094
Ariel Pakes Canadian American economist United States of America 1949 Edmonton Q659220
Martin Hellwig
German economist Germany 1949-04-05 Düsseldorf Q1770204
David M. Kreps American economist United States of America 1950-10-18 New York City Q448386
Halbert White American academic, economist and econometrician United States of America 1950-11-19 2012-03-31 Kansas City San Diego Q471047
Mark Gertler American economist United States of America 1951-03-31 United States of America Q524584
Ariel Rubinstein
Israeli economist Israel 1951-04-13 Jerusalem Q659305
Alvin Eliot Roth
professor United States of America 1951-12-18
1951-12-19
New York City Q28542
Barry Eichengreen
American economist United States of America 1952-01-07 United States of America Q809032
Maurice Obstfeld
American economist United States of America 1952-03-19 New York City Q717034
Richard Blundell British economist United Kingdom 1952-05-01 Shoreham-by-Sea Q828656
Lars Peter Hansen
American economist United States of America 1952-10-26 Urbana Q1386049
Jorge Castañeda Gutman
Mexican politician Mexico 1953-05-24
1953
Mexico City Q1399260
Douglas Diamond
American economist and professor of finance United States of America 1953-10-25 Chicago Q185871
Torsten Persson Swedish economist Sweden 1954-04-18 Stockholm Q316031
John Hardman Moore British economist United Kingdom 1954-05-07 Q1700375
Whitney K. Newey American economist United States of America 1954-07-17 United States of America Q1397008
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist United States of America 1954-11-05 Detroit Q319189
Lawrence Summers
American economist, Secretary of the Treasury, college administrator, and U.S. government official United States of America 1954-11-30 New Haven Q317953
Michael Dean Woodford economist United States of America 1955 Chicopee Q381692
Donald Andrews Canadian economist Canada 1955 Vancouver Q1239686
David Card
Canadian economist (1956-) Canada 1956 Guelph Q1173928
Ernst Fehr
Austrian economist Austria
Switzerland
1956-06-21
1956
Hard Q78655
Philippe Aghion
economist France 1956-08-17 Paris Q376364
Alberto Alesina
economist Italy 1957-04-29 2020-05-23 Broni New York City Q1387534
Greg Mankiw
American economist United States of America 1958-02-03 Trenton Q185734
David Romer American economist United States of America 1958-03-13 Q1176380
John Y. Campbell American economist b. 1958 United States of America 1958-05-17 Greater London Q1383155
Christina Romer
economist United States of America 1958-12-25 Alton Q270379
Alan B. Krueger
American economist United States of America 1960-09-17 2019-03-16 Livingston Princeton Q931129
Joshua Angrist
Israeli-American economist United States of America
Israel
1960-09-18 Columbus Q921499
Andrei Shleifer
American economist United States of America 1961-02-20 Moscow Q502557
Abhijit Banerjee
Indian American economist United States of America 1961-02-21 Mumbai Q320578
Matthew Rabin
American economist United States of America 1963-12-27 Q1400143
David Cutler American economist United States of America 1965 Cleveland Q925174
Daron Acemoğlu
Turkish-American economist United States of America
Turkey
1967-09-03 Istanbul Q718581
John A. List
American economist United States of America 1968-09-25 Madison Q1700860
Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo
Zambian-born economist Zambia 1969-02-02 Lusaka Q466993
Susan Athey
American economist United States of America 1970-11-29 Boston Q468053
Emmanuel Saez
French economist France 1972-11-26 Spain Q984436
Sendhil Mullainathan
Indian economist India 1973 Tamil Nadu Q655590


egyptologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Gaston Maspero
French Egyptologist (1846–1916) France
Kingdom of Italy
1846-06-24 1916-06-30 former 1st arrondissement of Paris Paris Q311816
George Andrew Reisner
American egyptologist (1867-1942) United States of America 1867-11-05
1867
1942-06-06
1942
Indianapolis Giza Q502932


electrical engineer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Bern Dibner American engineer United States of America 1897-08-18 1988-01-06 Lysianka Fairfield County Q822095
John Roy Whinnery American electrical engineer United States of America 1916-07-26 2009-02-01 Walnut Creek Q482345


engineer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Marc Isambard Brunel
French engineer France
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1769-04-25 1849-12-12 Hacqueville London Q445306
Benoît Fourneyron
French engineer (1802-1867) France 1802-10-31 1867-07-31 Saint-Étienne Paris Q818117
Henry Bessemer
British engineer (1813-1898) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1813-01-19 1898-03-15 Charlton London Q310201
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
Swiss-American zoologist and engineer (1835-1910) United States of America
Switzerland
1835-12-17 1910-03-27 Neuchâtel RMS Adriatic Q122968
Aurel Stodola
Slovak scientist Austrian Empire
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Slovak Republic
1859-05-10 1942-12-25 Liptovský Mikuláš Zürich Q666875
Albert Sauveur
Belgian physicist (1863-1939) United States of America 1863-06-21 1939-01-26 Leuven Boston Q322730
Reinhold Rudenberg German engineer (1883-1961) Germany 1883-02-04 1961-12-25 Hanover Boston Q75951
Hardy Cross American engineer United States of America 1885-02-10 1959-02-11 Virginia Q380079
Vladimir K. Zworykin
Russian-American engineer (1888–1982) Russian Empire
Russian Republic
Siberian Republic
Russian State
United States of America
1888-07-17 1982-07-29 Murom
United States of America
Princeton Q296545
Julius Adams Stratton American electrical engineer and university administrator (1901-1994) United States of America 1901-05-18 1994-06-22 Seattle Boston Q49620
Nicholas J. Hoff American aeronautical engineer United States of America
Hungary
1906-01-03 1997-08-04 Magyaróvár Stanford Q1037294
Avery Fisher American audio specialist (1906-1994) United States of America 1906-03-04 1994-02-26 New York City New York City Q337050
John R. Pierce
American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author United States of America 1910-03-27 2002-04-02 Des Moines Sunnyvale Q1340677
Warner T. Koiter
Dutch mechanical engineer and Professor of Applied Mechanics (1914-1997) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1914-06-16 1997-09-02 Amsterdam Delft Q1339164
Amos E. Joel, Jr. American electrical engineer United States of America 1918-03-12 2008-10-25 Philadelphia Maplewood Q441794
Jay Wright Forrester American operations researcher United States of America 1918-07-14 2016-11-16 Anselmo Concord Q92763
Donald Pederson American professor of electrical engineering United States of America 1925-09-30 2004-12-25 Hallock Concord Q482318
John Ffowcs Williams British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics (1935-2020) United Kingdom
Wales
1935-05-25 2020-12-12 Wales Bodelwyddan Q1700056
Donald Norman
American academic United States of America 1935-12-25 Q92804
Shmuel Winograd Israeli computer scientist (1936-2019) United States of America
Israel
1936-01-04 2019-03-25 Tel Aviv Q93070
Sheila Widnall
American aerospace researcher and educator United States of America 1938-07-13 Tacoma Q55175
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Serbian American biomedical engineer Serbia 1948 Belgrade Q54394
Patricia Selinger
American computer scientist and IBM Fellow United States of America 1949-10-15 Q51708
Naomi J. Halas American chemist and electrical engineer United States of America 1957 Q56097
Ursula Burns
American businessperson United States of America 1958-09-20 Manhattan Q465663
Anant Agarwal
Indian computer architecture researcher United States of America 1959
1958
Delhi Q92736
Lisa P. Jackson
American politician: EPA administrator United States of America 1962-02-08 Philadelphia Q445734


entomologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Hermann August Hagen
German entomologist (1817-1893) Kingdom of Prussia
United States of America
1817-05-30 1893-11-09 Königsberg Cambridge Q73531
Karl Jordan
German entomologist (1861-1959) United Kingdom
Germany
Kingdom of Prussia
1861-12-07 1959-01-12 Almstedt Tring Q65882
William Morton Wheeler
U.S. entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor (1865–1937) United States of America 1865-03-19 1937-04-19 Milwaukee Cambridge Q1352575
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021) United States of America 1929-06-10 2021-12-26 Birmingham New Brunswick Q211029
Richard Southwood Zoologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1931–2005) United Kingdom 1931-06-20 2005-10-26 Northfleet Q446313
Bert Hölldobler
German biologist Germany 1936-06-25 Andechs Q63754


entrepreneur

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Alfred P. Sloan
American businessman (1875–1966) United States of America 1875-05-23 1966-02-17 New Haven Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Q344045
Charles Francis Adams IV industrialist (1910-1999) United States of America 1910-05-02 1999-01-05 Boston Dover Q1064409
David Packard
American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist United States of America 1912-09-07 1996-03-26 Pueblo Stanford Q380484
William Redington Hewlett
American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard United States of America 1913-05-20 2001-01-12 Ann Arbor Palo Alto Q380467
John Kluge
German-American businessman United States of America
Germany
1914-09-21 2010-09-07 Chemnitz Charlottesville Q179382
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023) United States of America 1929-01-03 2023-03-24 San Francisco Waimea Q243969
Hansjörg Wyss
Swiss businessman and Democratic megadonor Switzerland 1935-09-19 Bern Q1000803
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Businessperson Portugal
United States of America
1938-10-05 Maputo Q288503
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Indian businessman India
British Raj
1946-08-20 Mysore Q1398708
Howard Schultz
American businessman United States of America 1953-07-19 Brooklyn Q472330
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011) United States of America 1955-02-24 2011-10-05 San Francisco Palo Alto Q19837
Nandan Nilekani
Indian businessman India 1955-06-02 Vanivilas Women and Children Hospital Q1391255
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955) United States of America 1955-10-28 Seattle Q5284
Reid Hoffman
American Co-founder of Linkedin, venture capitalist and author United States of America 1967-08-05 Stanford Q211098
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur United States of America 1973-03-26 East Lansing Q4934


epigrapher

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Adolf Kirchhoff
German classical philologist and epigrapher (1826–1908) Kingdom of Prussia 1826-01-06 1908-02-27 Berlin Berlin Q77629
Louis Robert French epigrapher (1904-1985) France 1904-02-15 1985-05-31 Laurière 14th arrondissement of Paris Q711820


essayist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Fredric Jameson
American academic and literary critic (1934–2024) United States of America 1934-04-14 2024-09-22 Cleveland Durham Q347362
Kay Redfield Jamison
American bipolar disorder researcher United States of America 1946-06-22 Q265762


evolutionary biologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1887-06-22 1975-02-14 London London Q243419
Theodosius Dobzhansky
geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900-1975) Russian Empire
Soviet Union
United States of America
1900-01-25 1975-12-18
1975-01-18
Nemyriv San Jacinto Q246731
W. D. Hamilton British evolutionary biologist (1936–2000) United Kingdom 1936-08-01 2000-03-07 Cairo Middlesex Hospital
London
Q15451
Stephen Jay Gould American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002) United States of America 1941-09-10 2002-05-20 Queens New York City Q180619


explorer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Fitzwilliam Owen
British Royal Navy admiral (1774-1857) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1774-09-17 1857-11-03 Manchester Saint John Q532901
Carl Ritter
German geographer (1779-1859) Kingdom of Prussia 1779-08-07 1859-09-28 Quedlinburg Berlin Q29297
Karl Ernst von Baer
Baltic-German scientist (1792-1876) Russian Empire 1792-02-17 1876-11-16 Piibe Tartu Q57190
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
German botanist (1794-1868) Kingdom of Bavaria 1794-04-17 1868-12-13 Erlangen Munich Q77131
Charles Wilkes
naval officer and explorer from the United States (1798-1877) United States of America 1798-04-03 1877-02-08 New York City Washington Q119329
William H. Emory
Union Army general (1811-1887) United States of America 1811-09-07 1887-12-01 Queen Anne's County Washington, D.C. Q780105
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901) Sweden
Grand Principality of Finland
1832-11-18 1901-08-12 Helsinki Dalbyö gård Q156749
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902) United States of America 1834-03-24 1902-09-23 Mount Morris North Haven Q348325
William Healey Dall
American malacologist, palaeontologist and scientific explorers (1845 – 1927) United States of America 1845-08-21 1927-03-27 Boston Washington, D.C. Q777148
Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943) Hungary
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1862-11-26 1943-10-26 Pest Kabul Q313061
Isaiah Bowman American geographer United States of America 1878-12-26 1950-01-06 Waterloo Baltimore Q650594
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962) Canada
United States of America
1879-11-03 1962-08-26 Gimli Hanover Q712715
Langdon Warner
American explorer United States of America 1881 1955-06-09 Cambridge Cambridge Q785847
Howard Barraclough Fell New Zealand zoologist (1917–1994) United Kingdom
United States of America
New Zealand
1917-06-06 1994-04-21 Lewes San Diego Q809031


film actor

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Laurence Olivier
English actor and director (1907–1989) United Kingdom 1907-05-22 1989-07-11 Dorking West Sussex Q55245
Judi Dench
English actress (born 1934) United Kingdom 1934-12-09 York Q28054
Dustin Hoffman
American actor (born 1937) United States of America 1937-08-08 Los Angeles Q42930
Sherry Lansing
American film studio executive and actress United States of America 1944-07-31 Chicago Q299704
Glenn Close
American actress United States of America 1947-03-19 Greenwich Q372311
Meryl Streep
American actress United States of America 1949-06-22 Summit Q873
Tom Hanks
American actor and film producer (born 1956) United States of America
Greece
1956-07-09 Concord Q2263


film director

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Danish film director (1889–1968) Kingdom of Denmark 1889-02-03 1968-03-20 Copenhagen Copenhagen Q51127
Jean Renoir
French film director and screenwriter (1894–1979) France 1894-09-15 1979-02-12 18th arrondissement of Paris Beverly Hills Q50713
Luis Buñuel
Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983) Spain
Mexico
1900-02-22 1983-07-29 Calanda Mexico City Q51545
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998) Japan
Empire of Japan
1910-03-23 1998-09-06 Shinagawa-ku Setagaya-ku Q8006
Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007) Sweden 1918-07-14 2007-07-30 Uppsala Cathedral Assembly Fårö parish Q7546
Federico Fellini
Italian filmmaker (1920–1993) Italy 1920-01-20 1993-10-31 Rimini Rome Q7371
Robert Altman
American filmmaker (1925–2006) United States of America 1925-02-20 2006-11-20 Kansas City Los Angeles Q55163
Marcel Ophuls German-born French documentary film maker (b. 1927) France
United States of America
1927-11-01 Frankfurt Q711420
Mike Nichols
American director and comedian (1931–2014) United States of America 1931-11-06 2014-11-19 Berlin New York City Q51537
Miloš Forman
Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018) United States of America
Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
1932-02-18 2018-04-13 Čáslav Danbury Q51525
Woody Allen
American film director, actor and comedian United States of America 1935-11-30 The Bronx Q25089
Martin Scorsese
American film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor United States of America
Italy
1942-11-17 Queens Q41148
Mike Leigh
English writer and director (born 1943) United Kingdom 1943-02-20 Brocket Hall Q315756
Robert De Niro
American actor, director and producer (born 1943) United States of America
Italy
1943-08-17 New York City Q36949
Pedro Almodóvar
Spanish filmmaker (born 1949) Spain 1949-09-25 Calzada de Calatrava Q55171
Ken Burns
American documentarian and filmmaker (born 1953) United States of America 1953-07-29 Brooklyn Q616886
Ang Lee
Taiwanese director, screenwriter and film producer Taiwan 1954-10-23 Chaozhou Q160726
Denzel Washington
American actor, director and producer (born 1954) United States of America 1954-12-28 Mount Vernon Q42101
William Kentridge
South African artist South Africa 1955-04-28 Johannesburg Q666092
John Lasseter
American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer United States of America 1957-01-12 Hollywood Q269214
Spike Lee
American filmmaker (born 1957) United States of America 1957-03-20 Atlanta Q51566
Wong Kar-wai
Chinese screenwriter, film producer and film director Hong Kong 1958-07-17 Shanghai Q55431


film producer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Clint Eastwood
American actor and film director (born 1930) United States of America 1930-05-31 San Francisco Q43203
Al Pacino
American actor (born 1940) United States of America 1940-04-25 Manhattan Q41163
George Lucas
American filmmaker (born 1944) United States of America 1944-05-14 Modesto Q38222
Kathleen Kennedy
American film producer United States of America 1953-06-05 Berkeley Q237207


flight engineer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Charles Stark Draper
American engineer (1901–1987) United States of America 1901-10-02 1987-07-25 Windsor Cambridge Q41378
Frank Whittle
British Royal Air Force engineer air officer United Kingdom 1907-06-01 1996-08-09 Coventry Columbia Q312547
Anatol Roshko Canadian-born American physicist and engineer United States of America 1923-07-15 2017-01-23 Bellevue Altadena Q487456


geneticist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Alfred Kühn German zoologist and geneticist (1885-1968) Germany
West Germany
1885-04-22 1968-11-22 Baden-Baden Tübingen Q120183
Clarence Cook Little
American geneticist United States of America 1888-10-06 1971-12-22 Brookline Ellsworth Q1022437
Milislav Demerec Croatian-American geneticist and botanist (1895-1966) United States of America 1895-01-11 1966-04-12 Hrvatska Kostajnica Q1709900
George Beadle American geneticist United States of America 1903-10-22 1989-06-09 Wahoo Pomona Q238739
Max Delbrück
biophysicist Germany
United States of America
1906-09-04 1981-03-09 Berlin Pasadena Q76807
James F. Crow American geneticist (1916-2012) United States of America 1916-01-18 2012-01-04 Phoenixville Madison Q669181
Victor A. McKusick
American internist and medical geneticist (1921-2008) United States of America 1921-10-21 2008-07-22 Parkman Towson Q926001
Alfred G. Knudson
American geneticist United States of America 1922-08-09 2016-07-10 Los Angeles Philadelphia Q376149
Charles Yanofsky American geneticist United States of America 1925-04-17 2018-03-16 New York City Q532199
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010) United States of America 1927-04-10 2010-01-15 Brooklyn Manhattan Q110060
Susumu Ohno Japanese geneticist Japan
United States of America
1928-02-01 2000-01-13 Seoul Q711986
Walter J. Gehring
Swiss scientist (1939-2014) Switzerland 1939-03-20 2014-05-29 Zürich Basel Q118909
Lee Hartwell American biologist United States of America 1939-10-30 Los Angeles Q295869
Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist United States of America 1940-04-18 Kingstree Q271424
Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate United States of America 1941-04-13 Brooklyn Q295684
Suzanne Cory Australian molecular biologist Australia 1942-03-11 Melbourne Q1231087
Maynard V. Olson
American scientist United States of America 1943-10-02 Washington, D.C. Q92732
Phillip Sharp
American biologist United States of America 1944-06-06 Falmouth Q312977
Regine Kahmann German geneticist Germany 1948-10-20 Staßfurt Q1333312
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health United States of America 1950-04-14 Staunton Q336658
Gary Ruvkun American geneticist United States of America 1952-03-26 Berkeley Q504021
Victor Ambros
American developmental biologist United States of America 1953-12-01 Hanover Q983858


geographer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Friedrich von Schubert
Russian general and military cartographer Russian Empire
Russia
1789-02-12 1865-11-15 Saint Petersburg Stuttgart Q49491
Raoul Blanchard French geographer France 1877-09-04 1965-03-24 Orléans 16th arrondissement of Paris Q524074
Torsten Hägerstrand
Swedish geographer, inventor of time geography Sweden 1916-10-11 2004-05-04 Alvesta Municipality Lund Q335879


geologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859) Kingdom of Prussia 1769-09-14 1859-05-06 Berlin Berlin Q6694
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann
German geologist (1797-1873) Kingdom of Saxony 1797-05-30 1873-11-26 Dresden Dresden Q66491
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797–1875) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1797-11-14 1875-02-11
1875-02-22
Angus London Q5333
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873) Switzerland
United States of America
1807-05-28 1873-12-14 Môtiers Cambridge Q122972
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1809-02-12 1882-04-19 The Mount Down House Q1035
James Dwight Dana
American mineralogist , scientist and zoologist (1813-1895) United States of America 1813-02-12 1895-04-14 Utica New Haven Q315366
Ferdinand von Richthofen
German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905) Kingdom of Prussia 1833-05-05 1905-10-06 Pokój Berlin Q76791
Raphael Pumpelly
American geologist United States of America 1837-09-08 1923-08-10 Owego Newport Q377078
John Horne
Scottish geologist United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1848-01-01 1928-05-30 Stirling Q448384
William Morris Davis
American geographer United States of America 1850-02-12 1934-02-05 Philadelphia Pasadena Q315967
Bailey Willis
American geologist United States of America 1857-03-31 1949-02-19 New York Palo Alto Q803824
Charles R. Van Hise
American geologist United States of America 1857-05-29 1918-11-19 Fulton Milwaukee Q1065864
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist and eugenicist (1857–1935) United States of America 1857-08-08 1935-11-06 Fairfield New York City Q312069
Frank Dawson Adams
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, geologist and petrologist, who studied the Monteregian Hills (1859-1942) Canada 1859-09-17 1942-12-26 Montreal Montreal Q1229902
Andrew Lawson
British geologist (1861–1952) United Kingdom
United States of America
1861-07-25 1952-06-16 Anstruther California Q504233
Emmanuel de Margerie
French geographer (1862-1953) France 1862-11-11 1953-12-21 7th arrondissement of Paris 7th arrondissement of Paris Q446071
Reginald Aldworth Daly geologist Canada
United States of America
1871-03-18 1957-09-19 Greater Napanee Cambridge Q1387569
Charles Kenneth Leith
American geologist (1875-1956) United States of America 1875-01-20 1956-09-13 Wisconsin Q1065160
William Walden Rubey American geologist United States of America 1898-12-19 1974-04-12 Moberly Santa Monica Q382364
Philip Henry Kuenen Dutch geologist (1902-1976) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1902-07-22 1976-12-17 Dundee Leiden Q249131
Harry Hammond Hess
American geologist (1906–1969) United States of America 1906-05-24 1969-08-25 New York City Woods Hole Q470792
John Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geologist (1908–1993) Canada 1908-10-24 1993-04-15 Ottawa Toronto Q472056
Luna Leopold
Geomorphologist and hydrologist United States of America 1915-10-08 2006-02-23 Albuquerque California Q1396214
John Imbrie American meteorologist United States of America 1925-07-04 2016-05-13 Penn Yan Providence Q1700557
Wallace Broecker
American geochronologist and oceanographer United States of America 1931-11-29 2019-02-18 Chicago Manhattan Q911079
Susan Kieffer American geologist United States of America 1942-11-17 Warren Q180923


geophysicist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Arthur Holmes
English geologist United Kingdom 1890-01-14 1965-09-20 Gateshead London Q606039
Vladimir Keilis-Borok
Soviet geophysicist Soviet Union
Russia
1921-07-31 2013-10-19 Moscow Culver City Q320835


geopolitical analyst

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Brooks Adams
American political writer (1848-1927) United States of America 1848-06-24 1927-02-13 Quincy Boston Q929695
Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer (1876-1947) United States of America 1876-09-16 1947-10-17 Galesburg New Haven Q1332601
Joseph Nye
American political scientist United States of America 1937-01-19 New Jersey Q210362
Paul Kennedy
British historian United Kingdom 1945-06-17 Wallsend Q712123


guitarist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
B. B. King
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015) United States of America 1925-09-16 2015-05-14 Berclair
Itta Bena
Las Vegas Q188969
Paul McCartney
English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942) United Kingdom 1942-06-18 Walton Hospital Q2599
Robbie Robertson
Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist (1943–2023) Canada 1943-07-05 2023-08-09 Toronto Los Angeles Q117249


historian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
François-Jean de Chastellux
French writer (1734-1788) France 1734-05-05 1788-10-24 Paris Paris Q655181
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Danish-German statesman and historian (1776–1831) Denmark–Norway
Kingdom of Prussia
Kingdom of Denmark
1776-08-27 1831-01-02 Copenhagen Bonn Q60586
Francis Palgrave
British historian United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1788-07 1861-07-06 London London Q1340378
George Ticknor
American academician and Hispanist, 1791-1871 United States of America 1791-08-01 1871-01-26 Boston Boston Q1408091
Leopold von Ranke
German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886) Kingdom of Prussia 1795-12-21
1795-12-20
1886-05-23 Wiehe Berlin Q77184
Charles Merivale
English historian and churchman (1808-1893) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1808-03-08 1893-12-27 London Ely Q321055
Gaston Boissier
French classical scholar, and secretary of the Académie française France 1823-08-15 1908-06-10 Nîmes Viroflay Q607202
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
British historian United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1829-03-04 1902-02-24 New Alresford Sevenoaks Q1770846
Heinrich Brunner
German historian (1840-1915) Austria
German Empire
1840-06-21 1915-08-11 Wels Bad Kissingen Q94701
Charles McLean Andrews
American historian United States of America 1863-02-22 1943-09-09 Wethersfield New Haven Q472498
Tenney Frank
American historian (1876-1939) United States of America 1876-05-19 1939-04-03 Clay Center Oxford Q183521
Elias Avery Lowe Lithuanian-American palaeographer (1879-1969) United States of America 1879-10-15 1969-08-08 Kalvarija
Moscow
Bad Nauheim Q833420
George Sarton
Belgian-American historian of science (1884–1956) United States of America 1884-08-31 1956-03-22 Ghent Cambridge Q1316061
Charles Seymour
President of Yale University United States of America 1885-01-01 1963-08-11 New Haven Chatham Q1066058
Lily Ross Taylor American historian and author (1886–1969) United States of America 1886-08-12 1969-11-18 Auburn Bryn Mawr Q521296
Michael Karpovich historian Russian Empire
Soviet Union
United States of America
1888-08-03 1959-11-07 Tbilisi Cambridge Q1928124
Arnold J. Toynbee
British historian (1889–1975) United Kingdom 1889-04-14 1975-10-22 London York Q185381
Elias Bickermann Russian historian and university teacher (1897-1981) Russian Empire
Weimar Republic
French Third Republic
United States of America
Israel
1897-07-01 1981-08-31 Chișinău Jerusalem Q215962
Denis William Brogan British historian United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1900-08-11 1974-01-05 Glasgow Q1187698
Herbert Butterfield
British historian (1900 – 1979) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1900-10-07 1979-07-20 Oxenhope Sawston Q1350443
Joseph Needham
British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995) United Kingdom 1900-12-09 1995-03-24 London Cambridge Q318054
George Ostrogorsky
Russian Byzantinist (1902-1976) Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
1902-01-19 1976-10-24 Saint Petersburg Belgrade Q311461
Giorgio de Santillana American historian and philosopher Italy
United States of America
Kingdom of Italy
1902-05-30 1974-06-08 Rome Beverly Q186194
Iris Origo
British writer (1902-1988) Ireland
United States of America
1902-08-15 1988-06-28 Gloucestershire Siena Q518613
Fernand Braudel
French historian and leader of the Annales School France 1902-08-24 1985-11-27 Luméville-en-Ornois Cluses Q185105
Mason Hammond American educator and scholar (1903-2002) United States of America 1903-02-14 2002-10-13 Boston Cambridge Q474625
Perry Miller American historian (1905–1963) United States of America 1905-02-25 1963-12-09 Chicago Cambridge Q1219277
John King Fairbank
American sinologist (1907-1991) United States of America 1907-05-24 1991-09-14 Huron Cambridge Q1394780
Robert Roswell Palmer
American historian (1909–2002) United States of America 1909-01-11 2002-06-11 Chicago Newtown Q536852
Arthur Marder American naval historian United States of America 1910-03-08 1980-12-25 Boston Santa Barbara Q710567
John H. Plumb British historian United Kingdom 1911-08-20 2001-10-21 Leicester Cambridge Q1700326
Christopher Hill British historian United Kingdom 1912-02-06 2003-02-23 York Oxfordshire Q719787
I. Bernard Cohen American historian of science United States of America 1914-03-01 2003-06-20 New York City Waltham Q1347036
Owen Chadwick English academic, priest and rugby union player (1916-2015) United Kingdom 1916-05-20 2015-07-17 Bromley Cambridge Q1386232
Bernard Lewis
British-American historian (1916–2018) United Kingdom 1916-05-31 2018-05-19 London Voorhees Township Q501880
Robert Conquest
British historian and poet United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
United States of America
1917-07-15 2015-08-03 Malvern Palo Alto Q379628
William Hardy McNeill
Canadian historian and writer (1917–2016) United States of America 1917-10-31 2016-07-08 Vancouver Torrington Q1765863
Charles Coulston Gillispie American historian United States of America 1918-08-06 2015-10-06 Harrisburg Q1064544
Marie Boas Hall American historian of science (1919 – 2009) United States of America 1919-10-18 2009-02-23 New England
Springfield
Q527805
Irving Howe
American writer, literary and social critic and socialist activist United States of America 1920-06-11 1993-05-05 The Bronx New York City Q728615
Nathan Glazer American sociologist United States of America 1923-02-25 2019-01-19 New York City Cambridge Q930197
Richard Pipes
American historian (1923–2018) United States of America
Poland
1923-07-11 2018-05-17 Cieszyn Cambridge Q449064
J. G. A. Pocock New Zealand historian New Zealand 1924-03-07 2023-12-12 London Baltimore Q1336397
Fritz Stern
American historian Germany
United States of America
1926-02-02 2016-05-18 Wrocław New York City Q66375
Raul Hilberg Austrian-born American political scientist and historian (1926-2007) United States of America 1926-06-02 2007-08-04 Vienna Williston Q213553
François Furet French historian (1927–1997) France 1927-03-27 1997-07-12 7th arrondissement of Paris Toulouse Q318667
Emilio Gabba Italian historian of antiquity (1927-2013) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1927-03-31 2013-08-12 Pavia Pavia Q445281
John E. Murdoch American philosopher of science United States of America 1927-05-10 2010-09-16 Milwaukee Q1699969
Thomas Nipperdey German historian (1927-1992) Germany 1927-10-27 1992-06-14 Cologne Munich Q70462
Natalie Zemon Davis
Canadian-American historian (1928-2023) Canada
United States of America
1928-11-08 2023-10-21 Detroit Toronto Q266185
Charles Tilly American sociologist United States of America 1929-05-27 2008-04-29 Lombard The Bronx Q717635
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
French historian and writer France 1929-07-19 2023-11-22 Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais 14th arrondissement of Paris Q314148
Iván T. Berend Hungarian historian Hungary 1930-12-11 Budapest
United States of America
Q606311
Robert Paxton American political scientist and historian United States of America 1932-06-15 Lexington Q1229212
David McCullough
American historian and author United States of America 1933-07-07 2022-08-07 Pittsburgh Hingham Q374610
Stanley George Payne American historian United States of America 1934-09-09 Denton Q1335382
Jill Ker Conway Australian-American author and academic United States of America
Australia
1934-10-09 2018-06-01 Hillston Boston Q1395966
Zeev Sternhell
Israeli historian (1935-2020) Israel 1935-04-10 2020-06-21 Przemyśl Jerusalem Q184435
Robert Caro
American journalist and author United States of America 1935-10-30 New York City Q373423
Glen Bowersock American historian (born 1936) United States of America 1936-01-12 Providence Q819878
Jonathan Spence British-born historian United States of America 1936-08-11 2021-12-25 Surrey West Haven Q932820
Martin J. Sherwin American historian (1937-2021) United States of America 1937-07-02 2021-10-06 Brooklyn Washington, D.C. Q45811
Donald Worster
American historian United States of America 1941 Q1240502
John Lewis Gaddis
American historian of the Cold War (b.1941) United States of America 1941-04-02 Cotulla Q24070
Joan Wallach Scott
American academic United States of America 1941-12-18 Brooklyn Q291798
Elaine Pagels
American writer United States of America 1943-02-13 Palo Alto Q263099
Bruce Cumings
American East Asian historian, professor, lecturer and author United States of America 1943-09-05 Rochester Q483927
Greil Marcus
American author, music journalist and cultural critic United States of America 1945-06-19 San Francisco Q321153
Daniel Boyarin Contemporary Jewish-American academic United States of America 1946-12-06 Asbury Park Q729145
Drew Gilpin Faust
American historian and board member, director at Goldman Sachs United States of America 1947-09-18 New York City Q49128
Tony Judt British-American historian (1948–2010) United Kingdom 1948-01-02 2010-08-06 London New York City Q312279
Maria Todorova Bulgarian historian Bulgaria
United States of America
1949-01-05 Sofia Q834824
Londa Schiebinger
American historian United States of America 1952-05-13 Lincoln Q538238
Omer Bartov
American historian (1954-) Israel
United States of America
1954-04-17 Ein HaHoresh Q929282
Robert N. Proctor
American historian United States of America 1954-06-25 Corpus Christi Q726044
Mark Mazower British historian United Kingdom 1958-02-20 London Q984165
Annette Gordon-Reed
American historian United States of America 1958-11-19 Livingston Q1247765


historian of Modern Age

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Carl Lotus Becker
American historian United States of America 1873-09-07 1945-04-10 Waterloo Ithaca Q1039506
Hans Baron German-American historian Germany
United States of America
1900-06-22 1988-11-26 Berlin Urbana Q76295
Felix Gilbert
German-american historian (1905-1991) Germany
United States of America
1905-05-21 1991-02-14 Baden-Baden Princeton Q110691
C. Vann Woodward American historian (1908-1999) United States of America 1908-11-13 1999-12-17 Vanndale Hamden Q612410
David M. Potter American historian (1910–1971) United States of America 1910-12-06 1971-02-18 Augusta Palo Alto Q526331
Gordon A. Craig
American historian United States of America
United Kingdom
Germany
1913-11-26 2005-10-30 Glasgow Portola Valley Q316202
George Mosse
American historian United States of America
Germany
1918-09-20 1999-01-22 Berlin Madison Q215636
Karl Dietrich Bracher German historian and political scientist (1922-2016) Germany 1922-03-13 2016-09-19 Stuttgart Bonn Q69799
Gerhard Weinberg American military historian United States of America 1928-01-01 Hanover Q214357
Hans-Ulrich Wehler
German historian (1931-2014) Germany 1931-09-11 2014-07-05 Freudenberg Bielefeld Q66155


historian of classical antiquity

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Philipp August Böckh
German classical scholar and antiquarian (1785-1867) Kingdom of Prussia 1785-11-24 1867-08-03 Karlsruhe Berlin Q63183
Theodor Mommsen
German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903) Kingdom of Prussia
Duchy of Schleswig
1817-11-30 1903-11-01 Garding Charlottenburg Q25351
Arnaldo Momigliano Italian historian of classical antiquity (1908–1987) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1908-09-05 1987-09-01 Caraglio London Q644418


historian of science

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Otto E. Neugebauer Austrian-American mathematician Austria
United States of America
1899-05-26 1990-02-19 Innsbruck Princeton Q111996
A. I. Sabra Egyptian historian of science (1924-2013) Egypt 1924-07-08 2013-12-18 Tanta Lexington Q307891
John L. Heilbron American historian of science United States of America 1934-03-17 2023-11-05 San Francisco Padua Q1700413
Lorraine Daston
American historian of science United States of America 1951-06-09 East Lansing Q529094


historian of technology

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Hermann Diels
German classical scholar (1848–1922) German Empire 1848-05-18 1922-06-04 Biebrich Dahlem Q61889
Abbott Payson Usher American economic historian United States of America 1883 1965 Lynn Salem Q306771


immunologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Emil von Behring
German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin German Empire
Kingdom of Prussia
1854-03-15 1917-03-31 Ławice Marburg Q76425
George Nuttall
American-British bacteriologist (1862–1937) United Kingdom
United States of America
1862-07-05 1937-12-16 San Francisco London Q1387018
George Davis Snell American geneticist United States of America 1903-12-19 1996-06-06 Bradford Bar Harbor Q295666
Niels Kaj Jerne
Danish immunologist Kingdom of Denmark 1911-12-23 1994-10-07 London Castillon-du-Gard Q309876
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss immunologist Switzerland 1944-01-06 Riehen Q116064
Don Craig Wiley American immunologist United States of America 1944-10-21 2001-11 Akron Memphis Q375709
Carl F. Nathan American microbiologist and immunologist United States of America 1946-04-20 New York City Q1037710


inventor

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872) United States of America 1791-04-27 1872-04-02 Charlestown Manhattan Q75698
Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist Kingdom of the Netherlands 1860-05-21 1927-09-29 Semarang Leiden Q189488
John Stone Stone
American electrical engineer United States of America 1869-09-24 1943-05-20 Manakin-Sabot San Diego Q932344
Edwin H. Land
American scientist and inventor United States of America 1909-05-07 1991-03-01 Bridgeport Cambridge Q380134
Calvin Quate American electrical engineer United States of America 1923-12-07 2019-07-06 Baker Menlo Park Q482334
Douglas Engelbart
American engineer and inventor United States of America 1925-01-30 2013-07-02 Portland Atherton Q92614
Paul Baran
American engineer United States of America
Poland
1926-04-29 2011-03-26 Hrodna Palo Alto Q92617
George H. Heilmeier
American engineer and businessman (1936-2014) United States of America 1936-05-22 2014-04-22
2014-04-21
Philadelphia Plano Q182522
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948) United States of America 1948-02-12 Queens Q298341
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
American biomedical engineer United States of America 1948-08-29 Albany Q669597
William Daniel Hillis
American computer scientist United States of America 1956-09-25 Baltimore Q92942


journalist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
François Mignet
French historian and journalist (1796-1884) France 1796-05-08 1884-03-24 Aix-en-Provence rue d'Aumale Q660553
Johann Christian Poggendorff
German physicist Hamburg 1796-12-29 1877-01-24 Hamburg Berlin Q61197
John LaFarge, Jr.
American writer (1880-1963) United States of America 1880-02-13 1963-11-24 Newport New York City Q1700771
Walter Lippmann
American journalist United States of America 1889-09-23 1974-12-14 New York City New York City Q316568
Rebecca West
British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist United Kingdom 1892-12-21 1983-03-15 London London Q236669
Simon Rawidowicz
American philosopher (1897–1957) Germany
United States of America
1896-10-11 1957-07-21 Grajewo Waltham Q96509
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983) France 1905-03-14 1983-10-17 6th arrondissement of Paris 4th arrondissement of Paris Q160640
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Colombian journalist and politician (1906-1990) Colombia 1906-07-03 1990-01-04 Bogotá Bogotá Q12002
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
German journalist Germany 1909-12-02 2002-03-11 Friedrichstein Castle Castle Crottorf Q62443
Barbara W. Tuchman
American historian and author (1912–1989) United States of America 1912-01-30 1989-02-06 New York City Greenwich Q59112
Mary McCarthy
American writer United States of America 1912-06-21 1989-10-25 Seattle New York City Q268147
John Hersey
American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993) United States of America 1914-06-17 1993-03-24 Tianjin Key West Q535812
Walter Cronkite
American broadcast journalist (1916-2009) United States of America 1916-11-04 2009-07-17 St. Joseph New York City Q31073
Herbert Lüthy
historian (1918-2002) Switzerland 1918-01-15 2002-11-16 Basel Basel Q119364
Norman Mailer
American writer (1923–2007) United States of America 1923-01-31 2007-11-10 Long Branch New York City Q180962
John Maddox Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1925-11-27 2009-04-12 Penllergaer London Q1700954
Nayantara Sahgal
Indian writer (born 1927) India 1927-05-10 Prayagraj Q448399
William Kennedy American writer and journalist United States of America 1928-01-16 Albany Q31984
Max Frankel American journalist United States of America
Germany
1930-04-03 Gera Q115367
Jim Lehrer
American writer (1934-2020) United States of America 1934-05-19 2020-01-23 Wichita Washington, D.C. Q931148
Bill Moyers
American journalist United States of America 1934-06-05 Hugo Q605370
Tom Brokaw
American broadcast journalist and author (born 1940) United States of America 1940-02-06 Webster Q919527
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American biographer and historian (born 1943) United States of America 1943-01-04 Brooklyn Q442008
Marjorie Scardino
American business woman United States of America
United Kingdom
1947-01-25 Flagstaff Q534920
Karen Elliott House
American journalist and former executive United States of America 1947-12-07 Matador Q1407715
Jill Abramson
former executive editor of The New York Times United States of America 1954-03-19 New York City Q441164
Amy Goodman
American journalist (1957-) United States of America 1957-04-13 Washington, D.C. Q259317
Christiane Amanpour
English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent United Kingdom 1958-01-12 Ealing Q236939
David Remnick
American journalist, writer and editor (born 1958) United States of America 1958-10-29 Hackensack Q1176307
Daniel Mendelsohn
American writer United States of America 1960-04-16 Long Island Q662119
Michael Lewis
American writer United States of America 1960-10-15 New Orleans Q311654


judge

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Jay
chief justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795 United States of America 1745-12-12 1829-05-17 New York City Westchester County Q310847
Increase Sumner
Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice United States of America 1746-11-27 1799-06-07 Roxbury Boston Q343769
Emory Washburn
American politician; Harvard Law professor (1800-1877) United States of America 1800-02-14 1877-03-18 Leicester Cambridge Q440607
William Howard Taft
president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 United States of America 1857-09-15 1930-03-08 Cincinnati Washington metropolitan area Q35648
James Atkin Baron Atkin of Aberdyfi, judge (1867-1944) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1867-11-28 1944-06-25 Brisbane Aberdyfi Q799090
Mineichirō Adachi
jurist Japan 1870-07-29 1934-12-28 Uzen Province Amsterdam Q346498
Learned Hand
American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge United States of America 1872-01-27 1961-08-18 Albany New York City Q493155
Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
British judge (1873-1952) United Kingdom 1873-02-20 1952-09-05 Q601898
Earl Warren
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 United States of America 1891-03-19 1974-07-09 Los Angeles Washington, D.C. Q311197
Hans Morgenthau American political scientist (1904–1980) Germany 1904-02-17 1980-07-19 Coburg New York City Q77161
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin British judge and jurist (1905-1992) United Kingdom 1905-11-25 1992-08-09 London Borough of Bromley
Chislehurst
Wiltshire
Pewsey
Q1033286
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
American jurist (1907–1998); US Supreme Court justice from 1972 to 1987 United States of America 1907-09-19 1998-08-25 Suffolk Richmond Q252739
Taslim Olawale Elias
Nigerian judge Nigeria 1914-11-11 1991-08-14 Lagos Lagos Q528855
William Rehnquist
chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 United States of America 1924-10-01 2005-09-03 Milwaukee Arlington County Q311562
Shirley M. Hufstedler
American judge and Secretary of Education (1925-2016) United States of America 1925-08-24 2016-03-30 Denver Glendale Q465401
Sandra Day O'Connor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006 United States of America 1930-03-26 2023-12-01 El Paso Phoenix Q11132
Guido Calabresi United States federal judge Italy
United States of America
1932-10-18 Milan Q121995
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020 United States of America 1933-03-15 2020-09-18 Brooklyn Washington, D.C. Q11116
Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016 United States of America 1936-03-11 2016-02-13 Trenton Cibolo Creek Ranch Q11156
Rosalyn Higgins
British barrister, judge and scholar (born 1937) United Kingdom 1937-06-02 London Q273691
Richard Posner
United States federal judge United States of America 1939-01-11 New York City Q533583
Rosalie Abella
Canadian jurist Canada 1946-07-01 Stuttgart Q930026
Eric Holder
United States Attorney General from 2009 to 2015 United States of America 1951-01-21 The Bronx Q312644
Ronny Abraham
French judge and academic France 1951-09-05 Alexandria Q382775
Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2009 United States of America 1954-06-25 The Bronx Q11107
Elena Kagan
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010 United States of America 1960-04-28 New York City Q11105


jurist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863) Electorate of Hesse
Kingdom of Prussia
1785-01-04 1863-09-20 Hanau Berlin Q6701
Francis Lieber
German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher Kingdom of Prussia
United States of America
1798-03-18
1800-03-18
1800
1872-10-02 Berlin New York City Q77906
Francis Wharton
American educationalist (1820-1889) United States of America 1820-03-07 1889-02-21 Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Q1240282
Rudolf Stammler
German jurist, law theorist, philosopher (1856-1938) German Reich 1856-02-19 1938-04-25 Alsfeld Wernigerode Q77651
Léon Duguit
French legal scholar France 1859-02-04 1928-12-18 Libourne Bordeaux Q1195383
Dionisio Anzilotti
Italian jurist/judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1867-1950) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1867-02-20 1950-08-23 Pescia Pescia Q1226953
Friedrich Kessler German American legal scholar (1901-1998) Germany
United States of America
1901-08-25 1998-01-21 Hechingen Berkeley Q119480
Leo Gross American jurist United States of America
Austria
1903-04-06 1990-11-09 Krosno Cambridge Q112909
H. L. A. Hart
English legal philosopher (1907–1992) United Kingdom 1907-07-18 1992-12-19 Harrogate Oxford Q374834
Archibald Cox
American prosecutor United States of America 1912-05-17
1912-05-12
2004-05-29 Plainfield Brooksville Q633113
Louis B. Sohn
Ukrainian and American legal scholar United States of America
Ukraine
1914-03-01 2006-06-07 Lviv Falls Church Q94177
Maurice Duverger
French academic (1917-2014) France 1917-06-05 2014-12-16 Angoulême 5th arrondissement of Paris Q380297
Zelman Cowen
former Governor-General of Australia (1919-2011) Australia 1919-10-07 2011-12-08 Melbourne Toorak Q189186
Elliot Richardson
American lawyer and politician (1920-1999) United States of America 1920-07-20 1999-12-31 Boston Boston Q719808
Arthur Taylor Von Mehren American jurist United States of America 1922-08-10 2006-01-16 Albert Lea Cambridge Q711676
Theodor Meron
Israeli judge and lawyer United States of America 1930-04-28 Kalisz Q718760
Stephen Breyer
US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022 United States of America 1938-08-15 San Francisco Q11124
David Souter
U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1990 to 2009 United States of America 1939-09-17 Melrose Q472547
Martha Fineman American legal scholar, feminist studies scholar United States of America 1943-05-27 Q441514
John Roberts
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005 United States of America 1955-01-27 Buffalo Q11153
Anne-Marie Slaughter
American academic, foreign policy analyst, and public commentator United States of America 1958-09-27 Charlottesville Q465477


landscape architect

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
American landscape architect (1870–1957) United States of America 1870-07-24 1957-12-25 Staten Island Malibu Q538025
Thomas Church
American landscape architect (1902–1978) United States of America 1902-04-27 1978-08-30 Boston Q529978


latinist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
German classical philologist (1806-1876) Kingdom of Prussia 1806-04-06 1876-11-09 Großvargula Leipzig Q64632
Brooks Otis American classical philologist (1908-1977) United States of America 1908-06-10 1977-07-26 Boston Chapel Hill Q929770


lawyer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Adams
president of the United States from 1797 to 1801 United States of America
Kingdom of Great Britain
1735-10-19 1826-07-04 Braintree Quincy Q11806
James Sullivan
Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and governor (1744 – 1808) United States of America 1744-04-22 1808-12-10 Berwick Boston Q607767
John Phillips
American politician (1770-1823) United States of America 1770-11-26 1823-05-29
1823-05-23
Boston Q1701427
Adolphe Thiers
President of the French Republic (1797–1877) France 1797-04-15 1877-09-03 Marseille Saint-Germain-en-Laye Q5738
Benjamin N. Cardozo
United States federal judge (1870-1938) United States of America 1870-05-24 1938-07-09 New York City Port Chester Q817637
Felix Frankfurter
former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1882-1965) United States of America 1882-11-15 1965-02-22 Vienna Washington, D.C. Q1403472
Robert P. Patterson
American federal judge, Undersecretary of War, later Secretary of War (1891-1952) United States of America 1891-02-12 1952-01-22 Glens Falls Newark Q723287
William J. Brennan
U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990 United States of America 1906-04-25 1997-07-24 Newark Washington, D.C. Q717401
Lloyd Cutler American lawyer United States of America 1917-11-10 2005-05-08 New York City Washington, D.C. Q1378897
Robert Badinter
French lawyer, politician and author (1928–2024) France 1928-03-30 2024-02-09 16th arrondissement of Paris 6th arrondissement of Paris Q336046
Ronald Dworkin
American legal philosopher United States of America 1931-12-11 2013-02-14 Providence London Q319803
Charles Fried
American judge (1935–2024) United States of America 1935-04-15 2024-01-23 Prague Cambridge Q1064457
Catharine MacKinnon
American feminist and legal activist United States of America 1946-10-07 Minneapolis Q528159
Ron Kirk
American politician United States of America 1954-06-27 Austin Q1399368
Harold Hongju Koh
American lawyer United States of America 1954-12-08 Boston Q907913
Deval Patrick
Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015 United States of America 1956-07-31 Chicago Q11100
Mitchell Baker
Chairwoman; former CEO United States of America 1957 Oakland Q445250
Michelle Obama
lawyer and former First Lady of the United States United States of America 1964-01-17 Chicago Q13133


lexicographer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843) United States of America 1758-10-16 1843-05-28 West Hartford New Haven Q241676
Ladislav Zgusta Czech linguist United States of America
Czechoslovakia
1924-03-20 2007-04-27 Libochovice Urbana Q1755374


librarian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Justin Winsor
American librarian and historian (1831-1897) United States of America 1831-01-02 1897-10-22 Boston Cambridge Q991742
Herbert Putnam
American librarian and lawyer (1861-1955) United States of America 1861-09-20 1955-08-14 New York City Woods Hole Q924790
Eugène Tisserant
French cardinal (1884–1972) France 1884-03-24
1884-03-04
1972-02-21 Nancy Albano Laziale
Rome
Q648584
Archibald MacLeish
American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982) United States of America 1892-05-07 1982-04-20 Glencoe Boston Q633354


linguist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835) Kingdom of Prussia 1767-06-22 1835-04-08 Kabinetthaus Berlin Q77888
Immanuel Bekker
German classical scholar and philologist (1785-1871) Kingdom of Prussia 1785-05-21 1871-06-07 Berlin Berlin Q77606
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
German jurist (1787-1867) Grand Duchy of Baden 1787-08-05 1867-08-28 Munich Heidelberg Q73096
Franz Bopp
German linguist (1791-1861) Kingdom of Prussia 1791-09-14 1867-10-23 Mainz Berlin Q76934
Edward Robinson
American Biblical scholar (1794-1863) United States of America 1794-04-10 1863-01-27 Southington New York City Q629131
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
British politician (1810-1895) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1810-04-05 1895-03-05 Chadlington London Q309602
Benjamin Jowett
British cleric and classics scholar (1817–1893) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1817-04-15 1893-10-01 Camberwell Oxford Q817565
Georg Curtius
German classical scholar and philologist (1820-1885) Lübeck 1820-04-16 1885-08-12 Lübeck Helmsdorf Q72861
Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900) Anhalt-Dessau
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1823-12-06 1900-10-28 Dessau
Dessau-Roßlau
Oxford Q60074
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
American classical philologist United States of America 1831-10-23 1924-01-09 Charleston Baltimore Q810037
Maurice Bloomfield
American classical philologist United States of America 1855-02-23 1928-06-12 Bielsko San Francisco Q114496
Herbert Weir Smyth
American classical scholar (1857–1937) United States of America 1857-08-08 1937-07-16 Wilmington Bar Harbor Q471925
Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist and indologist (1863–1935) France 1863-03-28 1935-10-30 Paris Paris Q725444
Gilbert Murray
Anglo-Australian scholar (1866-1957) Australia 1866-01-02 1957-05-20 Sydney Oxford Q538478
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist (1866-1956) Germany 1866-05-02 1956-03-09 Berlin Vienna Q64431
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish philologist (1869-1968) Spain 1869-03-13 1968-11-14 A Coruña Madrid Q381953
Alan Gardiner English egyptologist and philologist (1879–1963) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1879-03-29 1963-12-19 Eltham Oxford Q441060
Archer Taylor American folklorist (1890–1973) United States of America 1890-08-01 1973-09-30 Philadelphia Vallejo Q632714
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Japanese writer Japan
Empire of Japan
1894-01-20 1982-06-05 Niigata Prefecture Niigata Prefecture Q908585
Roman Jakobson
Russian-American linguist, philosopher and semiotician Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
United States of America
1896-09-29 1982-07-18 Moscow Cambridge
Boston
Q156201
George Sherman Lane American linguist United States of America 1902-09-28 1981-09-18 Chapel Hill Q1389744
Jan Gonda Dutch Indologist Kingdom of the Netherlands 1905-04-14 1991-07-28 Gouda Utrecht Q1022375
Wolf Leslau
Polish-Jewish, American linguist United States of America
Poland
1906-11-14 2006-11-18 Krzepice Fullerton Q215775
Dmitry Likhachov
Russian scholar (1906-1999) Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
Russia
1906-11-15
1906-11-28
1999-09-30 Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Q712412
Zellig S. Harris populariser of theoretical linguistics United States of America 1909-10-23 1992-05-22 Balta New York City Q189047
Mary Haas American linguist; studied historical linguistics United States of America 1910-01-12
1910
1996-05-17 Richmond Alameda Q445239
Yakov Malkiel American linguist, etymologist and philologist United States of America 1914-07-22 1998-04-24 Kyiv Berkeley Q215794
Igor M. Diakonoff Russian historian and linguist (1915-1999) Soviet Union
Russia
1914-12-30 1999-05-02 Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Q447180
Randolph Quirk British linguist (1920-2017) United Kingdom 1920-07-12 2017-12-20 Michael London Q337043
Charles A. Ferguson American linguist United States of America 1921-07-06 1998-09-02 Philadelphia Palo Alto Q45428
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922-2019) United States of America
Japan
1922-06-18 2019-02-24 New York City Tokyo Q1240040
Morris Halle
Latvian-American linguist Latvia
United States of America
1923-07-29 2018-04-02 Liepāja Cambridge Q520186
Peter Ladefoged
British phonetician United Kingdom 1925-09-17 2006-01-24 London Borough of Sutton London Q337920
Wolfgang Iser German philologist Germany 1926-07-22 2007-01-24 Marienberg Constance Q60486
Robert Bly
American poet, author, and activist (1926–2021) United States of America 1926-12-23 2021-11-21 Lac qui Parle County Minneapolis Q472507
Lore Segal Novelist, translator, teacher, children's author United States of America 1928-03-09
1928-03-08
2024-10-07 Vienna Manhattan Q215436
Charles J. Fillmore American linguist (1929-2014) United States of America 1929-08-09 2014-02-13 Saint Paul San Francisco Q1065000
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet linguist (1929-2017) Soviet Union
Russia
1929-08-21 2017-10-07 Moscow Los Angeles Q794031
Walter Burkert German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015) Germany 1931-02-02 2015-03-11 Neuendettelsau Uster Q61888
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940) South Africa
Australia
1940-02-09 Cape Town Q43293
David R. Knechtges
American sinologist (born 1942) United States of America 1942-10-23 Great Falls Q1176232
Michael Witzel
German-American philologist (born 1943) Germany 1943-07-18 Świebodzin Q78324
Ray Jackendoff
American linguist and philosophy professor United States of America 1945-01-23 Q1392229
Deborah Tannen
American sociolinguist United States of America 1945-06-07 Brooklyn Q448496
Joan W. Bresnan American linguist United States of America 1945-08-22 Q527720
Mark Aronoff Canadian-American linguist Canada
United States of America
1949-01-09 Montreal Q337452
Ivan Sag American academic linguist United States of America 1949-11-09 2013-09-10 Alliance Menlo Park Q337457


literary critic

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Georg Brandes
Danish literature critic and scholar Kingdom of Denmark 1842-02-04 1927-02-19 Copenhagen Copenhagen Q316045
Van Wyck Brooks
American literary critic, biographer and historian United States of America 1886-02-16 1963-05-02 Plainfield Bridgewater Q647006
Paul Bénichou French writer France 1908-09-19 2001-05-14 Tlemcen Paris Q1320604
Charles S. Singleton American scholar United States of America 1909-04-21 1985-10-10 McLoud Carroll County Q642817


literary historian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Sidney Lee
English biographer and critic (1859–1926) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1859-12-05 1926-03-03 Bloomsbury London Q179854
Alfred Harbage Scholar and author (1901-1976) United States of America 1901-07-18 1976-05-02 Philadelphia Philadelphia Q1243441
Harold Bloom
American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930-2019) United States of America 1930-07-11 2019-10-14 New York City New Haven Q345612
Stephen Greenblatt
American literary critic, theorist and scholar United States of America 1943-11-07 Boston Q639065
Emma Donoghue
Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian Canada
Ireland
1969-10-24 Dublin Q52255


lyricist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Heinrich Böll
German writer (1917–1985) Germany 1917-12-21 1985-07-16 Cologne Langenbroich Q42747
Günter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015) Free City of Danzig
Germany
1927-10-16 2015-04-13 Free City of Danzig
Gdańsk
Lübeck Q6538


mathematician

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783) Old Swiss Confederacy
Russian Empire
Kingdom of Prussia
1707-04-15 1783-09-18
1783-09-07
1783
Basel Saint Petersburg Q7604
Charles Hutton
English mathematician United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1737-08-14 1823-01-27 Newcastle upon Tyne London Q726736
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749-1827) France 1749-03-23 1827-03-05 Beaumont-en-Auge Paris Q44481
Nicolas Fuss
Russian-Swiss mathematician (1755–1826) Switzerland
Russian Empire
1755-01-30 1826-01-04 Basel Saint Petersburg Q115664
Johann Karl Burckhardt
French astronomer and mathematician France 1773-04-30 1825-06-22 Leipzig Paris Q65223
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862) France 1774-04-21 1862-02-03 Paris Paris Q58328
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855) Confederation of the Rhine
Kingdom of Hanover
1777-04-30 1855-02-23 Brunswick Göttingen Q6722
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857) France 1789-08-21 1857-05-23 Paris Sceaux Q8814
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer (1791-1871) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1791-12-26 1871-10-18 Walworth Marylebone Q46633
Michel Chasles
French mathematician (*1793 – †1880) France 1793-11-15
1793
1880-12-18
1880
Épernon Paris Q318067
Peter Andreas Hansen
German astronomer (1795-1874) Duchy of Schleswig 1795-12-08 1874-03-28 Tønder Gotha Q61749
George Biddell Airy
English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801-07-27 1892-01-02 Alnwick Greenwich Q20018
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
German mathematician Kingdom of Prussia 1804-12-10 1851-02-18 Potsdam Berlin Q76564
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1805-08-04 1865-09-02 Dublin Dublin Q11887
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882) France 1809-03-24 1882-09-08 Saint-Omer rue de Savoie
Paris
Q214549
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician (1809-1880) United States of America 1809-04-04 1880-10-06 Salem Cambridge Q467611
Elias Loomis
American science writer (1811–1889) United States of America 1811-08-07 1889-08-15 Willington New Haven Q917310
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician (1814-1897) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1814-09-03 1897-03-15 London London Q310781
Karl Weierstraß
German mathematician (1815-1897) Kingdom of Prussia 1815-10-31 1897-02-19 Ostenfelde Berlin Q57103
John Couch Adams
English mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1819-06-05 1892-01-21 Laneast Cambridge Q20015
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903) Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1819-08-13 1903-02-01 Skreen Cambridge Q155907
Arthur Cayley
English mathematician (1821-1895) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1821-08-16 1895-01-26 Richmond Cambridge Q159430
Chauncey Wright
American philosopher and mathematician United States of America 1830-09-10 1875-09-12 Northampton Cambridge Q726365
Maurice Lévy
French engineer (1838–1910) France 1838-02-28 1910-09-30 Ribeauvillé Paris Q1353064
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903) United States of America 1839-02-11 1903-04-28 New Haven New Haven Q153243
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914) United States of America 1839-09-10 1914-04-19 Cambridge Milford Q187520
Felix Klein
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925) Kingdom of Prussia
German Empire
Weimar Republic
1849-04-25 1925-06-22 Düsseldorf Göttingen Q76641
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (*1850 – †1925) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1850-05-18 1925-02-03 London
Camden Town
Torquay
Mount Stuart Hospital
Q154345
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936) United Kingdom 1857-03-27 1936-04-27 London Coldharbour Q310794
Joseph Larmor
Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1857-07-11 1942-05-19 Belfast Holywood Q536500
Florian Cajori
American mathematician United States of America
Switzerland
1859-02-28 1930-08-15
1930-08-14
Scharans Berkeley Q122323
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938) Austrian Empire
German Reich
1859-04-08 1938-04-27 Prostějov Freiburg im Breisgau Q58586
Frank Morley
British mathematician United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1860-09-09 1937-10-17 Woodbridge Baltimore Q1384903
Arthur E. Kennelly
American electrical engineer United States of America 1861-12-17 1939-06-18 Colaba Boston Q608945
William Fogg Osgood
American mathematician (1864-1943) United States of America 1864-03-10 1943-07-22 Boston Belmont Q724220
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
mathematician, electrical engineer (*1865 – †1923) Germany
United States of America
1865-04-09 1923-10-26 Wrocław Schenectady Q60677
Ernest William Brown
English-American astronomer and mathematician United Kingdom
United States of America
1866-11-29 1938-07-22
1938-07-23
Kingston upon Hull New Haven Q465729
Maxime Bôcher
American mathematician United States of America 1867-08-28 1918-09-12 Boston Cambridge Q339406
Charles L. Bouton
American mathematician United States of America 1869-04-25 1922-02-20 St. Louis Cambridge Q1065329
Julian Coolidge
American mathematician and professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department (1873-1954) United States of America 1873-09-28
1873-09-18
1954-03-05 Brookline Cambridge Q1711970
Edward Vermilye Huntington
American mathematician (1874-1952) United States of America 1874-04-26 1952-11-25 Clinton Cambridge Q535672
Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician United States of America 1876-05-09 1951-05-08 Chicago Harvey Q441539
G.H. Hardy
British mathematician (1877–1947) United Kingdom 1877-02-07 1947-12-01 Cranleigh Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital Q184337
Edwin Bidwell Wilson American mathematician (1879-1964) United States of America 1879-04-25 1964-12-28 Hartford Brookline Q912906
Oswald Veblen
American mathematician United States of America 1880-06-24 1960-08-10 Decorah Brooklin Q536558
Wacław Sierpiński
Polish mathematician Poland 1882-03-14 1969-10-21 Warsaw Warsaw Q297206
Hermann Weyl
German mathematician German Empire
Weimar Republic
United States of America
Switzerland
Germany
1885-11-09
1885
1955-12-08 Elmshorn Zürich Q71029
George Pólya
Hungarian mathematician Hungary
United States of America
1887-12-13 1985-09-08 Budapest Palo Alto Q296259
Jacob Tamarkin Russian-American mathematician Russian Empire
Soviet Union
United States of America
1888-07-11 1945-11-18 Chernihiv Bethesda Q372097
William Caspar Graustein
American mathematician United States of America 1888-11-15 1941-01-22 Cambridge Cambridge Q1229319
Harold Jeffreys British geophysicist and statistician United Kingdom 1891-04-22 1989-03-18 Fatfield Cambridge Q379999
Marston Morse
American mathematician United States of America 1892-03-24 1977-06-22 Waterville Princeton Q723627
Harald Cramér
Swedish mathematician Sweden 1893-09-25 1985-10-05 Hedvig Eleonora parish Oscar Parish Q471777
Einar Hille
American mathematician United States of America 1894-06-28 1980-02-12 New York City La Jolla Q930705
Dirk Jan Struik
Dutch mathematician (*1894 – †2000) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1894-09-30 2000-10-21 Rotterdam Belmont Q932815
Heinz Hopf
German mathematician (1894–1971) Germany
Switzerland
1894-11-19 1971-06-03 Wrocław Zollikon Q78448
Gábor Szegő
Hungarian mathematician Hungary 1895-01-20 1985-08-07 Kunhegyes Palo Alto Q215974
Joseph Leonard Walsh
American mathematician (1895-1973) United States of America 1895-09-21 1973-12-06 Washington, D.C. College Park Q1336492
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist and mathematician (1896-1950) United Kingdom 1896-02-14 1950-09-21 Kingston upon Hull Dublin Q441192
Carl Ludwig Siegel
German mathematician (1896-1981) German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Germany
1896-12-31 1981-04-04 Berlin
United States of America
Göttingen Q61721
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician (1897–1965) United States of America 1897-07-03 1965-10-07 New York City New York City Q315404
Emil Artin
Austrian mathematician (1898–1962) Austria-Hungary
United States of America
Austria
1898-03-03 1962-12-20 Vienna Hamburg Q57283
Raphaël Salem French mathematician of Greek origin (1898-1963) France 1898-11-07 1963-06-20 Thessaloniki Paris Q1398969
Oscar Zariski
American mathematician United States of America
Russian Empire
1899-04-24 1986-07-04 Kobryn Brookline Q381307
Alfred Tarski
Polish-American logician (1901-1983) Congress Poland
Poland
United States of America
1901-01-14 1983-10-26 Warsaw Berkeley Q207534
Richard Brauer
mathematician (1901-1977) Germany
United States of America
1901-02-10 1977-04-17 Charlottenburg Belmont Q65201
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
German-American mathematician (1901–1982) Germany
United States of America
1901-09-28 1982-12-31 Kiel New Rochelle Q72978
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984) United Kingdom 1902-08-08 1984-10-20 Bristol Tallahassee Q47480
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995) Hungary
United States of America
1902-11-17 1995-01-01 Budapest Princeton Q155790
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
1903-04-25
1903-04-12
1987-10-20 Tambov Moscow Q153224
William Prager American applied mathematician (1903-1980) Germany
United States of America
1903-05-23 1980-03-16 Karlsruhe Zürich Q77938
Alonzo Church American mathematician and logician (1903–1995) United States of America 1903-06-14 1995-08-11 Washington, D.C. Hudson Q92741
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957) Hungary
United States of America
1903-12-28 1957-02-08 Budapest Walter Reed Army Medical Center Q17455
Witold Hurewicz Polish mathematician Poland
United States of America
1904-06-29 1956-09-06 Łódź Mérida Q1930684
Hans Lewy
German born American mathematician (1904–1988) Germany
United States of America
1904-10-20 1988-08-23 Wrocław Berkeley Q68505
Carl Gustav Hempel German philosopher Germany
United States of America
1905-01-08 1997-11-09 Oranienburg Princeton
Princeton Township
Q61885
Abraham Adrian Albert American mathematician (1905-1972) United States of America 1905-11-09 1972-06-06 Chicago Chicago Q323442
Albert W. Tucker
Canadian mathematician Canada
United States of America
1905-11-28 1995-01-25 Oshawa Hightstown Q777234
Hendrik Wade Bode American Controls and Communications pioneer (1905-1982) United States of America 1905-12-24 1982-06-21 Madison Cambridge Q714462
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Mathematician, Statistician and Economist (1906-1994) Romania 1906-02-04 1994-10-30 Constanța Nashville Q1351160
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978) United States of America
Austria
Cisleithania
Czechoslovakia
1906-04-28 1978-01-14 Brno Princeton Q41390
Jean Leray
French mathematician (1906-1998) France 1906-11-07 1998-11-10 Chantenay-sur-Loire La Baule-Escoublac Q441143
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer United States of America 1906-12-09 1992-01-01 New York City Arlington County Q11641
Charles B. Morrey, Jr.
American mathematician United States of America 1907-07-23 1984-04-29 Columbus Q1065559
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician United Kingdom 1908-01-18 1974-08-22 Łódź East Hampton Q374117
Valentine Bargmann German-American physicist United States of America 1908-04-06 1989-07-20 Berlin Princeton Q215977
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1908–2000) United States of America 1908-06-25 2000-12-25 Akron Boston Q214969
Stephen Cole Kleene
American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist United States of America 1909-01-05 1994-01-25 Hartford Madison Q335148
Kōsaku Yosida
Japanese mathematician (1909-1990) Japan
Empire of Japan
1909-02-07 1990-06-20 Hiroshima Tokyo Q382402
Giulio Racah
Israeli mathematician (1909-1965) Italy
Israel
Kingdom of Italy
1909-02-09 1965-08-28 Florence Florence Q635353
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician (1909-2005) United States of America 1909-08-04 2005-04-14 Norwich San Francisco Q441223
Deane Montgomery
American mathematician United States of America 1909-09-02 1992-03-15 Weaver Chapel Hill Q931348
Joseph Leo Doob
American mathematician United States of America 1910-02-27 2004-06-07 Cincinnati Urbana Q1384876
Jacob Wolfowitz
American statistician (1910-1981) United States of America
Congress Poland
1910-03-19 1981-07-16 Warsaw
United States of America
Tampa Q722273
Garrett Birkhoff
American mathematician United States of America 1911-01-19 1996-11-22 Princeton Water Mill Q538846
Mstislav Keldysh
Soviet mathematician and physicist (1911-1978) Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1911-01-28 1978-06-24 Riga Moscow Q246497
Anatol Rapoport Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911–2007) United States of America
Russian Empire
1911-05-22 2007-01-20 Lozova Toronto Q487453
Menahem Max Schiffer American mathematician United States of America
Israel
1911-09-24 1997-11-11 Berlin Palo Alto Q991805
Trygve Haavelmo
Norwegian economist and econometrician Norway 1911-12-13 1999-07-28 Skedsmo Municipality Bærum Municipality Q208124
Donald C. Spencer American mathematician (1912-2001) United States of America 1912-04-25 2001-12-23 Boulder Durango
Scottsdale
Q381301
Norman Levinson American mathematician United States of America 1912-08-11 1975-10-10 Lynn Boston Q795335
Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician Soviet Union
United States of America
1913-08-20 2009-10-05 Okny New Brunswick Q315414
Herman Goldstine
American mathematician United States of America 1913-09-13 2004-06-16 Chicago Bryn Mawr Q93005
Samuel Eilenberg
Polish mathematician (1913-1998) Poland
United States of America
1913-09-30 1998-01-30 Warsaw New York City Q535833
Lipman Bers Latvian-American mathematician United States of America
Russian Empire
Latvia
1914-05-22 1993-10-29 Riga New Rochelle Q215986
Wassily Hoeffding American statistician United States of America 1914-06-12 1991-02-28 Gorkovskoye Chapel Hill Q323204
R. H. Bing American mathematician (1914-1986) United States of America 1914-10-20 1986-04-28 Oakwood Austin Q1398892
George Bernard Dantzig American mathematician (1914-2005) United States of America 1914-11-08 2005-05-13 Portland Stanford Q337040
Gerhard Hochschild
American mathematician (1915-2010) United States of America
Germany
1915-04-29 2010-07-08 Berlin El Cerrito Q371662
Nicholas Metropolis
Greek American physicist United States of America 1915-06-11 1999-10-17 Chicago Los Alamos Q92928
George Mackey
American mathematician United States of America 1916-02-01 2006-03-15 St. Louis Belmont Q1384643
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001) United States of America 1916-04-30 2001-02-24 Petoskey Medford Q92760
Aryeh Dvoretzky
Israeli mathematician Israel 1916-05-03 2008-05-08 Khorol Jerusalem Q718008
Milton Babbitt American composer United States of America 1916-05-10 2011-01-29 Philadelphia Princeton Q318518
Atle Selberg
Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007) Norway
United States of America
1917-06-14 2007-08-06 Langesund Princeton Q211041
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician (1917-2008) United States of America
Poland
1917-08-21 2008-06-24 Moscow Minneapolis Q157262
George F. Carrier mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University United States of America 1918-05-04 2002-03-08 Millinocket Boston Q984527
Irving Segal
American mathematician United States of America 1918-09-13 1998-08-30 The Bronx Lexington Q381347
Lars Gårding Swedish mathematician Sweden 1919-03-07 2014-07-07 Hedemora Lund Municipality Q924485
David Blackwell
American mathematician United States of America 1919-04-24 2010-07-08 Centralia Berkeley Q525037
James H. Wilkinson English mathematician United Kingdom 1919-09-27 1986-10-05 Strood Teddington Q62877
William Kruskal American mathematician United States of America 1919-10-10 2005-04-21 New York City Chicago Q1398917
George Batchelor Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist Australia 1920-03-08 2000-03-30 Melbourne Cambridge Q339309
Herbert Federer American mathematician United States of America 1920-07-23 2010-04-21 Vienna Providence Q112505
Richard E. Bellman American mathematician United States of America 1920-08-26 1984-03-19 Brooklyn
New York City
Los Angeles Q441199
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Indian-American mathematician (1920–2023) British Raj
Dominion of India
India
United States of America
1920-09-10 2023-08-22 Hoovina Hadagali Amherst Q711237
Giuseppe Colombo Italian mathematician, astrophysicist and engineer (1920-1984) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1920-10-02 1984-02-20 Padua Padua Q713213
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
French mathematician France 1920-10-24 1996-07-29 7th arrondissement of Paris 16th arrondissement of Paris Q1384896
Gérard Debreu
French economist and mathematician (1921–2004) France
United States of America
1921-07-04 2004-12-31 Calais Paris Q210960
David Gale
American mathematician United States of America 1921-12-13 2008-03-07 Manhattan Berkeley Q1174507
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Russian mathematician Soviet Union
Russia
1922-03-07 2004-01-12 Kologriv Saint Petersburg Q450269
Patrick Suppes philosopher from United States of America United States of America 1922-03-17 2014-11-17 Tulsa Stanford Q323107
Alan Perlis American computer scientist (1922–1990) United States of America 1922-04-01 1990-02-07 Pittsburgh New Haven Q62861
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Canadian mathematician United States of America 1923-05-05 2017-08-08 Toronto Greenwich Village Q450331
Armand Borel
Swiss mathematician (1923-2003) Switzerland
United States of America
1923-05-21 2003-08-11 La Chaux-de-Fonds Princeton Q123474
Igor Shafarevich
Soviet and Russian mathematician (1923-2017) Soviet Union
Russia
1923-06-03 2017-02-19 Zhytomyr Moscow Q710920
Raoul Bott
Hungarian-born mathematician United States of America 1923-09-24 2005-12-20 Budapest Carlsbad
San Diego
Q441185
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician United Kingdom
United States of America
1923-12-15 2020-02-28 Crowthorne Princeton Q153717
Raghu Raj Bahadur Indian-American mathematician India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1924-04-30 1997-06-07 Delhi Chicago Q1245339
Samuel Karlin American mathematician United States of America 1924-06-08 2007-12-18 Janów Palo Alto Q667074
David Cox
English statistician United Kingdom 1924-07-15 2022-01-18 Birmingham Q464935
John Backus
American computer scientist United States of America 1924-12-03 2007-03-17 Philadelphia Ashland Q92746
Mary Ellen Rudin
American mathematician United States of America 1924-12-07 2013-03-18 Hillsboro Madison Q450235
R. Duncan Luce American mathematical psychologist (1925–2012) United States of America 1925-05-16 2012-08-11 Scranton Irvine Q531192
John Cocke American computer scientist (1925-2002) United States of America 1925-05-30 2002-07-16 Charlotte Valhalla Q92632
Frederick Gehring
American mathematician (1925-2012) United States of America 1925-08-07 2012-05-29 Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Q25582
Paul Malliavin
French mathematician (1925-2010) France 1925-09-11 2010-06-03 Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine
Paris
Q441132
Victor Klee
American mathematician (1925–2007) United States of America 1925-09-18 2007-08-17 San Francisco Lakewood Q470505
Peter Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin Hungary
United States of America
1926-05-01 Budapest Q323331
John George Kemeny Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College Hungary
United States of America
1926-05-31 1992-12-26 Budapest Etna Q28900
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician France 1926-09-15 Bages Q212063
James Serrin American mathematician United States of America 1926-11-01 2012-08-23 Chicago Minneapolis Q373345
Joan Birman U.S. mathematician United States of America 1927-05-30 New York City Q450308
Felix Browder
American mathematician (1927-2016) United States of America 1927-07-31 2016-12-10 Moscow Princeton Q1398992
John McCarthy
(1927-2011) American computer scientist and cognitive scientist United States of America 1927-09-04 2011-10-24 Boston Stanford Q92739
Friedrich Hirzebruch
German mathematician Germany 1927-10-17 2012-05-27 Hamm Bonn Q61753
Leo Breiman American statistician (1928-2005) United States of America 1928-01-27 2005-07-05 New York City Berkeley Q931461
Martin Davis
American mathematician (1928–2023) United States of America 1928-03-08 2023-01-01 New York City Berkeley Q1239172
Lennart Carleson
Swedish mathematician Sweden 1928-03-18 Stockholm Q343420
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014) France
statelessness
German Reich
1928-03-28 2014-11-13 Berlin Saint-Girons Q77141
Bertram Kostant
American mathematician United States of America 1928-05-24 2017-02-02 Brooklyn Roslindale Q828478
John Stewart Bell
Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990) United Kingdom 1928-06-28
1928-07-28
1990-10-01 Belfast Geneva Q370077
Jürgen Moser
German mathematician (1928–1999) Germany
United States of America
Switzerland
1928-07-04 1999-12-17 Königsberg Zürich Q65209
Juris Hartmanis
Latvian computer scientist Latvia
United States of America
1928-07-05 2022-07-29 Riga Q92628
Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician (1929–2021) United States of America 1929-03-29 2021-07-04 New York City Cambridge Q659265
Michael Atiyah
British mathematician United Kingdom 1929-04-22 2019-01-11 Hampstead Edinburgh Q208356
Roland Dobrushin
Russian mathematician Soviet Union
Russia
1929-07-20 1995-11-12 Saint Petersburg Moscow Q381357
Jacob T. Schwartz
American mathematician and computer scientist (1930-2009) United States of America 1930-01-09 2009-03-02 The Bronx Manhattan Q92951
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1930-05-11 2002-08-06 Rotterdam Nuenen Q8556
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician Israel
United States of America
1930-06-08 Frankfurt Q157235
Stephen Smale
American mathematician United States of America 1930-07-15 Flint Q315394
Anatoliy Skorokhod Ukrainian American mathematician Soviet Union
Ukraine
1930-09-10 2011-01-03 Nikopol Lansing Q488003
Elias M. Stein
American mathematician (1931-2018) United States of America 1931-01-13 2018-12-23 Antwerp Somerville Q1329182
John Milnor
American mathematician United States of America 1931-02-20 Orange Q215765
Paul Benacerraf American philosopher United States of America
France
1931-03-26 16th arrondissement of Paris Q1396649
Heisuke Hironaka
Japanese mathematician Japan 1931-04-09 Iwakuni Q183373
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (1931–2022) United States of America 1931-04-19 2022-11-17 Durham Chapel Hill Q92609
John W. Pratt American business academic United States of America 1931-09-11 Q1701462
Harry Kesten
American mathematician United States of America 1931-11-19 2019-03-29 Duisburg Ithaca Q635373
Gene H. Golub
American computer scientist and numerical analyst (1932-2007) United States of America 1932-02-29 2007-11-16 Chicago Stanford Q1384851
Edward Nelson American mathematical physicist and logician United States of America 1932-05-04 2014-09-10 Decatur Princeton Q381346
Joseph J. Kohn
Czech mathematician and university educator United States of America
Czechoslovakia
1932-05-18 2023-09-13 Prague Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center Q375333
Solomon W. Golomb
American mathematician United States of America 1932-05-30 2016-05-01 Baltimore Los Angeles Q1398547
Elliott H. Lieb
American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University United States of America 1932-07-31 Boston Q371441
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist United States of America 1932-10-11 Berkeley Q49823
John G. Thompson
American mathematician United States of America 1932-10-13 Ottawa Q313168
David Pingree American mathematics historian (1933-2005) United States of America 1933-01-02 2005-11-11 New Haven Providence Q1029283
Richard Askey
American mathematician known for his expertise in the area of special functions (1933–2019) United States of America 1933-06-04 2019-10-09 St. Louis Madison Q1406404
William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist Canada 1933-06-05 Toronto Q92782
William Browder
American mathematician (1934-) United States of America 1934-01-06 New York City Q1398951
Ludvig Faddeev
Russian mathematician and physicist Soviet Union
Russia
1934-03-23 2017-02-26 Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Q1030228
James Glimm
American mathematician United States of America 1934-03-24 Peoria Q370116
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist United States of America 1934-06-13 New York City Q32338
Michael Artin
American mathematician United States of America 1934-06-28 Hamburg Q1926870
Donald Samuel Ornstein
American mathematician United States of America 1934-07-30 New York City Q441210
Daniel J. Kleitman
American applied mathematician United States of America 1934-10-04 New York City Q782922
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935) United States of America 1935-01-03 Boston Q92612
David Ruelle
Belgian-French mathematical physicist France
Belgium
1935-08-20 Ghent Q248997
Ronald Graham
American mathematician (1935-2020) United States of America 1935-10-31 2020-07-06 Taft La Jolla Q712620
Robert Langlands
Canadian mathematician Canada
United States of America
1936-10-06 New Westminster Q711278
Shlomo Sternberg
American mathematician United States of America 1936-11-20 2024-08-23 Q381310
Yuri Manin
Russian mathematician (1937–2023) Soviet Union
Germany
Russia
1937-02-16 2023-01-07 Simferopol Bonn Q65196
Vladimir Arnold
Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010) Soviet Union
Russia
1937-06-12 2010-06-03 Odesa 12th arrondissement of Paris Q157642
Ernest Vinberg
Soviet and Russian mathematician (1937-2020) Soviet Union
Russia
1937-07-26 2020-05-12 Moscow Moscow Q450643
Carl R. de Boor
American mathematician United States of America
Germany
1937-12-03 Słupsk Q73006
Barry Mazur
American mathematician United States of America 1937-12-19 New York City Q809076
Arthur Jaffe
Mathematical physicist United States of America 1937-12-22 New York City Q370094
John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020) United Kingdom 1937-12-26 2020-04-11 Liverpool Princeton
New Brunswick
Q268961
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938) United States of America 1938-01-10 Milwaukee Q17457
Thomas M. Cover American mathematician United States of America 1938-08-07 2012-03-26 San Bernardino Palo Alto Q1733964
Phillip Griffiths
American mathematician United States of America 1938-10-18 Raleigh Q1385013
Marina Ratner
Russian mathematician United States of America
Soviet Union
1938-10-30 2017-07-07 Moscow El Cerrito Q450297
Robert M. Solovay
American mathematician United States of America 1938-12-15 Brooklyn Q1395607
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan
Indian-American mathematician (1940–) British Raj
Dominion of India
India
United States of America
1940-01-02 Chennai Q370247
George Boolos Philosopher and mathematical logician (1940-1996) United States of America 1940-09-04 1996-05-27 New York City Cambridge Q1392740
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
American mathematician (1940-2019) United States of America 1940-09-06 2019-04-09 Dover Piedmont Q1314603
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist United States of America 1941-02-07 New York City Q92613
Dennis Sullivan
American mathematician United States of America 1941-02-12 Port Huron Q726376
Louis Boutet de Monvel
French mathematician France 1941-06-22 2014-12-25 Issy-les-Moulineaux 17th arrondissement of Paris Q439969
Stanley Osher
American mathematician United States of America 1942-04-24 Brooklyn Q470518
Jon Barwise American logician United States of America 1942-06-29 2000-03-05 Independence Bloomington Q723578
Alan Weinstein
American mathematician United States of America 1943-06-17 New York City Q381300
Melvin Hochster
American mathematician United States of America 1943-08-02 Brooklyn Q263909
Michèle Vergne
French mathematician France 1943-08-29 L'Isle-Adam Q16445
Jeff Cheeger
American mathematician and academic United States of America 1943-12-01 Brooklyn Q526247
Nick Katz
American mathematician United States of America 1943-12-07 Baltimore Q1385093
Richard S. Hamilton
American mathematician (1943–2024) United States of America 1943-12-19 2024-09-29 Cincinnati Q239904
Victor Kac Russian-American mathematician Soviet Union
United States of America
1943-12-19 Buguruslan Q1385427
Michael Aschbacher
American mathematician United States of America 1944-04-08 Little Rock Q1385045
Robert MacPherson
American mathematician United States of America
Canada
1944-05-25 Lakewood Q931297
Anatole Katok
American mathematician United States of America
Soviet Union
1944-08-09 2018-04-30 Washington, D.C. Danville Q487495
David Gottlieb Israeli mathematician (1944-2008) Israel
United States of America
1944-11-14 2008-12-06 Tel Aviv Q1174573
Saharon Shelah
Israeli mathematician Israel 1945-07-03 Jerusalem Q448592
Percy Deift American mathematician and academic United States of America 1945-09-10 Durban Q669020
Dusa McDuff
English American mathematician United Kingdom
United States of America
1945-10-18 London Q450373
Michael Eugene Taylor American mathematician United States of America 1946 Q1927324
Charles S. Peskin American mathematician United States of America 1946-04-15 Q1065992
Barry Simon
American mathematician United States of America 1946-04-16 New York City Q370126
David Kazhdan
Israeli mathematician Soviet Union
United States of America
Israel
1946-06-20 Moscow Q1174945
Yakov Eliashberg
Russian-American mathematician Russia
Soviet Union
United States of America
1946-12-11 Saint Petersburg Q1399503
Dorian M. Goldfeld
American mathematician United States of America 1947-01-21 Marburg Q726393
Gerald Jay Sussman
American computer scientist United States of America 1947-02-08 United States of America Q92981
Arkadi Nemirovski American mathematician United States of America
Soviet Union
1947-03-14 Moscow Q672122
Alain Connes
French mathematician France 1947-04-01 Draguignan Q313590
David Eisenbud
American mathematician United States of America 1947-04-08 New York City Q25817
Henryk Iwaniec
Polish mathematician Poland
United States of America
1947-10-09
1947-09-10
Elbląg Q370944
Robert Tarjan
American computer scientist United States of America 1948-04-30 Pomona Q92638
Kenneth Ribet
American mathematician,researcher and supervisor United States of America 1948-06-28 Brooklyn Q535655
Leonid Levin
Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist United States of America
Soviet Union
1948-11-02 Dnipro Q92966
Karen Vogtmann
American mathematician United States of America 1949-07-13 Pittsburg Q1729283
Fan Chung
Taiwanese-born American mathematician United States of America 1949-10-09 Kaohsiung Q450226
Lawrence C. Evans
American mathematician United States of America 1949-11-01 Atlanta Q1749608
Yves Colin de Verdière French mathematician known for his work in spectral theory and graph theory France 20th century Q441148
Benedict Gross American number theorist United States of America 1950-06-22 South Orange Q249115
László Babai
Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist Hungary 1950-07-20 Budapest Q92845
Andrei Suslin Russian mathematician Soviet Union
Russia
1950-12-27 2018-07-10 Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Q501707
Maria Klawe
Canadian-American computer scientist Canada
United States of America
1951 Toronto Q11754
Shigefumi Mori
Japanese mathematician Japan 1951-02-23 Nagoya Q206215
Jonathan Borwein Scottish mathematician Canada 1951-05-20 2016-08-02 St Andrews London Q381329
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952) Israel 1952-07-06 Tel Aviv Q320624
Vaughan Jones
New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist New Zealand
United States of America
1952-12-31 2020-09-06 Gisborne Nashville Q369638
Ravindran Kannan
Indian mathematician India 1953-03-12 Chennai Q93034
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–) United Kingdom 1953-04-11 Cambridge Q184433
Carlos Kenig
Argentinean mathematician Argentina
United States of America
1953-11-25 Buenos Aires Q1042994
Peter Sarnak
South African mathematician United States of America 1953-12-18 Johannesburg Q1384983
Michael Harris American mathematician United States of America 1954 Philadelphia Q1927708
Vladimir Drinfeld mathematician from the former USSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago Ukraine
Soviet Union
United States of America
1954-02-14 Kharkiv Q369561
David Gabai American mathematician United States of America 1954-07-07 Philadelphia Q1174499
David Vogan American mathematician United States of America 1954-09-08 Mercer Q470480
W. Hugh Woodin
American mathematician United States of America 1955-04-23 Tucson Q1389897
Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist Israel
United States of America
1956-09-09 Israel Q92957
Jennifer Tour Chayes
American computer scientist and mathematician United States of America 1956-09-20 New York City Q11487
Alexander Beilinson
Russian mathematician United States of America
Soviet Union
1957-06-13 Moscow Q369792
Éva Tardos
Hungarian mathematician Hungary
United States of America
1957-10-01 Budapest Q15030
Michael J. Hopkins
American mathematician United States of America 1958-04-18 Alexandria Q1927987
Steven H. Strogatz
American mathematician United States of America 1959-08-13 Torrington Q1384920
Peter Shor
American professor of applied mathematics at MIT United States of America 1959-08-14 New York City Q370071
Stephen Wolfram
British-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, writer and businessman (born 1959) United Kingdom
United States of America
1959-08-29 London Q310798
Claire Voisin
French mathematician France 1962-03-04 Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Q468049
Richard Taylor
British mathematician United Kingdom
United States of America
1962-05-19 Cambridge Q712170
Alexander Razborov Russian mathematician Russia 1963-02-16 Belovo Q93019
Karen Ellen Smith American mathematician United States of America 1965-05-09 Red Bank Q1729277
Alex Eskin American mathematician United States of America 1965-05-19 Moscow Q1748305
Bryna Kra American mathematician United States of America 1966-10-06 Boston Q995253
William Minicozzi II mathematician United States of America 1967-12-13 Bryn Mawr Q1700722
Amie Wilkinson American mathematician United States of America 1968-04-04 Boston Q470919
Edward Frenkel
mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics United States of America
Soviet Union
1968-05-02 Kolomna Q40418
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician Russia
United States of America
1969-07-26 Moscow Q315425
Paul Seidel
German mathematician Switzerland 1970 Germany Q475420
Daniel Spielman American computer scientist United States of America 1970-03 Philadelphia Q93078
Manjul Bhargava
Indo-Canadian mathematician Canada
United States of America
1974-08-08 Hamilton Q1398727
Sylvia Serfaty
French mathematician & academic France 1975 Paris Q519885
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician Australia
United States of America
1975-07-17 Adelaide Q295981
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician Iran
United States of America
1977-05-12
1977-05-03
1977-05-05
2017-07-14
2017-07-15
Tehran Stanford Q1771279


medical historian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Henry E. Sigerist
Swiss medical historian (1891–1957) United States of America
Switzerland
1891-04-07 1957-03-17 10th arrondissement of Paris Pura Q122000
Owsei Temkin
Russian-born American medical historian (1902–2002) Germany
United States of America
1902-10-06 2002-07-18 Minsk Baltimore Q75312
Jean Starobinski
Swiss writer (1920-2019) Switzerland 1920-11-17 2019-03-04 Geneva Morges Q123507


medievalist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Henri Pirenne
Belgian historian (1862-1935) Belgium 1862-12-23 1935-10-24 Verviers Uccle - Ukkel Q312501
Ernst Kantorowicz
German historian Germany 1895-05-03 1963-09-09 Poznań Princeton Q77499
Lynn Townsend White American historian (1907-1987) United States of America 1907-04-29 1987-03-30 San Francisco Q983820
Caroline Bynum American historian United States of America 1941-05-10 Atlanta Q528840


meteorologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
American meteorologist United States of America 1861-01-06 1912-04-07 Boston Boston Q306767
Jacob Bjerknes
Norwegian-American meteorologist Norway
United States of America
1897-11-02 1975-07-07 Stockholm
Norway
Los Angeles Q524217
Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Swedish and American meteorologist Sweden
United States of America
1898-12-28 1957-08-19 Adolf Fredriks parish Gustav Vasa parish Q60293
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Indian scientist India
British Raj
United States of America
1944-11-24 Madurai Q670496
Kerry Emanuel
American meteorologist United States of America 1955-04-21 Q1739606


microbiologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895) France 1822-12-27 1895-09-28 Dole Castle of Villeneuve-l'Étang Q529
C. B. van Niel Dutch-American microbiologist (1897–1985) Kingdom of the Netherlands
United States of America
1897-11-04 1985-03-10 Haarlem Carmel-by-the-Sea Q122308
Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991) United States of America
Kingdom of Italy
Italy
1912-08-13 1991-02-06 Turin Lexington Q205667
Maurice Hilleman
American vaccinologist United States of America 1919-08-30 2005-04-11 Miles City Philadelphia Q983898
Carl Woese
American microbiologist United States of America 1928-07-15 2012-12-30 Syracuse Urbana Q310067


military officer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Benjamin Lincoln
Continental Army general (1733–1810) United States of America
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1733-01-24 1810-05-09 Hingham Hingham Q817605
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
French general and politician (1757–1834) France
United States of America
1757-09-06 1834-05-20 Chavaniac-Lafayette former 1st arrondissement of Paris Q186652
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
American author and historian (1835–1915) United States of America 1835-05-27 1915-05-20
1915-03-20
1915
Boston Washington, D.C. Q1064413
Francis Amasa Walker
Union Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1840-1897) United States of America 1840-07-02 1897-01-05 Boston Boston Q324031
Cyrus Vance
United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980 United States of America 1917-03-27 2002-01-12 Clarksburg Mount Sinai Hospital Q296661
A. Hunter Dupree Historian and United States Navy officer United States of America 1921-01-29 2019-11-30 Hillsboro Q491599
William H. Gass
American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor United States of America 1924-07-30 2017-12-06 Fargo University City Q304874
Warren Christopher
U.S. Secretary of State (1925-2011) United States of America 1925-10-27
1925-10-17
2011-03-18 Scranton Los Angeles Q294358
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
American businessman (1926–2012) United States of America 1926-02-05 2012-09-29 New York City Southampton Q323342
James Mattis
US Marine Corps general in retirement and former US secretary of defense United States of America 1950-09-08 Pullman Q267902
John R. Allen
United States Marine Corps general, think tank executive United States of America 1953-12-15
1953
Fort Belvoir Q615356


military personnel

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
George Meade
United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872) United States of America
Spain
1815-12-31 1872-11-06 Cádiz Philadelphia Q297121
Joseph Joffre
French general France 1852-01-12 1931-01-03 Rivesaltes Paris Q207958
Lucius D. Clay
United States general (1897–1978) United States of America 1897-04-23 1978-04-16 Marietta Chatham Q369360


mineralogist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Bernhard Studer
Swiss geologist (1794-1887) Switzerland 1794-08-21 1887-05-02 Büren an der Aare Bern Q120356
Alfred des Cloizeaux
French mineralogist (1817-1897) France 1817-10-17 1897-05-06 Beauvais Paris Q472242
George J. Brush
American mineralogist, professor, Yale University (1831-1912) United States of America 1831-12-15 1912-02-06 Brooklyn New Haven Q608145
Charles Palache
American mineralogist United States of America 1869-07-18 1954-12-05 San Francisco Berkeley Q1065718
Cecil Edgar Tilley Australian-British mineralogist (1894-1973) Australia
United Kingdom
1894-05-14 1973-01-24 Adelaide Cambridge Q533612


molecular biologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Gunther S. Stent American molecular biologist and philosopher and historian of biology (1924-2008) United States of America 1924-03-28 2008-06-12 Berlin Haverford Q822281
Alexander Rich American biologist United States of America 1924-11-15 2015-04-27 Hartford Boston Q481407
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist Argentina
United Kingdom
1927-10-08 2002-03-24 Bahía Blanca Cambridge Q155525
Pierre Chambon French molecular biologist France 1931-02-07 2018-08-15 Mulhouse Q1388486
Charles Weissmann
Hungarian biologist Switzerland 1931-10-14 Budapest Q120251
Bert W. O'Malley American endocrinologist United States of America 1936 Pittsburgh Q827492
Ada Yonath
Israeli chemist Israel 1939-06-22 Jerusalem Q7426
Charles David Allis
American molecular biologist United States of America 1951-03-22 2023-01-08 Cincinnati Seattle Q1064064


music educator

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Terri Lyne Carrington
American drummer (born 1965) United States of America 1965-08-04 Medford Q466966
Aaron P. Dworkin African American violinist, and music educator United States of America 1970-09-11 Monticello Q301963


musicologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Karl Geiringer Austrian American musicologist United States of America 1899-04-26 1989-01-10 Vienna Santa Barbara Q214848
Paul Henry Lang Hungarian-American musicologist Hungary
United States of America
1901-08-28 1991-09-21 Budapest Lakeville Q322381
Bruno Nettl American ethnomusicologist United States of America 1930-03-14 2020-01-15 Prague Champaign Q31976
László Somfai Hungarian musicologist (born: 1934) Hungary 1934-08-15 2004 Jászladány Q442269
Reinhold Brinkmann German musicologist (1934-2010) Germany 1934-08-21 2010-10-10 Wildeshausen Eckernförde Q78331
Christoph Wolff
German-born musicologist (born 1940) Germany 1940-05-24 Solingen Q66488


naturalist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Gustaf von Paykull
Swedish scientist Sweden 1757-08-21
1757-07-23
1826-01-28 Storkyrkoförsamlingen Östuna parish Q932770
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1823-1887) United States of America 1823-02-03 1887-08-19 Reading Woods Hole Q14049
John Dupré British philosopher United Kingdom 1952 Q322761


[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Paul Stevens
United States Supreme Court justice (1920–2019) United States of America 1920-04-20 2019-07-16 Chicago Fort Lauderdale Q11109
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 United States of America 1924-10-01 Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center Q23685
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist United States of America 1942-06-30 Wichita Q312867
James Stavridis
US Navy admiral United States of America 1955-02-15 West Palm Beach Q116464


neurologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Kurt Goldstein
German neurologist (1878-1965) Germany
United States of America
1878-11-06 1965-09-19 Katowice New York City Q62418
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909-2012) United States of America
Kingdom of Italy
Italy
1909-04-22 2012-12-30 Turin Rome Q185007
Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist United States of America
Austria
1929-11-07 Vienna Q155529
António Damásio
neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California Portugal 1944-02-25 Lisbon Q380207


neuroscientist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Seymour S. Kety American neuroscientist United States of America 1915-08-25 2000-05-25 Philadelphia Q1701636
Walle Nauta Dutch neuroscientist United States of America
Kingdom of the Netherlands
1916-06-08 1994-03-24 Medan Cambridge Q820398
Brenda Milner
Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist Canada
United Kingdom
1918-07-15 Manchester Q468228
Endel Tulving Estonian-Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist Estonia
Canada
1927-05-26 2023-09-11 Pechory Mississauga Q907933
Pasko Rakic
Yugoslavian-American neuroscientist United States of America 1933-05-15 Ruma Q532002
Jean-Pierre Changeux
French biologist France 1936-04-06 Domont Q910163
Roger Nicoll American neuroscientist United States of America 1941 Princeton Q1318548
Eric I. Knudsen American neurobiologist United States of America 1949-10-07 Palo Alto Q1351385
Ben Barres
American neurobiologist (1954–2017) United States of America 1954-09-13 2017-12-27 West Orange Stanford Q816430


non-fiction writer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist Germany
United States of America
1902-06-15 1994-05-12 Frankfurt Harwich Q58074
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017) France
Bulgaria
1939-03-01 2017-02-07 Sofia 13th arrondissement of Paris
Paris
Q313852


novelist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955) German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Czechoslovakia
1875-06-06 1955-08-12 Lübeck Zürich Q37030
Enrique Anderson Imbert
Argentine novelist/writer/literary critic Argentina 1910-02-12 2000-12-06 Córdoba Buenos Aires Q1343944
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer (1911–2006) Khedivate of Egypt
Sultanate of Egypt
Kingdom of Egypt
Republic of Egypt
United Arab Republic
Egypt
1911-12-11 2006-08-30 Cairo Giza Governorate Q7176
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun novelist (1926-2003) United States of America 1926-01-13 2003-10-09 East Orange New York City Q272811
Cynthia Ozick American writer United States of America 1928-04-17 New York City Q444849
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic Colonial Nigeria
Nigeria
1930-11-16 2013-03-21 Ogidi Boston Q155845
E. L. Doctorow
novelist, editor, professor (1931-2015) United States of America 1931-01-06 2015-07-21 New York City Manhattan Q335232
Shirley Hazzard
Australian-American Author United States of America
Australia
1931-01-30 2016-12-12 Sydney Manhattan Q1230809
Philip Roth
American novelist (1933-2018) United States of America 1933-03-19
1933-03-18
2018-05-22 Newark
New York City
Manhattan Q187019
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023) United States of America 1933-07-20 2023-06-13 Providence Santa Fe Q272610
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian novelist and writer Spain
Peru
Dominican Republic
1936-03-28 Arequipa Q39803
Margaret Drabble
British novelist, biographer, and critic United Kingdom 1939-06-05 Sheffield Q239307
Edmund White
American novelist and LGBT essayist United States of America 1940-01-13 Cincinnati Q729117
John Irving
American novelist and screenwriter United States of America 1942-03-02 Exeter Q310379
Tobias Wolff
fiction writer, memoirist (b. 1945) United States of America 1945-06-19 Birmingham Q495754
Martin Amis
British novelist United Kingdom 1949-08-25 2023-05-19 Oxford Lake Worth Beach Q310176
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (1954-) United Kingdom
Japan
1954-11-08 Nagasaki Q272855
Richard Powers
American novelist United States of America 1957-06-18 Evanston Q638179
Jonathan Franzen
American writer United States of America 1959-08-17 Western Springs Q316607
Chang-Rae Lee
American novelist United States of America 1965-07-29 Seoul Q533256


nuclear physicist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937) New Zealand 1871-08-30 1937-10-19 Spring Grove Cambridge Q9123
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist Cisleithania
Austria
Sweden
1878-11-07
1878-11-17
1968-10-27 Vienna Cambridge Q56189
Leó Szilárd
Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (1898–1964) Hungary
Germany
United States of America
1898-02-11 1964-05-30 Budapest La Jolla Q153238
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American nuclear physicist (1908-2003) Hungary
United States of America
1908-01-15 2003-09-09 Budapest Stanford Q6733
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American experimental physicist Republic of China
United States of America
Taiwan
1912-05-31 1997-02-16 Taicang New York City Q450317


oceanographer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Harald Sverdrup
Norwegian oceanographer (1888-1957) Norway
United States of America
1888-11-15 1957-08-21 Sogndal Municipality Oslo Q440346
Walter Munk
American oceanographer (1917-2019) United States of America
Austria
1917-10-19 2019-02-08 Vienna La Jolla Q113081
Henry Stommel
American oceanographer United States of America 1920-09-27 1992-01-17 Wilmington Boston Q1343807
Carl Wunsch American oceanographer United States of America 1941-05-05 Brooklyn Q473213


oncologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Carlo Maria Croce
Italian oncologist United States of America
Italy
1944-12-17 Milan Q640381
Bert Vogelstein
American oncologist United States of America 1949-06-02 Baltimore Q827502
Brian Druker
American oncologist United States of America 1955-04-30 St. Louis Q373427
Charles Sawyers
American physician-scientist United States of America 1959-01-26 Nashville Q1065232


opera singer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012) Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
German Reich
Germany
1925-05-28 2012-05-18 Berlin Berg Q77060
Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer United States of America 1934-01-16 Bradford Q186514
Martina Arroyo
American opera singer United States of America 1937-02-02 New York City Q1702112
Frederica von Stade
American singer and recording artist United States of America 1945-06-01 Somerville Q265872
Jessye Norman
American opera singer United States of America 1945-09-15 2019-09-30 Augusta New York City Q240937
Dawn Upshaw American soprano United States of America 1960-07-17 Nashville Q272823


ornithologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Sidney Dillon Ripley
American ornithologist and 8th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1913–2001) United States of America 1913-09-20 2001-03-12 New York City Washington, D.C. Q249244
John Krebs, Baron Krebs
zoologist United Kingdom 1945-04-11 Sheffield Q336513


painter

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Benjamin West
18th- and 19th-century English painter United States of America 1738-10-10
1738-11-10
1820-03-11 Springfield Township London Q313498
John Trumbull
American artist (1756–1843) United States of America 1756-06-06 1843-11-10 Lebanon New York City Q369263
Washington Allston
American artist (1779-1843) United States of America 1779-11-05 1843-07-09 Charleston Cambridge Q468272
Wilhelm von Kaulbach
German painter (1805-1874) Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1805-10-15 1874-04-07 Bad Arolsen Munich Q604107
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904) France 1824-05-11 1904-01-10 Vesoul 9th arrondissement of Paris Q212499
John Singer Sargent
American painter (1856–1925) United States of America 1856-01-12 1925-04-15
1925-04-14
Florence London Q155626
John Marin
American artist (1870-1953) United States of America 1870-12-23 1953-10-02
1953-10-01
Rutherford Cape Split Q666171
C. D. Howe
Canadian politician (1886–1960) Canada
United States of America
1886-01-15 1960-12-31 Waltham Montreal Q373508
Georgia O'Keeffe
American modernist artist (1887–1986) United States of America 1887-11-15
1887
1986-03-06
1986
Sun Prairie Santa Fe Q46408
Joan Miró
Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983) Spain 1893-04-20 1983-12-25 Barcelona Palma Q152384
Ivan Albright
American artist (1897-1983) United States of America 1897-02-20 1983-11-18 Harvey Woodstock Q1392676
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
English physical chemist (1897-1967) United Kingdom 1897-06-19 1967-10-09 London London Q48986
Stanley William Hayter English print-maker and engraver (1901-1988) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1901-12-27 1988-05-04 London Paris Q641304
Mark Rothko
American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970) United States of America
Russian Empire
1903-09-25 1970-02-25 Daugavpils Manhattan Q160149
Andrew Wyeth
American Realist painter (1917-2009) United States of America 1917-07-12 2009-01-16 Chadds Ford Township Chadds Ford Township Q316325
Leon Golub American artist (1922-2004) United States of America 1922-01-23 2004-08-08 Chicago New York City Q475655
Lucian Freud
British painter and engraver (1922-2011) United Kingdom 1922-12-08 2011-07-20 Berlin London Q154594
Antoni Tàpies
Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist (1923-2012) Spain 1923-12-13 2012-02-06 Barcelona Barcelona Q158099
Kenneth Noland American artist (1924–2010) United States of America 1924-04-10 2010-01-05 Asheville Port Clyde Q527001
Cy Twombly American painter and artist (1928–2011) United States of America 1928-04-25 2011-07-05 Lexington Rome Q159566
Jasper Johns
American painter and sculptor (1930) United States of America 1930-05-15 Augusta Q155057
Robert Ryman American artist (1930-2019) United States of America 1930-05-30 2019-02-08 Nashville Greenwich Village Q640936
Malcolm Morley English artist (1931-2018) United Kingdom
United States of America
1931-06-07 2018-06-01 London New York City Q316667
James Rosenquist
American artist (1933-2017) United States of America 1933-11-29 2017-03-31 Grand Forks New York City Q448845
David Hockney
English painter and printmaker England
United Kingdom
1937-07-09 Bradford Q159907
Brice Marden
American painter (1938-2023) United States of America 1938-10-15 2023-08-09 Bronxville Tivoli Q475416
Vija Celmins
American artist United States of America
Latvia
1938-10-25 Riga Q465777
Elizabeth Murray
American painter (1940-2007) United States of America 1940-09-06 2007-08-12 Chicago New York Q212426
Barbara Kruger
American conceptual artist United States of America 1945-01-26 Newark Q262284
Jenny Holzer
American conceptual artist United States of America 1950-07-29 Gallipolis Q270388
Rosemarie Trockel German artist Germany 1952-11-13 Schwerte Q65990
Amy Sillman American painter United States of America 1954
1955
1966
Detroit Q481952
Kerry James Marshall American painter and professor United States of America 1955-10-17 Birmingham Q832432


paleontologist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Henry De la Beche
English geologist and palaeontologist United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1796-02-10 1855-04-13 London London Q302176
Heinrich Ernst Beyrich
German geologist and paleontologist (1815-1896) Kingdom of Prussia
German Reich
1815-08-31 1896-07-09 Berlin Berlin Q64133
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831-1899) United States of America 1831-10-29 1899-03-18 Lockport New Haven Q299756
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
American entomologist and paleontologist (1837 – 1911) United States of America 1837-04-13 1911-05-17 Boston Boston Q723149
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist, paleontologist (1838-1902) United States of America 1838-04-05 1902-01-15 Washington, D.C. Cambridge Q728062
Charles Barrois
French geologist (1851-1939) France 1851-04-21 1939-11-05 Lille Sainte-Geneviève-en-Caux Q477262
Louis Dollo
Belgian paleontologist and engineer Belgium
France
1857-12-07 1931-04-19 Lille City of Brussels
Brussels
Q714232
William Berryman Scott
U.S. paleontologist (1858–1947) United States of America 1858-02-12 1947-03-29 Cincinnati Princeton Q1386439
John Campbell Merriam
American paleontologist United States of America 1869-10-20 1945-10-30 Hopkinton Oakland Q523415
T. Wayland Vaughan
U.S. geologist, paleontologist, and cnidariologist United States of America 1870-09-20 1952-01-16 Jonesville Washington, D.C. Q1763339
Joseph Augustine Cushman American geologist and paleontologist (1881-1949) United States of America 1881-01-31 1949-04-16 Bridgewater Sharon Q1706544
D. M. S. Watson British paleontologist United Kingdom 1886-06-18 1973-07-23 Broughton London Q1175646
Carl Owen Dunbar American paleontologist (1891–1979) United States of America 1891-01-01 1979-04-07 Hallowell Dunedin Q1039929
Raymond Cecil Moore U.S. geologist, paleontologist, botanist (1892-1974) United States of America 1892-02-20 1974-04-16 Roslyn Lawrence Q474846
G. Arthur Cooper American paleobiologist (1902–2000) United States of America 1902-02-09 2000-10-17 College Point Raleigh Q530114
Conrad Hal Waddington British biologist United Kingdom 1905-11-08 1975-09-26 Evesham Edinburgh Q721128
John Ostrom American paleontologist (1928-2005) United States of America 1928-02-18 2005-07-16 New York City Litchfield Q373726
Malcolm McKenna
American paleontologist United States of America 1930-07-21 2008-03-03 Pomona Boulder Q63587
David M. Raup American paleontologist (1933-2015) United States of America 1933-04-24 2015-07-09 Boston Sturgeon Bay Q530461
Farish Jenkins American paleontologist (1940–2012) United States of America 1940-05-19 2012-11-11 Manhattan Boston Q1396743
Derek Briggs Irish paleontologist Ireland 1950-01-10 Ireland Q530161
David Jablonski American paleontologist United States of America 1953-06-23 New York City Q1174840
John P. Grotzinger
American geologist (1957-) United States of America 1957 Q1701289


pastor

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Ellery Channing
American Unitarian clergyman (1780-1842) United States of America 1780-04-07 1842-10-02 Newport Bennington Q1352783
Benjamin Mays
American educator, activist, minister United States of America 1894-08-01 1984-03-28 South Carolina Atlanta Q817616
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968) United States of America 1929-01-15 1968-04-04 Atlanta Memphis Q8027


philologist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Charles Hall Grandgent
American academic (1862-1939) United States of America 1862-11-14 1939-09-11 Dorchester Cambridge Q1064713
Joshua Whatmough American philologist and linguist United States of America
United Kingdom
1897-06-30 1964-04-25 Rochdale Winchester Q1708609
Albert Lord American academic (1912-1991) United States of America 1912-09-15 1991-07-29 Boston Cambridge Q762270


philosopher

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783) France
Kingdom of France
1717-11-16 1783-10-29 Paris Paris Q153232
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1733-03-13 1804-02-06 Birstall Northumberland Q159636
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
German philosopher, philologist, Prussian university professor (1802-1872) Grand Duchy of Oldenburg 1802-11-30 1872-01-24 Eutin Berlin Q61280
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher (1803–1882) United States of America 1803-05-25 1882-04-27 Boston Concord Q48226
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economis (1806–1873) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1806-05-20 1873-05-08 London Borough of Islington Avignon Q50020
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German scientist Germany 1853-02-10 1933-05-08 Mainz Salzburg Q214566
Josiah Royce
American philosopher (1855–1916) United States of America 1855-11-20 1916-09-14 Grass Valley Cambridge Q471260
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941) France 1859-10-18 1941-01-04 Paris Paris Q42156
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947) United Kingdom 1861-02-15 1947-12-30 Ramsgate Cambridge Q183372
William Ernest Hocking
American philosopher (1873-1966) United States of America 1873-08-10 1966-06-12 Cleveland Madison Q779523
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969) Germany
Switzerland
1883-02-23 1969-02-26 Oldenburg Basel Q76509
Clarence Irving Lewis American philosopher (1883–1964) United States of America 1883-04-12 1964-02-03 Stoneham Menlo Park Q725642
Étienne Gilson
French historian and philosopher (1884-1978) France 1884-06-13 1978-09-19 7th arrondissement of Paris Auxerre Q289739
C. D. Broad
English philosopher United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1887-12-30 1971-03-11 Harlesden Cambridge Q1022453
Alexandre Koyré French philosopher (1892–1964) France
Russian Empire
1892-08-29 1964-04-28 Taganrog Paris Q319243
Susanne Langer
American philosopher United States of America 1895-12-20 1985-07-17 Manhattan Old Lyme Q466026
Karl Löwith German philosopher (1897-1973) Germany 1897-01-09 1973-05-26 Munich Heidelberg Q75790
Charles Hartshorne American philosopher United States of America 1897-06-05 2000-10-09 Kittanning Austin Q1064777
R. B. Braithwaite English philosopher and ethicist United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1900-01-15 1990-04-21 Banbury Bottisham Q1730299
Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher (1900–2002) Germany 1900-02-11 2002-03-13 Marburg Heidelberg Q76356
Gilbert Ryle
British philosopher United Kingdom 1900-08-19 1976-10-06 Brighton Oxford Q313386
Herbert Feigl Austrian philosopher United States of America
Austria
1902-12-14 1988-06-01 Liberec Minneapolis Q93678
John Eccles
Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997) Australia 1903-01-27 1997-05-02 Melbourne Tenero-Contra Q273223
Hans Jonas
German philosopher Germany 1903-05-10 1993-02-05 Mönchengladbach New York City Q57255
Éric Weil
French philosopher France
Germany
1904-06-08 1977-02-01 Parchim Nice Q71146
Nelson Goodman American philosopher United States of America 1906-08-07 1998-11-25 Somerville Needham Q318048
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975) Prussia
statelessness
United States of America
1906-10-14 1975-12-04 Lindener Marktplatz 2, Hannover Upper West Side Q60025
Wilfrid Sellars
American philosopher (1912-1989) United States of America 1912-05-20 1989-07-02 Michigan Pittsburgh Q712462
Paul Grice British philosopher United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1913-03-13 2009-08-28 Birmingham Berkeley Q311776
Peter Geach British philosopher (1916–2013) United Kingdom
Poland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1916-03-29 2013-12-21 London Cambridge Q725797
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist Belgium
Russian Empire
1917-01-12
1917-01-25
2003-05-28 Moscow Brussels metropolitan area Q183509
Donald Davidson American philosopher (1917–2003) United States of America 1917-03-06 2003-08-30 Springfield Berkeley Q311772
R. M. Hare British moral philosopher (1919–2002) United Kingdom 1919-03-12 2002-01-29 Somerset Ewelme Q471923
Benson Mates American philosopher (1919–2009) United States of America 1919-05-19 2009-05-14 Portland Berkeley Q818187
P. F. Strawson British philosopher (1919-2006) United Kingdom 1919-11-23 2006-02-13 Ealing John Radcliffe Hospital Q311760
Jules Vuillemin
French philosopher France 1920-02-15 2001-01-16 Pierrefontaine-les-Varans Les Fourgs Q1711764
Philippa Foot English philosopher (1920–2010) United Kingdom 1920-10-03 2010-10-03 Owston Ferry Oxford Q297493
Stephen Toulmin English philosopher United Kingdom 1922-03-25 2009-12-04 London Los Angeles Q472676
Richard Wollheim British philosopher United Kingdom 1923-05-05 2003-11-04 London Q614749
Michael Dummett
British philosopher (1925–2011) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1925-06-27 2011-12-27 London Oxford Q342646
Stanley Cavell
American philosopher (1926-2018) United States of America 1926-09-01 2018-06-19 Atlanta Boston Q725020
Dieter Henrich German philosopher (1927–2022) Germany 1927-01-05 2022-12-17 Marburg Munich Q65987
Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist (1927-2008) United States of America 1927-04-18 2008-12-24 New York City Martha's Vineyard Q19074
Leszek Kołakowski
Philosopher, historian of ideas Second Polish Republic
Nazi Germany
Polish People's Republic
Poland
1927-10-23 2009-07-17 Radom Oxford Q157318
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928) United States of America 1928-12-07 East Oak Lane
Philadelphia
Q9049
Jaakko Hintikka
Finnish philosopher and logician Finland 1929-01-12 2015-08-12 Vantaa Porvoo Q288756
Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-American philosopher United States of America 1929-01-12 Glasgow Q310178
Ralf Dahrendorf
German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009) United Kingdom
Germany
1929-05-01 2009-06-17 Hamburg Cologne Q76959
Robert Scholes American academic United States of America 1929-05-19 2016-12-09 Brooklyn Q1184725
Bernard Williams English moral philosopher (1929–2003) United Kingdom 1929-09-21 2003-06-10
2003-06-11
Westcliff-on-Sea Rome Q345641
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002) France 1930-08-01 2002-01-23 Denguin 12th arrondissement of Paris Q156268
Anthony Kenny
British philosopher (born 1931) United Kingdom 1931-03-16 Liverpool Q250315
Richard Rorty
American philosopher (1931–2007) United States of America 1931-10-04 2007-06-08 New York City Palo Alto Q215258
John Searle
American philosopher United States of America 1932-07-31 Denver Q295012
Jaegwon Kim American philosopher (1934–2019) United States of America 1934-09-12 2019-11-27 Daegu Q180893
Michael Walzer
American philosopher (born 1935) United States of America 1935-03-03 New York City Q445511
Jerry Fodor
American philosopher (1935–2017) United States of America 1935-04-22 2017-11-29 New York City Manhattan Q319186
Keith Lehrer American philosopher United States of America 1936-01-10 Minneapolis Q1738063
Brian Barry
British philosopher United Kingdom 1936-01-13 2009-03-10 London London Q911833
Ian Hacking
Canadian philosopher Canada 1936-02-18 2023-05-10 Vancouver Toronto Q188357
Stanley Fish American academic United States of America 1938-04-19 Providence Q303680
Alvin Goldman
American philosopher United States of America 1938-10-01 2024-08-04 Brooklyn Q449089
Robert Nozick
American political philosopher (1938–2002) United States of America 1938-11-16 2002-01-23 Brooklyn Cambridge Q205927
Joseph Raz
Israeli philosopher Israel 1939-03-21 2022-05-02 Palestine Hammersmith Q1380371
Jon Elster
Norwegian philosopher and political theorist Norway
United States of America
1940-02-22 Oslo Q468043
Michael Frede German scholar of ancient philosophy (1940–2007) Germany 1940-05-31 2007-08-11 Berlin Greece Q78319
Saul Kripke
American philosopher and logician (1940–2022) United States of America 1940-11-13 2022-09-15 Bay Shore New York City Q298521
Quentin Skinner
British historian United Kingdom 1940-11-26 Oldham Q465807
Robert Audi American philosopher United States of America 1941 New York City Q340070
Bas van Fraassen American philosopher Kingdom of the Netherlands 1941-04-05 Goes Q809744
Onora O'Neill
British philosopher and college principal (born 1941) United Kingdom 1941-08-23 Aughafatten Q336089
Ned Block
American philosopher and academic United States of America 1942 Chicago Q1722354
Daniel Dennett
American philosopher (1942–2024) United States of America 1942-03-28 2024-04-19 Boston Portland Q215263
Paul Churchland Canadian philosopher Canada 1942-10-21 Vancouver Q712681
Crispin Wright British philosopher United Kingdom 1942-12-21 Surrey Q445989
Jonathan Barnes British historian and philosopher (born 1942) United Kingdom 1942-12-26 Much Wenlock Q1193088
John Perry
American philosopher United States of America 1943-01-16 Lincoln Q1701398
Patricia Churchland
Canadian philosopher Canada
United States of America
1943-07-16 Oliver Q242616
Bruce Ackerman
American scholar of constitutional law United States of America 1943-08-19 New York City Q991517
Simon Blackburn
English academic philosopher (born 1944) United Kingdom 1944-07-12 Chipping Sodbury Q287357
Philip Pettit
Irish philosopher and political theorist Ireland 1945 Ballygar Q1237041
Douglas Hofstadtesr
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science United States of America 1945-02-15 New York City Q319308
Kit Fine professor of philosophy and mathematics United Kingdom 1946-03-26 Q23450
Philip Kitcher
British philosopher (born 1947) United Kingdom 1947-02-20 London Q1935210
Martha Nussbaum
American philosopher United States of America 1947-05-06 New York City Q235470
Nancy Fraser
American philosopher United States of America 1947-05-20 Baltimore Q267536
Patricia Hill Collins
African-American scholar United States of America 1948-05-01 Philadelphia Q465252
Rebecca Goldstein
American novelist, short story writer, biographer, philosopher (b. 1950) United States of America 1950-02-23 White Plains Q766723
Robert Brandom
American philosopher United States of America 1950-03-13 New York City Q1312168
Stewart Shapiro American philosopher United States of America 1951-06-15 United States of America Q448724
Christine Korsgaard
American philosopher United States of America 1952-04-09 Chicago Q467518
Timothy Williamson
British philosopher United Kingdom 1955-08-06 Uppsala Q984380
Elisabeth Lloyd American philosopher of biology United States of America 1956-09-03 Morristown Q1330109
Achille Mbembe
Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist Cameroon 1957-07-27 Cameroon Q340234
Elizabeth S. Anderson
professor of philosophy and women's studies United States of America 1959-12-05 Boston Q1331312


photographer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Imogen Cunningham
American photographer (1883-1976) United States of America 1883-04-12 1976-06-23 Portland San Francisco Q238678
Eliot Porter American photographer (1901-1990) United States of America 1901-12-06 1990-11-02 Winnetka Santa Fe Q762632
Ansel Adams
American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984) United States of America 1902-02-20 1984-04-22 San Francisco Carmel-by-the-Sea Q60809
Harold Eugene Edgerton American engineer and inventor United States of America 1903-04-06 1990-01-04 Fremont Cambridge Q475733
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer (1908–2004) France 1908-08-22 2004-08-03 Chanteloup-en-Brie Montjustin Q156567
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001) United States of America 1909-04-13 2001-07-23 Jackson Jackson Q259364
Wright Morris American photographer and novelist (1910-1998) United States of America 1910-01-06 1998-04-25 Central City Mill Valley Q920901
Harry Callahan
American photographer (1912-1999) United States of America 1912-10-22 1999-03-15 Detroit Atlanta Q1383354
Lee Friedlander American photographer United States of America 1934-07-14 Aberdeen Q711391
Sigmar Polke
German artist (1941–2010) Germany 1941-02-13 2010-06-10 Oleśnica Cologne Q376062
Louise Lawler
American photographer United States of America 1947 Bronxville Q539270
Sally Mann
American photographer United States of America 1951-05-01 Lexington Q256434


physician

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Haygarth
18th-century British physician; (1740-1827) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1740 1827-06-10 Garsdale Bath Q1344833
Charles Blagden
British physician and scientist United Kingdom 1748-04-17 1820-03-26 Gloucestershire Arcueil Q1063743
Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist (1748-1822) France
Kingdom of Sardinia
1748-12-09 1822-11-06 Talloires Arcueil Q312587
Edward Jenner
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1749-05-17 1823-01-26 Berkeley Berkeley Q40852
Joel Roberts Poinsett
politician and diplomat (1779-1851) United States of America 1779-03-02 1851-12-12 Charleston Stateburg Q723956
Augustus Addison Gould
American conchologist (1805–1866) United States of America 1805-04-23 1866-09-15 New Ipswich Boston Q770126
Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff German physician and biologist (1807-1882) Kingdom of Prussia 1807-10-28 1882-12-05 Hanover Munich Q65283
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American poet and physician (1809–1894) United States of America 1809-08-29 1894-10-07 Cambridge Boston Q319829
Carl Ludwig
German physiologist Kingdom of Prussia 1816-12-29 1895-04-24 Witzenhausen Leipzig Q61975
Franciscus Donders
Dutch ophthalmologist (1818-1889) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1818-05-27 1889-03-24 Tilburg Utrecht Q1347862
Emil du Bois-Reymond
German physician and physiologist (1818-1896) Kingdom of Prussia 1818-11-07 1896-12-26 Berlin Berlin Q76571
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
German pathologist (1833-1910) Kingdom of Prussia 1833-12-02
1833
1910-08-26
1884
Gütersloh Strasbourg Q62920
Michael Foster
English physiologist (1836–1907) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1836-03-08 1907-01-29 Huntingdon London Q770417
Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet
British doctor United Kingdom 1845-11-04 1945-01-12 Lancashire London Q726965
William Osler
Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital Canada 1849-07-12 1919-12-29 Bond Head Oxford Q369668
William Crawford Gorgas
22nd Surgeon General of the United States Army United States of America 1854-10-03 1920-07-03 Mobile London Q257279
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952) United Kingdom
United States of America
1857-11-27 1952-03-04 London Eastbourne Q213504
Friedrich von Müller
German physician (1858-1941) German Reich 1858-09-17 1941-11-18 Augsburg Munich Q96914
Simon Flexner
American scientist (1863-1946) United States of America 1863-03-25 1946-05-02 Louisville New York City Q984262
Harvey Williams Cushing
American neurosurgeon (1869-1939) United States of America 1869-04-08 1939-10-07
1939-10-08
Cleveland New Haven Q380038
Elliott P. Joslin
American physician United States of America 1869-06-06 1962-01-28 Massachusetts Brookline Q1331376
Aldo Castellani
Italian bacteriologist Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1874-09-08 1971-10-03 Florence Lisbon Q524137
August Krogh
Danish physiologist Kingdom of Denmark 1874-11-15 1949-09-13 Grenå Copenhagen Q152187
Henry Hallett Dale
English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate United Kingdom 1875-06-09 1968-07-23 London Cambridge Q72194
Robert Debré
French physician (1882-1978) France 1882-12-07 1978-04-29 Sedan Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Q743684
George Minot
American physician (1885-1950) United States of America 1885-12-02 1950-02-25 Boston Boston Q245000
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971) Argentina 1887-04-10 1971-09-21 Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Q237160
Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist (1888-1963) United States of America 1888-07-05 1963-05-11 Platteville New York City Q273201
Elvin Morton Jellinek United States of America 1890-08-15 1963-10-22 Manhattan
New York City
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Q1334252
André Frédéric Cournand
French physiologist France
United States of America
1895-09-24 1988-02-19 Paris Great Barrington Q271757
Dickinson W. Richards
American physician, Nobel Prize recipient (1895-1973) United States of America 1895-10-30 1973-02-23 Orange Lakeville Q312963
Philip Showalter Hench American physician (1896-1965) United States of America 1896-02-28 1965-03-30 Pittsburgh Ocho Rios Q235651
Detlev Bronk
American biophysicist United States of America 1897-08-13 1975-11-17 New York City New York City Q644005
Soma Weiss American physician Hungary
United States of America
1898 1942 Bistrița United States of America Q712593
Fuller Albright endocrinologist (1900-1969) United States of America 1900-01-12 1969-12-08 Buffalo Boston Q339260
William Dameshek American hematologist United States of America 1900-05-22 1969-10-06 Voronezh New York City Q909948
George H. Hitchings
Nobel Prize-winning American physician United States of America 1905-04-18 1998-02-27 Hoquiam Chapel Hill Q310487
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist (1911–2003) Germany
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1911-03-26 2003-04-20 Leipzig London Q4517
Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987) United Kingdom
United States of America
1915-02-28 1987-10-02 Petrópolis London Q214209
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American doctor United States of America 1916-08-25 2003-08-04 Auburn Cleveland Q309885
Jean Dausset
French immunologist (1916-2009) France 1916-10-19 2009-06-06 Toulouse Palma Q152760
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist United States of America 1918-03-03 2007-10-26 Brooklyn Stanford Q295678
Karl H. Pribram
Austrian neuroscientist United States of America
Austria
1919-02-25 2015-01-19
2015-02-19
Vienna Virginia Q113786
Humberto Fernández Morán
Venezuelan scientist (1924-1999) Venezuela 1924-02-18 1999-03-17 Concepción Stockholm Q1379844
David H. Hubel
Canadian neurophysiologist Canada
United States of America
1926-02-27 2013-09-22 Windsor Lincoln Q295644
Ferid Murad
American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023) United States of America 1936-09-14 2023-09-04 Whiting Menlo Park Q295999
David Satcher
American physician United States of America 1941-03-02 Anniston Q1176498
Stanley B. Prusiner
Neurologist, biochemist United States of America 1942-05-28 Des Moines Q155380
Dan Vasella
Swiss businessperson and corporate director Switzerland 1953-08-15 Fribourg Q116679
Jim Yong Kim
Korean-American physician and anthropologist, 12th President of the World Bank United States of America 1959-12-08 Seoul Q313297


physicist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Benjamin Thompson
American-born British physicist and inventor United States of America
Kingdom of Great Britain
Electorate of Bavaria
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American physical chemist United States of America 1838-01-29 1923-02-24 Newark West Hartford Q320889
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statelessness
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United States of America
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Germany
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English physicist United Kingdom 1892-09-06 1965-04-21 Bradford Edinburgh Q153194
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography Hungary
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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United States of America
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United States of America
1904-03-20
1904-04-20
1991-10-14 Mannheim Baltimore Q64550
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Switzerland
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United States of America
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United States of America
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Swedish astronomer (1906-1993) Sweden 1906-11-02 1993-02-10 Gusum Lund Q209283
Hideki Yukawa
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Empire of Japan
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American physicist (1907-1991) United States of America 1907-09-18 1991-09-07 Redondo Beach El Cerrito Q19009
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United States of America
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Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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United Kingdom
United States of America
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1911-01-04 2004-03-10 Saint Petersburg Cambridge Q1176634
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Empire of Japan
1920-02-15 1995-03-31
1995-05-01
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United States of America
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American physicist United States of America 1920-07-10 2006-02-28 San Francisco Berkeley Q183655
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Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist Soviet Union
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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United States of America
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United States of America
Republic of China
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1922-09-22
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G. N. Ramachandran Indian scientist (1922-2001) India
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Alastair G. W. Cameron Canadian astrophysicist Canada
United States of America
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Republic of China
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United States of America
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Kingdom of Italy
1927 2014-10-12 Genoa Q1337507
Rolf Landauer
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United States of America
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J. B. Gunn
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United States of America
Soviet Union
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Kingdom of Italy
1928-12-31 2005-01-06
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United States of America
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John Robert Schrieffer
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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United States of America
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David J. Thouless
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United States of America
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France
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United States of America
1934-10-23 Paris Q381974
Benjamin Whisoh Lee
Korean-born American theoretical physicist United States of America 1935-01-01 1977-06-16 Seoul Kewanee Q494705
Herbert Walther German physicist Germany 1935-01-19 2006-07-22 Ludwigshafen Q74175
Marvin L. Cohen
American physicist United States of America 1935-03-03 Montreal Q1715098
W. Jason Morgan
American geophysicist (1935-2023) United States of America 1935-10-10 2023-07-31 Savannah Natick Q1351267
Bruno Coppi physicist Italy 1935-11-19 Lombardy Q993155
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
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United States of America
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Evelyn Fox Keller
American physicist, author and feminist United States of America 1936-03-20 2023-09-22 New York City Cambridge Q239131
Gerhard Ertl
German physicist Germany 1936-10-10 Stuttgart Q60066
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Eric G. Adelberger American physicist United States of America 1938-06-26 Bryn Mawr Q1351285
Herbert Gleiter physicist Germany 1938-10-13 Stuttgart Q109372
Harry Swinney American physicist United States of America 1939-04-10 Opelousas Q527322
Peter Goldreich
American astronomer United States of America 1939-07-14 New York City Q1351673
Charles Kennel American scientist United States of America 1939-08-20 Cambridge Q1065151
Brian David Josephson
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David H. Auston American physicist United States of America 1940-11-14 Toronto Q1174635
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist Israel
United States of America
1941-01-24 Tel Aviv Q44111
Chu Ching-wu
Chinese-American physicist United States of America 1941-02-12 Changsha Q709875
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist United States of America 1941-02-19 Washington, D.C. Q40262
David Edward Pritchard American physicist United States of America 1941-10-15 New York City Q245816
Theodor W. Hänsch
German physicist and nobel laureate Germany
United States of America
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John Henry Schwarz American theoretical physicist United States of America 1941-11-22 North Adams Q710213
Robert L. Byer
American physicist United States of America 1942-05-09 Glendale Q1333579
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist United Kingdom 1942-06-23 York Q335213
Renata Kallosh
theoretical physicist Russia 1943-01-16 Chernivtsi Q529277
Pierre Ramond American physicist United States of America 1943-01-31 Neuilly-sur-Seine Q40047
Rashid Sunyaev
Russian astronomer Soviet Union
Russia
1943-03-01 Tashkent Q836911
Helen Quinn
Australian physicist United States of America
Australia
1943-05-19 Melbourne Q450304
Michael Kosterlitz
British physicist United Kingdom
United States of America
1943-06-22 Aberdeen Q1700920
Charles Shank
American physicist United States of America 1943-07-12 Mount Holly Township Q1066053
David J. Wineland
American physicist United States of America 1944-02-24 Milwaukee Q61045
Serge Haroche
French physicist, Nobel laureate France 1944-09-11 Casablanca Q109588
Stanford E. Woosley American physicist United States of America 1944-12-08 Texarkana
United States of America
Q1243485
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United States of America
1945-06-20 Trumau Q1731619
Douglas Osheroff
American physicist United States of America 1945-08-01 Aberdeen Q206405
Michele Parrinello
physicist Italy 1945-09-07 Messina Q479473
Catherine Bréchignac
French physicist France 1946-06-12 Paris Q274054
Eli Yablonovitch
American physicist United States of America 1946-12-15 Puch Q347721
Saul A. Teukolsky
astrophysicist United States of America 1947-08-02 Johannesburg Q287433
Federico Capasso Italian applied physicist Italy
United States of America
1949 Rome Q764570
Horst Ludwig Störmer
German physicist Germany 1949-04-06 Frankfurt Q71015
Tom Banks American physicist United States of America 1949-04-19 New York City Q1383863
Gerald Gabrielse American physicist United States of America 1951 Q269756
Carl Wieman
Nobel prize winning US physicist United States of America 1951-03-26 Corvallis Q206379
David Robert Nelson
American physicist United States of America 1951-09-05
1951-11-05
Stuttgart Q1175876
Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University United Kingdom
Slovenia
1951-09-14
1951-11-14
London Q1002250
Savas Dimopoulos American physicist Greece 1952 Istanbul Q1386035
Alexander Zamolodchikov Soviet and Russian physicist Soviet Union
Russia
United States of America
1952-09-18 Novo Ivankovo Q1333246
Stephen Shenker
American physicist United States of America 1953 Alexandria Q787109
Michael Dine American physicist United States of America 1953-08-12 Cincinnati Q1927280
Mark B. Wise Canadian-American theoretical physicist Canada
United States of America
1953-11-09 United States of America Q1770175
Elena Aprile
Italian experimental particle physicist Italy
United States of America
1954-03-12 Milan Q1327847
Boris Altshuler physicist, born 1955 United States of America
Soviet Union
Russia
1955-01-27 Saint Petersburg Q677809
Peter Galison
American historian of science and physicist United States of America 1955-05-17 New York City Q444025
Persis Drell
American physicist United States of America 1955-12-30 Palo Alto Q1763248
Joseph Incandela American physicist United States of America 1956 United States of America Q1032963
Shrinivas Kulkarni
American astronomer United States of America 1956-10-04 Kurundwad Q519988
Gabriel Aeppli
American physicist United States of America
Switzerland
1956-11-25
1956-11
Zürich Q994414
Andreas Albrecht theoretical physicist and cosmologist United States of America 1957 Ithaca Q495718
Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist Germany 1957-10-21 Heidelberg Q76462
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Danish physicist Kingdom of Denmark 1959-11-13 Vejle Q268421
Eric Allin Cornell
American physicist, professor United States of America 1961-12-19 Palo Alto Q205954
Igor Klebanov theoretical physicist United States of America
Soviet Union
1962-03-29 Shakhty Q1239168
Albert-László Barabási
Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist Hungary
Romania
United States of America
1967-03-30 Cârța Q725467
Deborah S. Jin
American physicist United States of America 1968-11-15 2016-09-15 Stanford Boulder Q1181574
Michal Lipson American physicist United States of America
Israel
1970 Haifa Q528247
Shamit Kachru theoretical physicist, a professor of physics at Stanford University, the Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Stanford Physics Department Chair United States of America 1970-07-13 Champaign Q368407
Eva Silverstein American physicist United States of America 1970-10-24 Spokane Q1379490


physiologist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Gabriel Valentin
physiologist (1810-1883) Kingdom of Prussia
Switzerland
1810-07-08 1883-05-24 Wrocław Bern Q68146
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Mauritian physiologist and neurologist France 1817-04-08 1894-04-02 Port Louis Sceaux Q725855
Wilhelm Kühne
physiologist Hamburg 1837-03-28 1900-06-10 Hamburg Heidelberg Q76919
Ludimar Hermann
German physiologist, speech scientist Germany 1838-10-21 1914-06-05 Berlin Königsberg Q69409
Jacques Loeb
German-American physiologist and biologist (1859-1924) Kingdom of Prussia
United States of America
Weimar Republic
1859-04-07 1924-02-11 Mayen Hamilton Q62982
Walter Bradford Cannon
American physiologist (1871-1945) United States of America 1871-10-19 1945-10-01 Wisconsin Franklin Q503192
Joseph Barcroft
Physiologist, studied the oxygenation of blood United Kingdom 1872-07-26 1947-03-21 Newry Cambridge Q377985
Arturo Rosenblueth
Mexican physiologist Mexico 1900-10-02 1970-09-20 Chihuahua City Mexico City Q121729
Charles Brenton Huggins
American physiologist (1901-1997) Canada
United States of America
1901-09-22 1997-01-12 Halifax Chicago Q155371
Haldan Keffer Hartline
American neuroscientist United States of America 1903-12-22 1983-03-17
1987-03-17
Bloomsburg Fallston Q309879
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist United States of America 1915-11-19 1974-03-09 Burlingame Miami Q68118
Donald S. Fredrickson
American medical researcher United States of America 1924-08-08 2002-06-07 Cañon City Bethesda Q1240319
Ernst Knobil American physician United States of America 1926-09-20 2000-04-13 Berlin Houston Q990928


pianist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
American patron of music (1864–1953) United States of America 1864-10-30 1953-11-04 Chicago Cambridge Q443559
Walter Piston American composer (1894–1976) United States of America 1894-01-20 1976-11-12 Knox County Belmont Q711052
Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974) United States of America 1899-04-29 1974-05-24 Washington, D.C. New York City Q4030
Rudolf Serkin
Bohemian-born American pianist Austria
United States of America
1903-03-28 1991-05-08 Cheb Guilford Q213545
Charles Rosen American pianist and writer on music United States of America 1927-05-05 2012-12-09 Manhattan Manhattan Q1065956
Daniel Barenboim
Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor Argentina
Israel
Spain
State of Palestine
1942-11-15 Buenos Aires Q152768
Ursula Oppens American classical concert pianist and educator United States of America 1944-02-02 New York City Q529493
Keith Jarrett
American jazz/classical pianist and composer United States of America 1945-05-08 Allentown Q207034


playwright

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Paul Claudel
French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868-1955) France 1868-08-06 1955-02-23 Villeneuve-sur-Fère Paris Q295830
T. S. Eliot
US-born British poet (1888–1965) United States of America
United Kingdom
1888-09-26 1965-01-04 St. Louis Kensington Q37767
S. N. Behrman
American writer United States of America 1893-06-09 1973-09-09 Worcester New York City Q911096
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980) France 1905-06-21 1980-04-15 Paris 14th arrondissement of Paris Q9364
Eugène Ionesco
Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994) Romania 1909-11-26 1994-03-28 Slatina 14th arrondissement of Paris Q46706
Eric Bentley American playwright United States of America 1916-09-14 2020-08-05 Bolton New York City Q1351104
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer United States of America 1926-06-03 1997-04-05 Newark East Village Q6711
Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008) United Kingdom 1930-10-10 2008-12-24 London London Q41042
Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate Nigerian writer Nigeria 1934-07-13 Ogun State Q41488
Don DeLillo
American novelist, playwright and essayist United States of America 1936-11-20 The Bronx Q310048
Tom Stoppard
British playwright (born 1937) Czechoslovakia
United Kingdom
1937-07-03 Zlín Q294773
Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor Second Polish Republic
United States of America
1937-07-18 Zolochiv Q273279
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenyan writer (1938-) Kenya 1938-01-05 Kamirithu Q302910
John Guare
American playwright and screenwriter (born 1938) United States of America 1938-02-05 New York City Q320556
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer Ireland 1939-04-13 2013-08-30 Castledawson Dublin Q93356
August Wilson American playwright (1945-2005) United States of America 1945-04-27 2005-10-02 Pittsburgh Seattle Q764812
Deborah Eisenberg
American short story writer, actress, teacher United States of America 1945-11-20 Winnetka Q528096
David Hare
British playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director (1947- ) United Kingdom 1947-06-05 St Leonards-on-Sea Q1174676
Jessica Hagedorn
Filipino-American playwright, writer, poet, storyteller, musician, multimedia performance artist United States of America 1949 Manila Q465222
Donald Margulies
American playwright United States of America 1954-09-02 Brooklyn Q531705


poet

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Trumbull
American poet United States of America 1750-04-24 1831-05-11 Watertown Detroit Q377145
James Russell Lowell
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891) United States of America 1819-02-22 1891-08-12 Cambridge Cambridge Q449670
Matthew Arnold
British poet and cultural critic (1822–1888) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1822-12-24 1888-04-15 Laleham Liverpool Q271032
John Crowe Ransom
American poet United States of America 1888-04-30 1974-07-03 Pulaski Gambier Q1337955
Jorge Guillén
Spanish poet Spain 1893-01-18 1984-02-06
1984-02-02
Valladolid Málaga Q59837
Yvor Winters American poet and literary critic United States of America 1900-10-17 1968-01-25 Chicago Palo Alto Q728959
Langston Hughes
(1901-1967) American writer and social activist United States of America 1901-02-01 1967-05-22 Joplin New York City Q188093
Ogden Nash
American poet United States of America 1902-08-19 1971-05-19 New York Baltimore Q719228
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973) Chile 1904-07-12 1973-09-23 Parral Santiago Q34189
Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989) United States of America 1905-04-24 1989-09-15 Guthrie Stratton Q312720
Stephen Spender
English poet and man of letters United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1909-02-28 1995-07-16 Kensington London Q448764
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet United States of America
Canada
1911-02-08 1979-10-06 Worcester Boston Q235946
Czesław Miłosz
Polish poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator. Nobel Prize winner (1911-2004) Poland
United States of America
Lithuania
1911-06-30 2004-08-14 Šeteniai
Šiauliai
Kraków Q45970
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer, poet and diplomat Mexico
Second Spanish Republic
1914-03-31 1998-04-19 Mexico City Mexico City Q46739
John Berryman American poet and scholar (1914–1972) United States of America 1914-10-25 1972-01-07 McAlester Minneapolis Q522192
Chia-Chiao Lin Chinese-American applied mathematician (1916-2013) United States of America
People's Republic of China
1916-07-07 2013-01-13 Beijing Beijing Q717421
Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017) United States of America 1921-03-01 2017-10-14 New York City Belmont Q1333582
Philip Larkin
English writer, jazz critic and librarian (1922-1985) United Kingdom 1922-08-09 1985-12-02 Coventry Kingston upon Hull Q313758
Wisława Szymborska
Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner Poland 1923-07-02 2012-02-01 Kórnik Kraków Q42552
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer South Africa 1923-11-20 2014-07-13 Springs Johannesburg Q47619
Yehuda Amichai
Israeli poet (1924-2000) Germany
Israel
1924-05-03 2000-09-22 Würzburg Jerusalem Q58612
Robert Creeley
American poet (1926-2005) United States of America 1926-05-21 2005-03-30 Arlington Odessa Q918620
John Ashbery
poet from the United States of America United States of America 1927-07-28 2017-09-03 Rochester Hudson Q29418
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012) United States of America 1929-05-16 2012-03-27 Baltimore Santa Cruz Q270705
Gary Snyder
American poet United States of America 1930-05-08 San Francisco Q315963
Geoffrey Hill
English poet (1932–2016) United Kingdom 1932-06-18 2016-06-30 Bromsgrove Cambridge Q649280
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017) Soviet Union
Russia
1932-07-18
1933-07-18
2017-04-01 Zima Tulsa Q297736
Wendell Berry
American writer United States of America 1934-08-05 Henry County Q533505
Ishmael Reed
American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher United States of America 1938-02-22 Chattanooga Q983544
Charles Simic
Serbian born American poet (1938-2023) United States of America
Serbia
1938-05-09 2023-01-09 Belgrade Dover Q722555
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996) Soviet Union
United States of America
No/unknown value
statelessness
1940-05-24 1996-01-28 Saint Petersburg Brooklyn Q862
Robert Hass
American poet United States of America 1941-03-01 San Francisco Q370513
J. D. McClatchy American poet United States of America 1945-12-08
1945-08-12
2018-04-10 Bryn Mawr New York City Q915445
Leslie Marmon Silko
American writer United States of America 1948-03-05 Albuquerque Q273001
Diane Ackerman
Author, poet, naturalist United States of America 1948-10-07 Waukegan Q467169
Peter Ackroyd
English author United Kingdom 1949-10-05 London Q319169
Joy Harjo
American Poet Laureate United States of America 1951-05-09 Tulsa Q292180
Rita Dove
American poet and author United States of America 1952-08-28 Akron Q445740
Louise Erdrich
writer from the United States United States of America 1954-06-07 Little Falls Q442679
Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist and writer Ireland 1955-05-30 Enniscorthy Q470758
Ha Jin
Author, poet United States of America
People's Republic of China
1956-02-21 Jinzhou Q121778


political scientist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Charles Edward Merriam
American political scientist (1874-1953) United States of America 1874-11-15 1953-01-08 Hopkinton Rockville Q716312
Carl Joachim Friedrich German political scientist (1901-1984) Germany
United States of America
1901-06-05 1984-09-19 Leipzig Lexington Q77442
Harold Lasswell
American political scientist (1902-1978) United States of America 1902-02-13 1978-12-18 Donnellson Manhattan Q314462
Gabriel Almond American political scientist (1911-2002) United States of America 1911-01-12 2002-12-25 Rock Island Pacific Grove Q729543
Karl Deutsch Czech political scientist Czechoslovakia
United States of America
1912-07-21 1992-11-01 Prague Cambridge Q77454
David Easton
Canadian academic (1917-2014) Canada 1917-06-24 2014-07-19 Toronto Q471431
Stein Rokkan Norwegian political scientist Norway 1921-07-04 1979-07-22 Vågan Municipality Bergen Q319704
Robert Coldwell Wood
American political scientist (1923-2005) United States of America 1923-09-16 2005-04-01 St. Louis Boston Q932181
Seweryn Bialer American political scientist United States of America
Poland
1926-11-03 2019-02-08 Berlin Manhattan Q251708
Juan José Linz Spanish sociologist and political scientist Germany
Spain
United States of America
1926-12-24 2013-10-01 Bonn New Haven Q62478
Donald E. Stokes American political scientist United States of America 1927-04-01 1997-01-26 Philadelphia Philadelphia Q1239836
James Q. Wilson American political scientist and adviser and sociologist United States of America 1931-05-27 2012-03-02 Denver Boston Q636710
Chalmers Johnson American political scientist (1931–2010) United States of America 1931-08-06 2010-11-20 Phoenix Cardiff-by-the-Sea Q1060181
Arend Lijphart Dutch political scientist Kingdom of the Netherlands
United States of America
1936-08-17 Apeldoorn Q641796
Carole Pateman
British feminist, academic political theorist United Kingdom 1940-12-11 Sussex Q299627
John Ruggie
Political science professor United States of America 1944-10-18 2021-09-16 Graz Q933059
Charles Beitz American political theorist United States of America 1949-07-20 Q1063699
Wendy Brown
American political theorist United States of America 1955-11-28 Q183265
Paul Pierson
American political scientist United States of America 1959
1950-09-25
Eugene Q743605


politician

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Benjamin Franklin
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father (1706–1790) British America
United States of America
1706-01-17 1790-04-17 Boston Philadelphia Q34969
Samuel Adams
American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803) United States of America 1722-09-27 1803-10-02 Boston Boston Q212963
Thomas Cushing
First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788) United States of America 1725-03-24 1788-02-28 Quincy
Boston
Boston Q781134
George Washington
president of the United States from 1789 to 1797 Kingdom of Great Britain
United States of America
1732-02-22 1799-12-14 Westmoreland County
Wakefield
Mount Vernon Q23
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
British Prime Minister (1737-1805) Kingdom of Great Britain 1737-05-02 1805-05-07 Dublin London Q312573
John Bacon American politician, Massachusetts (1738-1820) United States of America 1738-04-05 1820-10-25 Canterbury Stockbridge Q1244688
William Paterson
Governor of New Jersey (1745-1806) United States of America 1745-12-24 1806-09-09 County Antrim Albany Q729054
Samuel Osgood
American politician (1748-1813) United States of America 1748-02-03 1813-08-12 Andover New York City Q1396334
David Cobb
American politician, 1748–1830 United States of America 1748-09-14 1830-04-17 Attleboro Taunton Q1174031
Levi Lincoln Sr.
United States attorney general and acting governor of Massachusetts (1749-1820) United States of America 1749-05-15 1820-04-14 Hingham Worcester Q720568
James Madison
president of the United States from 1809 to 1817 United States of America 1751-03-16 1836-06-28 Port Conway Montpelier Q11813
George Cabot
American Senator (1752-1823) United States of America 1752-12-03 1823-04-18 Salem Boston Q382723
Jacques Pierre Brissot
French revolutionary (1754–1793) France 1754-01-15 1793-10-31 Chartres Paris Q314984
John Marshall
chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835) United States of America 1755-09-24 1835-07-06 Germantown Philadelphia Q310829
Elijah Paine
United States federal judge (1757-1842) United States of America 1757-01-21 1842-04-28 Brooklyn Williamstown Q382730
Samuel Sewall
American politician (1757-1814) United States of America 1757-12-11 1814-06-08 Boston Wiscasset Q1712522
Fisher Ames
American politician (1758–1808) United States of America 1758-04-09 1808-07-04 Dedham Dedham Q1194576
Benjamin Pickman, Jr.
American politician, 1763-1843 United States of America 1763-09-30 1843-08-16 Salem Salem Q817647
John Quincy Adams
president of the United States from 1825 to 1829 United States of America
British America
1767-07-11 1848-02-23 Braintree United States Capitol Q11816
Isaac Parker
American politician and lawyer (1768-1830) United States of America 1768-06-17 1830-05-26
1830-07-25
Boston Boston Q927036
Josiah Bartlett Jr.
American politician (1768-1838) United States of America 1768-08-29 1838-04-16 Kingston Stratham Q1708618
DeWitt Clinton
American politician (1769–1828) United States of America 1769-03-02 1828-02-11 Little Britain Albany Q527462
Asahel Stearns
American politician (1774-1839) United States of America 1774-06-17 1839-02-05 Lunenburg Cambridge Q720418
John Reed, Jr. American politician (1781-1860) United States of America 1781-09-02 1860-11-25 West Bridgewater West Bridgewater Q1701548
François Guizot
French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874) France 1787-10-04 1874-09-12 Nîmes Abbey of Val-Richer Q157324
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
British politician (1790-1851) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1790-01-02 1851-01-17 Q338197
Gino Capponi
Italian politician, historian and writer (1792-1876) Kingdom of Italy 1792-09-13 1876-02-03 Florence Florence Q719985
Abbott Lawrence
American politician (1792-1855) United States of America 1792-12-16 1855-08-18 Groton Boston Q306762
Charles de Rémusat
French politician and writer (1797-1875) France 1797-03-13 1875-06-06 Paris Paris Q344454
George Perkins Marsh
American politician (1801-1882) United States of America 1801-03-15 1882-07-23 Woodstock Vallombrosa Abbey Q748127
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807-1886) United States of America 1807-08-18 1886-11-21 Boston Boston Q75174
William Ewart Gladstone
British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1809-12-29 1898-05-19 Liverpool Hawarden Castle Q160852
Charles Sumner
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874) United States of America 1811-01-06 1874-03-11 Boston Washington, D.C. Q1066198
Benjamin Thomas
American politician (1813-1878) United States of America 1813-02-12 1878-09-27 Boston Beverly Farms Q817713
Ebenezer R. Hoar
American lawyer, judge, and politician (1816-1895) United States of America 1816-02-21 1895-01-31 Concord Concord Q724521
John Davis Long
Massachusetts governor and Congressman; Secretary of the Navy (1838–1915) United States of America 1838-10-27 1915-08-28 Buckfield Hingham Q745731
Arthur Balfour
British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1848-07-25 1930-03-19 Whittingehame Woking Q19008
Samuel Walker McCall
American politician United States of America 1851-02-28 1923-11-04 East Providence Township Winchester Q440654
Woodrow Wilson
president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 United States of America 1856-12-28 1924-02-03 Staunton Washington, D.C. Q34296
Angelo Celli
Italian physician and biologist (1857-1914) Kingdom of Italy 1857-03-25 1914-11-02 Cagli Monza Q1057343
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
British politician (1860-1935) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1860-10-10 1935-12-30 London London Q336036
Charles Evans Hughes
Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 United States of America 1862-04-11 1948-08-27 Glens Falls Osterville Q313252
Charles Francis Adams III
Secretary of the Navy (1866-1954) United States of America 1866-08-02 1954-06-10 Quincy Boston Q382352
Peter Struve
Russian journalist Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russia
1870-01-26 1944-02-26
1944-02-22
Perm Paris Q377725
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965) United Kingdom 1874-11-30 1965-01-24 Blenheim Palace Hyde Park Gate Q8016
Heinrich Brüning
German chancellor (1885-1970) Germany 1885-11-26 1970-03-30 Münster Norwich Q155398
Dean Acheson
American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971) United States of America 1893-04-11 1971-10-12 Middletown Sandy Spring Q214758
H. V. Evatt
Australian judge and politician (1894-1965) Australia 1894-04-30 1965-11-02 East Maitland Canberra Q1388459
Christian Herter
American politician (1895-1966) France
United States of America
1895-03-28 1966-12-30 Paris Washington, D.C. Q240274
Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
Finnish geodesist (1895–1971) Finland 1895-07-23 1971-10-23 Kangaslampi Helsinki Q322549
Trygve Lie
1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1896–1968) Norway 1896-07-16 1968-12-30 Grünerløkka
Oslo
Geilo Q1271
Patrick Blackett
British physicist (1897–1974) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1897-11-18 1974-07-13 London London Q184499
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgian politician (1899-1972) Belgium 1899-01-25 1972-07-31 Schaerbeek Braine-l'Alleud Q155691
Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973) United States of America
Germany
1899-09-20 1973-10-18 Kirchhain Annapolis Q77144
Adlai Stevenson II
American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 United States of America 1900-02-05 1965-07-14 Los Angeles London Q311719
Federico Chabod
Italian historian and politician Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1901-02-23 1960-07-14 Aosta Rome Q726979
Walter Hallstein
German diplomat and statesman (1901–1982) Germany 1901-11-17 1982-03-29 Mainz Stuttgart Q159995
Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman
British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer (1904-1993) United Kingdom 1904-05-30 1993-04-01 Cape Town Burnham Thorpe Q336650
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961) Sweden 1905-07-29 1961-09-18 Jönköping Ndola Q1267
Dillon Anderson
American politician (1906-1974) United States of America 1906-07-14 1974-01-29 McKinney Houston Q1225600
U Thant
third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1909-1974) Myanmar 1909-01-22 1974-11-25 Pantanaw New York City Q1264
Giulio Carlo Argan
Italian politician and art historian (1909-1992) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1909-05-17 1992-11-12 Turin Rome Q778445
Hubert Humphrey
vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969 United States of America 1911-05-27 1978-01-13 Wallace Waverly Q209989
Hans Leussink German politician (1912-2008) Germany 1912-02-02 2008-02-16 Schüttorf Karlsruhe Q75981
John W. Gardner
American politician (1912-2002) United States of America 1912-10-08 2002-02-16 Los Angeles Palo Alto Q445258
Hugh Trevor-Roper
British historian (1914-2003) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1914-01-15 2003-01-26 Glanton Oxford Q335087
Edmund Muskie
American politician (1914–1996) United States of America 1914-03-28 1996-03-26 Rumford Washington, D.C. Q319867
Franco Venturi
Italian historian, essayist, journalist (1914-1994) Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1914-05-16 1994-12-14 Rome Turin Q481482
Alan Bullock British historian (1914-2004) United Kingdom 1914-12-13 2004-02-02 Trowbridge Oxford Q335167
Abba Eban
Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002) Israel 1915-02-02 2002-11-17 Cape Town Tel Aviv Q305776
John Tukey American mathematician (1915-2000) United States of America 1915-06-16 2000-07-26 New Bedford New Brunswick Q382207
John F. Kennedy
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 United States of America 1917-05-29 1963-11-22 Brookline Parkland Memorial Hospital Q9696
Nelson Mandela
First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013) South Africa 1918-07-18 2013-12-05 Mvezo Houghton Estate Q8023
Helmut Schmidt
chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982), SPD Germany 1918-12-23 2015-11-10 Hamburg Hamburg Q2516
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
British Conservative politician (1919–2018) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1919-06-06 2018-07-09 Chelsea Bledlow Q335038
Roy Jenkins
British politician (1920–2003) United Kingdom 1920-11-11 2003-01-05 Abersychan East Hendred Q323488
John Glenn
American astronaut and politician (1921–2016) United States of America 1921-07-18 2016-12-08 Cambridge The James Cancer Hospital Q182642
Henry Kissinger
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023) Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
United States of America
1923-05-27 2023-11-29 Fürth Kent Q66107
George H. W. Bush
President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 United States of America 1924-06-12 2018-11-30 Milton Houston Q23505
John Brademas
American politician and educator (1927–2016) United States of America 1927-03-02 2016-07-11 Mishawaka Manhattan Q533169
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
American politician (1927-2003) United States of America 1927-03-16 2003-03-26 Tulsa Washington, D.C. Q713505
Nicholas F. Brady
American politician (born 1930) United States of America 1930-04-11 Manhattan Q723444
Warren Rudman
American politician (1930-2012) United States of America 1930-05-18 2012-11-19 Boston Washington, D.C. Q60547
Lee H. Hamilton
politician United States of America 1931-04-20 Daytona Beach Q984174
George J. Mitchell
American politician, diplomat, and judge United States of America 1933-08-20 Waterville Q368920
Louis Wade Sullivan
American politician United States of America 1933-11-03 Atlanta Q744689
Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford British sociologist and viscount (born 1934) United Kingdom 1934-11-10 2020-12-10 Q337127
Mickey Edwards
American politician United States of America 1937-07-12 Cleveland Q1931352
Tim Wirth
American politician United States of America 1939-09-22 Santa Fe Q1027431
Claus Offe German political sociologist Germany 1940-03-16 Berlin Q62725
Kay Bailey Hutchison
American politician (born 1943) United States of America 1943-07-22 Galveston Q239928
Bill Bradley
American basketball player and politician (born 1943) United States of America 1943-07-28 Crystal City Q504025
Phil Bredesen
American politician United States of America 1943-11-21 Oceanport Q724001
Chris Patten
British politician and colonial administrator (born 1944) United Kingdom 1944-05-12 Cleveleys Q23368
Bill Clinton
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 United States of America 1946-08-19 Hope Q1124
Hillary Clinton
American politician, diplomat, and presidential candidate (born 1947) United States of America 1947-10-26 Edgewater Hospital Q6294
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
British businessman (born 1948) United Kingdom 1948-02-20 Hamburg Q335556
Al Gore
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948) United States of America 1948-03-31 Washington, D.C. Q19673
Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 New Zealand 1950-02-26 Te Pahu Q180383
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
British diplomat (born 1954) United Kingdom 1954-03-13 Georgetown Q335698
Condoleezza Rice
United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 United States of America 1954-11-14 Birmingham Q47216
Penny Pritzker
American billionaire businesswoman (born 1959) United States of America 1959-05-02 Chicago Q293365
Barack Obama
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 United States of America
Kenya
1961-08-04 Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children Q76
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965) United Kingdom
United States of America
1965-07-15 London Q272670


professor

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Joseph Bédier
French philologist and writer (1864-1938) France 1864-01-28 1938-08-29 6th arrondissement of Paris Le Grand-Serre Q380842
Stephen Kuffler
American neurophysiologist United States of America 1913-08-24 1980-10-11 Austria-Hungary Woods Hole Q445338
E. C. Pielou
Canadian ecologist Canada 1924-02-20 2016-07-16 Bognor Regis Comox Q1381717
Philip Levine
Jewish-American poet (1928-2015) United States of America 1928-01-10 2015-02-14 Detroit Fresno Q531273
Maxine Hong Kingston
Chinese American author United States of America 1940-10-27 Stockton Q19330
Louise Richardson
Irish political scientist Ireland 1958 Tramore Q440934


programmer

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project United States of America 1953-03-16 Manhattan Q7439
Ray Ozzie
American businessman United States of America 1955-11-20 Chicago Q92637


psychiatrist

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name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Vincent Dole American physician (1913-2006) United States of America 1913-05-18 2006-08-01 Chicago New York City Q983762
Aaron Beck
American psychiatrist United States of America 1921-07-18 2021-11-01 Providence Philadelphia Q302849
Robert Jay Lifton
American psychiatrist and author United States of America 1926-05-16 Brooklyn Q711066


psychoanalyst

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Anna Freud
Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982) United Kingdom
Austria
1895-12-03
1896
1982-10-09 Vienna London Q78485
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic France
Bulgaria
1941-06-24 Sliven Q159876


psychologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist and educator (1846–1924) United States of America 1846-02-01
1844
1844-02-01
1924-04-24 Ashfield Worcester Q309675
Georg Elias Müller
German experimental psychologist Germany 1850-07-20 1934-12-23 Grimma Göttingen Q71879
Hugo Münsterberg
German-American psychologist (1863-1916) Kingdom of Prussia
United States of America
1863-06-01
1863-07-01
1916-12-19
1916-12-16
1916-01-16
Gdańsk Cambridge Q57946
James Rowland Angell
American psychologist and educator United States of America 1869-05-08 1949-03-04 Burlington Hamden Q663485
Robert S. Woodworth
American psychologist & scholar United States of America 1869-10-17
1869-08-17
1962-07-04 Belchertown New York City Q725904
William McDougall
British psychologist (1871–1938) United Kingdom 1871-06-22 1938-11-28 Lancashire Durham Q503315
Edward Thorndike
American psychologist United States of America 1874-08-31 1949-08-09 Williamsburg Montrose Q309765
Robert Yerkes
American psychologist United States of America 1876-05-26 1956-02-03 Bucks County New Haven Q1399298
Lewis Terman
American educational psychologist and academic United States of America 1877-01-15 1956-12-21
1956
Johnson County Palo Alto Q919108
Arnold Gesell psychologist and pediatrician United States of America 1880-06-21 1961-05-29 Alma New Haven Q18567
Elton Mayo
Australian psychologist and sociologist Australia 1880-12-26 1949-09-07 Adelaide Guildford Q311529
Clark L. Hull
American psychologist (1884–1952) United States of America 1884-05-24 1952-05-10 New York New Haven Q28882
Kurt Koffka
German psychologist United States of America
German Reich
1886-03-18 1941-11-22 Berlin Northampton Q61323
Frederic Bartlett British psychologist and academic United Kingdom 1886-10-20 1969-09-30 Stow-on-the-Wold Cambridge Q471927
Edwin Boring
American psychologist United States of America 1886-10-23 1968-07-01 Philadelphia Cambridge Q719209
Wolfgang Köhler
German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967) Germany
United States of America
1887-01-21 1967-06-11 Tallinn Enfield Q213672
Louis Leon Thurstone American psychologist & scholar United States of America 1887-05-29 1955-09-30 Chicago Chapel Hill Q914054
Fritz Heider German psychologist (1896-1988) United States of America
Austria
1896-02-19 1988-01-02 Vienna Lawrence Q112202
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980) Switzerland 1896-08-09 1980-09-16 Neuchâtel Geneva Q123190
Heinrich Klüver German psychologist Germany
United States of America
1897-05-25 1979-02-08 Holstein Oak Lawn Q74829
George Katona American psychologist (1901-1981) Hungary
United States of America
1901-11-06 1981-06-18 Budapest Berlin Q215170
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist United States of America 1904-03-20 1990-08-18 Susquehanna Depot Cambridge Q213195
Ernest Hilgard American psychologist (1904–2001) United States of America 1904-07-25 2001-10-22 Belleville Palo Alto Q984598
Solomon Asch Polish-American psychologist (1907-1996) United States of America
Poland
1907-09-14 1996-02-20 Warsaw Haverford Q316142
Eleanor J. Gibson
American psychologist and academic United States of America 1910-12-07 2002-12-30 Peoria Columbia Q299908
Carl Hovland American psychologist United States of America 1912-06-12 1961-04-16 Chicago New Haven Q1038976
Mary Ainsworth American-Canadian psychologist & scholar United States of America
Canada
1913-12-01 1999-03-21 Glendale Charlottesville Q242625
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist and scholar United States of America 1915-10-01 2016-06-05 New York City Manhattan Q114867
Donald T. Campbell American social scientist United States of America 1916-11-20 1996-05-06 Grass Lake Bethlehem Q729038
Urie Bronfenbrenner Russian American developmental psychologist United States of America 1917-04-29 2005-09-25 Moscow Ithaca Q643339
David McClelland
American psychologist (1917–1998) United States of America 1917-05-20 1998-03-27 Mount Vernon Lexington Q28876
Leon Festinger American psychologist United States of America 1919-05-08 1989-02-11 Manhattan New York City Q315916
George Armitage Miller American psychologist (1920–2012) United States of America 1920-02-03 2012-07-22 Charleston Plainsboro Township Q670658
Stanley Schachter American psychologist United States of America 1922-04-15 1997-06-07 Queens East Hampton Q290285
James Olds American psychologist (1922–1976) United States of America 1922-05-30 1976-08-21 Chicago California Q719504
Peter Gay German-American historian and author (1923–2015) Germany
United States of America
1923-06-20 2015-05-12 Berlin Manhattan Q63670
Robert Zajonc American psychologist United States of America
Poland
1923-11-23 2008-12-03 Łódź
Poland
Stanford Q914495
John William Atkinson
American psychology professor United States of America 1923-12-31 2003-10-27
2002-10-27
Jersey City Chelsea Q321277
Albert Bandura
Canadian psychologist Canada
United States of America
1925-12-04 2021-07-26 Mundare Stanford Q153753
Norman Geschwind American physician United States of America 1926-01-08 1984-11-04 New York City Boston Q322772
Nico Frijda
Dutch psychologist Kingdom of the Netherlands 1927-05-01 2015-04-11 Amsterdam Amsterdam Q1750396
Béla Julesz
visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of visual and auditory perception Hungary
United States of America
1928-02-19 2003-12-31 Budapest Q1019423
Ulric Neisser American psychologist Germany
United States of America
1928-12-08 2012-02-17 Kiel Ithaca Q62895
Roger Shepard
American psychologist United States of America 1929-01-30 2022-05-30 Palo Alto Tucson Q932756
Jerome Kagan American psychologist United States of America 1929-02-25 2021-05-10 Newark Chapel Hill Q1771609
Richard C. Atkinson
American educational psychologist and academic United States of America 1929-03-19 Oak Park Q503888
Elliot Aronson
American psychologist United States of America 1932-01-09 Chelsea Q449733
Gordon H. Bower American psychologist (1932–2020) United States of America 1932-12-30 2020-06-17 Scio Stanford Q721463
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-American psychologist (1934–2021) Hungary
United States of America
1934-09-29 2021-10-20 Rijeka Claremont Q316147
Anne Treisman
English psychologist United Kingdom
United States of America
1935-02-27 2018-02-09 Wakefield Manhattan Q446115
Amos Tversky Israeli psychologist Israel 1937-03-16 1996-06-02 Haifa Stanford Q474333
Michael Cole American psychologist United States of America 1938-04-13 Los Angeles Q1927177
Paul Baltes German psychologist Germany 1939-06-18 2006-11-07 Saarlouis Berlin Q75594
Richard E. Nisbett
American psychologist United States of America 1941-06-01 Littlefield Q118221
Robert Trivers American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist United States of America 1943-02-19 Washington, D.C. Q918334
Elizabeth Loftus
American cognitive psychologist United States of America 1944-10-16 Los Angeles Q262154
Robert Cialdini
American psychologist United States of America 1945-04-27 Milwaukee Q1198516
Henry L. Roediger III American psychologist United States of America 1947-07-24 Roanoke Q612094
John R. Anderson American psychologist United States of America 1947-08-27 Vancouver Q1395071
Sherry Turkle
American social scientist and psychologist United States of America 1948-06-18 New York City Q52919
Keith Holyoak
American psychologist and cognitive scientist United States of America 1950-01-16 Langley Q1738054
James W. Pennebaker
U.S. psychology professor and language analyst United States of America 1950-03-02 Midland Q782814
Daniel Schacter American psychologist United States of America 1952-06-17 New York City Q369879
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind United States of America
Canada
1954-09-18 Montreal Q212730
Daniel Gilbert
American psychologist and writer United States of America 1957-11-05 United States of America Q449564
Eldar Shafir
American psychologist United States of America 1959 Q799235


radio personality

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Garrison Keillor
American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality United States of America 1942-08-07 Anoka Q183031
David Grossman
Israeli author Israel 1954-01-25 Jerusalem Q160263


research fellow

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Gordon Allport
American psychologist (1897–1967) United States of America 1897-11-11 1967-10-09 Montezuma Cambridge Q310741
Karl Ulrich Mayer German research fellow Germany 1945-04-10 Geislingen an der Steige Q1733222


scientist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
James Rhyne Killian
the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States of America 1904-07-24 1988-01-29 Blacksburg Cambridge Q49618
T. Keith Glennan
NASA administrator United States of America 1905-09-08 1995-04-11 Enderlin Mitchellville Q623624
Hamao Umezawa Japanese microbiologist Japan
Empire of Japan
1914-10-01 1986-12-25 Obama Tokyo Q822666


screenwriter

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Stephen Vincent Benét
American poet, short story writer, novelist United States of America 1898-07-22 1943-03-13 Bethlehem New York City Q1348138
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer United Kingdom 1915-06-24 2001-08-20 Bingley Bournemouth Q183397
Horton Foote American playwright and screenwriter (1916–2009) United States of America 1916-03-14 2009-03-04 Wharton County Hartford Q529696
Peter O'Donnell English writer United Kingdom 1920-04-11 2010-05-03 Lewisham Brighton Q1341654
James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer (1925–2015) United States of America 1925-06-10 2015-06-19 New York City
Preston
Sag Harbor Q1395915
William Trevor Irish writer Ireland 1928-05-24 2016-11-20 Mitchelstown Somerset Q528826
Diane Johnson American novelist and essayist United States of America 1934-04-28 Moline Q533343
Joan Didion
American writer (1934-2021) United States of America 1934-12-05 2021-12-23 Sacramento Manhattan Q267691
Francis Ford Coppola
American filmmaker United States of America 1939-04-07 Detroit Q56094
Russell Banks
American writer (1940-2023) United States of America 1940-03-28 2023-01-07 Newton Saratoga Springs Q665144
Ariel Dorfman
Chilean writer Argentina 1942-05-06 Buenos Aires Q659027
Terrence Malick
American film director and screenwriter United States of America 1943-11-30 Ottawa Q215478
John Banville
Irish writer Ireland 1945-12-08 Wexford Q313077
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter United States of America 1947-02-03 2024-04-30 Newark New York City Q214642
John Patrick Shanley
American writer United States of America 1950-10-03 The Bronx Q1349456
Richard Linklater
American director and screenwriter United States of America 1960-07-30 Houston Q40035
Tracy Letts
American actor and screenwriter United States of America 1965-07-04 Tulsa Q984572
Liev Schreiber
American actor United States of America 1967-10-04 San Francisco Q298368
Shonda Rhimes
American television producer, television and film writer, and author United States of America 1970-01-13 Chicago Q242329


sculptor

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Wetmore Story
American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor United States of America 1819-02-12 1895-10-07 Salem Vallombrosa Q1335728
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American artist United States of America 1848-03-01 1907-08-03 Dublin Cornish Q770625
Daniel Chester French
American sculptor (1850–1931) United States of America 1850-04-20 1931-10-07 Exeter Stockbridge Q720910
Georges Braque
French painter and sculptor (1882-1963) France 1882-05-13 1963-08-31 Argenteuil Paris Q153793
Naum Gabo
Russian sculptor (1890-1977) Russian Empire
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
United States of America
1890-08-05 1977-08-23 Bryansk Waterbury Q309482
Jacques Lipchitz
American and French sculptor (1891–1973) Russian Empire
France
United States of America
1891-08-22 1973-05-26 Druskininkai Capri Q380426
Louise Nevelson
American sculptor (1899-1988) Russian Empire
United States of America
1899-09-23 1988-04-17 Pereiaslav New York City Q7531
Isamu Noguchi
Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988) Japan
United States of America
1904-11-17 1988-12-30 Los Angeles New York City Q442628
Louise Bourgeois
French-American artist (1911–2010) France
United States of America
1911-12-25 2010-05-31 Paris Beth Israel Medical Center Q159409
Eduardo Chillida
Spanish Basque sculptor Spain 1924-01-10 2002-08-19 San Sebastián San Sebastián Q156736
Anthony Caro
English abstract sculptor (1924-2013) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1924-03-08 2013-10-23 Surrey London Q529591
John Chamberlain American artist (1927-2011) United States of America 1927-04-16 2011-12-21 Rochester Manhattan Q468760
Claes Oldenburg
American sculptor and printmaker Sweden
United States of America
1929-01-28 2022-07-18 Malmö
Stockholm
Manhattan Q156731
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Polish textile artist and sculptor (1930–2017) Poland 1930-06-20 2017-04-20 Falenty Warsaw Q158080
Richard Serra
American sculptor (1938–2024) United States of America 1938-11-02
1939-11-02
2024-03-26 San Francisco Orient Q321245
Richard Tuttle American sculptor and draftsperson United States of America 1941-07-12 Rahway Q836743
El Anatsui
Ghanaian painter and sculptor Nigeria
Ghana
1944-06-13 Ghana
Anyako
Q1323876
Kiki Smith
American sculptor and printmaker United States of America 1954-01-18 Nuremberg
Germany
Q447300
Robert Gober American sculptor United States of America 1954-09-12 Wallingford Q1353414
Jeff Koons
American sculptor United States of America 1955-01-21 York Q297525


seismologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Beno Gutenberg
seismologist (1889-1960) Germany
United States of America
1889-06-04 1960-01-25 Darmstadt Pasadena Q76770
Charles Francis Richter
Seismologist and mathematician United States of America 1900-04-26 1985-09-30 Overpeck Pasadena Q184014
Keiiti Aki Japanese-American professor of geophysics Japan
Empire of Japan
1930-03-03 2005-05-17 Yokohama Saint-Pierre Q493209


singer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Carol Burnett
American actress, comedian and singer United States of America 1933-04-26 San Antonio Q255565
Paul Simon
American singer-songwriter (born 1941) United States of America 1941-10-13 Newark Q4028
Meredith Monk
American musician United States of America 1942-11-20 Queens Q267170
Bruce Springsteen
American rock singer (born 1949) United States of America 1949-09-23 Long Branch Q1225


singer-songwriter

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Leonard Cohen
Canadian poet and singer-songwriter (1934–2016) Canada 1934-09-21 2016-11-07 Montreal Los Angeles Q1276
Bono
Irish singer-songwriter and rock musician, member of U2 Ireland 1960-05-10 Dublin Q834621
John Legend
American singer-songwriter United States of America 1978-12-28 Springfield Q44857


social psychologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Philip Zimbardo
American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment United States of America 1933-03-23 New York City Q296042
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist United States of America 1933-08-15 1984-12-20 The Bronx Manhattan Q208236


sociologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
William Isaac Thomas
American sociologist (1863-1947) United States of America 1863-08-13 1947-12-05 Russell County Berkeley Q1323100
Robert Ezra Park
American sociologist (1864–1944) United States of America 1864-02-14 1944-02-07 Harveyville Nashville Q919081
William Fielding Ogburn American sociologist United States of America 1886-06-29 1959-04-27 Butler Tallahassee Q1349514
Pitirim Sorokin
Russian sociologist (1889-1968) Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
United States of America
1889-01-23 1968-02-10 Turya Winchester Q319816
Everett Hughes American sociologist United States of America 1897-11-30 1983-01-04
1983
1983-01-05
Ohio Cambridge Q1381992
Paul Lazarsfeld
Austrian-American sociologist United States of America
Austria
Austria-Hungary
1901-02-13 1976-08-30 Vienna New York City Q94037
Sigmund Neumann German academic (1904-1962) Germany 1904-05-01 1962-10-22 Leipzig Middletown Q73680
Kingsley Davis American sociologist and demographer United States of America 1908-08-20 1997-02-27 Jones County Stanford Q1738478
David Riesman American sociologist and educator United States of America 1909-09-22 2002-05-10 Philadelphia Binghamton Q504319
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist (1910–2003) United States of America 1910-07-04 2003-02-23 Philadelphia New York City Q312843
Robert Nisbet
American sociologist United States of America 1913-09-30 1996-09-09 Los Angeles Washington, D.C. Q1333105
Reinhard Bendix German-American sociologist Germany 1916-02-25 1991-02-28 Berlin Berkeley Q76175
Peter Blau
American sociologist United States of America 1918-02-07 2002-03-12 Vienna New York City Q215834
Daniel Bell
American sociologist (1919–2011) United States of America 1919-05-10 2011-01-25 Lower East Side Cambridge Q316330
Erving Goffman
Sociologist, writer, and academic (1922–1982) Canada
United States of America
1922-06-11 1986-11-19 Mannville Philadelphia Q314471
Michel Crozier French sociologist France 1922-11-06 2013-05-23 Sainte-Menehould 14th arrondissement of Paris Q1387640
Shmuel Eisenstadt
Israeli sociologist (1923–2010) Poland
Israel
1923-09-10 2010-09-02 Warsaw Jerusalem Q677793
James G. March
American sociologist United States of America 1928-01-15 2018-09-27 Cleveland Portola Valley Q1352604
Howard S. Becker
American sociologist (1928–2023) United States of America 1928-04-18 2023-08-16 Chicago San Francisco Q718736
Aaron Cicourel Sociologist (died 2023) United States of America 1928-08-29 2023-07-22 Atlanta Berkeley Q302889
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (born 1929) Germany 1929-06-18 Gummersbach Q76357
Neil Smelser American sociologist United States of America 1930-07-22 2017-10-02 Kahoka Berkeley Q713936
Raymond Boudon
French sociologist France 1934-01-27 2013-04-10 15th arrondissement of Paris Saint-Cloud Q914428
William Julius Wilson American sociologist United States of America 1935-12-20 Pennsylvania Q111536
Iván Szelényi
Hungarian-American sociologist United States of America
Hungary
1938-04-17 Budapest Q538477
Richard Sennett
American sociologist and academic United States of America 1943-01-01 Chicago Q450412
Piotr Sztompka Polish sociologist Poland 1944-03-02 Warsaw Q444495
John Hagan American lawyer and sociologist focusing on criminology United States of America 1946-02-15 Q1700343
David W. Garland British sociologist United States of America 1955-08-07 Dundee Q1177019
Rogers Brubaker American sociologist United States of America 1956-06-08 Evanston Q675969
Robert J. Sampson American sociologist United States of America 1956-07-09 New York Q749704


stage actor

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Colleen Dewhurst
Canadian-American actress (1924-1991) Canada
United States of America
1924-06-03 1991-08-22 Montreal New York City Q253916
Jane Alexander
American actress (b. 1939) United States of America 1939-10-28 Boston Q242717
Anna Deavere Smith
American actress, playwright and professor United States of America 1950-09-18
1950
Baltimore Q286777


statistician

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
George Gallup
American statistician (1901–1984) United States of America 1901-11-18 1984-07-26 Jefferson Tschingel Q315542
William C. Krumbein American geologist United States of America 1902-01-28 1979-08-18 Beaver Falls Los Angeles Q1773305
James Vaupel
American demographer United States of America 1945-05-02 2022-03-27 New York City Q833843


surgeon

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1827-04-05 1912-02-10 Upton House, Newham Walmer Q155768
Jacob Mendes Da Costa
American physician United States of America 1833-02-07 1900-09-11 Saint Thomas Pennsylvania Q676958
Wilder Penfield
Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach Canada 1891-01-26 1976-04-05 Spokane Montréal-Nord Q711394
Alfred Blalock American surgeon United States of America 1899-04-05 1964-09-15 Culloden Baltimore Q984215
John Heysham Gibbon
American surgeon United States of America 1903-09-29 1973-02-05 Philadelphia Philadelphia Q1378995


teacher

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 United States of America 1743-04-13
1743-04-02
1826-07-04 Shadwell Monticello Q11812
David F. Swensen
American businessman (1954-2021) United States of America 1954-01-26 2021-05-05 Ames New Haven Q1174392
Michael Sipser
American mathematician United States of America 1954-09-17 Brooklyn Q93104


television actor

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Uta Hagen
German-born American actress and drama teacher (1919-2004) German Reich
United States of America
1919-06-12 2004-01-14
2004-01-01
Göttingen New York City Q64260
Bill Cosby
American actor and comedian (born 1937) United States of America 1937-07-12 Philadelphia Q213512
Steve Martin
American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born 1945) United States of America 1945-08-14 Waco Q16473
John Lithgow
American actor United States of America 1945-10-19 Rochester Q311271


television presenter

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Chancellor
American TV journalist United States of America 1927-07-14 1996-07-12 Chicago Princeton Q1770797
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954) United States of America 1954-01-29 Kosciusko Q55800


theatrical director

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Peter Brook
English theatre and film director (1925–2022) United Kingdom
France
1925-03-21 2022-07-02 Chiswick 15th arrondissement of Paris Q49760
Dario Fo
Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016) Italy 1926-03-24 2016-10-13 Sangiano
Leggiuno
Luigi Sacco Hospital
Milan
Q765
Richard Schechner American theatre director (born 1934) United States of America 1934-08-23 Newark Q723144


theologian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn
German theologian Kingdom of Württemberg 1752-10-16 1827-06-25 Ingelfingen Göttingen Q66355
Barnas Sears
President of Brown University (1802-1880) United States of America 1802-11-19 1880-07-06 Sandisfield Saratoga Q808439
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher German Reich
France
1875-01-14 1965-09-04 Kaysersberg Lambaréné Q49325
Augustin Bea
German Jesuit priest and scholar and cardinal (1881-1968) Germany 1881-05-28
1881
1968-11-16
1968
Blumberg Rome Q61060
Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher German Empire
Weimar Republic
United States of America
1886-08-20 1965-10-22 Starosiedle Chicago Q60104
Georges Florovsky
Russian Christian theologian and historian (1893–1979) Ukraine
United States of America
France
1893-08-28 1979-08-11 Odesa
Kropyvnytskyi
Princeton Q714187
Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Jewish literary scholar, theologian, and editor United States of America 1903-03-25 1990-02-27 Lviv Tucson Q214116
Henry Chadwick British academic and Anglican priest (1920–2008) United Kingdom 1920-06-23 2008-06-17 Bromley Oxford Q321624
Frank Moore Cross
American biblical scholar United States of America 1921-07-13 2012-10-16 Ross Rochester Q1343665
Helmut Koester German-born American scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity (1926-2016) Germany 1926-12-18 2016-01-01 Hamburg Lexington Q96837
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Peruvian theologian Peru 1928-06-08 Lima Q335384
Harvey Cox
American theologian (born 1929) United States of America 1929-05-19 Malvern Q674993
E. P. Sanders American biblical scholar United States of America 1937-04-18 2022-11-21 Grand Prairie Q601009
Bernard McGinn theologian, historian, and scholar of spirituality United States of America 1937-08-19 Yonkers Q822604
David Tracy American theologian United States of America 1939-01-06 Yonkers Q1176885
Rowan Williams
Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012) United Kingdom 1950-06-14 Swansea Q49615
Cornel West
American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953) United States of America 1953-06-02 Tulsa Q712469


theoretical chemist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Robert Parr
American theoretical chemist (1921-2017) United States of America 1921-09-22 2017-03-27 Chicago Chapel Hill Q908642
Stuart A. Rice American physical chemist United States of America 1932-01-06 New York City Q715584


theoretical physicist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858-1947) German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Bizone
1858-04-23 1947-10-04
1947-12-04
Kiel Göttingen Q9021
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951) Germany 1868-12-05 1951-04-26 Königsberg Munich Q77078
Igor Tamm
Russian physicist Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1895-07-08 1971-04-12 Vladivostok Moscow Q155759
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958) United States of America
Switzerland
Austria
1900-04-25 1958-12-15 Vienna Zürich Q65989
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
West Germany
1901-12-05 1976-02-01 Würzburg Munich Q40904
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979) Japan
Empire of Japan
1906-03-31 1979-07-08 Tokyo Tokyo Q184563
Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist United Kingdom
Germany
1907-06-05 1995-09-19 Berlin Oxford Q61735
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015) United States of America
Japan
1921-01-18 2015-07-05 Tokyo Toyonaka Q188120
Geoffrey Chew
American theoretical physicist United States of America 1924-06-05 2019-04-11 Washington, D.C. Berkeley Q376617
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018) United Kingdom 1942-01-08 2018-03-14 Oxford Cambridge Q17714
Gerard 't Hooft
Dutch theoretical physicist Kingdom of the Netherlands 1946-07-05 Den Helder Q184592


translator

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet and educator (1807–1882) United States of America 1807-02-27 1882-03-24 Portland Cambridge Q152513
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986) Argentina 1899-08-24 1986-06-14 Buenos Aires Geneva Q909
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American author United States of America
Poland
Russian Empire
1904-07-14 1991-07-24 Leoncin
Radzymin
Surfside
Miami
Q75612
Annemarie Schimmel German scholar of Islam (1922-2003) Germany 1922-04-07 2003-01-26 Erfurt Bonn Q75860
Yves Bonnefoy
French poet and essayist, translator France 1923-06-24 2016-07-01 Tours 15th arrondissement of Paris Q250136


university teacher

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Friedrich Thiersch
German classical scholar Kingdom of Bavaria 1784-06-17 1860-02-25 Kirchscheidungen Munich Q73076
Alexander Braun
German botanist and university teacher (1805–1877) Kingdom of Bavaria 1805-05-10 1877-03-29 Regensburg Berlin Q62855
Rudolf Clausius
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822-1888) Kingdom of Prussia 1822-01-02 1888-08-24 Koszalin Bonn Q30693
Charles William Eliot
American president of Harvard (1834–1926) United States of America 1834-03-20 1926-08-22 Boston Northeast Harbor Q1066447
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
British academic (1838-1922) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1838-05-10 1922-01-22 Belfast Sidmouth Q336497
William Thompson Sedgwick
American microbiologist (1855-1921) United States of America 1855-12-29 1921-01-25 West Hartford Boston Q1743410
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
U.S. educator and legal scholar (1856-1943) United States of America 1856-12-13 1943-01-06 Boston Boston Q306766
Richard Willstätter
German chemist (1872–1942) German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Switzerland
1872-08-13 1942-08-03 Karlsruhe Muralto Q77072
Elvin C. Stakman
American mycologist (1885-1979) United States of America 1885-05-17 1979-01-22 Algoma Saint Paul Q374025
Meghnad Saha
Bengali Astrophysicist British Raj
India
Dominion of India
1893-10-06
1893
1956-02-16
1956
Dhaka New Delhi Q377898
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff American crystallographer United States of America 1897-08-09 1994-11-03 Geneva Tucson Q907498
Lord David Cecil
British biographer, historian and academic United Kingdom 1902-04-09 1986-01-01 Hatfield House Dorset Q523064
Francis Birch
American geophysicist United States of America 1903-08-22 1992-01-30 Washington, D.C. Cambridge Q931143
Franz König
Austrian Catholic cardinal Austria 1905-08-03 2004-03-13 Rabenstein an der Pielach
St. Pölten
Vienna Q78546
Nathan M. Pusey
American academic (1907-2001) United States of America 1907-04-04 2001-11-14 Council Bluffs New York City Q1772795
David Daube German American legal scholar, historian (1909-1999) Germany 1909-02-08 1999-02-24 Freiburg im Breisgau Berkeley Q215403
John Verhoogen American-Belgian geologist (1912-1993) United States of America
Belgium
1912-02-01 1993-11-08 Brussels metropolitan area
City of Brussels
Brussels
Berkeley Q1702011
Lewis A. Coser American sociologist United States of America 1913-11-27 2003-07-08 Berlin Cambridge Q214958
Oscar Schachter American legal scholar (1915-2003) United States of America 1915-06-19 2003-12-13 New York City New York City Q1379033
Anna Schwartz
American economist United States of America 1915-11-11 2012-06-21 New York City New York City Q446574
Julian Schwinger
American theoretical physicist United States of America 1918-02-12 1994-07-16 New York City Los Angeles Q186465
Roger Fisher American professor of law (1922-2012) United States of America 1922-05-28 2012-08-25 Winnetka Hanover Q1340750
Erica Reiner Hungarian-American assyriologist Kingdom of Hungary
United States of America
1924-08-06
1924
1926-08-04
2005-12-31 Budapest Chicago Q1351817
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient British Raj
Pakistan
1926-01-29 1996-11-21 Jhang Oxford Q28189
Allan V. Cox American geophysicist United States of America 1926-12-17 1987-01-27 Santa Ana Palo Alto Q179365
Karl Turekian
American geochemist (1927-2013) United States of America 1927-10-25 2013-03-15 New York City Branford Q1731884
Ernest Beutler American hematologist United States of America 1928-09-30 2008-10-05 Berlin San Diego Q214747
Donald D. Brown American developmental biologist (1931–2023) United States of America 1931-12-30 2023-05-31 Cincinnati Q1239780
Donald L. Turcotte American geophysicist United States of America 1932-04-22 Bellingham Q1240045
Kenneth W. Dam
Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 2001 to 2003 United States of America 1932-08-10 2022-05-31 Marysville Q1246923
Peter Haggett
eminent British geographer and academic United Kingdom 1933-01-24 Pawlett Q500637
B. Clark Burchfiel American geologist (1934–2024) United States of America 1934-03-21 2024-02-09 Stockton Q795194
Fergus Millar British classical historian (1935–2019) United Kingdom 1935-07-05 2019-07-15 Edinburgh Oxford Q256974
Benedict Anderson American political scientist (1936-2015) Ireland 1936-08-26 2015-12-13 Kunming Batu Q212993
Barry R. Bloom American immunologist (1937-) United States of America 1937-04-13 Philadelphia Q809083
Brent Dalrymple
American geologist United States of America 1937-05-09 Alhambra
California
Q909726
Fernando Nottebohm Argentine neuroscientist United States of America 1940 Buenos Aires Q1406782
Donna Shalala
18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services United States of America 1941-02-14 Cleveland Q292569
Davor Solter Yugoslavian-born developmental biologist United States of America 1941-03-22 Zagreb Q1178284
Sarah Broadie British historian of philosophy United Kingdom 1941-11-03 2021-08-09 Q1313905
David Rumelhart
American psychologist (1942-2011) United States of America 1942-06-12 2011-03-13 Wessington Springs Chelsea Q93111
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck
American mathematician United States of America 1942-08-24 Cleveland Q38636
Ralph J. Cicerone
American academic administrator (1943-2016) United States of America 1943-05-02 2016-11-05 New Castle Short Hills Q504210
Mary Jo Nye
American academic United States of America 1944-12-05 United States of America Q1246280
Frans de Waal
Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948–2024) Kingdom of the Netherlands 1948-10-29 2024-03-14 's-Hertogenbosch Atlanta Q303350
David Tilman
American ecologist United States of America 1949-07-22 Aurora Q1176859
Seyla Benhabib American philosopher and political scientist Turkey
United States of America
1950-09-09 Istanbul Q263235
James F. Kasting American geoscientist United States of America 1953-01-02 Schenectady Q1322956
Marleen Temmerman
Belgian politician and obstetrician Belgium 1953-03-24 Lokeren Q340097
Martha Minow
American legal scholar United States of America 1954-12-06 Highland Park Q522066
David Julius
American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021 United States of America 1955-11-04 Brighton Beach Q1174906
John J. DeGioia
American academic administrator United States of America 1957 Connecticut Q1700569
Michael Warner
American literary critic, social theorist United States of America 1958 Q1929737


veterinarian

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Arnold Theiler
Swiss-South African veterinarian (1867-1936) Switzerland 1867-03-26 1936-07-24 Frick London Q119270
Karl Friedrich Meyer
American pathologist (1884-1974) United States of America
Switzerland
1884-05-19 1974-04-27 Basel San Francisco Q121372


violinist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Isaac Stern
American musician United States of America 1920-07-21 2001-09-22 Kremenets New York City Q311317
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945) Israel
United States of America
1945-08-31 Jaffa Q215905
Anne-Sophie Mutter
German violinist Germany 1963-06-29 Rheinfelden Q3374
Midori Gotō
Japanese American Violinist United States of America 1971-10-25 Osaka Q268644


virologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Franklin Enders
American medical researcher (1897-1985) United States of America 1897-02-10 1985-09-08 West Hartford Waterford Q312961
Richard Shope
American virologist (1901-1966) United States of America 1901-12-25 1966-10-02 Des Moines Q445001
David Bodian
American medical scientist (1910-1992) United States of America 1910-05-15 1992-09-18 St. Louis Baltimore Q179780
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012) Italy
United States of America
Kingdom of Italy
1914-02-22 2012-02-19 Catanzaro La Jolla Q109553
Howard Temin
American geneticist United States of America 1934-12-10 1994-02-09 Philadelphia Madison Q243536
David Baltimore
American biologist United States of America 1938-03-07 New York City Q234949
Harold E. Varmus
American scientist United States of America 1939-12-18 Oceanside Q295691
David Ho
Taiwanese-American physician and scientist United States of America 1952-11-03 Taichung Q378003


writer

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
James Freeman Clarke
American theologian and writer (1810–1888) United States of America 1810-04-04 1888-06-08 Hanover Jamaica Plain Q323362
Richard Henry Dana
American author and lawyer (1815–1882) United States of America 1815-08-01 1882-01-06 Cambridge Rome Q527981
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1819-02-08 1900-01-20 London Coniston Q179126
Edward Everett Hale
American author, historian and Unitarian minister (1822-1909) United States of America 1822-04-03 1909-06-10 Boston Roxbury Q786616
Edmondo de Amicis
Italian writer (1846-1908) Kingdom of Italy 1846-10-21 1908-03-11 Oneglia Bordighera Q240576
Ferdinand Brunetière
French writer France 1849-07-19 1906-12-09 Toulon rue Joseph-Bara Q729578
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1865-12-30 1936-01-18 Mumbai London Q34743
E. M. Forster
English novelist (1879-1970) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1879-01-01 1970-06-07 London Coventry Q189119
James Branch Cabell
American author United States of America 1879-04-14 1958-05-05 Richmond Richmond Q723374
Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964 British Raj
India
Dominion of India
1889-11-14 1964-05-27 Prayagraj New Delhi Q1047
Rudolf Arnheim
German psychologist (1904-2007) Germany 1904-07-15 2007-06-09 Berlin Ann Arbor Q213642
Samuel Beckett
Nobel-winning Irish writer (1906–1989) Ireland
France
1906-04-13 1989-12-22 Foxrock 14th arrondissement of Paris Q37327
Golo Mann
German-Swiss historian (1909-1994) Germany
Switzerland
1909-03-27 1994-04-07 Munich Leverkusen Q77109
Marjorie Grene
American philosopher (1910–2009) United States of America 1910-12-13 2009-03-16 Milwaukee Blacksburg Q293224
Max Frisch
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991) Switzerland 1911-05-15 1991-04-04 Zürich Zürich Q115483
John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982) United States of America 1912-05-27 1982-06-18 Quincy Ossining Q336151
Julia Child
American chef United States of America 1912-08-15 2004-08-13 Pasadena Santa Barbara Q214477
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960) France 1913-11-07 1960-01-04 Dréan Villeblevin Q34670
Ralph Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994) United States of America 1914-03-01 1994-04-16 Oklahoma City New York City Q299965
Elizabeth Hardwick American writer and literary critic United States of America 1916-07-27 2007-12-02 Lexington Manhattan Q465242
Ian Watt literary historian United Kingdom 1917-03-09 1999-12-13 Windermere Menlo Park Q1351106
Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer United Kingdom 1917-06-09 2012-10-01 Alexandria London Q34933
Richard Ellmann American writer and literary critic United States of America 1918-03-15 1987-05-13 Highland Park Oxford Q1233576
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008) Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
Russia
statelessness
1918-12-11 2008-08-03 Kislovodsk Moscow Q34474
Bernard Bailyn
American historian (1922–2020) United States of America 1922-09-10 2020-08-07 Hartford Belmont Q822286
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007) United States of America 1922-11-11 2007-04-11 Indianapolis New York City Q49074
Grace Paley American writer and activist United States of America 1922-12-11 2007-08-22
2007-08-21
The Bronx Thetford Q443966
Kōbō Abe
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor Empire of Japan
Japan
1924-03-07 1993-01-22 Kita-ku Tokyo Q186273
William Styron
American novelist and essayist United States of America 1925-06-11 2006-11-01 Newport News Martha's Vineyard Q245257
Alison Lurie American novelist and academic -1926-2020) United States of America 1926-09-03 2020-12-03 Chicago Ithaca Q272638
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016) United States of America
Kingdom of Romania
Kingdom of Hungary
1928-09-30 2016-07-02 Sighetu Marmației New York City Q18391
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer (1928-2012) Mexico 1928-11-11 2012-05-15 Panama City Mexico City Q154691
Milan Kundera
Franco-Czech poet and novelist (1929-2023) France
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
statelessness
1929-04-01 2023-07-11 Královo Pole 7th arrondissement of Paris Q93166
Derek Bok American lawyer and college administrator United States of America 1930-03-22 Bryn Mawr Q717181
John Barth
American writer (1930–2024) United States of America 1930-05-27 2024-04-02 Cambridge Bonita Springs Q315683
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic United States of America 1931-02-18 2019-08-05 Lorain The Bronx Q72334
John McPhee
American writer United States of America 1931-03-08 Princeton Q1701049
Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher Canada 1931-11-05 Montreal Q311757
Walter Abish Austrian-American author United States of America 1931-12-24 2022-05-28 Vienna Manhattan Q213806
Athol Fugard South African playwright (born 1932) South Africa 1932-06-11 Middelburg Q601307
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018) Trinidad and Tobago
United Kingdom
1932-08-17 2018-08-11 Chaguanas London Q44593
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004) United States of America 1933-01-16 2004-12-28 New York City New York City Q152824
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015) United Kingdom 1933-07-09 2015-08-30 Willesden Greenwich Village Q258662
Carl Andre American artist United States of America 1935-09-16 2024-01-24 Quincy New York City Q315348
Thomas Keneally
Australian novelist Australia 1935-10-07 Sydney Q298334
Kenneth Silverman American biographer (1936-2017) United States of America 1936-02-05 2017-07-07 Manhattan Manhattan Q1738912
Václav Havel
Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011) Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
1936-10-05 2011-12-18 Prague Hrádeček Q36233
Luisa Valenzuela
Argentine writer Argentina 1938-11-26 Buenos Aires Q450690
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor Canada 1939-11-18 Ottawa Q183492
Tu Weiming Chinese philosopher People's Republic of China 1940-02-06 Kunming Q710092
Wendy Doniger
American Indologist (born 1940) United States of America 1940-11-20 New York City Q1058154
Wolf Lepenies German sociologist Germany 1941-01-11 Olsztyn Q66216
Roberto Calasso
Italian writer Italy 1941-05-30 2021-07-28 Florence Milan Q669956
Anne Tyler American novelist United States of America 1941-10-25 Minneapolis Q235615
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic India 1942-02-24 Kolkata Q240851
Peter Carey Australian novelist Australia 1943-05-07 Bacchus Marsh Q313254
Steven Millhauser American novelist and short story writer United States of America 1943-08-03 New York City Q640807
Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist United States of America 1943-11-26 Sandpoint Q253926
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author United States of America 1944-01-26 Birmingham Q160456
Alice Walker
American author and activist (1944- ) United States of America 1944-02-09 Eatonton Q215868
Nuruddin Farah
Somali writer Somalia 1945-11-24 Baidoa Q323344
Julian Barnes
English writer United Kingdom 1946-01-19 Leicester Q295431
Dương Thu Hương
Vietnamese writer and politician Vietnam
France
1947 Thái Bình Q269992
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947) United Kingdom
United States of America
India
1947-06-19 Mumbai Q44306
Charles R. Johnson
American fiction writer, essayist, and academic United States of America 1948-04-23 Evanston Q1065901
James Fallows
American journalist United States of America 1949-08-02 Philadelphia Q667171
Christos Papadimitriou
Greek computer scientist (b. 1949) Greece
United States of America
1949-08-16 Athens Q92639
Jane Smiley
American novelist United States of America 1949-09-26 Los Angeles Q441067
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
American scholar of queer theory (1950-2009) United States of America 1950-05-02 2009-04-12 Dayton Manhattan
New York City
Q258462
Amy Hempel
American writer United States of America 1951-12-14 Chicago Q481871
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. American scholar of Buddhism United States of America 1952-06-01 Washington, D.C. Q1240353
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate (born 1952) Turkey 1952-06-07 Istanbul Q241248
Michael Cunningham
American novelist and screenwriter United States of America 1952-11-06 Cincinnati Q310257
Bill McKibben
American environmentalist and writer United States of America 1960-12-08 Palo Alto Q503815
Lisa Randall
American theoretical physicist United States of America 1962-06-18 Queens Q450404
Michael Chabon
American novelist, short story writer, essayist United States of America 1963-05-24 Washington, D.C. Q313466
James Wood literary critic United Kingdom 1965-11-01 Durham Q528164


zoologist

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
Johannes Peter Müller
German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858) Kingdom of Prussia 1801-07-14 1858-04-28 Koblenz Berlin Q57992
Samuel Jackson Holmes Noted zoologist and eugenicist United States of America 1868-03-07 1964-03-05 Henry Q788605
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist United States of America 1870-06-27 1947-11-05 Toronto Chicago Q659087
Joseph Grinnell
American zoologist (1877-1939) United States of America 1877-02-27 1939-05-29 Fort Sill Berkeley Q927582
Karl Patterson Schmidt
American herpetologist (1890-1957) United States of America 1890-06-19 1957-09-26 Lake Forest Chicago Q1397402
Charles Sutherland Elton British zoologist and ecologist (1900-1991) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1900-03-29 1991-05-01 Liverpool
Manchester
Oxford Q1066200
Edward B. Lewis
American biologist (1918-2004) United States of America 1918-05-20 2004-07-21 Wilkes-Barre Pasadena Q274123
Robert Hinde British zoologist (1923–2016) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1923-10-26 2016-12-23 Norwich Q321842
Avrion Mitchison British zoologist and immunologist United Kingdom 1928-05-05 2022-12-28 Q791396
Jane Lubchenco
American ecologist United States of America 1947-12-04 Denver Q241155
Beth Shapiro
American evolutionary molecular biologist (born 1976) United States of America 1976-01-14 Allentown Q831152


Misc

[edit]
name image description country of citizenship date of birth date of death place of birth place of death item
John Hancock
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793) United States of America 1737-01-23 1793-10-08 Braintree Hancock Manor Q272774
John Brinkley
Bishop of Cloyne; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; Irish Anglican bishop and astronomer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1763 1835-09-14 Suffolk Dublin Q1231580
Louis Vicat
French engineer who invented artificial cement France 1786-03-31 1861-04-10 Nevers Grenoble Q650602
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Scottish metaphysician (1788-1856) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1788-03-08 1856-05-06 Glasgow Edinburgh Q15474
Evangelinos Apostolides Sophokles
Greek university professor Greece 1807-03-08 1883-12-17 Tsagkarada Cambridge Q1379774
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
surgeon, histologist, anatomist (1816-1892) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1816-07-20 1892-03-29 Nantwich Dorking Q1352869
Francis Parkman
American historian (1823-1893) United States of America 1823-09-16 1893-11-08 Boston Jamaica Plain Q1340161
William Stubbs
British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1825-06-21 1901-04-22 Knaresborough Cuddesdon Q443648
Abraham Jacobi
German-American pediatrician (1830-1919) Germany
United States of America
1830-05-06 1919-07-10 Hartum Lake George Q72359
A. V. Dicey
British jurist and constitutional theorist (1835–1922) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1835-02-04 1922-04-07 Claybrooke Magna Oxford Q1344299
Archibald Geikie
British geologist United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1835-12-28 1924-11-10 Edinburgh Haslemere Q633167
Charles Francis Brush
American businessman United States of America 1849-03-17 1929-06-15 Euclid Cleveland Q1064423
Hermann Jacobi
German indologist (1850-1937) German Reich 1850-02-11 1937-10-19 Cologne Bonn Q73862
George Brown Goode
American ichthyologist (1851-1896) United States of America 1851-02-13
1851
1896-09-06
1896
New Albany Washington, D.C. Q1333772
Karl Friedrich Geldner German orientalist Weimar Republic
German Empire
1852-12-17 1929-02-05 Saalfeld Marburg Q71625
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian, philosopher of history and university teacher (1862-1954) Germany 1862-10-30 1954-02-06 Salzwedel West Berlin Q66147
Antoine Meillet
French linguist (1866–1936) France 1866-11-11 1936-09-21 Moulins Châteaumeillant Q347001
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist Germany
United States of America
Austria
1873-06-03 1961-12-25 Frankfurt New York City Q77173
Stanley Unwin British publisher (1884-1968): George Allen & Unwin; Allen and Unwin United Kingdom 1884-12-19 1968-10-13 Lewisham London Q95160
Karl Lashley American psychologist United States of America 1890-06-07
1890-07-07
1958-08-07 Davis Poitiers Q603678
Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963) Germany
West Germany
United States of America
1895-11-16 1963-12-28 Hanau Frankfurt Q57244
John Dos Passos
American novelist (1896–1970) United States of America 1896-01-14 1970-09-28 Chicago Baltimore Q312407
André-Jean Festugière
(1898-1982) French historian of religion France 1898-03-15 1982-08-13 8th arrondissement of Paris Saint-Dizier Q481307
John Farquhar Fulton
American neurophysiologist and historian of science United States of America 1899-11-01 1960-05-29 Saint Paul Hamden Q1700039
Seán Ó Faoláin
Irish writer (1900-1991) Ireland 1900-02-22 1991-04-20 Cork Dublin Q1348153
Herbert Bayer Austrian architect, photographer, graphic and typographer (1900-1985) Austria
United States of America
1900-04-05 1985-09-30 Haag am Hausruck Montecito Q213637
Lon L. Fuller American philosopher of law (1902-1978) United States of America 1902-06-15 1978-04-08 Hereford Cambridge Q286431
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 Austria 1903-11-07 1989-02-27 Vienna Vienna Q78496
Karl Rahner
German Catholic theologian Germany 1904-03-05 1984-03-30 Freiburg im Breisgau Innsbruck Q57317
Ulf von Euler
Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist (1905–1983) Sweden 1905-02-07 1983-03-09 Stockholm Stockholm Q237142
Paul Oskar Kristeller German-American philosopher and art historian Germany
United States of America
1905-05-22 1999-06-07 Berlin New York City Q63895
Leon Radzinowicz British criminologist (1906-1999) United Kingdom
Poland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1906-08-15 1999-12-29 Łódź Haverford Q1767361
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Polish-American rabbi, philosopher, and civil rights activist (1907-1972) United States of America
Poland
1907-01-11 1972-12-23 Warsaw New York City Q215833
Stephan Kuttner American legal scholar Germany
United States of America
1907-03-24 1996-08-12 Bonn Berkeley Q95496
Derk Bodde American academic and sinologist (1909–2003) United States of America 1909-03-09 2003-11-03 Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock Germantown Q373880
A. J. Ayer
English philosopher United Kingdom 1910-10-29 1989-06-27
1989-07-26
London London Q243757
George M.A. Hanfmann Russian born American classical archaeologist (1911-1986) United States of America
Russian Empire
1911-11-20 1986-03-13 Saint Petersburg Watertown Q215411
John Thomas Dunlop
American labor economist and former United States Secretary of Labor (1975-1976) United States of America 1914-07-05 2003-10-02 Placerville Boston Q382049
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010) United States of America 1914-10-21
1914
1940
2010-05-22
2010
Tulsa Norman Q677706
Elwood Henneman American neurophysiologist (1915-1996) United States of America 1915 1996-02-22 Washington, D.C. Q1334378
Machteld Mellink Dutch-American archaeologist of Near eastern cultures (1917-2006) United States of America
Kingdom of the Netherlands
1917-10-26 2006-02-23 Amsterdam Haverford Q533573
Kenneth Dover
British classical scholar (1920–2010) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1920-03-11 2010-03-07 London St Andrews Q1738862
Asa Briggs English historian (1921-2016) United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1921-05-07 2016-03-15 Keighley Lewes Q336863
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Italian population geneticist Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1922-01-25 2018-08-31 Genoa Belluno Q315454
Richard Avedon
American photographer (1923–2004) United States of America 1923-05-15 2004-10-01 New York City San Antonio Q305497
Roger Guillemin
French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024) France
United States of America
1924-01-11 2024-02-21 Dijon San Diego Q242169
Heinrich Holland British geologist (1927-2012) United States of America 1927-05-27 2012-05-21 Mannheim Wynnewood Q215441
Donald Henderson
American physician (1928-2016) United States of America 1928-09-07 2016-08-19 Lakewood Towson Q1239660
Helen Frankenthaler American painter United States of America 1928-12-12
1928
2011-12-27
2011
Manhattan Darien
Darien
Q235281
Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist (1930–2021) United States of America 1930-03-22 2021-11-26 Manhattan Roxbury Q153579
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930) United States of America
Hungary
1930-08-12 Budapest Q12908
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman United States of America 1930-08-30 Omaha Q47213
Hamilton Smith
American microbiologist United States of America 1931-08-23 New York City Q108896
Paul R. Ehrlich
American biologist and environmentalist noted for his warning about population growth being unsustainable United States of America 1932-05-29 Philadelphia Q377983
David Kaplan American philosopher and logician United States of America 1933 Los Angeles Q1174939
James Massey
American information theorist and cryptologist (1934-2013) United States of America 1934-02-11 2013-06-16 Wauseon Copenhagen Q251262
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (born 1934) United Kingdom 1934-04-03 Hampstead Q184746
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996) United States of America 1934-11-09 1996-12-20 Brooklyn Seattle Q410
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill
British politician and barrister (1936-2020) United Kingdom 1936-07-03 2020-08-08 Q112908
Peter Ueberroth
American water polo player and businessman United States of America 1937-09-02 Evanston Q713746
Robert Rubin
American banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary United States of America 1938-08-29 New York City Q370316
Judy Collins
American singer and songwriter United States of America 1939-05-01 Seattle Q254576
Michael J. Colacurcio
UCLA Professor United States of America 1939-07-02 Cincinnati Q1927975
Stanley Hauerwas
American theologian United States of America 1940-07-24 Dallas Q1328650
Pina Bausch
German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director Germany 1940-07-27 2009-06-30 Solingen Wuppertal Q155538
Jürgen Kocka
German historian Germany 1941-04-19 Hejnice Q65770
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941) United States of America 1941-05-24 Duluth Q392
Richard Stoltzman American musician United States of America 1942-07-12 Omaha Q1324433
Kenny Barron
American jazz pianist United States of America 1943-06-09 Philadelphia Q489233
David Hammons
American painter and performance artist United States of America 1943-07-24 Springfield Q320846
Robert Gates
CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president United States of America 1943-09-25 Wichita Q212979
Christopher Browning
American historian of the Holocaust United States of America 1944-05-22 Durham Q59098
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022) Kenya 1944-12-19 2022-01-02 Nairobi Nairobi Q318960
Chris Burden American sculptor and performance artist United States of America 1946-04-11
1946
2015-05-10 Boston Topanga Q720832
Michael Geyer Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, University of Chicago Germany 1947 Freiburg Government Region Q109763
David E. Wellbery American literary critic United States of America 1947 Q1174293
Garry Trudeau
American cartoonist (born 1948) United States of America 1948-07-21 New York City Q1340213
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive Hungary
United States of America
1948-09-10 Budapest Q49819
Michael Peskin American theoretical physicist United States of America 1951-10-27 Philadelphia Q1744292
Kim Nasmyth
British biochemist United Kingdom 1952-10-18 London Q1741557
Michael Sandel
American political philosopher United States of America 1953-03-05
1953-05-03
Minneapolis Q381044
David Haussler
bioengineering scientist United States of America 1953-10 Q92714
Denis Mukwege
Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Democratic Republic of the Congo 1955-03-01 Bukavu Q1187542
Stephen Walt
American political scientist United States of America 1955-07-02 Los Alamos Q535356
Susan Solomon
American atmospheric chemist United States of America 1956-01-19 Chicago Q445519
Mark Morris
American ballet dancer and choreographer United States of America 1956-08-29 Seattle Q711688
Brewster Kahle
American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive United States of America 1960-10-22 New York City Q92945
Ellen Lupton
American graphic designer United States of America 1963 Philadelphia Q535193
Kara Walker
African American painter and installation artist United States of America 1969-11-26 Stockton Q444277
Julie Mehretu
Ethiopian American painter United States of America 1970 Addis Ababa Q447568

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