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Johan Gabriel DoppelmayrAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohann Gabriel Doppelmayr (27 September 1677 – 1 December 1750) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. (His surname is also spelled Doppelmayer and Doppelmair.)
Johan GaltungAuthor · BooksIllustration — Galtung in discussion with Amy Goodman, 2012
Johan Ludvig HeibergAuthor · BooksJohan Ludvig Heiberg (14 December 1791 – 25 August 1860), Danish poet, playwright, literary critic, literary historian son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841), and of…
Johann Tobias MayerAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohann Tobias Mayer (5 May 1752 – 30 November 1830) was a German physicist.
Johann ZahnAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohann Zahn (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (Würzburg, 1685).
Johannes de MurisPerson · Music memorabiliaJohannes de Muris (c. 1290–1295 – 1344), or John of Murs, was a French mathematician, astronomer, and music theorist best known for treatises on the ars nova musical style, titled Ars nove…
Johannes SchönerAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohannes Schöner (16 January 1477, in Karlstadt am Main – 16 January 1547, in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg) (aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Schoener, Jean Schönner, Joan Schoenerus)…
Johannes StöfflerAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohannes Stöffler (also Stöfler, Stoffler, Stoeffler; 10 December 1452 – 16 February 1531) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and…
Johannes Valentinus AndreaeAuthor · BooksJohannes Valentinus Andreae (17 August 1586 – 27 June 1654), also known as Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian and writer.
Johannes von GmundenAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohannes von Gmünd is also the name of a 14th-century architect, see Basel Münster.
Johannes WernerAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohann(es) Werner (Latin: Ioannes Vernerus; February 14, 1468 – May 1522) was a German mathematician. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, where he became a parish priest.
John ArbuthnotPerson · Music memorabilia
John Frederick William HerschelAuthor · BooksSir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer…
John G. BennettAuthor · BooksJohn Godolphin Bennett (8 June 1897 – 13 December 1974) was a British academic and writer. He is best known for his books on psychology and spirituality, particularly on the teachings of G.
John GeometresAuthor · BooksJohn Geometres or Kyriotes (2nd half of 10th century), was a Byzantine poet, soldier, and monk. He is one of the main literary figures of the Macedonian Renaissance.
John Lighton SyngeAuthor · BooksJohn Lighton Synge FRSC (23 March 1897 – 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven-decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA.
John MyhillPerson · Music memorabiliaJohn R. Myhill Sr. (11 August 1923 – 15 February 1987) was a British mathematician.
José EchegarayAuthor · BooksJosé Echegaray y Eizaguirre (19 April 183214 September 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, politician, and one of the leading dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th…
José Martín Espinosa de los MonterosAuthor · Maps and atlasesJosé Martín y Espinosa de los Monteros was a Spanish pilot and a mathematics professor, founder of the lineage Espinosa in southeastern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula).
Josef StefanAuthor · BooksJosef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.
Joseph FurttenbachDesigner · DesignJoseph Furttenbach the Elder (30 December 1591 – 17 January 1667) was a German architect, mathematician, engineer and diarist.
Joseph NicolletAuthor · Maps and atlasesJoseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper…
Joseph PetzvalPhotographer · PhotographyContributions to geometrical optics, photography, cinematography
Joseph-Louis LagrangeAuthor · BooksJoseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier;
Juan de HerreraDesigner · DesignJuan de Herrera (1530 – 15 January 1597) was a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician.
Julius ReicheltAuthor · Maps and atlasesJulius Reichelt (5 January 1637 – 19 February 1717) was a German mathematician and astronomer who may have set up the first observatory in the city of Strasbourg.
Jurij MoskvitinPerson · Music memorabiliaJurij Moskvitin (Robert Jurij Moskvitin Hansen, 6 January 1938 – 25 May 2005) was a Danish classical pianist, composer, philosopher, mathematician and boheme.
Karl KořistkaAuthor · Maps and atlasesKarl Kořistka (also Carl Kořistka, Karel Kořistka; 7 February 1825 – 18 January 1906) was a Czech geographer, cartographer, mathematician and professor.
Karl MollweideAuthor · Maps and atlasesKarl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig.
Karl PopperAuthor · BooksSir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
Katherine JohnsonAuthor · BooksKatharine Johnson (disambiguation)Katharine Johnson
Khwaju KermaniAuthor · BooksIllustration — Khwaju Kermani Visited by the Angel of Inspiration in a Dream. It was the first miniature in the manuscript of Three Masnavis by Khwaju Kermani illustrated by Junayd in…
Konstantinos TzechanisAuthor · BooksKonstantinos Tzechanis (Constantinus Tzechani, Kostë Xhehani, 1740–1800) was a philosopher, mathematician and poet from the 18th century Aromanian center of Moscopole.
Kurt ReidemeisterAuthor · BooksKurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister (13 October 1893 – 8 July 1971) was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.
Laurence Patrick LeeAuthor · Maps and atlasesLaurence Patrick "Laurie" Lee (1913 – 28 January 1985) was a New Zealand mathematician, geodesist, and cartographer who was the Chief Computer for the Department of Lands and Survey and one…
Leo the MathematicianAuthor · BooksLeo the Mathematician, the Grammarian or the Philosopher (or ὁ Φιλόσοφος, Léōn ho Mathēmatikós or ho Philósophos; c.
Leonard MlodinowAuthor · BooksLeonard Mlodinow (born November 26, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, screenwriter and author.
Leonhard EulerAuthor · BooksLeonhard Euler (OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer.
Lewis CarrollAuthor · BooksCharles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon.
Lewis Fry RichardsonAuthor · Maps and atlases
Lodovico GuicciardiniAuthor · Maps and atlasesLodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant from Florence who lived primarily in Antwerp from 1542 or earlier.
Lorenz Christoph MizlerPerson · Music memorabiliaLorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof (also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff;
Lorenzo MascheroniAuthor · BooksLorenzo Mascheroni (loˈrɛntso maskeˈroːni; 13 May 1750 – 14 July 1800) was an Italian geometer and mathematician best known for proving that all Euclidean constructions achievable with a…
Ludwig WittgensteinDesigner · DesignLudwig Wittgenstein was a British and Austrian philosopher of language, architectural theoretician, logician, mathematician, aphorist and epistemologist (1889–1951).
Mario LivioAuthor · BooksThe Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002)
Martin BehaimAuthor · Maps and atlasesMartin Behaim (6 October 1459 – 29 July 1507), also known as Martin von Behaim and by various forms of Martin of Bohemia, was a German textile merchant and cartographer.
Martin David KruskalAuthor · BooksMartin David Kruskal (September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) was an American mathematician and physicist.
Martin GardnerAuthor · BooksMartin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science.
Matteo RicciAuthor · Maps and atlasesMatteo Ricci (Italian: [matˈtɛːo ˈrittʃi]; Latin: Matthaeus Riccius; Chinese: 利玛窦; pinyin: Lì Mǎdòu;
Michael GlycasAuthor · BooksMichael Glykas or Glycas was a 12th-century Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was probably from Corfu and lived in Constantinople.
Michael van LangrenEngraver · PrintsMichael van Langren (April 1598 May 1675) was an astronomer and cartographer of the Low Countries. A Catholic, he chiefly found employment in service to the Spanish Monarchy.
Miller PuckettePerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Miller Puckette at the Linux Audio Conference 2014 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Milton BabbittPerson · Music memorabiliaMilton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher.
Milutin MilankovićAuthor · BooksMilutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milutin Milankovitch; Милутин Миланковић, pron;
Natan SharanskyAuthor · BooksNatan Sharansky (born 20 January 1948) is a Ukrainian-born, Israeli politician, professional chess player and author.
Nathan MyhrvoldPhotographer · PhotographyNathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959) is an American inventor, scientist, and businessman, former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and…
Nicanor ParraAuthor · BooksNicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean physicist and poet.
Nicholas KratzerArtist · WatchesNicholas Kratzer (1487? – 1550), also known as Nicolaus Kratzer and Nicholas Crutcher, was a German mathematician, astronomer, and horologist.
Nicholas of CusaAuthor · BooksNicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist,…
Nicolas ChuquetAuthor · BooksNicolas Chuquet (lang; born c. 1445; died c.
Nicolas Louis de LacailleAuthor · BooksAbbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (15 March 171321 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.
Nicolaus ReimersAuthor · BooksNicolaus Reimers Baer (2 February 1551 – 16 October 1600), also Reimarus Ursus, Nicolaus Reimers Bär or Nicolaus Reymers Baer, was a German astronomer and imperial mathematician to Emperor…
NostradamusAuthor · BooksMichel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les…
Oswald WienerAuthor · BooksOswald Wiener (5 October 1935 – 18 November 2021) was an Austrian-Canadian writer, cyberneticist, language theorist, musician and restaurateur.
Paul Gustav Heinrich BachmannPerson · Music memorabiliaPaul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (22 June 1837 – 31 March 1920) was a German mathematician.
Paul HoffertPerson · Music memorabiliaPaul Matthew Hoffert, LLD, CM (born 22 September 1943, in Brooklyn, New York) is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive.
Pavel FlorenskyAuthor · BooksPavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Pavel Florenski;
Pedro de MedinaAuthor · Maps and atlasesIllustration — Cross-staff in Regimento de Navegación by Pedro de Medina, 1552. A goniometric instrument used to measure the altitude of stars.
Pedro Vicente MaldonadoAuthor · Maps and atlasesPedro Vicente Maldonado y Flores (November 24, 1704 in Riobamba, Royal Audience of Quito (today's Ecuador) – November 7, 1748 in London, England) was an Ecuadorian scientist who…
Percival LowellAuthor · BooksPercival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered…
Peter Andreas HansenArtist · WatchesPeter Andreas Hansen (born 8 December 1795, Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark; died 28 March 1874, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish-born German astronomer.
Peter CrügerAuthor · BooksPeter Crüger or Peter Krüger (20 October 1580 – 6 June 1639) was a mathematician, astronomer, polymath, and teacher of Johannes Hevelius.
Petrus ApianusAuthor · Maps and atlasesPetrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and…
Petrus RamusAuthor · BooksPetrus Ramus (Pierre de La Ramée; Anglicized as Peter Ramus; 1515 – 26 August 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer.
Philip KotlerAuthor · BooksPhilip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus. From 1962 to 2018, he was the S. C.
PhilolausAuthor · BooksWas a Greek Pythagorean and pre-Socratic philosopher. He was born in a Greek colony in Italy and migrated to Greece.
Piero della FrancescaArtist · PaintingsPiero della Francesca (USalso; Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi; c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly…
Pierre MéchainAuthor · Maps and atlasesPierre François André Méchain (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe meʃɛ̃]; 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a…
Pierre-Simon LaplaceAuthor · BooksPierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics,…
Piet HeinDesigner · Modern designPiet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet), often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning…
PosidoniusAuthor · BooksPosidonius (Ποσειδώνιος Poseidṓnios; "of Apamea" (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ῥόδιος); c.
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachAuthor · BooksPrince Carl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (30 May 1792 – 31 July 1862) was a distinguished soldier, who, in 1815, after the congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the…
PtolemyAuthor · BooksClaudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος, Ptolemaios; Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – 160s/170s AD), better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer,…
PythagorasAuthor · BooksPythagoras of Samos (c. 570 BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
Qusta ibn LuqaAuthor · BooksKitāb al‐Madkhal ilā al‐hayʾa wa‐ḥarakāt al‐aflāk wa‐ʾl‐kawākib,
Raymond SmullyanAuthor · BooksRaymond Merrill Smullyan (May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.
René DescartesAuthor · BooksRené Descartes (day-KART, also DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt]; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French polymath, active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology,…
Rodrigo ZamoranoAuthor · Maps and atlasesRodrigo Zamorano (1542–1620) was a cosmographer of the royal house of Philip II of Spain.
Ruan YuanAuthor · Books
Ruđer Josip BoškovićAuthor · BooksRoger Joseph Boscovich (18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic…
Rudy RuckerAuthor · BooksRudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.
Rutger van LangeveltArtist · PaintingsRutger von Langerfeld, or Rutger van Langevelt (15 February 1635, in Nijmegen – 15 March 1695, in Berlin), was a Dutch mathematician, painter and architect.
Salomo SachsAuthor · BooksSalomo Sachs (Šəlomoh Sachs; born on 22 December 1772 in Berlin; died on 14 May 1855) was a Jewish Prussian architect, astronomer, Prussian building official, mathematician, drawing teacher…
Sebastian FinsterwalderPhotographer · PhotographySebastian Finsterwalder (4 October 1862 – 4 December 1951) was a German mathematician and glaciologist. Acknowledged as the "father of glacier photogrammetry";
Sebastian MünsterAuthor · Maps and atlasesSebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel.
Sébastien TruchetDesigner · Modern designJean Truchet (1657 – 5 February 1729), known as Father Sébastian, was a French Dominican priest born in Lyon, who lived under the reign of Louis XIV.
Sethus CalvisiusPerson · Music memorabiliaSethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz (21 February 1556 – 24 November 1615), was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late…
Seydi Ali ReisAuthor · BooksSeydi Ali Reis (1498–1563), formerly also written Sidi Ali Reis and Sidi Ali Ben Hossein, was an Ottoman admiral and navigator.
Shakuntala DeviAuthor · BooksShakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer".
Sima QianAuthor · Books
Simon NewcombAuthor · BooksSimon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath.
Simon SinghPerson · Film memorabiliaSimon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author and theoretical and particle physicist.
Simon StevinAuthor · Maps and atlasesSimon Stevin (lang; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist.
Sor Juana Inés de la CruzPerson · Music memorabiliaJuana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695), was a Hieronymite nun and a Novohispanic writer, philosopher,…
Spiru HaretAuthor · BooksSpiru C. Haret (ˈspiru haˈret; 15 February 1851 – 17 December 1912) was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer, and politician.
Stephen HawkingAuthor · BooksStephen William Hawking (8January 194214March 2018) was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology…
Subhash KakAuthor · BooksSubhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and Hindutva historical revisionist.
Tatsuya EgawaArtist · Comics and comic artTatsuya Egawa (江川達也, Egawa Tatsuya, born March 8, 1961) is a Japanese manga artist and film director. He is probably best known for his Golden Boy manga series, which debuted in 1992.
Ted KaczynskiAuthor · BooksTheodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.[1][66] A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his…
TheanoPerson · Music memorabiliaTheano was a 6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher. She has been called the wife or student of Pythagoras, although others see her as the wife of Brontinus.
Thomas EdisonPerson · Film memorabiliaThomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution…
Thomas Frederick ColbyAuthor · Maps and atlasesThomas Frederick Colby (1 September 17849 October 1852) was a British Army major-general and director of the Ordnance Survey (OS).
Thomas HarriotAuthor · Maps and atlasesThomas Harriot (c. 1560 – 2 July 1621), also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator to whom the theory of refraction is…
Timaeus of LocriAuthor · BooksTimaeus of Locri (pronunciation in modern English; Tímaios ho Lokrós; Timaeus Locrus) is a character in two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.
Tito Livio BurattiniAuthor · Maps and atlasesTito Livio Burattini (Tytus Liwiusz Burattini; 8 March 1617 – 17 November 1681) was an inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer and nobleman.
Tobias MayerAuthor · Maps and atlasesTobias Mayer (17 February 1723 – 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.
Tom LehrerPerson · Music memorabiliaThomas Andrew Lehrer (April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician and mathematician.
UmaswatiAuthor · BooksVācaka Umāsvāti, also spelled as Vācaka Umasvati and known as Vācaka Umāsvāmī, was an Indian scholar, possibly between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE, known for his foundational writings on…
Varujan VosganianAuthor · BooksNational Liberal Party (2003–2015, Senator during 2004–2016)
Vernor VingeAuthor · Books1987, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2014 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement

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