a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III

an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.

an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays

a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

an English journalist and writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date

a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He founded the conglomerate Siemens.