one of the most famous Finnish writers and in 1939 became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature

a British pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.

a French chemist often considered the discoverer of the element actinium

a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France

an English mathematician, known for achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.

a Portuguese writer and soldier