an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet.

a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".

an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.

a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who participated in the early Romantic movement by including elements of eroticism in his paintings

a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess's law, an early principle of thermochemistry

an English machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. His inventions were an important foundation for the Industrial Revolution