a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom")

a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896).

a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields.

a Spanish author novelist biographer and physician, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98

a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer

a Baltic German physicist, who, in 1822, observed a relationship between heat and magnetism. Later, in 1823, Ørsted called this phenomenon thermoelectric effect.