an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".

a Russian author of short stories.

an English novelist, playwright, journalist

an English mathematician and astronomer, and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881; Established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.

a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen

a Swedish poet, novelist and Nobel laureate. His poems and prose work are filled with a great joy of life, sometimes imbued with a love of Swedish history and scenery