an English poet and intellectual. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667).

a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era

a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline

a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's Newcomen steam engine, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution

an iconic French author. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, "The Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Bluebeard"

a French composer of the Classical period