a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is known as "the founder of modern neurology"

a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development and inventor of the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine

a prolific Polish writer whose works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime

a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events

a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism

an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life.