a Russian physicist. His name was also transliterated as Peter Lebedew and Peter Lebedev. Lebedev was a creator of first scientific school in Russia.

an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels

a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter

an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.

a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation

a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord.