an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century

an Italian physicist, chemist and lay Catholic who was a pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane

a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of pataphysics.

a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).

a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, and was a founder of the field of tropical medicine.

a German and Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.