a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.

a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach

a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933)

a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology.

a Polish poet, one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness in the period of Partitions of Poland

an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.