a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.

a Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent naturalistic school

a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer

a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France

a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature

a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature.