Modern Thinkers
500 people
Aage Bohr
Danish physicist (1922–2009)
Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
Abhijit Banerjee
Indian American economist
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist (1908–1970)
Ada Yonath
Israeli chemist
Adam Riess
American astrophysicist
Adrian IV
Pope from 1154 to 1159
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian chemist
Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
Alain Aspect
French physicist
Alan J. Heeger
American chemist, physicist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
Alan MacDiarmid
New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Albert Bandura
Canadian psychologist (1925–2021)
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014)
Alexander Prokhorov
Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)
Alexei Abrikosov
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
Alfred Kastler
French physicist (1902–1984)
Allan McLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998)
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
Amin Maalouf
Francophone Lebanese writer based in Frances
Andre Geim
Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Andreas Kaplan
German economist, dean, university rector; higher education expert; edtech; social...
Andrew Fire
American biologist
Andrew Huxley
English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
Anne L'Huillier
French physicist
Anousheh Ansari
Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
Anthony James Leggett
British physicist (1938–2026)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
Anton Zeilinger
Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
Antony Hewish
English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist (1922-2020)
Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian physicist (born 1943)
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist
Avram Hershko
Israeli scientist
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
Barry C. Barish
American physicist
Barry Marshall
Nobel Prize winner, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish nuclear physicist (1926–2022)
Benedict XVI
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)
Bertram Brockhouse
Canadian physicist
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
Brian David Josephson
Welsh physicist
Brian Kobilka
American physiologist
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
Brian Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
Burton Richter
American physicist
Carl David Anderson
American physicist
Carl Rogers
American psychologist (1902–1987)
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Carl Wieman
Nobel prize winning US physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian particle physicist
Carlos Slim
Mexican business magnate and investor
Carol Greider
American molecular biologist
Carolyn Bertozzi
American chemist (born 1966)
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Charles Francis Richter
Seismologist and mathematician
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
Chelsea Manning
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Chen-ning Yang
Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)
Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Christian de Duve
Belgian biochemist, cytologist (1917–2013)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist (1933-)
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
Claudia Goldin
American economist; Nobel prize winner
Clifford Shull
American physicist (1915–2001)
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906–1997)
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
Dani Rodrik
Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)
Daniel Bovet
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992)
Daniel C. Tsui
Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist
David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019)
David J. Wineland
American physicist
David Lee
physicist and Nobel Prize winner from the United States
Denis Mukwege
Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C...
Derek Barton
English organic chemist (1918–1998)
Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
Donald Arthur Glaser
American physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Edvard Moser
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
Edward Mills Purcell
American physicist (1912-1997)
Edward Said
Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)
Edward Snowden
American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japanese chemist (1935 - 2021)
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and...
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and...
Elinor Ostrom
American political economist (1933-2012)
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian-American biological researcher
Emilio G. Segrè
Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
Enheduanna
Akkadian princess; Sumerian high priestess of Nanna at Ur; poet and philosopher
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
Eric Allin Cornell
American physicist, professor (born 1961)
Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
Ernst Otto Fischer
German chemist (1918–2007)
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Ernst Ruska
German physicist (1906–1988)
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
Esther Duflo
French-American economist (born 1972)
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
F. Sherwood Rowland
American chemist (1927–2012)
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
Fernand Braudel
French historian and leader of the Annales School
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the...
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
Franco Modigliani
Italian-American economist (1918–2003)
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
François Jacob
French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
Frederick Reines
American physicist (1918–1998)
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist (1918–2013)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
Gary S. Becker
American economist (1930-2014)
Georg Bednorz
physicist
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)
George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
George Emil Palade
Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate (1912–2008)
George F. Smoot
American astrophysicist and cosmologist (1945–2025)
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist (1903-1989)
Georges Charpak
French physicist (1924-2010)
Gerard 't Hooft
Dutch theoretical physicist
Gerard Kuiper
Netherlands-born American astronomer (1905–1973)
Gerd Binnig
German physicist (born 1947)
Gerhard Ertl
German physicist
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglot
Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995)
Giulio Natta
Italian chemist
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999)
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)
Gérard Mourou
French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Günter Blobel
German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995),...
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
German physicist (1922-2017)
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher (1900–2002)
Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
Harald zur Hausen
German virologist and professor emeritus (1936–2023)
Harry Kroto
British chemist (1939-2016)
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist (1933-2013)
Henry Taube
Canadian-born American chemist (1915–2005)
Henry Way Kendall
American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist (1912–2004)
Herbert Kroemer
German-American physics (1928–2024)
Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese scientist (1936–)
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Horst Ludwig Störmer
German physicist
Hugh David Politzer
American physicist
Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
Soviet physicist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
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Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Irwin Rose
American biologist (1926-2015)
Isaiah Berlin
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian...
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
Ivar Giæver
Norwegian-American physicist
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
J. Michael Kosterlitz
British-American physicist
Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)
Jack Szostak
American biologist
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004)
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
James Black
Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010)
James Cronin
American physicist
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
James M. Buchanan
American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)
James Rainwater
American physicist
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
Jan Hendrik Oort
Dutch astronomer (1900–1992)
Jan Tinbergen
Dutch economist (1903–1994)
Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
Jean Dubuffet
French artist (1901–1985)
Jean Tirole
French economist
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French nanotechnologist
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
Jens Christian Skou
Danish chemist (1918-2018)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
Jimmy Wales
co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
German nuclear physicist (1907–1973)
John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist (1922–2023)
John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
John Cornforth
Australian-British chemist
John E. Walker
British biochemist (1941-)
John Fenn
American analytical chemist (1917–2010)
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
John Gurdon
British developmental biologist (1933–2025)
John Kendrew
English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)
John L. Hall
American physicist (born 1934)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
John Pople
Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)
John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989)
John Robert Schrieffer
American physicist (1931-2019)
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Jordan Peterson
Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere...
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Joseph E. Stiglitz
American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Joseph Hooton Taylor
American astronomer
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Jost Gippert
German linguist
Jostein Gaarder
Norwegian author (born 1952)
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Jules A. Hoffmann
French biologist
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
Julian Seymour Schwinger
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
Kai Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1918–2007)
Karl Alexander Müller
Swiss physicist (1927–2023)
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and...
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
Kenneth Arrow
American economist (1921–2017)
Kenneth G. Wilson
Nobel prize winning US physicist
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan novelist
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
Klaus Ebner
Austrian writer
Klaus von Klitzing
German physicist
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist (1912–2000)
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Konrad Zuse
German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
Konstantin Novoselov
Russian-British physicist known for graphene work
Kurt Alder
German chemist (1902–1958)
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss chemist (born 1938)
Larry Ellison
American internet entrepreneur and businessman (born 1944)
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
Lars Onsager
American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
Leon Cooper
American physicist (1930–2024)
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Linda B. Buck
American biologist
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
Louis Néel
French physicist (1904-2000)
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine biochemist
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
Luke the Evangelist
one of the four evangelists
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
Manfred Eigen
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)
Maria Göppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
Marija Gimbutas
Lithuanian-American archaeologist
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
Mark Shuttleworth
South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
Martin Lewis Perl
American scientist (1927–2014)
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
Martinus J. G. Veltman
Dutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021)
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
Maurice Allais
French economist (1911–2010)
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
Max Delbrück
biophysicist (1906–1981)
Max Euwe
Dutch chess player and mathematician
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist (1911–1997)
Melvin Schwartz
American experimental physicist (1932-2006)
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
Monica Lewinsky
American activist and writer (born 1973)
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist (1929–2019)
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenyan writer (1938–2025)
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dutch-born American physicist
Niko Tinbergen
Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
Norman Foster Ramsey
American physicist (1915–2011)
Norman Mailer
American writer (1923–2007)
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish writer and activist (born 1962)
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in...
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
Paul Flory
American chemist (1910-1985)
Paul Josef Crutzen
Dutch climatologist (1933–2021)
Paul Krugman
American economist (born 1953)
Paul Lauterbur
American chemist (1929–2007)
Paul Samuelson
American economist (1915–2009)
Pavel Cherenkov
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
Peter Agre
American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter D. Mitchell
British biochemist (1920-1992)
Peter Grünberg
German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)
Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist (1923-2020)
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French physicist
Polykarp Kusch
German-American physicist (1911-1993)
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
Rainer Weiss
American physicist (1932–2025)
Ralph Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist (1943–2011)
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
Richard E. Taylor
Canadian physicist (1929-2018)
Richard Ernst
Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate (1933–2021)
Richard F. Heck
American chemist (1931–2015)
Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
British biochemist (1914–1994)
Richard Smalley
American chemist (1943–2005)
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer,...
Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Robert Coleman Richardson
American physicist
Robert Curl
American chemist (1933–2022)
Robert Edwards
English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
Robert H. Grubbs
Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
Robert Solow
American economist (1924–2023)
Robert Wilson
American astronomer (born 1936)
Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist
Roger Guillemin
French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Roger Y. Tsien
American biochemist (1952-2016)
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
Ronald Coase
British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
Russell Alan Hulse
American astronomer
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian writer (1901-1968)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese-American physicist
Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist (1927–2008)
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
Saul Bellow
Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)
Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
Serge Haroche
French physicist, Nobel laureate
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Severo Ochoa
Spanish physician
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate...
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)
Simon Kuznets
Russian-born American economist and statistician (1901–1985)
Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist (1925–2011)
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Stanisław Lem
Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
Stefan Hell
director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
Stephen Hillenburg
American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)
Steve Ballmer
American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Sundar Pichai
Indian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc.
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese biologist, neuroscientist (1939 - )
Svante Pääbo
Swedish geneticist (born 1955)
Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer (born 1948)
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South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 (1927–2019)
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
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Brazilian association football player (1954–2011)
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Japanese physicist and astronomer
Ted Bundy
American serial killer (1946–1989)
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Theodor W. Hänsch
German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
Thomas A. Steitz
American biochemist (1940–2018)
Thomas C. Südhof
German biochemist
Thomas Kuhn
American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
Tim Cook
American business executive
Tomas Lindahl
Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist
Tomas Tranströmer
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
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American physicist
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Vladimir Arnold
Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)
Vladimir Prelog
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Waleed Al-Husseini
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Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist (1902–1987)
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999)
Wendell Meredith Stanley
American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor (1924–2011)
Willard Libby
American physical chemist
William Alfred Fowler
American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)
William Bradford Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
William Daniel Phillips
physics Nobel laureate
William Lipscomb
Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist
Willis Eugene Lamb
American physicist (1913–2008)
Wole Soyinka
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist
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German physicist (1913–1993)
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
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French chemist (1930–2015)