Mathematicians
500 people
Ancient 35
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
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Anthemius of Tralles
ancient Greek scientist and architect
Apollonius of Perga
ancient Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections
Apollonius of Tyana
1st century AD Greek Neopythagorean philosopher
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
Archytas
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and statesman
Aristoxenus
4th century BC Greek Peripatetic philosopher
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
Boethius
Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)
Chrysippus of Soli
Greek Stoic philosopher (c.279–c.206 BC)
Democritus
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
Dionysius Exiguus
Byzantine saint
Diophantus of Alexandria
3rd century Alexandrian Greek mathematician
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
Euclid
ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.408–c.355 BC)
Hero of Alexandria
ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
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Hippias
5th century BC Greek sophist
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Hippocrates of Chios
5th-century BC Greek mathematician and astronomer
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
Isidore of Miletus
Byzantine Greek architect
Liu Hui
Chinese mathematician from Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms period)
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Pappus of Alexandria
4th century Greek mathematician
Philolaus
Greek philosopher, astronomer and Pythagorean (c.470–c.385 BCE)
Posidonius
Greek Stoic philosopher (c.135 – c.51 BC)
Proclus
5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
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Sosigenes of Alexandria
ancient Greek astronomer
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Wang Chong
1st century Chinese meteorologist, astronomer, and philosopher
Xenocrates
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Zeno of Elea
Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
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Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78–139)
Zu Chongzhi
Chinese mathematician-astronomer
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Persian astronomer (903-986)
Abraham ibn Ezra
12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Abu al-Wafa Buzjani
Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998)
Al-Battani
Islamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Avempace
Arab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
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Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE)
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
Hippasus
5th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
John XXI
pope (1276-1277)
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
Nasir Khusraw
11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
Nicole Oresme
14th century French philosopher and bishop
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
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Shri Bhaskara II (Bhaskaracharya)
Indian mathematician and astronomer Mathematical genius who discovered early...
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Thābit ibn Qurra
Mesopotamian astronomer and mathematician
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
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Varāhamihira
6th-century Hindu polymath, author of Brihat samhita
al-Jazari
mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
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al-Yaʿqubi
9th-century Arab geographer and historian
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Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician and astronomer (1598–1647)
Christopher Clavius
German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)
François Viète
French mathematician (*1540 – †1603)
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
Georg Joachim Rheticus
Austrian astronomist and mathematician (1514–1574)
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician
Gérard Desargues
French mathematician and engineer
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Henry Briggs
British mathematician
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
Juan de Herrera
Spanish architect (1530-1597)
Judah Loew ben Bezalel
Czech rabbi
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
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Lodovico Ferrari
Italian mathematician (1522–1565)
Luca Pacioli
Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Ludolph van Ceulen
German-Dutch mathematician (*1540 – †1610)
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as...
Martin Behaim
German navigator and geographer to the King of Portugal (1459–1507)
Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
Niccolò Tartaglia
Italian mathematician (1499–1557)
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
Petrus Apianus
German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (1495-1552)
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
Regiomontanus
German mathematician and astronomer (1436–1476)
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Robert Recorde
Welsh mathematician and inventor of the symbol '='
Simon Marius
German astronomer (1573–1624)
Simon Stevin
Flemish mathematician, physicist and engineer (1548–1620)
Thomas Harriot
British scientist (*~1560 – †1621)
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
Willebrord Snellius
Dutch astronomer and mathematician
William Oughtred
English mathematician and Anglican minister (1574–1660)
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Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist (1796-1874)
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician (1752–1833)
Alexis Clairaut
French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857)
Bernard Bolzano
Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
Brook Taylor
English mathematician (1685–1731)
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
Caroline Herschel
German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
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Christian Goldbach
German mathematician
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754)
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
Colin MacLaurin
Scottish mathematician (1698–1746)
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
Ernst Chladni
German physicist, mathematician and musician (1756 – 1827)
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
Italian physicist (1618–1663)
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
Friedrich Mohs
German geologist and mineralogist (1773-1839)
Gabriel Lamé
French mathematician and physicist (1795-1870)
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential...
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist and mathematician
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George Green
British mathematical physicist (*1793 – †1841)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physicist (*1608 – †1679)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
Giuseppe Piazzi
Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Guarino Guarini
Italian mathematician and architect (1624-1683)
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
French noble and mathematician (*1661 – †1704)
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
Isaac Barrow
English Christian theologian, and mathematician (1630-1677)
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
Jacob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician (1796-1863)
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862)
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)
Jeremiah Horrocks
English astronomer
Johan de Witt
Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625–1672)
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
Johann Franz Encke
German astronomer (1791–1865)
Johann Heinrich Lambert
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
Johannes Hevelius
astronomer setting up the cartography of the Moon
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
John Wallis
English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
Jérôme Lalande
French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)
Laura Bassi
Italian physicist (1711-1778)
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Michel Chasles
French mathematician (1793–1880)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Russian mathematician (1792–1856)
Ole Rømer
Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710)
Pierre Bouguer
French astronomer and mathematician (1698-1758)
Pierre Méchain
French mathematician and astronomer (1744-1804)
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician and lawyer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French scientist
Ruđer Josip Bošković
Croat physicist (1711–1787)
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
Thomas Bayes
British mathematician and Presbyterian minister (1702-1761)
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
William Petty
English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1688)
William Whewell
English philosopher and historian of science (1794–1866)
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
Étienne Bézout
French mathematician (1730-1783)
Étienne-Louis Malus
French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
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Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
Adolf Anderssen
German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess...
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Aleksandr Lyapunov
Russian mathematician (1857–1918)
Alexander Friedmann
Russian mathematician (1888-1925)
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
Annibale de Gasparis
Italian astronomer (1819–1892)
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951)
Arthur Cayley
English mathematician (1821-1895)
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Asaph Hall
American astronomer (1829–1907)
Augustus De Morgan
British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
Camille Jordan
French mathematician (1838-1922)
Carl David Tolmé Runge
German mathematician and physicist (1856–1927)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
German mathematician (1804–1851)
Charles Hermite
French mathematician (1822-1901)
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
Charles Wheatstone
British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)
Charles Émile Picard
French mathematician (1856-1941)
Christian Dopplerr
Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803-1853)
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
Edgar de Wahl
Estonian teacher and linguist (1867–1948)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
Emanuel Lasker
former World Chess champion (1868–1941)
Emil Artin
Austrian-Armenian mathematician (1898–1962)
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Ernst Kummer
German mathematician (1810–1893)
Ernst Zermelo
German mathematician (1871–1953)
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
Eugène Charles Catalan
French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)
Felix Hausdorff
German mathematician (*1868 – †1942)
Felix Klein
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
German mathematician (1849–1917)
Ferdinand von Lindemann
German mathematician (1852–1939)
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
G.H. Hardy
British mathematician (1877–1947)
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
Georg Cantor
German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
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Georg Wittig
German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
George Biddell Airy
English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)
George Howard Darwin
English astronomer, mathematician (1845–1912)
George Pólya
Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer and science historian (1835-1910)
Giuseppe Peano
Italian mathematician (1858–1932)
Gotthold Eisenstein
German mathematician (1823–1852)
Gottlob Frege
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
Harald Bohr
Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Dutch physicist (1853–1928)
Henri Lebesgue
French mathematician (1875–1941)
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Henry Adams
American journalist, historian, academic, novelist (1838-1918)
Herman Hollerith
American statistician and inventor（1860-1929）
Hermann Grassmann
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
Hermann Weyl
German mathematician (1885–1955)
Hertha Ayrton
English electrical engineer (1854–1923)
Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician (1865–1963)
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
James Hopwood Jeans
British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician (1814-1897)
Jan Łukasiewicz
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
Jean Gaston Darboux
French mathematician (1842–1917)
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician (1897–1965)
Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician (1825–1898)
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician (1805–1859)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Johannes Rydberg
Swedish physicist
John Charles Fields
Canadian mathematician (1863–1932)
John Couch Adams
English mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
American physicist (1899–1980)
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
John Venn
British logician and philosopher (1834-1923)
John William Strutt
English physicist (1842–1919)
Josef Stefan
Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (1835-1893)
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882)
Joseph Plateau
Belgian physicist (1801–1883)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
José Echegaray
Spanish playwright (1832-1916)
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist (1801-1868)
János Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician (1802–1860)
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Karl Weierstraß
German mathematician (1815–1897)
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Polish mathematician (1896–1980)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Konstantinos Carathéodory
Greek mathematician (1873-1950)
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891)
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Loránd Eötvös
Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)
Louis Couturat
French logician, mathematician, philosopher and linguist (1868–1914)
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)
Léon Walras
French mathematical economist (*1834 – †1910)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
Mihajlo Pupin
Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
Milutin Milanković
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879–1958)
Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
Nikolay Zhukovsky
Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician (1821–1894)
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
Paul Painlevé
French mathematician and politician (1863-1933)
Pavel Aleksandrov
Russian mathematician (1896–1982)
Pavel Florensky
Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical...
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician (1831–1916)
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
Rudolf Clausius
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer (1835–1909)
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician (1842–1899)
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician (1892–1945)
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician and physicist (1873–1941)
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1860-1940)
Wacław Sierpiński
Polish mathematician
Walther Bothe
German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)
Willem de Sitter
Dutch cosmologist (*1872 – †1934)
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
William Henry Fox Talbot
British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
William Kingdon Clifford
English mathematician and philosopher
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Éamon de Valera
Irish statesman (1882–1975)
Élie Cartan
French mathematician (1869–1951)
Émile Borel
French mathematician and politician (1871-1956)
Évariste Galois
French mathematician (1811-1832)
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Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī
Abbasid astronomer (c. 800 – 870)
Alain Badiou
French writer and philosopher
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Alan Baker
English mathematician (1939-2018)
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Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014)
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
Alfred Tarski
Polish-American logician (1901-1983)
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Alonzo Church
American mathematician and logician (1903–1995)
Anatoly Fomenko
Russian mathematician
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Andreas Kaplan
German economist, dean, university rector; higher education expert; edtech; social...
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
André Weil
French mathematician (1906-1998)
Atle Selberg
Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007)
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Brian Greene
American physicist
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Carl Gustav Hempel
German philosopher (1905–1997)
Charles Francis Richter
Seismologist and mathematician
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
Clive Granger
British economist
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
David Mumford
British/American mathematician
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C...
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist
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Edgar F. Codd
English computer scientist (1923–2003)
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Edward Norton Lorenz
American mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
Efim Zelmanov
Russian-american mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician (1940-)
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Frank P. Ramsey
British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No...
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
George Bernard Dantzig
American mathematician (1914-2005)
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)
Grigory Margulis
Russian mathematician
Gérard Debreu
French economist and mathematician (1921–2004)
Henri Cartan
French mathematician (1904–2008)
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher and mathematician
Howard H. Aiken
pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I...
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)
Johan Galtung
Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007)
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
John G. Thompson
American mathematician
John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
John Milnor
American mathematician
John Pople
Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)
John Stewart Bell
Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)
John Vincent Atanasoff
American computer pioneer (1903-1995)
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Julian Seymour Schwinger
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
Karen Uhlenbeck
American mathematician (born 1942)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and...
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
Larry Niven
American writer (born 1938)
Lars Ahlfors
Finnish mathematician (1907-1996)
Lars Hörmander
Swedish mathematician (1931–2012)
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician (1915-2002)
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Lloyd Shapley
American economist and mathematician
Lotfi A. Zadeh
American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)
Manjul Bhargava
Indo-Canadian mathematician
Margaret Hamilton
American NASA scientist and mathematician
Marian Rejewski
Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1905–1980)
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician (1900–1998)
Mary Jackson
American mathematician and aerospace engineer
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)
Maryna Viazovska
Ukrainian mathematician (born 1984)
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist (1913–2010)
Max Euwe
Dutch chess player and mathematician
Michael Atiyah
British mathematician
Michael Freedman
Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
Mikhail Gromov
Russian and French mathematician and academic
Myron Scholes
Canadian economist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
Ngô Bảo Châu
Vietnamese math professor
Nicanor Parra
Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist (1914-2018)
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Russian mathematician (1922–2004)
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
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Paul Cohen
American mathematician
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
Paul M. Romer
American economist (born 1955)
Peter Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)
Philip Kotler
American marketing author, consultant, and professor
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
Raymond Queneau
French novelist and poet (1903–1976)
Reinhard Selten
German economist (1930-2016)
René Thom
French mathematician (1923–2002)
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Roger Myerson
American economist
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Ron Rivest
American cryptographer
Sal Khan
American educator (born 1976)
Saul Kripke
American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)
Seymour Papert
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)
Shafrira Goldwasser
American computer scientist
Shakuntala Devi
Indian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)
Shing-Tung Yau
American mathematician from Hong Kong
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
Subhash Kak
Indian computer scientist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
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Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician
Tjalling Koopmans
Dutch American economist (1910–1985)
Trygve Haavelmo
Norwegian economist and econometrician
Vladimir Arnold
Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician (1966–2017)
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
William Thurston
American mathematician (1946–2012)