Notable people

Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)

Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)

Swedish chemist (1779–1848)

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate

Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)

Israeli chemist

Iranian human rights activist (born 1972)

French-born American author (1903–1977)

Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)

Russian physicist (1916–2009)

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)

Swedish poet (1864–1931)

Swiss mathematician (1700-1782)

Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746–1827)

Turkish preacher and imam (1941–2024)

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

Spanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)

Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

Swedish writer (1900–1976)

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)

Swiss physicist (1861-1938)

Austrian writer

Greek poet and art critic (1911–1996)

Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers

Chinese physicist (1922–2025)

Albanian writer (1936–2024)