Notable people

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi

English-born Australian writer

Iranian military officer (1957–2020)

Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)

South Korean writer

Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)

Austrian-Swedish physicist

Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973

Chinese businessman

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner (1853-1926)

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire

Australian-American business magnate (born 1931)

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglot

Finnish racing driver

Argentine writer (1914-1984)

Chinese medical scientist

Nigerian writer (born 1977)

Cuban chess player (1888-1942)

sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020 (1940–2020)

Indian-American astrophysicist

19th-century Russian mathematician

German philosopher (1775–1854)

Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)

Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)

French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)

Belgian writer (1903–1986)

Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist