Greatest European Geniuses

Aage Niels Bohr

A Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Adam Smith

British economist, philosopher and author

Adolphe Quetelet

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

Adolphe Thiers

A French statesman and historian.

Adrien Marie Legendre

A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.

Aeschylus

An ancient Greek tragedian

Aesop

Greek moral philosopher; noted for his fabulist storytelling using animal-human figures to convey teachings about ambigu

Arthur Conan Doyle

British detective fiction author

Alan Turing

An English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

Alan Watts

A British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audien

Albert Einstein

Synonym for genius and one of humanity greatest scientific minds

Albrecht Dürer

A German painter, printmaker and theorist

Alessandro Volta

An Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery.

Sandro Botticelli

An Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Alexander Fleming

A Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

Alexander Graham Bell

A scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Alexander von Humboldt

A German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

Alexander Pushkin

A Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet.

Alexander Pope

Is one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist.

Alfred Wegener

A German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.

Alfred Nobel

A Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist who bequeathed his fortune to the Nobel Prize ins

Alfred Russel Wallace

A British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Alma Deutscher

Is an English composer, pianist and violinist who completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams at age 7.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A French author, poet and statesman.

Amedeo Avogadro

An Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory.

Anaxagoras

Ancient Greek philosopher

Anaximander

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Anaximenes of Miletus

An Ancient Greek, Ionian Pre-Socratic philosopher.

André-Marie Ampère

A French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism.

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin

Serving in as President of the Chamber of Deputies for 7 years.

Andreas Vesalius

A 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani

Andrew Wiles

Proving Fermat's Last Theorem

Anish Kumar Giri

Anish Kumar Giri is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

A French economist and statesman.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

An English politician, philosopher, and writer.

Antoine Lavoisier

A French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution.

Antoine Arnauld

A French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist, author and physician

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

Antonio Canova

An Italian Neoclassical sculptor.

Archimedes

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Aristarchus of Samos

An ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at th

Aristotle

A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

Arnold Sommerfeld

A German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics

Arthur Schopenhauer

a German philosopher best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844).

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

An Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Brit

Athanasius Kircher

A German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works.

August von Kotzebue

A German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.

Auguste de Marmont

A French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire.

Auguste Rodin

a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

Auguste Comte

A French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

A French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

A French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle

A 19th-century Swiss botanist, noted for his contributions to taxonomy.

Averroes - Ibn Rushd

A Muslim Andalusi scholar and philosopher.

Ayn Rand

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Baron d'Holbach

Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

A Spanish Baroque painter best known for his religious works.

Baruch Spinoza

A Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin.

Bede

An English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul.

Ben Jonson

An English playwright and poet best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c

Benjamin Constant

A Swiss-French political activist and writer on political theory and religion.

Benjamin Disraeli

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Benoît de Maillet

A well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian.

George Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist known for writing Man and Superman (1902

Bernhard Riemann

A German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

Bertrand Russell

A British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobe

Blaise Pascal

Pascal's law

Boethius

A Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French scientist & naturalist of the 18th century

Callimachus

Architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Camille Saint-Saëns

A French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

An Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian unification.

Cardinal Richelieu

A French clergyman and statesman.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science.

Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.