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George Washington
American politician
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
John Adams
American politician; President of the United States from 1797 to 1801
Thomas Jefferson
American politician; President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
Benjamin Franklin
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Edmund Burke
Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer
Thomas Paine
English and American political activist
John Wesley
Founder of the Methodist movement
Ethan Allen
American general
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, author
Christopher Smart
English poet
Maurice Benyovszky
Hungarian traveller and writer
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria
German composer, opera singer and librettist
Hannah More
English religious writer, poet, playwright, philanthropist
Marquis de Sade
Novelist and philosopher
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
English author
George Whitefield
English minister and preacher
Louis François Joseph
Prince of Conti
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
German bishop and saint
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, then Prince of Waldeck
Jonathan Edwards
American Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
British deaconess
Chevalier d'Eon
French diplomat, spy and soldier
Isaac Luzzatto
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Giacomo Casanova
Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
John Mills
English writer on agriculture, translator and editor
Olympe de Gouges
French playwright and political activist
Horace Walpole
An English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
Émilie du Châtelet
French mathematician, physicist, and author
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
German dramatist and playwright
Pierre Beaumarchais
French playwright diplomat and polymath
Edward Gibbon
English historian and Member of Parliament