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Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman
Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist
Mary Shelley
British writer
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright
James Madison
American politician; 4th president of the United States
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
Daniel Webster
14th and 19th United States Secretary of State
William Blake
English poet and artist
John Marshall
American lawyer; chief justice of the US from 1801 to 1835
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic poet
Johannes van der Palm
Dutch politician
Frederik Christian Petersen
Tipu Sultan
Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799
Robert Morrison
Anglo-Scottish evangelist and the first Christian Protestant missionary in China
John Henry Hopkins
Irish priest, artist, composer, theologian; first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Adolphe Thiers
2° President of the French Republic.
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
King of Saxony
Germaine de Staël
Swiss author
Eugène François Vidocq
French criminal and criminalist
John Bowring
4th Governor of Hong Kong; hymnwriter; translator
William Godwin
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Janko Drašković
Croatian politician and poet
Victor Cousin
French philosopher
Gheorghe Asachi
Romanian polymath
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
English socialite, style icon, author, and activist
Thomas M'Crie
Scottish historian, writer, and preacher
Carl von Clausewitz
German-Prussian soldier and military theorist
Robert Burns
Scottish poet and lyricist
William Hazlitt
English writer
Washington Irving
American writer, historian and diplomat
David Walker
Outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist
Adam Mickiewicz
Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist
Richard Oastler
Nineteenth century labour reformer
John James Audubon
American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
German poet and novelist
Friedrich Accum
German chemist