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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
Thomas Jefferson
American politician; President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, author
George Wythe
First American law professor, a noted classics scholar and Virginia judge, as well as a prominent opponent of slavery
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
German opera composer
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician, mathematical physicist
Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken
German noble
Edward Gibbon
English historian and Member of Parliament
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French naturalist
Jean-Joseph Kapeller
French painter and architect 18th century
Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
German duke
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
German philosopher
Thomas Reid
Scottish philosopher
Anders Johan Lexell
Mathematician
Josep Jaume i Boixader
Advocat i jurisconsult perpinyanenc
Edmond Malone
Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor
Charles Burney
English music historian
William Blackstone
English jurist, judge and Tory politician
Carlo Amoretti
Italian explorer and scientist
Niccolò Jommelli
Italian composer
Ebenezer Pemberton
American educator and 2nd Principal of Phillips Academy Andover
Mikhail Lomonosov
Polymath
Francesco Algarotti
Italian philosopher
Elizabeth Carter
English poet, classicist, writer, translator, polymath
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
Antonio Sacchini
Italian opera composer
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian painter
Christoph Martin Wieland
German writer, poet and publisher
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Laura Bassi
Italian physicist
Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein
German physicist
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Italian priest, biologist and physiologist
Vivant Denon
French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist