Boole, George
Developer of Boolean algebra
Famous Who's What?
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Bork, Robert H.
President Reagan's rejected Supreme Court pick -
Diddley, Bo
The early rock 'n' roll inventor nicknamed "The Originator" -
Diesel, Rudolf
Inventor of the diesel engine -
Doppler, Christian
Discoverer of what's called the Doppler Effect -
Dreyfus, Alfred
The French captain wrongly accused of treason in 1894 -
Fibonacci, Leonardo
The guy who brought the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe -
Fosbury, Dick
The high jumper who came up with the Fosbury Flop -
Freud, Sigmund
The founder of psychoanalysis -
Gerry, Elbridge
The early American politician who gave us the term "gerrymandering" -
Heimlich, Henry
The guy who developed the Heimlich Maneuver -
Kafka, Franz
Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis -
Lamaze, Fernand
Promoter of painless childbirth -
Lloyd, Edward
The coffee shop host who gave Lloyd's of London its name -
Monroe, James
President of the United States, 1817-1825 -
Montessori, Maria
The founder of Montessori schools -
Montezuma II
The leader of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest -
Orwell, George
The author of Nineteen eighty-four -
Pascal, Blaise
17th century mathematical genius -
Pavlov, Ivan
Author of Conditioned Reflexes (1926) -
Plato
The ancient philosopher who wrote The Republic -
Ponzi, Carlo
The guy behind the Ponzi Scheme -
Pyrrhus
King of hellenistic Epirus whose gave up a lot to win -
Pythagoras
The guy they named the Pythagorean Theorem after -
Richter, Charles F.
The seismologist who created the earthquake scale -
Rubens, Peter Paul
17th century Flemish painter of the Baroque period -
Rubik, Erno
Inventor of the Rubik's Cube puzzle -
Schrödinger, Erwin
Creator of the Schrödinger's Cat paradox -
Van Allen, James
Cosmic ray expert who found the Van Allen radiation belts -
Warren, Earl
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69 -
William of Ockham
Medieval thinker responsible for the principle of Ockham's Razor -
Zimmermann, Arthur
Author of "The Zimmermann Telegram"