Famous Who's What?

• Boole, George

  Developer of Boolean algebra

• 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"

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