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Albuquerque, Afonso de		1453 - 1515 Portuguese conqueror.

Bering, Vitus		1681 - 1741 Danish explorer.

Bohr, Niels		1885 - 1962 Danish friend of the atoms.

Cabot, John		1450 - 1499 Navigator.



Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez		... - 1543 Discoverer of California.



Cartier, Jacques		1491 - 1557 French explorer.

Clark, William		1770 - 1838 The one with Lewis.



Columbus, Christopher		1451 - 1506 Nautical Enthusiast.



Cook, James		1728 - 1779 Explorer.



Copernicus, Nicolas		1473 - 1543 Sun and planets.



Cortes, Hernan		1485 - 1547 The last thing the Aztec empire saw.

Darwin, Charles		1809 - 1882 Origin of Species.



Drake, Sir Francis		1540 - 1596 Spain's nightmare.

Edison, Thomas Alva		1847 - 1931 Inventor. American.



Einstein, Albert		1879 - 1955 Brain.

Feynman, Richard P.		1918 - 1988 Physicist.



Franklin, Benjamin		1706 - 1790 Inventor of everything.



Freud, Sigmund		1856 - 1939 Knew your father.

Galilei, Galileo		1564 - 1642 Telescope.



Gama, Vasco da		1460 - 1524 Portuguese explorer.



Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini		1180 - 1252 Franciscan traveler.



Gutenberg, Johannes		1400 - 1468 Inventor.

Hamilton, William		1730 - 1803 British envoy at the court of the Kingdom of Naples.



Hudson, Henry		1565 - 1611 English navigator.

Lawrence of Arabia		1888 - 1935 Devoted biker, occasional camel rider.



Leonardo da Vinci		1452 - 1519 Had to tell Mona to sit still.



Lewis, Meriwether		1774 - 1809 The one with Clark.

Magellan, Ferdinand		1480 - 1521 Explorer.

Mercuriale, Girolamo		1530 - 1606 Italian physician.



Newton, Isaac		1642 - 1727 England's bright mind.



Nightingale, Florence		1820 - 1910 Revolutionary caregiver.



Nobel, Alfred Bernhard		1833 - 1896 Explosives and the Prizes.

Pasteur, Louis		1822 - 1895 French germ hunter.



Pausch, Randy		1960 - 2008 Computer scientist.



Pizarro, Francisco		1475 - 1541 Spanish conquistador of Peru.



Planck, Max		1858 - 1947 Physics.



Polo, Marco		1254 - 1324 Inventor of the suitcase.



Pythagoras of Samos		Around 580 - 500 BC Good with numbers.

Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad		1845 - 1923 The one who could see right through.

Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de		1633 - 1707 French military engineer



Vespucci, Amerigo		1454 - 1512 When is the last time a continent was named after you?



William of Rubrouck		1215 - 1295 French traveler.

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