Marc Lépine

male, deceased (1989)
Marc Lépine, born Gamil Gharbi, was a 25-year-old man from the Province of Quebec, Canada. He killed fourteen women and wounded ten women and four m...
Laurent Schwartz

Laurent Schwartz

male, deceased (2002)
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. Among other teaching positions, he taught at École Polytechnique from 1959 to 1980. His co...
Alain Finkielkraut

Alain Finkielkraut

male, 60 years old
Alain Finkielkraut is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish Polish artisan manufacturing fine leather goods who was deported to Auschwitz. He...
Sophie Germain

Sophie Germain

female, deceased (1831)
Marie-Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 - June 27, 1831), born to a middle-class merchant family in Paris, France, was a French mathematician. At age...
Stendhal

Stendhal

male, deceased (1842)
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute...
Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn

male, 55 years old
Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Renault and Nissan Motors. He is largely credited with turning around Nissan. As an outsider in charge of one of Japan's...
Pierre-Louis Lions

Pierre-Louis Lions

male, 53 years old
Pierre-Louis Lions is a French mathematician. His parents were Jacques-Louis Lions, a mathematician and professor at the University of Nancy, and...
André Citroën

André Citroën

male, deceased (1935)
André-Gustave Citroën was a French Jewish entrepreneur of Dutch and Polish descent. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, bu...
Camille Jordan

Camille Jordan

male, deceased (1922)
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential "Cours...
Joseph Liouville

Joseph Liouville

male, deceased (1882)
Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various i...