List of notable people

This is a list of notable people from the 17th century to the 20th century.

Art

Performing arts

Business

Clergy and religion

Missionaries

Religious leaders

Explorers

  • Alexander Kolchak (died 1831), Russian explorer and surveyor who charted the southern extents of Russian Alyeska
  • Bernard Freycient (1770-1849), French naval commander, scientist and leader of the 1810 Freycient expedition to Australie
  • Catharina Dana (1763-1828), Dutch-Tussenlandic frontierswoman, navigator and explorer of the Pacific North-West
  • Christian 'Redlum' Williams (1761-1809), New Anglian naturalist & explorer, expedition to the Pacific North-West mysteriously disappeared
  • Zachary Hicks (1744-1790), British captain who explored & charted Oceania

Politics

Revolutionaries

Leaders

Royalty

Monarchs

Scholars and philosophers

Science and technology

Computer science

Nuclear technology

  • Mabelle Taylor (b. 1908), nuclear physicist, discovered nuclear fission. Influential in Great Britain's efforts in nuclear technology.

Rocket and space technology