Lives listing by occupation: scientist
- Desaguliers, John Theophilus (born 1683–died 1744), English churchman, scientist, academician
- Euler, Leonhard (born 1707–died 1783), Swiss mathematician, scientist
- Faraday, Michael (born 1791–died 1867), English scientist, academician
- Fatio de Duillier, Nicolas (born 1664–died 1753), Swiss mathematician, scientist, academician, sectarian, Camisard
- Folkes, Martin (born 1690–died 1754), English antiquarian, scientist, academician
- Franklin, Benjamin (born 1706–died 1790), American founding father, politician, publisher, scientist
- Gabbrielli, Pirro Maria (born 1643–died 1705), Italian university teacher, scientist
- Gale, Benjamin (born 1715–died 1790), American physician, scientist, politician
- Gosse, Henri Albert (born 1753–died 1816), Swiss scientist, politician, academician
- Grenville, George, 2nd earl of Warwick (born 1746–died 1816), English aristocrat, chemist, scientist, academician, politician, member of Parliament
- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia (born 1750–died 1848), German scientist, astronomer
- Hill, Abraham (born 1635–died 1722), English academician, scientist
- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry d’, baron d’Holbach (born 1723–died 1789), German aristocrat, scientist
- Huygens, Christiaan (born 1629–died 1695), Dutch mathematician, scientist, astronomer, physicist, horologist, academician
- Jaucourt, Louis de, chevalier de Jaucourt (born 1704–died 1779), French physician, scientist, author, encyclopædist
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