Blind scholars and academics

Italian polymath (1564-1642)

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)

French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired

'''Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri (; December 973May 1057), also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis''', was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Emirate of Aleppo (in present day Syria). Because of his antireligious worldview, he is known as one of the "foremost atheists" of his time", although his worldview was closer to deism. However, in his defensive treatise Zajr al-Nabeh (The Repelling of the Barker)—a manuscript edited and published in 1965—al-Ma'arri explicitly identified himself as a faithful Muslim and systematically refuted the accusations of heresy leveled

Belgian physicist (1801–1883)

Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)

German 11th-century Benedictine monk

Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)

Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and mufti (1912–1999)

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharyas, and has held this title since 1988.

British politician (born 1947)

Belgian composer and violinist (1802–1870)

Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer, and poet

Russian artist (1871-1955)

Italian painter (1538-1592)

British composer and musicologist (1813–1887)

American physician and abolitionist (1801–1876)

German physicist (1925–2001)

Russian philologist and art historian (1818–1897)

English scholar and writer (1805–1897)

English mathematician (1682–1739)

German botanist and mycologist (1839–1925)

Chinese historian, linguist, and scholar (1890–1969)

professor of geology and malacologist

Greek politician

Scottish natural historian (1731-1803)

German mathematician, philosopher and psychologist (1802-1896)

British academic, politician and economist (1833–1884)

Professor at Columbia Business School

philosopher of the Cyrenaic school

British journalist, publisher (1866–1921)

Colombian politician

British Royal Navy officer (1787-1857)

Japanese musician (1894–1956)

American musician

Islamic scholar

Austrian mathematician and philosopher (1882-1937)

Spanish writer (1849–1906)

Russian mathematician (1931–2004)

American mathematician (1918–2013)

American academic computer engineer (1938–2024)

French mathematician (1931–2018)

American chemist (1893-1986)

Dutch writer, philologist and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium, owner/creator of the album amicorum of Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660)

Indian musician (1893-1964)

Yemeni poet (1929–1999)

scientist

British biochemist and epidemiologist

American astrophysicist

Canadian children's writer (1932-2020)

physician

French composer

Jain Scholar and Philosopher from India

Union Army General (1806-1894)

Lebanese scholar

Indian educationist

Jerusalem academic and journalist (1854–1918)

Soviet geologist and historian of science (1915-1994)