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Gustave Caillebotte
French painter (1848–1894)
Gérard Desargues
French mathematician and engineer
Étienne-Louis Malus
French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
72 names on the Eiffel Tower
72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower of scientists, engineers or industrialists who honored France from 1789 to 1889
Villard de Honnecourt
artist from Picardy in Northern France
Abraham-Louis Breguet
Swiss engineer and clockmaker (1747–1823)
Gaspard de Prony
French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics (1755-1839)
Henri Tresca
French engineer (1814-1885)
Pierre-Émile Martin
French engineer (1824-1915)
Louis Armand
French engineer, inventor, administrator, and resistance fighter (1905-1971)
Michel Chevalier
French statesman (1806–1879)
Édouard Fritch
French Polynesian politician
Jean-Luc Sandoz
French-Swiss engineer
Benoît Fourneyron
French engineer (1802-1867)
Albert Auguste Perdonnet
French railroad engineer (1801-1867)
Charles Renard
French designer of airships (1847–1905)
Alphonse Beau de Rochas
French engineer (1815–1893)
Charles Combes
French engineer (1801-1872)
Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof
Polish-French engineer and Esperantist
Jules Petiet
French mechanical engineer (1813–1871)
Pierre-François Bouchard
French Army officer (1771-1822)
Henri de Dion
French engineer (1828-1878)
Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois
French engineer and politician (1763–1832)
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
French engineer (*1698 – †1761)
Camille Polonceau
French railway systems engineer (1813-1859)
Michel Callon
French sociologist
Salomon de Caus
French engineer (1576–1626)
Louis Didier Jousselin
French engineer (1776-1858)
Maurice Lévy
French engineer (1838–1910)
Ferdinand Carré
French engineer
Paul de Casteljau
French mathematician and engineer (1930–2022)
Floris Osmond
French scientist (1849–1912)
Julien Denormandie
French politician
Léonce Verny
French naval engineer
Philippe Morillon
French MEP and general
André Bloc
French architect (1896–1966)
Alfred-Marie Liénard
French physicist (1869–1958)
Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt
French engineer
Frédéric Sauvage
French boat builder
Pierre Henri Hugoniot
French military engineer (1851-1887)
Louis de Cormontaigne
French engineer
Lazare Weiller
French industrialist, inventor, art collector and politician (1858-1928)
Victor Contamin
French engineer (1840-1893)
Édouard de Villiers du Terrage
French egyptologist
Isaac de Caus
French architect and engineer
Cornelius Herz
French-American doctor, electrician, businessman and famous politician (1845-1898)
Emmanuel-Louis Gruner
geologist and engineer (1809-1883)
Jean-Marc Jancovici
French engineer and energy climate specialist
François-Nicolas Martinet
French engineer, engraver and naturalist
Eugène Pereire
French politician, private banker, entrepreneur and engineer (1831-1908)
Lieven Bauwens
engineer, entrepreneur, industrial spy (1769-1822)
Jules Garnier
French mining engineer (1839-1904) and discoverer of New Caledonian nickel
Brutus de Villeroi
French submarine pioneer
Louis Puissant
French mathematician
Pierre du Buat
French hydraulic engineer
Benoît Darondeau
French engineer (1805-1869)
Bronisław Szwarce
Polish engineer and political activist; translator of Russian literature
Léon Lecornu
French engineer (1854-1940)
Georges Berger
French politician (1834-1910)
Abel Foullon
Engineer and director of a mint