Museum founders

American showman and politician (1810–1891)

Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1764-1795)

queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)

American industrialist and art collector (1892–1976)

British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)

Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)

president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972

American botanist (1810–1888)

Armenian businessman, art collector and philanthropist (1869-1955)

American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite (1898–1979)

British botanist

American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, political activist

American diplomat, banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector (1855–1937)

English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist (1617-1692)

Polish princess (1746–1835)

American painter (1741–1827)

American businessman and museum founder (1861-1949)

British architect (1753–1837)

American businessman (1898–1990)

American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist (1795–1869)

Mexican painter, printmaker, and sculptor (1899-1991)

French cardinal, diplomat, art collector and Prince of France (1763-1839)

American art collector, philanthropist, patron of the arts (1840–1924)

Italian cardinal, scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena (1617-1675)

American particle physicist (1912–1985)

French industrialist, patron and book collector

author, artist (1918-2007)

English civil servant and inventor (1808–1882)

Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)

Japanese artist and photographer (born 1948)

Canadian paleontologist and museum curator

American sculptor (1875-1942)

English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist (1827–1900)

American paleontologist, zoologist, botanist and philanthropist (1867-1950)

American industrialist (1849-1919)

German art collector (1869-1939)

British businessman (born 1943)

German poet, historian of literature and art collector (1815–1894)

French collector of contemporary art

French botanist, naturalist and illustrator (1800-1873)

French painter and art collector (1841-1912)

German founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and famous transgender

Russian model

English sugar merchant and philanthropist (1819–1899)

Russian businessman

American socialite and philanthropist (1874–1948)

American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist (1842–1919)

Hungarian philanthropist (1754–1820)

British nurse (1859–1931)

Turkish businessperson (1901–1996)

art collector (1921-2002)

Belgian museum director (1936-2014)

philanthropist and art patron

Besarabia-born French model and muse

Canadian philanthropist and member of the Bronfman family

Dutch Mennonite cloth merchant and art collector (1702-1778)

Turkish businessperson (1933–2004)