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Donald Norman (born 1935)
engineer, researcher, professor, consultant
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director
- Lycée Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
mathematician, jurist, physicist, philosopher, diplomat, historian, librarian, musicologist, translator, music theorist, diplomatician, poet, engineer, zoologist, archivist, biologist, geologist, policy advisor, philosopher of law, logician
- University of Altdorf, Leipzig University
Charles Baillairgé (1826-1906)
architect, civil engineer, surveyor
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher of science, topologist, polymath
- Mines ParisTech, Science Faculty of Paris
Robert Musil (1880-1942)
librarian, playwright, essayist, engineer
- Humboldt University of Berlin
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
architect, inventor, diarist, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, engineer, philosopher, designer, mathematician
- Harvard University, Bates College
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814)
geographical engineer (military cartographer), botanist
- University of Caen Normandy, École des Ponts ParisTech