19th president of the United States, Civil War major general, lawyer, and Ohio governor

French literary critic, historian, and philosopher, known for influencing naturalism and historicist criticism

French author and master of the short story, known for his naturalist depictions of human lives and society

French Romantic composer famous for operas "Faust" and "Roméo et Juliette," plus beloved "Ave Maria"

French general and politician who served as the third President of the French Republic and was elevated to Marshal of France by Napoleon III

Irish physicist and naturalist who proved the greenhouse effect and explored glacier motion and the scattering of light