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French artist known for her wax sculptures and for founding the Madame Tussauds wax museum in London, capturing historical figures and the drama of her times

American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States, known for his military service and pioneering an interracial family

American writer and women's rights advocate who became the first female war correspondent and authored the foundational feminist text <i>Woman in the Nineteenth Century</i>

American statesman and political theorist known for his service as Vice President and his advocacy for states' rights and slavery

12th president of the United States and a major general known for his Mexican–American War victories

English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature

French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly, known for his writings on free markets and limited government

King of the French from 1830 to 1848, known as "the Citizen King," who abdicated during the French Revolution of 1848 leading to the Second Republic

French chemist and physicist renowned for his gas laws, the discovery of water's composition, and the degrees Gay-Lussac for measuring alcoholic strength

Argentine general, politician, and soldier known as "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru" for his leadership in gaining South American independence from the Spanish Empire

French novelist and playwright known for La Comédie humaine, a panoramic depiction of post-Napoleonic French society