Victor Hugo18021885French novelist, poet, dramatist, and politician, known for impactful works such as Notre-Dame de Paris and Quatrevingt Treize, who also made contributions as an artist and human rights activist
Elias Lönnrot18021884Finnish polymath who created the national epic Kalevala from traditional oral poetry and authored the first scientific text written in Finnish
Alexandre Dumas18021870Celebrated French writer, playwright, and novelist known for epic historical adventures like The Count of Monte Cristo and The forty-five guardsmen
Niels Henrik Abel18021829Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation and innovated in elliptic and Abelian functions
Lajos Kossuth18021894Hungarian statesman and revolutionist who led the Hungarian State during the 1848–1849 war of independence, advocating for national sovereignty