Inventor

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a renowned French chemist and microbiologist of the 19th century, with several extraordinary achievements to his name.

Louis Braille was the inventor of the Braille system of reading for the blind. He was born on January 4th, 1809 in a small town named Coupvray in France and was the youngest child of Simon-René and Monique Braille.

Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie George Johnson is an American engineer who is famous for inventing the super soaker squirt gun, one of the most popular children’s toys in the world.

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who developed the Linux operating system. He was born in 1969 in Helsinki, Finland to Nils and Anna Torvalds.

Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss (born Loeb Strauss) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the original blue jeans company Levi Strauss & Co.

Les Paul

Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss) was a famous American musician, songwriter, inventor, and pioneer of recording techniques.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most famous artists, intellectuals and scientists during the Italian Renaissance. He was born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy.

Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page, more popularly known as Larry Page, is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Google, the largest internet company in the world.

Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse was a German engineer, widely credited with manufacturing of the world’s first programmable computer in 1938, long before the world had ever heard of such a thing.

Kary Mullis

Kary Banks Mullis is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 for his contribution towards the improvement of the PCR technique used in DNA testing.