Mental Calculators From History
- Aitken, Alexander Craig,
- Bidder, George Parker
- Buxton, Jedediah
- Colburn, Zerah
- Dase, Johann Zacharias
- Deshong, Peter M.
- De Grote, Herbert
- Devi, Shakuntala
- Diamandi, Pericles
- Dysart, Willis (a.k.a. Willie the Wizard)
- Eberstark, Hans
- Finkelstein, Salo
- Fuller, Thomas
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Griffith, Arthur F.
- Inaudi, Jacques
- Klein, Wim (a.k.a. Willem Klein)
- McCartney, Daniel
- Ruckle, Gottfried
- Safford, Truman Henry
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