20th Century
- Pierre Marie Heude (1836-1902), French missionary and zoologist.
- Manuel Magri (1851–1907), Maltese folklorist and archaeologist.
- Eugene Lafont (1837-1908), Belgian founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
- Gyula Fényi (1845-1927), Hungarian astronomer noted for his observations of the Sun.
- Franz Xaver Kugler (1862-1929), German mathematician, most known for his study of cuneiform tablets as well as being a chemist.
- James Cullen (1867-1933), Irish mathematician, known for the Cullen numbers.
- Theodor Wulf (1868-1946), German physicist who was among the first experimenters to detect excess atmospheric radiation.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French Palaeontologist and philosopher involved in the discovery of the so-called Peking Man.
- Paul McNally (1890-1955), American astronomer who was a director of the Georgetown Observatory.
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