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Painted portrait representing the mathematician Euclid

Euclid

Greece · fl. c. 300 BCE

Mathematician

Painted portrait of Archimedes

Archimedes

Italy · c. 287–212 BCE

Mathematician, physicist & engineer

Ancient bust believed to depict Hannibal Barca

Hannibal

Tunisia · 247–183/181 BCE

Carthaginian general

19th-century depiction of Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang

China · 259–210 BCE

First emperor of China