| HYPATIA | Pre-eminent female mathematician and philosopher of the ancient world (d. 415 AD), who headed the Neoplatonist school at Alexandria (7) |
| DENISDIDEROT | French writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment, chief editor of the 17-volume Encyclopedie (1745-72) |
| GALEN | Roman Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher of antiquity (5) |
| PLOTINUS | Egyptian-born Roman philosopher of the 3rd century AD who founded Neoplatonism (8) |
| HEROD | King of Judaea 41-44 AD who imprisoned St. Peter (5,7) |
| AGRIPPA | King of Judaea 41-44 AD who imprisoned St. Peter (5,7) |
| DIVA | Eminent female singer |
| OVID | Roman poet (43 BC-17 AD), who wrote Metamorphoses (4) |
| ALCIBIADES | Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War who defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the victories at Abydos and Cyzicus |
| BENTHAM | Philosopher of the "greatest happiness for the greatest number", aka utilitarianism, who designed a "seeing all" prison or "panopticon" (7) |
| BOOLE | George ___, English mathematician and philosopher who invented the logic which is the basis of modern computing |
| AGNESI | Italian scholar, eldest of 21 children, generally considered the first female mathematician of moder |
| BLAISE | 17th Century French mathematician and philosopher who developed the theory of probability with Pierr |
| PASCAL | 17th Century French mathematician and philosopher who developed the theory of probablity with Pierre |
| DEVONIAN | Of a period of the Palaeozoic era between 415 and 360 million years ago (8) |
| EPICURUS | Philosopher of ancient Greece (341-270 BC) who believed that 'pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily' (8) |
| DESCARTES | Philosopher of the maps across the Channel (9) |
| HEGEL | German philosopher of the 18th and 19th centuries, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich _ (5) |
| LEIBNIZ | Gottfried Wilhelm von ___, German mathematician and philosopher who developed calculus independently of Isaac Newton |
| RENE | _ Descartes, French philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age (4) |
