Rembrandt

A Dutch painter, considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time, who drew many pictures of himself and other people, as well as religious subjects, and is known for his use of light and shade.

Freud

An Austrian doctor who developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis based on free association and the analysis of dreams.

Sibelius

A Finnish composer of highly personal music which is also thought to express Finnish culture.

A French painter who was involved in starting Impressionism. He is well-known for his "water lilies" and the pictures of the countryside in which he was concerned to show the effect of light.

Liszt

A Hungarian composer who wrote one of the most difficult piano music, such as "Transcedental Studies".

A Romanian gymnast who got 10 (out of 10) and won three gold medals in the 1976 Olympic Games.

A German physicist who studied the behaviour of atoms and formed the theory of relativity.

A German composer. The "Ode to Joy" (the European anthem) comes from his ninth symphony.

A British film director and one of the funniest actors in the world.

An Italian film director whose films include La Strada (a film that brought him five Oscar awards).

Curie

A Polish scientist who discovered radium (a radioactive metal) together with her husband Pierre.

Pasteur

A French scientist known for his studies of fermentation and bacteria; inventor of the process of pasteurization (a way of killing germs in food).

Newton

A British scientist who discovered the law of gravity.

Nobel

A Swedish scientist. He invented dynamite in 1866.

Picasso

A Spanish painter and one of the founders of cubism. One of his famous paintings is "Guernica".