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First Names of Scientists

Based on the last name, guess the first names of these famous scientists from history.
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First submittedMay 5, 2013
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First Name
Last Name
Isaac
Newton
Albert
Einstein
Niels
Bohr
Louis
Pasteur
Linus
Pauling
Enrico
Fermi
Charles
Darwin
Marie
Curie
Pierre
Stephen
Hawking
Gregor
Mendel
Galileo
Galilei
Nicolaus
Copernicus
Werner
Heisenberg
Tycho
Brahe
Max
Planck
Francis
Crick
Richard
Feynman
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71 Comments
What
+2
Level 26
May 31, 2013
Please allow Nils for Neils, that^s the genuine form
dcmitchell
+12
Level 46
May 31, 2013
Um. Noo...?
What
+1
Level 26
Jun 1, 2013
Wait that looked like Neils to me yesterday. Don't know if I made a mistake or if it was corrected. Anyway, leave it.
Danno
+1
Level 67
Mar 21, 2014
Don't feel bad I tried both Nils and Nels, figured they were looking for a different guy.
mal
+3
Level 64
May 31, 2013
It's official- I don't know many scientists first names!
plattitude
+1
Level 94
May 31, 2013
Reach me down my Tycho Brahe... first introduction to my now favorite Astronomer.
KatM
+1
Level 22
Jun 1, 2013
Poor Brahe, Kepler winz while he loses.
TheWombat
+1
Level 72
Feb 2, 2016
I didn't know about the moose, but I knew he had a metal nose.
zimba
+10
Level 48
Jun 4, 2013
I wanted to put Mr. White for Heisenberg.
kalbahamut
+10
Level 79
Jan 4, 2016
I was going to say you should accept Walter.
BlackLab
+6
Level 66
Feb 6, 2018
SAY MY NAME!
buck1017
+25
Level 78
Aug 27, 2013
Crap...I thought I knew Heisenberg...but i was uncertain.
beekash
+5
Level 56
Mar 20, 2014
But I bet you knew how fast you were going.
vineyard
+2
Level 35
Dec 16, 2013
Can you accept Lewis for Louis?
undeadwarrior
+3
Level 66
Feb 6, 2018
Louis is pronounced "Louie"
Broski42069
+2
Level 62
Feb 2, 2020
Lewis is different
Gartholomew
+4
Level 45
May 1, 2014
What is up with all of these people requesting that incorrect answers be accepted?
Arp2600
+4
Level 89
May 10, 2014
I knew them all except Crick. But what about Irène Curie?
2233thth
+1
Level 34
Jan 4, 2016
i know !!!!! or eve
otissaroke
+1
Level 31
Aug 6, 2014
Only got 7/18 . I got Einstein , Newton , Curie , Galilei , Copernicus , Darwin and Hawking
hwes
+5
Level 89
Dec 27, 2015
I suppose Howie won't be accepted for Mendel?
ander217
+5
Level 73
Aug 23, 2017
Wayne wasn't accepted for Newton, and Sylvia wasn't accepted for Planck, either. :)
Broski42069
+2
Level 62
Feb 2, 2020
I literally put that in.
Elan
+1
Level 66
Jan 4, 2016
Great quiz! Many people study scientists and their work without even knowing their first names! I think you should either expand this quiz or make a second one.
2233thth
+1
Level 34
Jan 4, 2016
17/18 with 3 seconds and I was searching for what i had missed......pierre curie

:/

Arp2600
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Level 89
Jan 4, 2016
My above remark about Irène Curie still holds. She got the Nobel Prize too (and her name is really Curie while her mother's is Skłodowska).
NikyVestern
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Level 57
Aug 6, 2019
Actually not, she is more famous as Irene Joliot-Curie.
wielblad
+4
Level 66
Jun 27, 2022
The mother is more known as Skłodowska-Curie and yet...
plattitude
+4
Level 94
Jan 4, 2016
Got hung up on Mendel this time. Wanted it to be Dmitri.
Arp2600
+3
Level 89
Jan 4, 2016
Dmitri Mendeleev and Gregor Mendel ;).
plattitude
+2
Level 94
Nov 5, 2024
Yup.
thisisfun
+2
Level 33
Jan 4, 2016
Thomas Edison should definitely be on this list. Don't know where the site got this one without him on it.
JBrommit
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Level 67
Oct 8, 2016
He was an inventor/aggressive buyer of other people's patents to develop further, not a scientist in the strict sense. Einstein, Newtown, Darwin, Pasteur and Copernicus, by contrast all developed major modern scientific theories (Relativity, gravity, evolution, etc.)
redsplat
+1
Level 72
Nov 5, 2016
@Jbrommit Agreed.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Feb 6, 2018
Generals don't fire weapons, but they are the ones that win wars.
fitheach
+3
Level 58
Mar 22, 2017
What is it with people saying "why don't you have x" on this quiz so often? If you want a quiz with the answers you want, you make it!
cricketwes
+4
Level 56
Jan 6, 2016
More suggestions:

Nikola Tesla

Dmitri Mendeleev

James Watson (co-'discoverer' of DNA with Frances Crick)

Robert Oppenheimer ?

Michael Faraday

ennylism
+1
Level 46
Jan 8, 2016
I was thinking some of these guys have to be named John, Arthur, Edwin, Tolstoy, Cecil, Robert... but Noooooooo...

I didn't have a clue past Pasteur, Curie, Hawkin, Darwin, Einstein and Newton. Oh Well. Now I know. :)

CarrieUnderwood123
+1
Level 24
Jan 8, 2016
Hey i had nick and it was nicolas you should count nick
MasterKenobi
+6
Level 65
Jul 7, 2016
While we're at it, I suppose you want him to accept Chuck Darwin, Al Einstein, Lou Pasteur, Steve Hawking, Greg Mendel, Frank Crick, and Dick Feynman too?
RobNobody
+2
Level 80
Feb 4, 2018
To be fair, Richard Feynman did go by "Dick."
EcceHomo
+1
Level 86
Dec 2, 2020
Reminds me of the Bill and Ted Scene. Can you please accept Dave Beeth-Oven, Maxine of Arc, Herman the Kid, Bob "Genghis" Khan. So-crates Johnson, Dennis Frood. And, uh, uh... Abraham Lincoln.
danita
+3
Level 67
Jan 9, 2016
Stop the crying!!!... the names are the names... how can you ask "can you accept Peter instead of Pierre?"... why not Patrick, Pumpkin or Pluto Curie... there all start with a P...
MasterKenobi
+4
Level 65
Jul 7, 2016
Pumpkin Curie would be a great name for a rock band.
Thorvald
+7
Level 73
Jan 12, 2016
Please accept "Maria" for Marie Curie, as her real name was: when she was born - Maria Skłodowska; after marrying Pierre Curie - Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Also, please change the surname to the proper one as she never gave up her maiden name.
walterwhite
+4
Level 49
Mar 1, 2016
Hey what about me? Say my name
jetpunk1997
+2
Level 31
Feb 16, 2017
why did i think Curie's first name was Steph...
JoanSR
+2
Level 74
Jun 24, 2017
This one could be much much longer... in fact it could be one if those A to Z quizzes
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Aug 23, 2017
oh.. typed in Neil for Bohr... didn't realize there were two of him.
aamrun
+1
Level 24
Aug 23, 2017
Hardest was Crick.
tiredgeneticist
+1
Level 60
Feb 4, 2018
Not if you're a geneticist!
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 95
Jul 6, 2022
Or a neuroscientist for that matter
Jared0309
+2
Level 80
Feb 6, 2018
I'm so upset, I put Enrique instead of Enrico.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Dec 20, 2018
missed albert and max, also knew niels but now sure I would ve come up with it on my own. The others I just didnt know ( sometimes not even the last name) I got about half right. I m good with facts. Persons and history not so much (people come and go, facts/universal truths stay the same)
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 85
Nov 18, 2019
I named my cat after Tycho Brahe
CyprusisinAsia
+3
Level 69
Nov 20, 2019
watching Big Bang Theory actually helped with the quiz!
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 95
Jul 6, 2022
That show has been scientifically proven to be 87% less funny than the next worst thing on the box. Garbage, made for people with an undeveloped sense of humour. Or morons…
noldig
+1
Level 64
Nov 20, 2019
The only thing one really could accept as well is Aage Bohr, the son of Niels Bohr. He won the Nobel prize himself so it should count
CardinalSin
+2
Level 82
Nov 20, 2019
So many people (like myself) are uncertain about Heisenberg.
interopia
+1
Level 90
Dec 28, 2021
Two years later... at least I got it.
bostjan
+2
Level 71
Feb 26, 2020
Finally my degree in physics got me somewhere!
togoaway
+1
Level 36
Jun 12, 2020
Put Rosalind Franklin's name there instead of Crick.
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 72
Dec 17, 2020
Way too easy! You can get Tycho Brahe, Linus Pauling and Niels Bohr just by guessing random popular first names.
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 82
Jul 8, 2021
dang I spelled Werner as Warner
13BGInf
+1
Level 30
Jan 24, 2022
Please accept Nikolaus for Nicolaus, because both can be used. I know that Nikolaus is not the English name.
GlaucusExquisita
+3
Level 78
Feb 22, 2022
Tycho no Tatsujin
Psajdak77
+5
Level 45
Aug 19, 2023
If you accept "Marie" instead "Maria" (original name), why dont you accept "Peter" instead "Pierre"? No sense.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Apr 12, 2025
Imagine the scientist in your head, then guess a name based on what they look like.
MrFatFat
+1
Level 45
Jul 11, 2025
I got 12/18, but I rushed through. I only took 38 seconds.
RoboquizM86
+1
Level 61
Aug 16, 2025
Wow got 13/18 tbh I got most from you guys, thanks!
Aceite12Hye
+1
Level 29
Dec 20, 2025
The name is Maria, not Marie
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