Baby names inspired by scientists and inventors

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Scientists and inventors illuminate the world around us – sometimes literally, in the case of Thomas Edison! If you're interested in naming your baby after a man or woman of science, here's an inspiring selection of possibilities to get you started.

Baby boy names

Name	Scientist/Inventor	Field
Albert	Albert Einstein	physics
Alexander	Alexander Graham Bell	telecommunications
Andreas	Andreas Vesalius	anatomy
Benjamin	Benjamin Franklin	electrical science
Charles	Charles Darwin	evolutionary biology
Christiaan	Christiaan Huygens	physics
Claude	Claude Bernard	physiology
Dmitri	Dmitri Mendeleev	chemistry
Edwin	Edwin Hubble	astronomy
Enrico	Enrico Fermi	physics
Ernst	Ernst Mayr	evolutionary biology
Franz	Franz Boas	anthropology
Galileo	Galileo Galilei	astronomy, physics, and mathematics
Gregor	Gregor Mendel	genetics
Isaac	Isaac Newton	physics and mathematics
Johannes	Johannes Kepler	astronomy and mathematics
Jonas	Jonas Salk	medicine and biology
Karl	Karl Landsteiner	biology
Linus	Linus Pauling	chemistry
Louis	Louis Pasteur	chemistry and microbiology
Max	Max Born Max Planck	physics physics
Michael	Michael Faraday	physics and chemistry
Niels	Niels Bohr	physics
Nicolaus	Nicolaus Copernicus	astronomy and mathematics
Sigmund	Sigmund Freud	psychology
Thomas	Thomas Edison	electrical science
Tycho	Tycho Brahe	astronomy
Werner	Werner Heisenberg	physics

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Baby girl names

Name	Scientist/Inventor	Field
Ada	Ada Lovelace	computer science
Alicia	Alicia Boole Stott	geometry
Annie	Annie Jump Cannon	astronomy
Caroline	Caroline Lucretia Herschel	astronomy
Charlotte	Charlotte Angas Scott	mathematics
Dian	Dian Fossey	primatology
Dixy	Dixy Lee Ray	marine biology
Elizabeth	Elizabeth Stern	pathology
Emmy	Emmy Noether	mathematics
Fanny	Fanny Bullock Workman	geography
Florence	Florence Sabin	medicine
Grace	Grace Murray Hopper	computer science
Henrietta	Henrietta Swan Leavitt	astronomy
Hildegard	Hildegard of Bingen	medicine
Hypatia	Hypatia of Alexandria	mathematics and astronomy
Jane	Jane Goodall	primatology
Kathleen	Kathleen Kenyon	archaeology
Lise	Lise Meitner	physics
Margaret	Margaret Burbridge Margaret Mead	astronomy anthropology
Maria	Maria Gaetana Agnesi	mathematics
Mary	Mary Leakey	paleoanthropology
Mina	Williamina "Mina" Paton Stevens	astronomy
Rachel	Rachel Carson	marine biology
Rosalind	Rosalind Franklin	biophysics
Sofia	Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya	mathematics
Sophie	Sophie Germain	mathematics
Temple	Temple Grandin	zoology
Virginia	Virginia Apgar	medicine