Name
- Aguesseau, Henri François, Chancellor of France, son of Henri d'Aguesseau, Intendant1
- Algarotti, Francesco, Count, Italian scholar1
- Bell, Beaupré, the younger; antiquary1
- Bernouilli, Jean, Professor of Mathematics at Basle1
- Bonnet, Charles, Swiss Naturalist1
- Bonnot de Condillac, Etienne, Abbé1
- Bonnot de Mably, Gabriel, Abbé1
- Bossu, René, Père1
- Brechillet Jourdain, Amable Louis Marie Michel, Secretaire de l'école des langues Orientales à Paris1
- Calandrini, Giovanni Ludovico1
- Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie, née Le Tonnelier de Breteuil; natural philosopher, mathematician and translator, 1706-17491
- Clairaut, Alexis Claude, French mathematician1
- Cramer, Gabriel, Mathematician, of Geneva1
- Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie, naturalist, 1716-18001
- Euler, Leonhard, Swiss mathematician, 1707-17831
- Fontenelle, Bernard, French author and academic, 1657-17571
- Formey, Johann Heinrich Samuel, Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin1
- Freycinet, Rose1
- Gravesande, Willem Jacob, mathematician and natural philosopher, 1688-17421
- Helvétius, Jean Claude Adrien, Physician to the Duc d'Orléans1