Famous People With Asteroids Named After Them

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This deck is a list of people who are famous enough to have an asteroid named after them. I scraped the data from the Wikipedia page for 'List of minor planets named after people': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets_named_after_people I have excluded any people that don't have their own Wikipedia page, or where I couldn't find a profile image. The lists includes a lot of famous scientists, historical figures, musicians, actors, and many others. However, you probably won't want to memorize every single person on this list. Get ready to use the '!' keyboard shortcut to suspend any notes if you don't care about certain people. GitHub repo: https://github.com/ndbroadbent/asteroid_people

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Name Jean Valjean
URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Valjean
Asteroid Number 24601
Asteroid Name 24601 Valjean
Asteroid URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24601_Valjean
Categories Fictional characters, Characters in classic fiction
First Paragraph Jean Valjean (French: ) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. The story depicts the character's 19-year-long struggle to lead a normal life after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's children during a time of economic depression and various attempts to escape from prison. Valjean is also known in the novel as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre.
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Tags AP::Characters_in_classic_fiction AP::Fictional_characters
Name Johann Jakob Balmer
URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Balmer
Asteroid Number 12755
Asteroid Name 12755 Balmer
Asteroid URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12755_Balmer
Categories Science, Physicists
First Paragraph Johann Jakob Balmer (1 May 1825 – 12 March 1898) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of Hydrogen atom.
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Tags AP::Physicists AP::Science
Name Curzio Malaparte
URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzio_Malaparte
Asteroid Number 3479
Asteroid Name 3479 Malaparte
Asteroid URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3479_Malaparte
Categories The arts, Literature, Novelists
First Paragraph Curzio Malaparte (Italian pronunciation: ; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957), born Curt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, film-maker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt (1944) and La pelle (1949). The former is a semi-fictionalised account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples (it was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum).
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Tags AP::Literature AP::Novelists AP::The_arts
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