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from random import choice, randint
_adjectives = [
# Appearance, sound, smell...
"acrid",
"ambrosial",
"amorphous",
"armored",
"aromatic",
"bald",
"blazing",
"boisterous",
"bouncy",
"brawny",
"bulky",
"camouflaged",
"caped",
"chubby",
"curvy",
"elastic",
"ethereal",
"fat",
"feathered",
"fiery",
"flashy",
"flat",
"fluffy",
"foamy",
"fragrant",
"furry",
"fuzzy",
"glaring",
"hairy",
"heavy",
"hissing",
"horned",
"icy",
"imaginary",
"invisible",
"lean",
"loud",
"loutish",
"lumpy",
"lush",
"masked",
"meaty",
"messy",
"misty",
"nebulous",
"noisy",
"nondescript",
"organic",
"purring",
"quiet",
"quirky",
"radiant",
"roaring",
"ruddy",
"rustling",
"screeching",
"shaggy",
"shapeless",
"shiny",
"silent",
"silky",
"singing",
"skinny",
"smooth",
"soft",
"spicy",
"spiked",
"statuesque",
"sticky",
"tacky",
"tall",
"tangible",
"tentacled",
"thick",
"thundering",
"venomous",
"warm",
"weightless",
"whispering",
"winged",
"wooden",
# Beauty & Charm",
"adorable",
"affable",
"amazing",
"amiable",
"attractive",
"beautiful",
"calm",
"charming",
"cherubic",
"classic",
"classy",
"convivial",
"cordial",
"cuddly",
"curly",
"cute",
"debonair",
"elegant",
"famous",
"fresh",
"friendly",
"funny",
"gorgeous",
"graceful",
"gregarious",
"grinning",
"handsome",
"hilarious",
"hot",
"interesting",
"kind",
"laughing",
"lovely",
"meek",
"mellow",
"merciful",
"neat",
"nifty",
"notorious",
"poetic",
"pretty",
"refined",
"refreshing",
"sexy",
"smiling",
"sociable",
"spiffy",
"stylish",
"sweet",
"tactful",
"whimsical",
"boring",
# Character & Emotions",
"abiding",
"accurate",
"adamant",
"adaptable",
"adventurous",
"alluring",
"aloof",
"ambitious",
"amusing",
"annoying",
"arrogant",
"aspiring",
"belligerent",
"benign",
"berserk",
"benevolent",
"bold",
"brave",
"cheerful",
"chirpy",
"cocky",
"congenial",
"courageous",
"cryptic",
"curious",
"daft",
"dainty",
"daring",
"defiant",
"delicate",
"delightful",
"determined",
"devout",
"didactic",
"diligent",
"discreet",
"dramatic",
"dynamic",
"eager",
"eccentric",
"elated",
"encouraging",
"enigmatic",
"enthusiastic",
"evasive",
"faithful",
"fair",
"fanatic",
"fearless",
"fervent",
"festive",
"fierce",
"fine",
"free",
"gabby",
"garrulous",
"gay",
"gentle",
"glistening",
"greedy",
"grumpy",
"happy",
"honest",
"hopeful",
"hospitable",
"impetuous",
"independent",
"industrious",
"innocent",
"intrepid",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"just",
"lively",
"loose",
"loyal",
"merry",
"modest",
"mysterious",
"nice",
"obedient",
"optimistic",
"orthodox",
"outgoing",
"outrageous",
"overjoyed",
"passionate",
"perky",
"placid",
"polite",
"positive",
"proud",
"prudent",
"puzzling",
"quixotic",
"quizzical",
"rebel",
"resolute",
"rampant",
"righteous",
"romantic",
"rough",
"rousing",
"sassy",
"satisfied",
"sly",
"sincere",
"snobbish",
"spirited",
"spry",
"stalwart",
"stirring",
"swinging",
"tasteful",
"thankful",
"tidy",
"tremendous",
"truthful",
"unselfish",
"upbeat",
"uppish",
"valiant",
"vehement",
"vengeful",
"vigorous",
"vivacious",
"zealous",
"zippy",
# Intelligence & Abilities",
"able",
"adept",
"analytic",
"astute",
"attentive",
"brainy",
"busy",
"calculating",
"capable",
"careful",
"cautious",
"certain",
"clever",
"competent",
"conscious",
"cooperative",
"crafty",
"crazy",
"cunning",
"daffy",
"devious",
"discerning",
"efficient",
"expert",
"functional",
"gifted",
"helpful",
"enlightened",
"idealistic",
"impartial",
"industrious",
"ingenious",
"inquisitive",
"intelligent",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"keen",
"knowing",
"literate",
"logical",
"masterful",
"mindful",
"nonchalant",
"observant",
"omniscient",
"poised",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"proficient",
"provocative",
"qualified",
"radical",
"rational",
"realistic",
"resourceful",
"savvy",
"sceptical",
"sensible",
"serious",
"shrewd",
"skilled",
"slick",
"slim",
"sloppy",
"smart",
"sophisticated",
"stoic",
"succinct",
"talented",
"thoughtful",
"tricky",
"unbiased",
"uptight",
"versatile",
"versed",
"visionary",
"wise",
"witty",
# Strength & Agility",
"accelerated",
"active",
"agile",
"athletic",
"dashing",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"energetic",
"fast",
"frisky",
"hasty",
"hypersonic",
"meteoric",
"mighty",
"muscular",
"nimble",
"nippy",
"powerful",
"prompt",
"quick",
"rapid",
"resilient",
"robust",
"rugged",
"solid",
"speedy",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tireless",
"tough",
"unyielding",
# Money & Power",
"rich",
"wealthy",
# Science",
"meticulous",
"precise",
"rigorous",
"scrupulous",
"strict",
# Movement type",
"airborne",
"burrowing",
"crouching",
"flying",
"hidden",
"hopping",
"jumping",
"lurking",
"tunneling",
"warping",
# Location and Dwelling",
"aboriginal",
"amphibian",
"aquatic",
"arboreal",
"polar",
"terrestrial",
"urban",
# Awesome",
"accomplished",
"astonishing",
"authentic",
"awesome",
"delectable",
"excellent",
"exotic",
"exuberant",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"fascinating",
"flawless",
"fortunate",
"funky",
"godlike",
"glorious",
"groovy",
"honored",
"illustrious",
"imposing",
"important",
"impressive",
"incredible",
"invaluable",
"kickass",
"majestic",
"magnificent",
"marvellous",
"monumental",
"perfect",
"phenomenal",
"pompous",
"precious",
"premium",
"private",
"remarkable",
"spectacular",
"splendid",
"successful",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
# Original",
"offbeat",
"original",
"outstanding",
"quaint",
"unique",
# Time",
"ancient",
"antique",
"prehistoric",
"primitive",
# Misc",
"abstract",
"acoustic",
"angelic",
"arcane",
"archetypal",
"augmented",
"auspicious",
"axiomatic",
"beneficial",
"bipedal",
"bizarre",
"complex",
"dancing",
"dangerous",
"demonic",
"divergent",
"economic",
"electric",
"elite",
"eminent",
"enchanted",
"esoteric",
"finicky",
"fractal",
"futuristic",
"gainful",
"hallowed",
"heavenly",
"heretic",
"holistic",
"hungry",
"hypnotic",
"hysterical",
"illegal",
"imperial",
"imported",
"impossible",
"inescapable",
"juicy",
"liberal",
"ludicrous",
"lyrical",
"magnetic",
"manipulative",
"mature",
"military",
"macho",
"married",
"melodic",
"natural",
"naughty",
"nocturnal",
"nostalgic",
"optimal",
"pastoral",
"peculiar",
"piquant",
"pristine",
"prophetic",
"psychedelic",
"quantum",
"rare",
"real",
"secret",
"simple",
"spectral",
"spiritual",
"stereotyped",
"stimulating",
"straight",
"strange",
"tested",
"therapeutic",
"true",
"ubiquitous",
"uncovered",
"unnatural",
"utopian",
"vagabond",
"vague",
"vegan",
"victorious",
"vigilant",
"voracious",
"wakeful",
"wandering",
"watchful",
"wild",
# Pseudo-colors",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"colorful",
"crystal",
"dark",
"dazzling",
"fluorescent",
"glittering",
"glossy",
"gleaming",
"light",
"mottled",
"neon",
"opalescent",
"pastel",
"smoky",
"sparkling",
"spotted",
"striped",
"translucent",
"transparent",
"vivid",
]
# Docker, starting from 0.7.x, generated names from notable scientists and hackers.
# Please, for any amazing man that you add to the list, consider adding an equally amazing woman to it, and vice versa.
_surnames = [
# Muhammad ibn Jabir Al-Battani was a founding father of astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Battani
"albattani",
# Frances E. Allen, became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2006, she became the first female
# recipient of the ACM's Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen
"allen",
# June Almeida - Scottish virologist who took the first pictures of the rubella
# virus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida
"almeida",
# Kathleen Antonelli, American computer programmer and one of the six original
# programmers of the ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli
"antonelli",
# Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian and humanitarian.
# She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed
# as a Mathematics Professor at a University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi
"agnesi",
# Archimedes was a physicist, engineer and mathematician who invented too many
# things to list them here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
"archimedes",
# Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli
"ardinghelli",
# Aryabhata - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer during 476-550 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata
"aryabhata",
# Wanda Austin - Wanda Austin is the President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation,
# a leading architect for the US security space programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Austin
"austin",
# Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage.
"babbage",
# Stefan Banach - Polish mathematician, was one of the founders of modern
# functional analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach
"banach",
# Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Hikita perfected the "oscillation overthruster",
# a device that allows one to pass through solid matter. -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension
"banzai",
# John Bardeen co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen
"bardeen",
# Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings, was one of the original programmers
# for the ENIAC computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik
"bartik",
# Laura Bassi, the world's first female professor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi
"bassi",
# Hugh Beaver, British engineer, founder of the Guinness Book of World
# Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Beaver
"beaver",
# Alexander Graham Bell - an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator
# who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
"bell",
# Karl Friedrich Benz - a German automobile engineer. Inventor of the first
# practical motorcar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz
"benz",
# Homi J Bhabha - was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of
# physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of
# Indian nuclear programme"- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha
"bhabha",
# Bhaskara II - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer whose work on calculus predates
# Newton and Leibniz by over half a millennium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II#Calculus
"bhaskara",
# Sue Black - British computer scientist and campaigner. She has been instrumental in
# saving Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Black_(computer_scientist)
"black",
# Elizabeth Helen Blackburn - Australian-American Nobel laureate; best known
# for co-discovering telomerase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn
"blackburn",
# Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a
# medical degree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
"blackwell",
# Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr.
"bohr",
# Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth
"booth",
# Anita Borg - Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for
# Women and Technology (IWT). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg
"borg",
# Satyendra Nath Bose - He provided the foundation for Bose\u2013Einstein statistics
# and the theory of the Bose\u2013Einstein condensate. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose
"bose",
# Katherine Louise Bouman is an imaging scientist and Assistant Professor of Computer
# Science at the California Institute of Technology. She researches computational methods for
# imaging, and developed an algorithm that made possible the picture first visualization of a
# black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Bouman
"bouman",
# Evelyn Boyd Granville - She was one of the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D.
# in mathematics; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Boyd_Granville
"boyd",
# Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules
# to compute with zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero
"brahmagupta",
# Walter Houser Brattain co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain
"brattain",
# Emmett Brown invented time travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff)
"brown",
# Linda Brown Buck - American biologist and Nobel laureate best known for her genetic and
# molecular analyses of the mechanisms of smell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_B._Buck
"buck",
# Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars
# and was the first to analyse them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
"burnell",
# Annie Jump Cannon - pioneering female astronomer who classified hundreds of thousands of stars
# and created the system we use to understand stars today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon
"cannon",
# Rachel Carson - American marine biologist and conservationist, her book Silent Spring and other
# writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
"carson",
# Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright - British mathematician who was one of the first to study what is
# now known as chaos theory. Also known for Cartwright's theorem which finds applications in
# signal processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cartwright
"cartwright",
# George Washington Carver - American agricultural scientist and inventor. He was the most
# prominent black scientist of the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
"carver",
# Vinton Gray Cerf - American Internet pioneer, recognised as one of "the fathers of the Internet".
# With Robert Elliot Kahn, he designed TCP and IP, the primary data communication protocols of
# the Internet and other computer networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
"cerf",
# Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Astrophysicist known for his mathematical theory on different
# stages and evolution in structures of the stars. He has won nobel prize for physics -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
"chandrasekhar",
# Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (April 5, 1869 - October 8, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet physicist,
# mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's
# equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas,
# named after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Chaplygin
"chaplygin",
# Emilie du Chatelet - French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author
# during the early 1730s, known for her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book
# Principia containing basic laws of physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
"chatelet",
# Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her research on vinca alkaloids,
# development of drugs for treatment of epilepsy and malaria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asima_Chatterjee
"chatterjee",
# Pafnuty Chebyshev - Russian mathematician. He is known fo his works on probability,
# statistics, mechanics, analytical geometry and number theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev
"chebyshev",
# Bram Cohen - American computer programmer and author of the BitTorrent
# peer-to-peer protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
"cohen",
# David Lee Chaum - American computer scientist and cryptographer. Known for his
# seminal contributions in the field of anonymous communication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum
"chaum",
# Joan Clarke - Bletchley Park code breaker during the Second World War who pioneered techniques
# that remained top secret for decades. Also an accomplished numismatist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clarke
"clarke",
# Jane Colden - American botanist widely considered the first female
# American botanist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden
"colden",
# Gerty Theresa Cori - American biochemist who became the third woman and first American woman to win a
# Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology
# or Medicine. Cori was born in Prague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerty_Cori
"cori",
# Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series
# of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
"cray",
# This entry reflects a husband and wife team who worked together:
# Joan Curran was a Welsh scientist who developed radar and invented chaff, a radar countermeasure.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran Samuel Curran was an Irish physicist who worked
# alongside his wife during WWII and invented the proximity fuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Curran
"curran",
# Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie.
"curie",
# Charles Darwin established the principles of natural evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin.
"darwin",
# Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci.
"davinci",
# A. K. (Alexander Keewatin) Dewdney, Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author and filmmaker.
# Contributor to Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" from 1984 to 1991. Author of Core War (program),
# The Planiverse, The Armchair Universe, The Magic Machine, The New Turing Omnibus, and more.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dewdney
"dewdney",
# Satish Dhawan - Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, known for leading the successful and
# indigenous development of the Indian space programme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Dhawan
"dhawan",
# Bailey Whitfield Diffie - American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of
# public-key cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie
"diffie",
# Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and mathematical scientist.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra.
"dijkstra",
# Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the
# early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac
"dirac",
# Agnes Meyer Driscoll - American cryptanalyst during World Wars I and II who successfully cryptanalysed a
# number of Japanese ciphers. She was also the co-developer of one of the cipher machines of
# the US Navy, the CM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Meyer_Driscoll
"driscoll",
# Donna Dubinsky - played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs)
# serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky
"dubinsky",
# Annie Easley - She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur
# rocket stage and one of the first African-Americans in her field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley
"easley",
# Thomas Alva Edison, prolific inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
"edison",
# Albert Einstein invented the general theory of relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
"einstein",
# Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani graduate student, computer programmer, internet pirate in
# hiding, and the creator of the site Sci-Hub. Nature has listed her in 2016 in the top ten people that
# mattered in science, and Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz. -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
"elbakyan",
# Taher A. ElGamal - Egyptian cryptographer best known for the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and the
# ElGamal digital signature scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Elgamal
"elgamal",
# Gertrude Elion - American biochemist, pharmacologist and the 1988 recipient of the
# Nobel Prize in Medicine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Elion
"elion",
# James Henry Ellis - British engineer and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Best known for
# conceiving for the first time, the idea of public-key cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis
"ellis",
# Douglas Engelbart gave the mother of all demos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
"engelbart",
# Euclid invented geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid
"euclid",
# Leonhard Euler invented large parts of modern mathematics. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
"euler",
# Michael Faraday - British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and
# electrochemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday
"faraday",
# Horst Feistel - German-born American cryptographer who was one of the earliest non-government
# researchers to study the design and theory of block ciphers. Co-developer of DES and Lucifer.
# Feistel networks, a symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers are named after him.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Feistel
"feistel",
# Pierre de Fermat pioneered several aspects of modern mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat
"fermat",
# Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi.
"fermi",
# Richard Feynman was a key contributor to quantum mechanics and particle physics.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
"feynman",
# Benjamin Franklin is famous for his experiments in electricity and the invention of the lightning rod.
"franklin",
# Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin - Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, best known as the first human to
# journey into outer space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
"gagarin",
# Galileo was a founding father of modern astronomy, and faced politics and obscurantism to
# establish scientific truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
"galileo",
# Evariste Galois - French mathematician whose work laid the foundations of Galois theory and group theory,
# two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections, all while still in
# his late teens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois
"galois",
# Kadambini Ganguly - Indian physician, known for being the first South Asian female physician,
# trained in western medicine, to graduate in South Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadambini_Ganguly
"ganguly",
# William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor,
# computer programmer, and inventor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
"gates",
# Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician who made significant contributions to many fields,
# including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics,
# electrostatics, magnetic fields, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"gauss",
# Marie-Sophie Germain - French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Known for her work o
# n elasticity theory, number theory and philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain
"germain",
# Adele Goldberg, was one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist)
"goldberg",
# Adele Goldstine, born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic
# digital computer, ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine
"goldstine",
# Shafi Goldwasser is a computer scientist known for creating theoretical foundations of modern
# cryptography. Winner of 2012 ACM Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi_Goldwasser
"goldwasser",
# James Golick, all around gangster.
"golick",
# Jane Goodall - British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist who is considered to be the
# world's foremost expert on chimpanzees - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
"goodall",
# Stephen Jay Gould was was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
# He is most famous for the theory of punctuated equilibrium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould
"gould",
# Carolyn Widney Greider - American molecular biologist and joint winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for
# Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of telomerase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_W._Greider
"greider",
# Alexander Grothendieck - German-born French mathematician who became a leading figure in the creation
# of modern algebraic geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck
"grothendieck",
# Lois Haibt - American computer scientist, part of the team at IBM that developed FORTRAN -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Haibt
"haibt",
# Margaret Hamilton - Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory,
# which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)
"hamilton",
# Caroline Harriet Haslett - English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of
# women's rights. Co-author of British Standard 1363 that specifies AC power plugs and sockets used across
# the United Kingdom (which is widely considered as one of the safest designs).
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Haslett
"haslett",
# Stephen Hawking pioneered the field of cosmology by combining general relativity and quantum mechanics.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
"hawking",
# Martin Edward Hellman - American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public-key cryptography
# in co-operation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman
"hellman",
# Werner Heisenberg was a founding father of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
"heisenberg",
# Grete Hermann was a German philosopher noted for her philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann
"hermann",
# Caroline Lucretia Herschel - German astronomer and discoverer of several comets.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel
"herschel",
# Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz
"hertz",
# Jaroslav Heyrovsky was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and
# recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959. His main field of work was polarography.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Heyrovsk%C3%BD
"heyrovsky",
# Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She was
# awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin
"hodgkin",
# Douglas R. Hofstadter is an American professor of cognitive science and author of the Pulitzer Prize and American
# Book Award-winning work Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid in 1979. A mind-bending work which coined
# Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
"hofstadter",
# Erna Schneider Hoover revolutionized modern communication by inventing a computerized telephone switching method.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover
"hoover",
# Grace Hopper developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and is credited with popularizing
# the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
"hopper",
# Frances Hugle, she was an American scientist, engineer, and inventor who contributed to the understanding of
# semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hugle
"hugle",
# Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
"hypatia",
# Teruko Ishizaka - Japanese scientist and immunologist who co-discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruko_Ishizaka
"ishizaka",
# Mary Jackson, American mathematician and aerospace engineer who earned the highest title within NASA's engineering
#
# department - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)
"jackson",
# Yeong-Sil Jang was a Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty; he invented the first metal
# printing press and water gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil
"jang",
# Mae Carol Jemison - is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black
# woman to travel in space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison
"jemison",
# Betty Jennings - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik
"jennings",
# Mary Lou Jepsen, was the founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the founder of
# Pixel Qi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen
"jepsen",
# Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson - American physicist and mathematician contributed to the NASA.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson
"johnson",
# Irene Joliot-Curie - French scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Daughter of Marie
# and Pierre Curie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie
"joliot",
# Karen Sparck Jones came up with the concept of inverse document frequency, which is used in most search engines
# today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones
"jones",
# A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - is an Indian scientist aka Missile Man of India for his work on the development of
# ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam
"kalam",
# Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (14 February 1928 - 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best
# known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father was
# the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer
# Andrey Kapitsa. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Kapitsa
"kapitsa",
# Susan Kare, created the icons and many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s,
# and was an original employee of NeXT, working as the Creative Director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare
"kare",
# Mstislav Keldysh - a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, academician of the USSR Academy
# of Sciences (1946), President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961-1975),
# three times Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961, 1971), fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968).
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mstislav_Keldysh
"keldysh",
# Mary Kenneth Keller, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to earn a
# PhD in Computer Science in 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller
"keller",
# Johannes Kepler, German astronomer known for his three laws of planetary motion -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
"kepler",
# Omar Khayyam - Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet. Known for his work on the classification and solution
# of cubic equations, for his contribution to the understanding of Euclid's fifth postulate and for computing the
# length of a year very accurately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam
"khayyam",
# Har Gobind Khorana - Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana
"khorana",
# Jack Kilby invented silicon integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby
"kilby",
# Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch
"kirch",
# Donald Knuth - American computer scientist, author of "The Art of Computer Programming" and creator of the TeX
# typesetting system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
"knuth",
# Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis,
# differential equations and mechanics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya
"kowalevski",
# Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande
"lalande",
# Hedy Lamarr - Actress and inventor. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA
# and Bluetooth technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
"lamarr",
# Leslie B. Lamport - American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed
# systems and was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport
"lamport",
# Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull -
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey
"leakey",
# Henrietta Swan Leavitt - she was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and
# the period of Cepheid variable stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
"leavitt",
# Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg - American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics.