Generators

notable

Historical figures, plus a short list of living public ones.

var faker = Faker(seed: 1337, locale: DecoyLocaleEN.locale)
faker.notable.philosopher()

Method	Example output
`philosopher()`	`Confucius` `Jürgen Habermas` `Johann Gottlieb Fichte`
`scientist()`	`Rachel Carson` `Tycho Brahe` `Marie Curie`
`composer()`	`Richard Strauss` `Gustav Mahler` `Giuseppe Verdi`
`artist()`	`Pablo Picasso` `Sesshū Tōyō` `Bartolomé Esteban Murillo`
`explorer()`	`Francis Drake` `Alexander von Humboldt` `Jean-François de La Pérouse`
`mathematician()`	`André Weil` `Sofia Kovalevskaya` `Leonardo Fibonacci`
`inventor()`	`Robert Fulton` `Chester Carlson` `Robert Noyce`
`architect()`	`Frank Lloyd Wright` `Jørn Utzon` `Donato Bramante`
`actor()`	`Riz Ahmed` `Isabelle Huppert` `Naomie Harris`
`musician()`	`David Bowie` `Caetano Veloso` `Peter Gabriel`
`athlete()`	`Katie Ledecky` `Muhammad Ali` `Fanny Blankers-Koen`
`historicalFigure()`	`Claude Monet` `Georges Seurat` `Alexander Graham Bell`

Examples are real output from three different seeds, captured when this page was built, using each method’s default arguments. Where a signature shows parameters, pass your own to change the size, gender, length or format.