Jakob Amman
1645 – 1730
Swiss

Mennonite. He founded the Amish sect, the strictest branch of the Mennonites, whose members still live simply, wearing black and driving their "horse and buggies," in rural Pennsylvania and other areas of the United States.

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1624–1691George Fox
1694–1778Voltaire
1632–1677Baruch Spinoza
1723–1790Adam Smith
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1623–1662Blaise Pascal
1632–1704John Locke
1724–1804Immanuel Kant
1711–1776David Hume
1588–1679Thomas Hobbes
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1596–1650René Descartes
1599–1658Oliver Cromwell
1725–1798Giacomo Casanova
1628–1688John Bunyan
1667–1748Johann Bernoulli
1655–1705Jakob Bernoulli