René de Saussure
René de Saussure( 17 March
1868 – 2 December 1943) was a Swiss Esperantist and professional mathematician( he defended in 1895 a doctoral thesis on a subject in geometry in Geneva), who composed important works about Esperanto and interlinguistics from a linguistic viewpoint.
He was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
His chef d'oeuvre is an analysis on the logic of word construction in Esperanto," Fundamentaj reguloj de la vortteorio en EsperantoFundamental rules of word theory in Esperanto"), defending the language against several Idist critiques.
He developed the concept of" neceso kaj sufiĉonecessity and sufficience") by which he opposed the criticism of Louis Couturat that Esperanto lacks recursion.
In 1907, de Saussure proposed the international currency spesmilo.
It was used by the Ĉekbanko esperantista and other British and Swiss banks until the First World War.
Beginning in 1919, de Saussure proposed a series of Esperanto reforms, and in 1925, he renounced Esperanto in favor of his language Esperanto II.
He later became a consultant for the International Auxiliary Language Association, the linguistic research body that standardized and presented Interlingua.
He died on 2 December 1943 in Berne, Switzerland.
René was the brother of the famous linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the scholar of ancient Chinese astronomy, Léopold de Saussure.
His father was the famous scientist, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure.
A new silver Esperanto coin for 100 Steloj was struck in 2018 for the 150th birthday of René de Saussure.
Lin Tucci
Lin Tucci( born Linda Petrucci, February 8, 1960) is an American actress.
Tucci is known for her performance as Henrietta" Mama" Bazoom in the film" Showgirls"( 1995).
She also performed in the number of theatre productions, and co-starred in several films.
Tucci became interested in acting while in High School in Rhode Island.
She later attended Community College of Rhode Island and Boston Conservatory of Music, where she received a fine arts degree in theater.
Afterwards, Tucci moved to New York to pursue a career in acting.
In 2013, Tucci began appearing in a recurring role in the Netflix comedy- drama series," Orange Is the New Black".
She plays the role of Anita DeMarco, an outspoken Jersey- Italian inmate.
William F. De Saussure
William Ford De Saussure (February 22, 1792March 13, 1870) was a United States Senator from South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, the son of Henry William de Saussure and Elizabeth Ford De Saussure.
Raymond De Felitta
Raymond De Felitta( born June 30, 1964) is an American independent film director, screenwriter and musician.
Lin Ming-cheng
Lin Ming-cheng( born on 3 January 1943, Itabashi Town, Kaizan District, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan( modern- day Banqiao District)) is a Taiwanese banker who is a member of the seventh generation of Lin family from Banciao, one of the richest families of Taiwan.
He is the only son of Lin Hsiung- cheng and a grandson of Lin Erh-kang.
In June 2008," Forbes" magazine ranked him as the 20th- richest person in Taiwan.
He is serving as the chairman of Hua Nan Financial Holdings, and the director of Hua Nan Bank of China.
Raymond de Saussure
Raymond de Saussure
( 2 August 1894 – 29 October 1971) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, the first president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Léopold de Saussure
Léopold de Saussure( 30 May 1866 – 30 July 1925) was a Swiss- born French sinologist, pioneering scholar of ancient Chinese astronomy, and officer in the French navy.
After a naval career which took him to Indochina, China, and Japan, he left the service and devoted the rest of his life to scholarship.
He was most famous for his studies of ancient Chinese astronomy.
He was the younger brother of Ferdinand de Saussure, the pioneering linguist and semiotician, and René de Saussure, a Swiss Esperantist and mathematician.
César-François de Saussure
César- François de Saussure(" bap". 24 June 1705 – 8 March 1783) was a Swiss travel writer.
He was baptised in Lausanne, Pays de Vaud, Switzerland, the eldest son of a minister of the Reform Church, François- Louis de Saussure, and his wife, Jeanne- Emilie.
After the death of his father in 1724, Saussure went travelling for fifteen years, arriving in London on 24 May 1725.
He stayed there until October 1729.
He travelled to Turkey and Switzerland before again staying in London from 1738 to 1740.
After returning to Switzerland, Saussure wrote down his travelling experiences.
These were not published for over a century, when they were edited by two of his descendants.
Henri de Saussure( 1708- 1761), a younger brother of César- François de Saussure, emigrated from Lausanne to the English colony of South Carolina about 1730.
Between them, the brothers maintained a correspondence for nearly 30 years.
Largely unpublished, the surviving letters between César and his brother in America are now in university- affiliated archives in Lausanne and Geneva.

Question: Who was born first out of Lin Tucci and Raymond De Saussure?
Answer: Raymond De Saussure