Who were some of the major figures of the Enlightenment?

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Some of the most important writers of the Enlightenment were the Philosophes of France, especially Voltaire and the political philosopher Montesquieu. Other important Philosophes were the compilers of the Encyclopédie, including Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Condorcet. Outside France, the Scottish philosophers and economists David Hume and Adam Smith, the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant of Germany, and the American statesman Thomas Jefferson were notable Enlightenment thinkers.