Curie was a family of distinguished scientists:

• Pierre Curie (1859-1906), a French physicist and Nobel Prize winner;
• his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934), a Polish-French physicist and double Nobel Prize winner;
• their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), a French physicist and Nobel Prize winner;
• her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), a French physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

Things and ideas named after the Curies:

• Curie (Ci), a unit of radioactivity;
• the Curie point or Curie temperature;
• Curie's law;
• Curium, a chemical element;
• the Curie Institute, a research foundation.