Asterix Google Doodle On October 29th 2009 the Google homepage featured an Asterix Google Doodle celebrating the 50th anniversary of the popular children’s comic Asterix and Obelix. In the Asterix Google Doodle, Asterix was shown punching a Roman soldier through the Google logo, whilst Obelix was shown carrying a pile […]
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Mark Twain Google Doodle On November 30th 2011, the Google doodle team created a Mark Twain Google Doodle to celebrate what would have been the 174th birthday of one of America’s greatest novelists. The doodler responsible for the Mark Twain Google Doodle task was Google’s exceptionally talented Jennifer Hom. In […]
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Dr Seuss Google Doodle March 2nd 2009 saw Google pay homage to globally acclaimed author, poet and cartoonist Theodor Geisel, better known as his pen name Dr Seuss. The Dr Seuss Google Doodle celebrated what would have been the good doctors 105th Birthday. Strangely for a doodle the artwork for the Dr […]
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Alan Turing Google Doodle In 1928 at the age of just 16 Turing came across the work of Albert Einstein. Not only did Turing understand his fellow genius’s work he even extrapolated Einstein’s questioning of Newton’s Law of Motion from a document. What is perhaps most remarkable about this incident […]
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Rembrandt Google Doodle Rembrandt Google Doodle July 15th 2013 saw Google pay a doodle based homage to a man who is considered to have been one of the greatest artists in history. This man was Rembrandt van Rijn. The Rembrandt Google Doodle celebrated what would have been his 407th birthday. His […]
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Albert Einstein Google Doodle Way back in 2003 Google launched a Albert Einstein Google Doodle celebrating what would have been his 124th birthday. The Albert Einstein Google Doodle, which appeared on March 14th, was a slight makeover of the trademark Google logo. In the Albert Einstein Google Doodle the first “O” was […]
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Florence Nightingale Google Doodle Florence Nightingale Google Doodle Back in 2008 Google created a Florence Nightingale Google Doodle to celebrate what would have been the 187th birthday of the world famous nurse. The Florence Nightingale Google Doodle appeared on the 11th of May. In the Florence Nightingale Google Doodle the “L” of the […]
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15th Birthday Google Doodle On September 27th 2013 Google was 15 years old and celebrated on their home page with a 15th Birthday Google Doodle. In that period of time the search engine has transformed into internet behemoth valued at $300 billion. To celebrate their birthday the search engine […]
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Robert Hargreaves Google Doodle On the 9th May 2011 Google embarked on one of the biggest doodle projects to date with a Robert Hargreaves Google Doodle. The doodles marked the 76th birthday of the author and illustrator Robert Hargreaves. Hargreaves was made famous by his Mr Men and Little Miss […]
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Leon Foucault Google Doodle Google celebrated what would have been Leon Foucault’s 194th birthday with an animated doodle on September 18th 2013. Foucault was born in 1819 in Pairs, his father was a publisher. Initially Foucault pursued career in medicine which he later abandoned due to his crippling fear of […]
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