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Prof. Kizhakeyil Lukose Sebastian is a known Tintin fan , who uses images from Tintin (Prof. Calculus mainly) to bring alive his lecture notes for quantum mechanics for 1st year undergraduates. To explain random walk of a particle, he cites the example of Captain Haddock walking home drunkenly from a pub.
He may not be all that famous but I thought a scientist ought to be thrown into the mix.

Whether someone is famous is somewhat subjective, but the known epidemiologist Sir Baron Peter Piot (talk about a Tintinesque name) who was one of the co-discoverers of the Ebola virus writes in his autobiography No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses to have been a big Tintin fan in his youth, and even feeling a bit like Tintin when going on his first overseas epidemiological investigation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire). He even describes an instance where one of the engines of the airplane he was in fell off, which would fit right in several Tintin stories.