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181 famous people found
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Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Thomas EDISON
American inventor and businessman
1847 - 1931 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
Charles Alfred PILLSBURY
American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company
1842 - 1899 -
William Blount
American Founding Father, statesman, farmer, and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution
1749 - 1800 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904 -
Harrison Gray OTIS
American businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists
1765 - 1848 -
Josephine Cochrane
American inventor who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher
1839 - 1913 -
Elliott Fitch SHEPARD
American lawyer, banker, and owner of the Mail and Express newspaper
1833 - 1893 -
Edmund Kirby SMITH
United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War, president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
1824 - 1893 -
John CHISUM
American cattle baron in the American West
1824 - 1884 -
Amos G. THROOP
American businessman and politician
1811 - 1894 -
Henry J. HEINZ
American entrepreneur who founded the H. J. Heinz Company
1844 - 1919 -
Charles MILLER
American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Galena-Signal Oil Company
1843 - 1927 -
Henry M. LELAND
American machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur, he founded the two premier American luxury automotive marques, Cadillac and Lincoln
1843 - 1932 -
James GAMBLE
Irish-born American soap maker and industrialist, he was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company
1803 - 1891 -
William PROCTER
English-born American candlemaker and industrialist, he was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company
1801 - 1884 -
Thomas WILLING
American merchant, a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and the first president of the First National Bank of the United States
1731 - 1821 -
Richard PETERS
American railroad man and a founder of Atlanta, Georgia in the 1840s
1810 - 1889