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639 famous people found
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PICARD SURGELES
Founder of Les Glacières de Fontainebleau, today Picard Surgelés
1880 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
Joseph DUBONNET
French businessman
1818 - 1871 -
Pierre TAITTINGER
Founder of the Taittinger champagne house
1887 - 1965 -
John Harvey KELLOGG
American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman
1852 - 1943 -
Milton S. HERSHEY
American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist
1857 - 1945 -
Charles Alfred PILLSBURY
American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company
1842 - 1899 -
Clarence BIRDSEYE
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry
1886 - 1956 -
Robert PEUGEOT
French industrialist
1873 - 1945 -
Marjorie MERRIWEATHER POST
American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and owner of General Foods, Inc.
1887 - 1973 -
Louis BRAILLE
French inventor of braille
1809 - 1852 -
John ERICSSON
Swedish-American inventor
1803 - 1889 -
Henry FORD
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company
1863 - 1947 -
Louis RENAULT
French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry
1877 - 1944 -
Melvil Dewey
American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification
1851 - 1931 -
Etienne MIMARD
French arms manufacturer
1862 - 1944 -
Abel ROSSIGNOL
French industrialist
1882 - 1954 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
Johann Joseph KRUG
Founder of Krug champagne
1800 - 1866 -
Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT
Founder of Perrier-Jouët
1786 - 1854