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708 famous people found
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Nicholas LONGWORTH
American banker and a successful winemaker
1783 - 1863 -
David MIKKELSON
Co-founder of Snopes.com
1960 -
Benedict Swingate CALVERT
Planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution
1731 - 1788 -
Maria LONGWORTH NICHOLS STORER
Founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio
1849 - 1932 -
Frederick Booker NOE
American Master Distiller at the Jim Beam Distillery
1929 - 2004 -
James Beauregard BEAM
Presiden of Beam & Hart Distillery, Founder & President of James Beam Distilling Co.
1864 - 1947 -
Ron RICE
Hawaiian Tropic's Suntan owner
1940 -
Mark R. HUGHES
American businessman who was the founder, chairman and CEO of Herbalife International Ltd.
1956 - 2000 -
Hiram Percy MAXIM
American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
1869 - 1936 -
Hiram Stevens MAXIM
American-born inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun
1840 - 1916 -
Hudson MAXIM
American inventor and chemist who invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder
1853 - 1927 -
Jabez A. BOSTWICK
American businessman who was a founding partner of Standard Oil
1830 - 1892 -
Marshall FIELD III
American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune
1893 - 1956 -
Marshall FIELD
Founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores
1834 - 1906 -
Owen D. YOUNG
American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929
1874 - 1962 -
Nathaniel WYETH
American mechanical engineer and inventor
1911 - 1990 -
Joseph E. WIDENER
American art collector who was a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1871 - 1943 -
Peter Arrell Brown WIDENER
American businessman and head of the prominent Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1834 - 1915 -
Samuel WILSON
American meat-packer whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam"
1766 - 1854 -
Wilford WOODRUFF
Fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
1807 - 1898