Business and Inventions

1,296 famous people found

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  David Hasselhoff

  American actor, singer, producer, television personality, and businessman

  1952
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  Léon GAUMONT

  French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry

  1864 - 1946
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  Bernie Madoff

  American fraudster and financier

  1938 - 2021
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  Les Paul

  American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor

  1915 - 2009
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  Bruce McLaren

  New Zealand race-car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor

  1937 - 1970
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  Victoria Beckham

  English singer, fashion designer and television personality

  1974
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  Dom PERIGNON

  French Benedictine monk

  1639 - 1715
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  Jim HENSON

  American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets

  1936 - 1990
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  Nellie BLY

  American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days

  1864 - 1922
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  Nikola TESLA

  Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist

  1856 - 1943
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  Jessica ALBA

  American actress and businesswoman

  1981
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  Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER

  Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, author, and former politician and professional bodybuilder

  1947
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  Sergey BRIN

  American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google

  1973
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  Mark ZUCKERBERG

  American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founder of Facebook, Inc.

  1984
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  Jared KUSHNER

  American investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher who is currently senior advisor to his father-in-law, Donald Trump

  1981
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  Diane KEATON

  American actress, director, producer, photographer, real estate developer, author and singer

  1946
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  Ted TURNER

  American media mogul and philanthropist, founder of the Cable News Network (CNN)

  1938
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  John MCAFEE

  British-American computer programmer and businessman

  1945 - 2021
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  Steve JOBS

  American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, industrial designer, chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.

  1955 - 2011
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  Alexander Graham BELL

  Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone

  1847 - 1922