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