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112 famous people found
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Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Claude MOËT
French vintner and wine merchant who founded the Champagne house that would later become Moët et Chandon
1683 - 1760 -
Henri Pitot
French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube
1695 - 1771 -
Nicolas VILLEROY
French entrepreneur
1759 - 1843 -
Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE
French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France
1661 - 1706 -
Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT
Founder of Perrier-Jouët
1786 - 1854 -
Johann Joseph KRUG
Founder of Krug champagne
1800 - 1866 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Alexandre FICHET
French engineer
1799 - 1862 -
Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847 -
Nicéphore NIEPCE
French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography
1765 - 1833 -
Joseph de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1740 - 1810 -
Étienne de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1745 - 1799 -
Antoine Brutus MENIER
French entrepreneur and founder of the Menier family of chocolatiers
1795 - 1853 -
Marie TUSSAUD
French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London
1761 - 1850 -
Champagne BOLLINGER
French businessman, founder of Champagne Bollinger
1763 - 1840 -
Joseph Marie JACQUARD
French weaver and merchant
1752 - 1834 -
Jacques-Constantin PERIER
French businessman
1742 - 1818