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166 famous people found

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  Dom PERIGNON

  French Benedictine monk

  1639 - 1715
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  Leonardo DA VINCI

  Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

  1452 - 1519
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  Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD

  Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty

  1743 - 1812
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  Samuel MORSE

  American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code

  1791 - 1872
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  René LAENNEC

  French physician

  1781 - 1826
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  Claude MOËT

  French vintner and wine merchant who founded the Champagne house that would later become Moët et Chandon

  1683 - 1760
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  Benjamin FRANKLIN

  American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America

  1706 - 1790
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  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
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  Johann Joseph KRUG

  Founder of Krug champagne

  1800 - 1866
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  Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT

  Founder of Perrier-Jouët

  1786 - 1854
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  Philippe SUCHARD

  Swiss chocolatier and industrialist

  1797 - 1884
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  Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT

  French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile

  1725 - 1804
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  James HENNESSY

  Cognac house

  1000
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  Alexandre FICHET

  French engineer

  1799 - 1862
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  Benjamin DELESSERT

  French banker and naturalist

  1773 - 1847
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  Nicéphore NIEPCE

  French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography

  1765 - 1833
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  Elihu YALE

  British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor

  1649 - 1721
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  Antoine Brutus MENIER

  French entrepreneur and founder of the Menier family of chocolatiers

  1795 - 1853
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  Harrison Gray OTIS

  American businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists

  1765 - 1848
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  Eliphalet REMINGTON

  Founder of Remington Arms Co., Inc.

  1793 - 1861