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178 famous people found
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Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Johann Joseph KRUG
Founder of Krug champagne
1800 - 1866 -
Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT
Founder of Perrier-Jouët
1786 - 1854 -
Philippe SUCHARD
Swiss chocolatier and industrialist
1797 - 1884 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
James HENNESSY
Cognac house
1000 -
Alexandre FICHET
French engineer
1799 - 1862 -
Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847 -
Étienne de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1745 - 1799 -
Joseph de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1740 - 1810 -
Nicéphore NIEPCE
French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography
1765 - 1833