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178 famous people found

  • Dom PERIGNON

    Dom PERIGNON

    French Benedictine monk

    French1639 - 1715
  • Leonardo DA VINCI

    Leonardo DA VINCI

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

    Italian1452 - 1519
  • Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD

    Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD

    Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty

    German1743 - 1812
  • Samuel MORSE

    Samuel MORSE

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

    American1791 - 1872
  • Louis DAGUERRE

    Louis DAGUERRE

    French artist and photographer

    French1787 - 1851
  • René LAENNEC

    René LAENNEC

    French physician

    French1781 - 1826
  • Claude MOËT

    Claude MOËT

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

    French1683 - 1760
  • Benjamin FRANKLIN

    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

    American1706 - 1790
  • Nicolas VILLEROY

    Nicolas VILLEROY

    French entrepreneur

    French1759 - 1843
  • Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE

    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

    French1661 - 1706
  • Johann Joseph KRUG

    Johann Joseph KRUG

    Founder of Krug champagne

    French1800 - 1866
  • Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT

    Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT

    Founder of Perrier-Jouët

    French1786 - 1854
  • Philippe SUCHARD

    Philippe SUCHARD

    Swiss chocolatier and industrialist

    Swiss1797 - 1884
  • Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT

    Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT

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

    French1725 - 1804
  • James HENNESSY

    James HENNESSY

    Cognac house

    English1000
  • Alexandre FICHET

    Alexandre FICHET

    French engineer

    French1799 - 1862
  • Benjamin DELESSERT

    Benjamin DELESSERT

    French banker and naturalist

    French1773 - 1847
  • Étienne de MONTGOLFIER

    Étienne de MONTGOLFIER

    Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon

    French1745 - 1799
  • Joseph de MONTGOLFIER

    Joseph de MONTGOLFIER

    Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon

    French1740 - 1810
  • Nicéphore NIEPCE

    Nicéphore NIEPCE

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

    French1765 - 1833
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