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221 famous people found
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Henri ESTIENNE
Parisian printer
1470 - 1520 -
Nicholas LONGWORTH
American banker and a successful winemaker
1783 - 1863 -
Johannes Jacob BEAM
Founder of Jim Beam Bourbon
1760 -
Benedict Swingate CALVERT
Planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution
1731 - 1788 -
Louis DUPONT
French banker
1795 - 1872 -
Nicolas RUINART
French businessman
1697 - 1769 -
Samuel WILSON
American meat-packer whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam"
1766 - 1854 -
Adolphe JACQUESSON
French inventor
1800 - 1876 -
Mathieu TEISSEIRE
French industrialist
1725 - 1781 -
Josiah WEDGWOOD
English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company
1730 - 1795 -
Frédéric SAUVAGE
French boat builder
1786 - 1857 -
James I. ROOSEVELT
American politician, jurist and businessman
1795 - 1875 -
John PAGE
American merchant in Middle Plantation on the Virginia Peninsula, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Council of the Virginia Colony
1628 - 1692 -
Nicolas APPERT
French inventor of airtight food preservation
1749 - 1841 -
Charles TENNANT
Scottish chemist and industrialist
1768 - 1838 -
Joseph SAXTON
American inventor
1799 - 1873 -
Eleuthère Irénée DU PONT
French American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
1771 - 1834 -
Lawrence BRAINERD
Businessman, abolitionist and United States Senator from Vermont
1794 - 1870 -
François BULLIER
French founder of the Bal Bullier
1796 -
Antoine CROZAT
French founder of an immense fortune, was the first private proprietary owner of French Louisiana
1655 - 1738