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218 famous people found
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Claude PERIER
French banker and industrialist
1742 - 1801 -
Levi COFFIN
American Quaker, abolitionist, and businessman
1798 - 1877 -
Ethan ALLEN
Farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician
1737 - 1789 -
Pierre Marie Jérôme TRESAGUET
French engineer
1717 - 1796 -
Philippe DE GIRARD
French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame
1775 - 1845 -
Anson Green PHELPS
American co-founder of mining company Phelps Dodge
1781 - 1853 -
Nathan Mayer ROTHSCHILD
London financier and one of five sons of the second-generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty
1777 - 1836 -
Amschel Mayer ROTHSCHILD
German Jewish banker of the Rothschild family financial dynasty
1773 - 1855 -
Eli WHITNEY
American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin
1765 - 1825 -
Josué HEILMANN
French inventor
1796 - 1848 -
Johnny APPLESEED
American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
1774 - 1845 -
Louis DE GEER
Walloon/Dutch merchant and industrialist
1587 - 1652 -
Camille TEISSEIRE
French entrepreneur
1764 - 1842 -
Godefroy ENGELMANN
French artist
1788 - 1839 -
Nicolas KOECHLIN
French industrialist
1781 - 1852 -
Daniel KOECHLIN-SCHOUCH
French industrialist
1785 - 1871 -
André KOECHLIN
French industrialist
1789 - 1875 -
Claude-Joseph BONNET
French industrialist
1786 - 1867