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221 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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  Louis DAGUERRE

  French artist and photographer

  1787 - 1851
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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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  Henri Pitot

  French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube

  1695 - 1771
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  William Blount

  American Founding Father, statesman, farmer, and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution

  1749 - 1800
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  John Hart

  American Founding Father, farmer, and politician

  1713 - 1779
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  Nicolas VILLEROY

  French entrepreneur

  1759 - 1843
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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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  Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT

  Founder of Perrier-Jouët

  1786 - 1854
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  Johann Joseph KRUG

  Founder of Krug champagne

  1800 - 1866
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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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  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