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219 famous people found
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Gabriel LE COAT DE KERVEGUEN
French businessman
1800 - 1860 -
Antonie VAN LEEUWENHOEK
Dutch tradesman and scientist
1632 - 1723 -
John MOLSON
English-speaking Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company
1763 - 1836 -
John HAWKINS
English naval commander and administrator
1532 - 1595 -
Archibald COCHRANE
Scottish nobleman and inventor
1748 - 1831 -
Thomas WILLING
American merchant, a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and the first president of the First National Bank of the United States
1731 - 1821 -
Walter LIVINGSTON
American merchant, lawyer and politician
1740 - 1797 -
Robert FULTON
Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
1765 - 1815 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
Thomas Handasyd PERKINS
Wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin
1764 - 1854 -
Daniel ROBERDEAU
American merchant, member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation
1727 - 1795 -
Timothy MATLACK
American brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular revolutionary leader and powerful official in the War of Independence
1736 - 1829 -
John Palmer PARKER
Founder of the Parker Ranch on the island of Hawaiʻi in Hawaii
1790 - 1868 -
Casimir Pierre PERIER
French statesman
1777 - 1832 -
Barbe CLICQUOT-PONSARDIN
French businesswoman who took on her husband's wine business when widowed at 27
1777 - 1866 -
Denis PAPIN
French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine, and of the pressure cooker
1647 - 1712 -
Charles GOODYEAR
American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber
1800 - 1860 -
Commodore VANDERBILT
American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads
1794 - 1877 -
Barthélemy THIMONNIER
French inventor, who invented the first sewing machine
1793 - 1857 -
Claude CHAPPE
French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system
1763 - 1805