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221 famous people found
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Simon BRADSTREET
Colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1603 - 1697 -
Nicholas BIDDLE
American financier who served as the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United States
1786 - 1844 -
Frédéric JAPY
French industrialist
1749 - 1812 -
Pierre-Joseph CAMBON
French politician
1756 - 1820 -
Charles DALLERY
French inventor
1754 - 1835 -
Stanislas BAUDRY
French businessman
1777 - 1830 -
Oliver CHACE
Founder of several New England textile manufacturing companies
1769 - 1852 -
André CHAVE
French landowner and real estate
1799 - 1868 -
Jean-Baptiste QUÉRUEL
French inventor of the method for industrial production of sugar from beet
1779 - 1845 -
Jean Pierre LORIAGUE
French businessman
1736 - 1807 -
Jacques ARPIN
French industrialist
1762 - 1832 -
François-Laurent D'ARLANDES
French marquis, soldier and a pioneer of hot air ballooning
1742 - 1809 -
Claude François Dorothée DE JOUFFROY D'ABBANS
Claimed to be the first inventor of the steamboat
1751 - 1832 -
Madame DESBASSAYNS
French planter and slave trader on the French island of La Réunion
1755 - 1846 -
Joseph Marie Ambroise BONNASSE
French banker
1800 - 1881 -
Katherine FITZGERALD
Irish heiress, being the only child of Sir John FitzGerald of Dromana, County Waterford
1660 - 1725 -
Thomas PITT
British merchant involved in trade with India
1653 - 1726 -
Florent Simon ANDRIEUX
French businessman
1761 - 1835 -
Antoine Augustin RENOUARD
French industrialist
1765 - 1853 -
Nicholas BROWN
American businessman and philanthropist
1769 - 1841