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192 famous people found
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Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Emile REYNAUD
French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and the first projected animated films
1844 - 1918 -
Félix POTIN
French businessman
1820 - 1871 -
Joseph DUBONNET
French businessman
1818 - 1871 -
Emile DELAHAYE
French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles
1843 - 1905 -
Georges LESIEUR
French businessman and founder of the brand of edible oils of the same name (Huiles Lesieur)
1848 - 1931 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Louis BRAILLE
French inventor of braille
1809 - 1852 -
Armand PEUGEOT
French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot
1849 - 1915 -
Gustave EIFFEL
French structural engineer and entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures
1832 - 1923 -
Louis REVILLON
French chocolate maker
1844 - 1925 -
Nicolas VILLEROY
French entrepreneur
1759 - 1843 -
Johann Joseph KRUG
Founder of Krug champagne
1800 - 1866 -
Champagne POMMERY
Founder of Pommery champagne
1819 - 1890 -
Arsène SAUPIQUET
French industrialist
1849 - 1915 -
Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938 -
René PANHARD
French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France
1841 - 1908 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Louis Ernest LADURÉE
French baker and pastry chef
1836 - 1904 -
Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847