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221 famous people found
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Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847 -
Frédéric BOUCHERON
French jeweler
1830 - 1902 -
Nicéphore NIEPCE
French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography
1765 - 1833 -
Joseph de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1740 - 1810 -
Pierre VALTON
French industrialist
1835 - 1919 -
Auguste SCHEURER-KESTNER
Chemist, industrialist and French politician
1833 - 1899 -
Jean-Marie CARRET
Co-founder of Rivoire et Carret
1829 - 1913 -
Charles CASSEGRAIN
French founder of the Cassegrain canned food factory
1831 - 1902 -
Louis ROEDERER
Producer of champagne
1809 - 1870 -
Paul DECAUVILLE
French engineer and businessman
1846 - 1922 -
Victor-Auguste POULAIN
French businessman
1825 - 1918 -
Paul CHANDON DE BRIAILLES
French businessman
1821 - 1895 -
Jean Baptiste André GODIN
French industrialist, writer and political theorist
1817 - 1888 -
Marie TUSSAUD
French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London
1761 - 1850 -
Emile LEVASSOR
French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France
1843 - 1897 -
Alexis GODILLOT
French entrepreneur
1816 - 1893 -
Pierre-Auguste BOULARD
French entrepreneur, founder of Calvados Boulard
1839 - 1903 -
Auguste PERDONNET
French railroad engineer
1801 - 1867 -
Nicolas LEBEL
Officer of the French army
1838 - 1891 -
Gaston PLANTÉ
French physicist who invented the lead–acid battery
1834 - 1889