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375 famous people found
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Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Thomas EDISON
American inventor and businessman
1847 - 1931 -
Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
Alfred NOBEL
Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite
1833 - 1896 -
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 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
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 -
Charles Alfred PILLSBURY
American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company
1842 - 1899 -
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 -
John ERICSSON
Swedish-American inventor
1803 - 1889 -
Nicolas VILLEROY
French entrepreneur
1759 - 1843 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881