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430 famous people found
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Auguste SCHEURER-KESTNER
Chemist, industrialist and French politician
1833 - 1899 -
Jean-Marie CARRET
Co-founder of Rivoire et Carret
1829 - 1913 -
Adolphe SAX
Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone
1814 - 1894 -
John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904 -
Charles CASSEGRAIN
French founder of the Cassegrain canned food factory
1831 - 1902 -
Louis ROEDERER
Producer of champagne
1809 - 1870 -
Harrison Gray OTIS
American businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists
1765 - 1848 -
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 -
Alexis GODILLOT
French entrepreneur
1816 - 1893 -
Emile LEVASSOR
French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France
1843 - 1897 -
Josephine Cochrane
American inventor who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher
1839 - 1913 -
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 -
Elliott Fitch SHEPARD
American lawyer, banker, and owner of the Mail and Express newspaper
1833 - 1893 -
Gaston PLANTÉ
French physicist who invented the lead–acid battery
1834 - 1889