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308 famous people found
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Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
John BROWNING
American firearms designer
1855 - 1926 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Samuel MORSE
American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code
1791 - 1872 -
Lewis Strauss
American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer
1896 - 1974 -
Franklin Clarence MARS
American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated
1882 - 1934 -
Asa Griggs CANDLER
American business tycoon who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for US$1,750 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia
1851 - 1929 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
John Harvey KELLOGG
American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman
1852 - 1943 -
Milton S. HERSHEY
American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist
1857 - 1945 -
Charles Alfred PILLSBURY
American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company
1842 - 1899 -
Clarence BIRDSEYE
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry
1886 - 1956 -
Marjorie MERRIWEATHER POST
American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and owner of General Foods, Inc.
1887 - 1973 -
Henry FORD
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company
1863 - 1947 -
Melvil Dewey
American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification
1851 - 1931 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
Henry LUCE
American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"
1898 - 1967 -
John D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
American philanthropist
1874 - 1960 -
J. Willard MARRIOTT
American entrepreneur and businessman, founder of the Marriott Corporation
1900 - 1985