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267 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
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  Nikola TESLA

  Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist

  1856 - 1943
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  John BROWNING

  American firearms designer

  1855 - 1926
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  Isaac SINGER

  American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company

  1811 - 1875
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  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
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  Franklin Clarence MARS

  American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated

  1882 - 1934
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  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
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  John Stith PEMBERTON

  American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola

  1831 - 1888
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  John Harvey KELLOGG

  American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman

  1852 - 1943
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  Milton S. HERSHEY

  American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist

  1857 - 1945
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  Charles Alfred PILLSBURY

  American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company

  1842 - 1899
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  Clarence BIRDSEYE

  American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry

  1886 - 1956
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  Marjorie MERRIWEATHER POST

  American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and owner of General Foods, Inc.

  1887 - 1973
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  Henry FORD

  American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company

  1863 - 1947
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  Ambrose BURNSIDE

  American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island

  1824 - 1881
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  Henry LUCE

  American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"

  1898 - 1967
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  John D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.

  American philanthropist

  1874 - 1960
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  J. Willard MARRIOTT

  American entrepreneur and businessman, founder of the Marriott Corporation

  1900 - 1985
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  William Moulton MARSTON

  American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector, self-help author, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman

  1893 - 1947
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  Eliphalet REMINGTON

  Founder of Remington Arms Co., Inc.

  1793 - 1861