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291 famous people found
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James GAMBLE
Irish-born American soap maker and industrialist, he was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company
1803 - 1891 -
William PROCTER
English-born American candlemaker and industrialist, he was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company
1801 - 1884 -
Edward STETTINIUS, JR.
American businessman who served as 48th United States Secretary of State
1900 - 1949 -
George DAYTON
American businessman and philanthropist
1857 - 1938 -
Dorr FELT
American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine
1862 - 1930 -
John Jacob ASTOR IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family
1864 - 1912 -
William T. PIPER
American airplane manufacturer, and founder and 1st president of Piper Aircraft Corporation
1881 - 1970 -
Richard PETERS
American railroad man and a founder of Atlanta, Georgia in the 1840s
1810 - 1889 -
Robert H. GODDARD
American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket
1882 - 1945 -
Mark HOPKINS, JR.
One of four principal investors who formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861
1813 - 1878 -
Fairfax HARRISON
American lawyer, businessman, and writer
1869 - 1938 -
Charles CROCKER
American railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad
1822 - 1888 -
A. Atwater KENT
American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer
1873 - 1949 -
Timothy Appleton CHAPMAN
American pioneer dry goods merchant
1824 - 1892 -
James Buchanan EADS
American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents
1820 - 1887 -
Oliver WINCHESTER
American businessman and politician
1810 - 1880 -
Horace SMITH
American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman, he and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson
1808 - 1893 -
Thomas Handasyd PERKINS
Wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin
1764 - 1854 -
Charles TITCOMB
American watchmaker, owner of the Kilauea Sugar Plantation
1805 - 1883 -
W. T. PAYNE
American co-founder of Helmerich & Payne, founder of Big Chief Drilling Co.
1892 - 1981