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649 famous people found
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Anthony FOKKER
Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer
1890 - 1939 -
Louis CHEVROLET
Swiss-American race car driver, mechanic and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911
1878 - 1941 -
Léon GAUMONT
French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry
1864 - 1946 -
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 -
Mary PICKFORD
Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists
1893 - 1979 -
Alfred NOBEL
Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite
1833 - 1896 -
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 -
Jean DUPUIS
Belgian businessman
1875 - 1952 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
Biscottes PELLETIER
French baker and businessman
1871 - 1941 -
Auguste FAUCHON
French merchant
1856 - 1945 -
Franklin Clarence MARS
American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated
1882 - 1934 -
Félix POTIN
French businessman
1820 - 1871 -
Giovanni AGNELLI
Italian businessman, who founded Fiat car manufacturing
1866 - 1945 -
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