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390 famous people found
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Arthur Hawley SCRIBNER
President of Charles Scribner's Sons
1859 - 1932 -
Elijah Watt SELLS
Founding partner in Haskins & Sells, a predecessor to Deloitte & Touche
1858 - 1924 -
Orville REDENBACHER
American businessman most often associated with the brand of popcorn that bears his name
1907 - 1995 -
Richard Warren SEARS
American manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
1863 - 1914 -
Alvah Curtis ROEBUCK
American manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
1864 - 1948 -
John Ringling NORTH
Owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1903 - 1985 -
Henry Ringling NORTH
Vice president, treasurer, director and operations chief of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1909 - 1993 -
J. P. MORGAN
American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector
1837 - 1913 -
Stephen MATHER
American industrialist and conservationist who as president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company became a millionaire
1867 - 1930 -
Henry Lee HIGGINSON
American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
1834 - 1919 -
Simon GUGGENHEIM
American businessman, politician, and philanthropist
1867 - 1941 -
Donald E. GRAHAM
Chief executive officer and Chairman of The Washington Post Company
1945 -
Huntington HARTFORD
American heir to the A&P supermarket fortune
1911 - 2008 -
Charles Gilbert GATES
Owned the first home in the United States where air conditioning was installed in 1914
1876 - 1913 -
Paul FANNIN
American businessman and politician, 11th Governor of Arizona
1907 - 2002 -
Edwin EMBREE
Former vice presidents of the Rockefeller Foundation, president of the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, and president of the Liberian Foundation
1883 - 1950 -
Thomas G. AYERS
American president, CEO and chairman of Commonwealth Edison
1915 - 2007 -
Harry CULVER
American real estate developer and promoter
1880 - 1946 -
Frank Winfield WOOLWORTH
Founder of F. W. Woolworth Company
1852 - 1919 -
Patrick CALHOUN
President of United Railroads of San Francisco
1856 - 1943