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390 famous people found
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George Huntington HARTFORD
Head of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company from 1878 to 1917
1833 - 1917 -
Holmes TUTTLE
American businessman and autodealer, headed President Ronald Reagan's unofficial "Kitchen Cabinet"
1905 - 1989 -
Albert Augustus POPE
American Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel who founded the Pope Manufacturing Company
1843 - 1909 -
John Warne GATES
American pioneer promoter of barbed wire who became a Gilded Age industrialist
1855 - 1911 -
Harvey Samuel FIRESTONE
American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
1868 - 1938 -
Charles S. FAIRCHILD
American businessman and politician
1842 - 1924 -
Frank Nelson DOUBLEDAY
American founder of the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company
1862 - 1934 -
William Ellis COREY
President of United States Steel
1866 - 1934 -
Liz CLAIBORNE
Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur
1929 - 2007 -
Samuel P. BUSH
American industrialist
1863 - 1948 -
Glen BELL
American businessman who founded the fast food chain Taco Bell
1923 - 2010 -
Philip Danforth ARMOUR
American businessman who founded Armour & Company
1832 - 1901 -
Bill BAIN
American management consultant
1937 -
Frederic Eugene IVES
American inventor
1856 - 1937 -
Grant TINKER
Former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer
1925 -
James Murray SPANGLER
American inventor, salesman and janitor who invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner
1848 - 1915 -
R.J. REYNOLDS
American businessman and founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
1850 - 1918 -
Dick MERRILL
American inventor, engineer, and photographer
1949 - 2008 -
James PACKARD
American automobile manufacturer who founded the Packard Motor Car Company
1863 - 1928 -
Bob SMITH
American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson
1879 - 1950