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371 famous people found
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William Shockley
American physicist
1910 - 1989 -
Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist
1902 - 1987 -
Douglas Trumbull
American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor
1942 - 2022 -
Karl ENGEMANN
American record industry executive, producer and entertainment industry personal manager
1930 -
J. Willard MARRIOTT
American entrepreneur and businessman, founder of the Marriott Corporation
1900 - 1985 -
John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904 -
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 -
Bob WALLACE
American software developer, programmer and the ninth Microsoft employee
1949 - 2002 -
Jerry BALDWIN
American businessman, who along with Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl founded Starbucks in Seattle in 1971
1942 -
Hedy LAMARR
Austrian and American film actress and inventor
1914 - 2000 -
Walter CHRYSLER
American machinist, railroad man, automotive industry executive, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation
1875 - 1940 -
Josephine Cochrane
American inventor who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher
1839 - 1913 -
Paul Sorvino
American actor, opera singer, businessman, and writer
1939 - 2022 -
Sammy Hagar
American singer-songwriter, musician, and entrepreneur
1947 -
Carroll Shelby
American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur
1923 - 2012 -
Stephen Covey
American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker
1932 - 2012 -
Robert Walton GOELET
American financier and real estate developer in New York City
1880 - 1941 -
Cesar CHAVEZ
American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist
1927 - 1993 -
Cal WORTHINGTON
American car dealer best known for his "My Dog Spot" ads
1920 - 2013 -
Dennis HOF
American brothel owner, television personality, and political candidate
1946 - 2018