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390 famous people found
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Dennis HOF
American brothel owner, television personality, and political candidate
1946 - 2018 -
Dwight MORROW
American businessman, diplomat, and politician of Scots-Irish descent
1873 - 1931 -
Richard RIORDAN
American investment banker, businessman, and politician, 39th Mayor of Los Angeles
1930 -
T. Boone PICKENS
American capitalist, Chairman of BP Capital Management
1928 - 2019 -
John Y. BROWN JR.
American politician, entrepreneur, and businessman, 55th Governor of Kentucky
1933 -
Lewis Henry LAPHAM
American entrepreneur, one of the founders of Texaco Oil Company
1858 - 1934 -
Forrest MARS SR.
American businessman and the driving force of the Mars candy empire
1904 - 1999 -
Henry J. HEINZ
American entrepreneur who founded the H. J. Heinz Company
1844 - 1919 -
William WRIGLEY
American chewing gum industrialist, founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
1861 - 1932 -
Caspar WEINBERGER
American politician and businessman, 15th United States Secretary of Defense
1917 - 2006 -
Dennis RITCHIE
American computer scientist
1941 - 2011 -
Charles MILLER
American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Galena-Signal Oil Company
1843 - 1927 -
Dan EVINS
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
1935 - 2012 -
Henry M. LELAND
American machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur, he founded the two premier American luxury automotive marques, Cadillac and Lincoln
1843 - 1932 -
Ruth GRAVES WAKEFIELD
Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, which she created c. 1938
1903 - 1977 -
Thomas PERKINS
American businessman, capitalist and one of the founders of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
1932 - 2016 -
Philo FARNSWORTH
American inventor and television pioneer
1906 - 1971 -
Charles Millard PRATT
American oil industrialist and philanthropist
1855 - 1935 -
Alexander TROWBRIDGE
American politician and businessman, 17th United States Secretary of Commerce
1929 - 2006 -
George SHULTZ
American economist, diplomat, and businessman, 60th United States Secretary of State
1920 - 2021