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390 famous people found

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  Edward STETTINIUS, JR.

  American businessman who served as 48th United States Secretary of State

  1900 - 1949
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  Douglas DAYTON

  American businessman and philanthropist who helped establish Target Corporation

  1924 - 2013
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  George DAYTON

  American businessman and philanthropist

  1857 - 1938
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  Dorr FELT

  American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine

  1862 - 1930
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  John Jacob ASTOR IV

  American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family

  1864 - 1912
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  Henry Louis GATES

  American filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder

  1950
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  Charles Lewis TIFFANY

  Leader in the American jewelry trade in the nineteenth century, he founded Tiffany & Co.

  1812 - 1902
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  Robert H. GODDARD

  American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket

  1882 - 1945
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  Peter SELLS

  Sells Brothers Circus manager and owner

  1845 - 1904
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  H. Gary MORSE

  American billionaire and the developer of The Villages, Florida

  1936
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  Fairfax HARRISON

  American lawyer, businessman, and writer

  1869 - 1938
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  Don LAUGHLIN

  American gambling entrepreneur, hotelier and rancher

  1931
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  William Van Duzer LAWRENCE

  American millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul who is best known for having founded Sarah Lawrence College

  1842 - 1927
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  Berry GORDY

  American record producer, and songwriter, best known as the founder of the Motown record label

  1929
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  A. Atwater KENT

  American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer

  1873 - 1949
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  Henry A. DU PONT

  American soldier, businessman, and politician

  1838 - 1926
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  Lewis WATERMAN

  American inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of the Waterman pen company

  1837 - 1901
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  J. Lawrence WALKUP

  American president of the Northern Arizona University

  1914 - 2002
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  Edgar KAISER, JR.

  American-Canadian financier and a former owner of the Denver Broncos American football team

  1942 - 2012
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  Jack MARA

  Co-owner of the New York Giants; an American football team which plays in the National Football League

  1908 - 1965