Business and Inventions
645 famous people found
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Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938 -
René PANHARD
French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France
1841 - 1908 -
Georges LISSAC
French businessman
1894 - 1969 -
Paloma PICASSO
French and Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman
1949 -
Pierre QUEMENEUR
French politician
1877 - 1923 -
Patrick LE LAY
French engineer
1942 - 2020 -
Jean-Marie BALESTRE
French auto racing executive administrator, who became President of the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) from 1978 to 1991
1921 - 2008 -
Pierre-Georges LATECOERE
French pioneer of aeronautics
1883 - 1943 -
Jacques DESSANGE
French businessman
1925 - 2020 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Edouard MICHELIN
French industrialist
1859 - 1940 -
Joseph GIBERT
French bookseller
1892 - 1972 -
Louis Ernest LADURÉE
French baker and pastry chef
1836 - 1904 -
Anne Marie IDRAC
French politician
1951 -
Thierry BOLLORÉ
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Groupe Renault
1963 -
Jean HÉNAFF
French industrialist
1859 - 1942 -
Gabriel LAFUMA
Founder of Lafuma, French based company that specializes in outdoor equipment and clothing
1904 - 1992 -
François DE GROSSOUVRE
French politician
1918 - 1994 -
Pierre DE COSSÉ-BRISSAC
French writer
1900 - 1993 -
Guillaume PEPY
French civil servant, president of the SNCF, the French national rail authority
1958