Business and Inventions
774 famous people found
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James Mercer
American lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist and politician
1736 - 1793 -
MrBeast
American YouTuber, entrepreneur and philanthropist
1998 -
William Phillips Jr.
American merchant, politician and philanthropist
1750 - 1827 -
Alfred Lee Loomis
American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist, physicist, inventor of the LORAN Long Range Navigation System and a lifelong patron of scientific research
1887 - 1975 -
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and businessman
1946 - 2023 -
Eliphalet Nott
American Presbyterian minister, inventor, educational pioneer, and long-term president of Union College, Schenectady, New York
1773 - 1866 -
Polly Bergen
American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur
1930 - 2014 -
Hilarie Burton
American actress, businesswoman, author and producer
1982 -
Joseph Glidden
American businessman and farmer, inventor of the modern barbed wire
1813 - 1906 -
Lloyd Groff Copeman
American inventor
1881 - 1956 -
Joseph Hewes
American Founding Father and a signer of the Continental Association and U.S. Declaration of Independence
1730 - 1779 -
David Hunter Strother
American journalist, artist, brevet Brigadier General, innkeeper, politician and diplomat
1816 - 1888 -
George H. Steuart
American planter and military officer
1828 - 1903 -
Pierce Butler
Irish-born American politician, planter, and military officer who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
1744 - 1822 -
Adolph Coors III
American businessman, heir to the Coors Brewing Company empire
1915 - 1960 -
Thomas Davenport
American inventor
1802 - 1851 -
Emily Davenport
American inventor
1810 - 1862 -
Timothy S. Leatherman
American businessman
1948 -
John Munro Longyear
American businessman and noted developer of timber and mineral lands in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
1850 - 1922 -
Roger Williams
American businessman and politician
1949