Business and Inventions
774 famous people found
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Charles D. Tandy
Chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of the Tandy Corporation
1918 - 1978 -
John V. Roach
American executive, one of the early proponents of the personal computer, launching the Tandy TRS-80
1938 - 2022 -
Samuel Sewall
Judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials
1652 - 1730 -
Bill Lear
American inventor and businessman
1902 - 1978 -
Abraham J. Hasbrouck
United States Representative from New York and a slaveholder
1773 - 1845 -
Frank Gray Griswold
American financier and writer
1854 - 1937 -
C. C. Baldwin
Naval Officer of the Port of New York
1830 - 1897 -
Billy Breakenridge
American lawman, teamster, railroader, soldier and author
1846 - 1931 -
Wharton Barker
American financier and publicist
1846 - 1921 -
T. Jefferson Coolidge
U.S. ambassador and a leading Boston businessman
1831 - 1920 -
David Sears
Pprominent 19th-century Boston philanthropist, merchant, real estate developer, and landowner
1787 - 1871 -
Nathaniel Rochester
American Revolutionary War soldier, and land speculator
1752 - 1831 -
William D. Connor
Canadian-born American politician
1864 - 1944 -
Heather Bresch
American business executive
1969 -
Harry Whittington
American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure
1927 -
Danny Tarkanian
American attorney, businessman and perennial candidate for elective office
1961 -
Glenn Youngkin
American businessman and politician
1966 -
Suzanne Somers
American actress, author, singer, businesswoman, and health spokesperson
1946 - 2023 -
Francis Baring
English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets
1740 - 1810 -
Bernard Gimbel
American businessman and president of the Gimbels department store
1885 - 1966