Business and Inventions
763 famous people found
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Alfred FULLER
Canadian-born American businessman
1885 - 1973 -
Buckminster FULLER
American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist
1895 - 1983 -
Will Keith KELLOGG
American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company
1860 - 1951 -
Harvey Samuel FIRESTONE
American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
1868 - 1938 -
Charles S. FAIRCHILD
American businessman and politician
1842 - 1924 -
Frank GANNETT
American newspaper publisher, founder of Gannett media corporation
1876 - 1957 -
Frank Nelson DOUBLEDAY
American founder of the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company
1862 - 1934 -
Lee DEFOREST
American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit
1873 - 1961 -
James DOLE
American industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii
1877 - 1958 -
Ezra CORNELL
American businessman and education administrator
1807 - 1874 -
William Ellis COREY
President of United States Steel
1866 - 1934 -
Levi COFFIN
American Quaker, abolitionist, and businessman
1798 - 1877 -
Liz CLAIBORNE
Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur
1929 - 2007 -
Samuel P. BUSH
American industrialist
1863 - 1948 -
Gail BORDEN
American inventor, surveyor, and publisher, and the inventor of condensed milk in 1853
1801 - 1874 -
Glen BELL
American businessman who founded the fast food chain Taco Bell
1923 - 2010 -
Ethan ALLEN
Farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician
1737 - 1789 -
Philip Danforth ARMOUR
American businessman who founded Armour & Company
1832 - 1901 -
Bill BAIN
American management consultant
1937 -
Herbert E. IVES
American scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T
1882 - 1953