Business and Inventions
763 famous people found
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Frederic Eugene IVES
American inventor
1856 - 1937 -
James Merritt IVES
American lithographer, bookkeeper, and businessman
1824 - 1895 -
Nathaniel CURRIER
American lithographer
1813 - 1888 -
Grant TINKER
Former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer
1925 -
James Cash PENNEY
American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded the J.C. Penney stores
1875 - 1971 -
James Murray SPANGLER
American inventor, salesman and janitor who invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner
1848 - 1915 -
R.J. REYNOLDS
American businessman and founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
1850 - 1918 -
Dylan LAUREN
Owner and President of Dylan's Candy Bar
1974 -
David LAUREN
Senior Vice President of Polo Ralph Lauren
1971 -
David HOADLEY
American businessman
1806 - 1873 -
Anson Green PHELPS
American co-founder of mining company Phelps Dodge
1781 - 1853 -
William E. DODGE
New York businessman, referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War
1805 - 1883 -
Dick MERRILL
American inventor, engineer, and photographer
1949 - 2008 -
Frederick BILLINGS
American lawyer and financier, president of the Northern Pacific Railway
1823 - 1890 -
Lady DE ROTHSCHILD
Chief executive officer of E.L. Rothschild
1954 -
Ralph M. PARSONS
Engineer, founder of Parsons Corporation
1896 - 1974 -
S. S. KRESGE
Founder of the S. S. Kresge Company, now Kmart
1867 - 1966 -
Henry WELLS
American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company
1805 - 1878 -
Eli WHITNEY
American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin
1765 - 1825 -
Cornelius VANDERBILT WHITNEY
American businessman, film producer, writer, and government official
1899 - 1992