Business and Inventions
759 famous people found
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George Washington VANDERBILT
American art collector
1862 - 1914 -
William Kissam VANDERBILT
Railroads manager and a horse breeder
1849 - 1920 -
William Henry VANDERBILT
American businessman
1821 - 1885 -
Cornelius VANDERBILT
American socialite, heir, and businessman
1843 - 1899 -
Edward Francis HUTTON
American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.
1875 - 1962 -
William Doud PACKARD
American automobile manufacturer who founded the Packard Motor Car Company
1861 - 1923 -
Jack NORTHROP
American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation
1895 - 1981 -
Alan FIELD SHUGART
American engineer, entrepreneur, business executive and founder of Seagate Technologies
1930 - 2006 -
Charles SCRIBNER I
Founded a publishing company that would eventually become Charles Scribner's Sons
1821 - 1871 -
Bill W.
Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
1895 - 1971 -
J. A. FOLGER
Founder of the Folgers Coffee Company
1835 - 1889 -
Robert SIX
CEO of Continental Airlines from 1936 to 1981
1907 - 1986 -
S. C. JOHNSON
American founder of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc
1833 - 1919 -
Percival LOWELL
American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer
1855 - 1916 -
Dwight Hamilton BALDWIN
American piano manufacturer
1821 - 1889 -
Kris JENNER
American television personality, socialite and businesswoman
1955 -
Johnny APPLESEED
American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
1774 - 1845 -
Sam WALTON
American businessman and entrepreneur
1918 - 1992 -
William Cornelius VAN HORNE
Pioneering Canadian railway executive
1843 - 1915