Business and Inventions
763 famous people found
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Earl TUPPER
American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware
1907 - 1983 -
Jeff BEZOS
American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, founder of Amazon.com
1964 -
Jimmy WALES
American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia
1966 -
Henry LUCE
American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"
1898 - 1967 -
John D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
American philanthropist
1874 - 1960 -
William Shockley
American physicist
1910 - 1989 -
Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist
1902 - 1987 -
Caroline D'Amore
American businesswoman, DJ, actress, and fashion model
1984 -
Douglas Trumbull
American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor
1942 - 2022 -
Elizabeth Holmes
American former biotechnology entrepreneur convicted of criminal fraud
1984 -
Karl ENGEMANN
American record industry executive, producer and entertainment industry personal manager
1930 -
J. Willard MARRIOTT
American entrepreneur and businessman, founder of the Marriott Corporation
1900 - 1985 -
Laurene POWELL JOBS
American billionaire heiress, businesswoman, executive and the founder of Emerson Collective
1963 -
John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904 -
William Moulton MARSTON
American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector, self-help author, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman
1893 - 1947 -
Bob WALLACE
American software developer, programmer and the ninth Microsoft employee
1949 - 2002 -
Gary GODDARD
American producer, founder and CEO of The Goddard Group
1952 -
Jerry BALDWIN
American businessman, who along with Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl founded Starbucks in Seattle in 1971
1942 -
Will WRIGHT
American video game designer (SimCity, The Sims)
1960 -
Trip HAWKINS
American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts
1953