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22 famous people found
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Elizabeth HURLEY
English actress, businesswoman and model
1965 -
John CADBURY
English proprietor and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England
1801 - 1889 -
James HENNESSY
Cognac house
1000 -
Richard WALLACE
English art collector
1818 - 1890 -
Bernie ECCLESTONE
British business magnate, former chief executive of the Formula One Group
1930 -
Elihu YALE
British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor
1649 - 1721 -
Robert MILLER
American-born British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and sailing champion
1933 -
John HAWKINS
English naval commander and administrator, merchant, navigator, shipbuilder, privateer and slave trader
1532 - 1595 -
Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911 -
Mark THATCHER
British businessman
1953 -
Robert JARDINE
Scottish businessman and Liberal politician, former Head of Jardine, Matheson and Co.
1825 - 1905 -
Michael FARMER
British businessman, philanthropist, former treasurer of the Conservative Party, and life peer in the House of Lords
1944 -
Peter HENDY
British Chairman of Network Rail and formerly the Commissioner of Transport for London
1953 -
Ghislaine MAXWELL
British socialite
1961 -
Rupert ZU LOEWENSTEIN
Spanish-born Bavarian aristocrat and the longtime financial manager of the rock band The Rolling Stones
1933 - 2014 -
Simon BRADSTREET
Colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1603 - 1697 -
Henry Nicholas GREENWELL
English merchant credited with establishing Kona coffee as an internationally known brand
1826 - 1891 -
William Herbert PURVIS
English plant collector
1858 - 1950 -
Thomas PITT
British merchant involved in trade with India
1653 - 1726 -
Amherst VILLIERS
English automotive, aeronautical and astronautic engineer and portrait painter
1900 - 1991