Business and Inventions
1482 famous people found
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William Van Duzer LAWRENCE
American millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul who is best known for having founded Sarah Lawrence College
1842 - 1927 -
A. Atwater KENT
American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer
1873 - 1949 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911 -
Timothy Appleton CHAPMAN
American pioneer dry goods merchant
1824 - 1892 -
Henry A. DU PONT
American soldier, businessman, and politician
1838 - 1926 -
James Buchanan EADS
American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents
1820 - 1887 -
Lewis WATERMAN
American inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of the Waterman pen company
1837 - 1901 -
Oliver WINCHESTER
American businessman and politician
1810 - 1880 -
Horace SMITH
American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman, he and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson
1808 - 1893 -
Loïk LE FLOCH-PRIGENT
French engineer and manager
1943 -
Thomas Handasyd PERKINS
Wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin
1764 - 1854 -
Edgar KAISER, JR.
American-Canadian financier and a former owner of the Denver Broncos American football team
1942 - 2012 -
J. Lawrence WALKUP
American president of the Northern Arizona University
1914 - 2002 -
Howard F. WARD
American Chief Investment Officer
1956 -
Art ROONEY
Founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers American football franchise in the National Football League
1901 - 1988 -
Wellington MARA
Co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death
1916 - 2005 -
Art ROONEY II
President and co-owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League
1952 -
Dan ROONEY
30th United States Ambassador to Ireland, chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the National Football League
1932 -
Jack MARA
Co-owner of the New York Giants; an American football team which plays in the National Football League
1908 - 1965