Business and Inventions
1,563 famous people found
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Hugh Grosvenor
British aristocrat and businessman
1991 -
Peter Schöffer
German printer
1425 - 1502 -
François BOUSSUS
French industrialist
1830 - 1899 -
MrBeast
American YouTuber, entrepreneur and philanthropist
1998 -
William Phillips Jr.
American merchant, politician and philanthropist
1750 - 1827 -
Alfred Lee Loomis
American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist, physicist, inventor of the LORAN Long Range Navigation System and a lifelong patron of scientific research
1887 - 1975 -
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and businessman
1946 - 2023 -
Jacques-Henri Eyraud
French entrepreneur and media man
1968 -
Eliphalet Nott
American Presbyterian minister, inventor, educational pioneer, and long-term president of Union College, Schenectady, New York
1773 - 1866 -
Polly Bergen
American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur
1930 - 2014 -
Joseph François LAMBERT
French adventurer, businessman, and diplomat
1824 -
Jacob FUGGER
German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker
1459 - 1525 -
Hilarie Burton
American actress, businesswoman, author and producer
1982 -
Adrien TREUILLE
French politician
1842 - 1917 -
Aimé LEPERCQ
French soldier, industrialist and political figure
1889 - 1944 -
Madame RASIMI
French costume designer and theater director
1870 - 1954 -
Emmanuel LIPMANN
French industrialist
1844 - 1913 -
Thomas Law
Reformer of British policy in India, where he served as collector of revenue for the East India Company
1756 - 1834 -
Joseph Glidden
American businessman and farmer, inventor of the modern barbed wire
1813 - 1906 -
Lloyd Groff Copeman
American inventor
1881 - 1956