Business and Inventions
1,559 famous people found
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Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT, JR
American lawyer, politician, and businessman
1914 - 1988 -
Barron HILTON
American business magnate, socialite, and hotel heir
1927 -
L. Ron HUBBARD
American pulp fiction author and the founder of the Church of Scientology
1911 - 1986 -
Christie HEFNER
Former chairwoman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises
1952 -
Steve WOZNIAK
American computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer
1950 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Milton S. HERSHEY
American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist
1857 - 1945 -
Charles Alfred PILLSBURY
American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company
1842 - 1899 -
Clarence BIRDSEYE
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry
1886 - 1956 -
Hugh HEFNER
American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises
1926 - 2017 -
Robert PEUGEOT
French industrialist
1873 - 1945 -
Marjorie MERRIWEATHER POST
American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and owner of General Foods, Inc.
1887 - 1973 -
Claude MOËT
French vintner and wine merchant who founded the Champagne house that would later become Moët et Chandon
1683 - 1760 -
La famille DASSAULT
French entrepreneur and conservative politician
1951 - 2021 -
Louis RENAULT
French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry
1877 - 1944 -
Armand PEUGEOT
French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot
1849 - 1915 -
Benjamin FRANKLIN
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
1706 - 1790 -
Henry FORD
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company
1863 - 1947 -
John ERICSSON
Swedish-American inventor
1803 - 1889 -
Louis BRAILLE
French inventor of braille
1809 - 1852