Business and Inventions
1482 famous people found
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Charles E. MERRILL
American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder of Merrill Lynch & Company
1885 - 1956 -
J. P. MORGAN
American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector
1837 - 1913 -
Stephen MATHER
American industrialist and conservationist who as president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company became a millionaire
1867 - 1930 -
Robert R. MCCORMICK
Owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper
1880 - 1955 -
Cyrus MCCORMICK
American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
1809 - 1883 -
Charles TENNANT
Scottish chemist and industrialist
1768 - 1838 -
Spencer W. KIMBALL
American business, civic, and religious leader, and the twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1895 - 1985 -
Joseph SAXTON
American inventor
1799 - 1873 -
Huntington HARTFORD
American heir to the A&P supermarket fortune
1911 - 2008 -
Donald E. GRAHAM
Chief executive officer and Chairman of The Washington Post Company
1945 -
Harry Frank GUGGENHEIM
American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman
1890 - 1971 -
Simon GUGGENHEIM
American businessman, politician, and philanthropist
1867 - 1941 -
Henry Lee HIGGINSON
American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
1834 - 1919 -
Paul FANNIN
American businessman and politician, 11th Governor of Arizona
1907 - 2002 -
Charles Gilbert GATES
Owned the first home in the United States where air conditioning was installed in 1914
1876 - 1913 -
W. Averell HARRIMAN
American politician, businessman, and diplomat, 48th Governor of New York
1891 - 1986 -
Edwin EMBREE
Former vice presidents of the Rockefeller Foundation, president of the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, and president of the Liberian Foundation
1883 - 1950 -
Eleuthère Irénée DU PONT
French American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
1771 - 1834 -
Thomas G. AYERS
American president, CEO and chairman of Commonwealth Edison
1915 - 2007 -
Harry CULVER
American real estate developer and promoter
1880 - 1946