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14 famous people found
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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 -
James OGLETHORPE
British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia
1696 - 1785 -
François DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT
French social reformer
1747 - 1827 -
Edme Champion
French jeweler
1764 - 1852 -
Abbott Lawrence
American businessman, politician, and philanthropist
1792 - 1855 -
William Phillips Jr.
American merchant, politician and philanthropist
1750 - 1827 -
David Sears
Pprominent 19th-century Boston philanthropist, merchant, real estate developer, and landowner
1787 - 1871 -
Anthony Benezet
French-American abolitionist and educator
1713 - 1784 -
Lucy BAKEWELL AUDUBON
English-American educator and philanthropist
1787 - 1874 -
Juliette Colbert de Barolo
French Roman Catholic philanthropist and the founder of both the Sisters of Saint Anne and the Daughters of Jesus the Good Shepherd
1786 - 1864 -
Georges DE CHALLANT-VAREY
Noble, ecclesiastical, art patron of the Renaissance
1440 - 1510 -
Nicolas ROLIN
Chancellor to Philip the Good
1376 - 1462 -
Guigonne DE SALINS
French priest
1403 - 1470 -
Bénigne LE GOUZ DE GERLAND
Member of the French Academy
1695 - 1774