Inventor
123 famous people found
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Léon GAUMONT
French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry
1864 - 1946 -
Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer
1832 - 1923 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Emile REYNAUD
French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and the first projected animated films
1844 - 1918 -
Joseph DUBONNET
French businessman
1818 - 1871 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Louis BRAILLE
French inventor of braille
1809 - 1852 -
Abel ROSSIGNOL
French industrialist
1882 - 1954 -
René PANHARD
French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France
1841 - 1908 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Louis Ernest LADURÉE
French baker and pastry chef
1836 - 1904 -
Alexandre FICHET
French engineer
1799 - 1862 -
Auguste LUMIERE
Earliest filmmaker
1862 - 1954 -
Louis LUMIERE
Earliest filmmaker
1864 - 1948 -
Étienne de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1745 - 1799 -
Joseph de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1740 - 1810 -
Nicéphore NIEPCE
French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography
1765 - 1833 -
Jules-Albert DE DION
Pioneer of the automobile industry in France
1856 - 1946