Inventor
117 famous people found
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Les Paul
American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor
1915 - 2009 -
Jim HENSON
American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets
1936 - 1990 -
Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
John MCAFEE
British-American computer programmer and businessman
1945 - 2021 -
Steve JOBS
American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, industrial designer, chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.
1955 - 2011 -
John BROWNING
American firearms designer
1855 - 1926 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Thomas EDISON
American inventor and businessman
1847 - 1931 -
Samuel MORSE
American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code
1791 - 1872 -
Steve Ballmer
American businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014
1956 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
Jack DORSEY
American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter
1976 -
John Harvey KELLOGG
American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman
1852 - 1943 -
Steve WOZNIAK
American computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer
1950 -
Clarence BIRDSEYE
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry
1886 - 1956 -
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 -
Melvil Dewey
American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification
1851 - 1931 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
Michael J. LINDELL
American businessman, inventor and CEO of My Pillow, Inc.
1961