Inventor
277 famous people found
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Leo Fender
American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
1909 - 1991 -
Anthony FOKKER
Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer
1890 - 1939 -
Louis CHEVROLET
Swiss-American race car driver, mechanic and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911
1878 - 1941 -
Léon GAUMONT
French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry
1864 - 1946 -
Les Paul
American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor
1915 - 2009 -
Bruce McLaren
New Zealand race-car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor
1937 - 1970 -
Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
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 -
Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
John BROWNING
American firearms designer
1855 - 1926 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
Thomas EDISON
American inventor and businessman
1847 - 1931 -
Alfred NOBEL
Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite
1833 - 1896 -
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 -
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer
1832 - 1923