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  • Anthony FOKKER

    Anthony FOKKER

    Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer

    Dutch1890 - 1939
  • Louis CHEVROLET

    Louis CHEVROLET

    Swiss-American race car driver, mechanic and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911

    Swiss1878 - 1941
  • Léon GAUMONT

    Léon GAUMONT

    French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry

    French1864 - 1946
  • Les Paul

    Les Paul

    American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor

    American1915 - 2009
  • Bruce McLaren

    Bruce McLaren

    New Zealand race-car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor

    New Zealand1937 - 1970
  • Dom PERIGNON

    Dom PERIGNON

    French Benedictine monk

    French1639 - 1715
  • Jim HENSON

    Jim HENSON

    American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets

    American1936 - 1990
  • Nellie BLY

    Nellie BLY

    American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days

    American1864 - 1922
  • Nikola TESLA

    Nikola TESLA

    Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist

    American1856 - 1943
  • John MCAFEE

    John MCAFEE

    British-American computer programmer and businessman

    American1945 - 2021
  • Steve JOBS

    Steve JOBS

    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, industrial designer, chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.

    American1955 - 2011
  • Alexander Graham BELL

    Alexander Graham BELL

    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone

    Scottish1847 - 1922
  • John BROWNING

    John BROWNING

    American firearms designer

    American1855 - 1926
  • Isaac SINGER

    Isaac SINGER

    American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company

    American1811 - 1875
  • Leonardo DA VINCI

    Leonardo DA VINCI

    Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

    Italian1452 - 1519
  • Thomas EDISON

    Thomas EDISON

    American inventor and businessman

    American1847 - 1931
  • Alfred NOBEL

    Alfred NOBEL

    Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite

    Swedish1833 - 1896
  • Samuel MORSE

    Samuel MORSE

    American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code

    American1791 - 1872
  • Louis DAGUERRE

    Louis DAGUERRE

    French artist and photographer

    French1787 - 1851
  • Steve Ballmer

    Steve Ballmer

    American businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014

    American1956
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