1,601 people found
page 1 of 41
Alexander De Soto
Spanish-American physician, philanthropist, and businessman
John Brown
American abolitionist
Benjamin Franklin Butler
American major general, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts
Mark Hanna
American businessman and politician
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States
John D. Rockefeller
American business magnate and philanthropist
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman
Alexander Graham Bell
Scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist, former slave and statesman
Franklin B. Gowen
President of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Jay Gould
American railroad magnate and financier
J. P. Morgan
American financier, banker, and art collector
John J. Albright
American businessman and philanthropist
Leander J. McCormick
American businessman and philanthropist
John Roach (shipbuilder)
American businessman
Benjamin Altman
Art collector and founder B. Altman & Co.
Ambrose Burnside
Soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, United States
William Jackson Palmer
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad president
Allan Pinkerton
American Civil War spy
Amos Starr Cooke
Educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii
Juan Serrallés Colón
Puerto Rican industrialist
Henry Lee Higginson
Union United States Army officer
Hamilton Disston
American industrialist and real-estate developer
James J. Hill
United States railroad promoter and financier
Joseph Wharton
American industrialist
Gregory Anthony Perdicaris
Consul of the United States to Athens
Henry Huttleston Rogers
American businessman
William Moore
Steamship captain, businessman, miner and explorer from Germany
Hiram Stevens Maxim
American-born British inventor
Philip Danforth Armour
American meatpacking industrialist/founder: Chicago based Armour & Company
Charles Johnson Maynard
American ornithologist
Samuel Colt
American inventor and industrialist
Gail Borden
U.S. inventor, surveyor, and publisher, and was the inventor of condensed milk
Gottfried Schloemer
American coopersmith, mechanical engineer, and inventor
Charles Moran
American businessman
Ira Roe Foster
American general, politician and businessman
George Westinghouse
19th century American inventor and businessman
Samuel Brannan
American politician
Charles M. Loring
American businessperson, miller and publicist
Chauncey Depew
American politician