Cornelius Vanderbilt27 May 1794, American
Business Tycoon & Philanthropist
Mayer Amschel Rothschild23 February 1744, German
Banker
Robert Owen14 May 1771, Welsh
Johns Hopkins19 May 1795, American
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Richard Arkwright23 December 1732, British
Inventor
George Peabody18 February 1795, American
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Peter Cooper12 February 1791, American
Industrialist & Inventors
James Gordon Bennett, Sr.01 September 1795, American
Founder of New York Herald
John Wilkinson1728 AD, British
Pioneer in cast iron manufacturing
Francis Lewis21 March 1713, American
Member of the United States House of
Alexander Henry The Elder31 July 1739, Canadian
Explorer, Pioneer of British-Canadian Fur Trade
John Jacob Astor17 July 1763, German, American
Entrepreneur
Timothy Dexter22 January 1747, American
Businessman
Nathan Meyer Rothschild16 September 1777, German
Banker
Samuel Wilson13 September 1766, American
Meat-packer
Elihu Yale05 April 1649, British, American, Welsh
Merchant
Henri de Saint-Simon17 October 1760, French
Political Theorist
James Mayer de Rothschild15 May 1792, French
Banker, Art collector, Economist, Businessperson
David Sassoon30 September 1792, Indian
entrepreneur
Moses Montefiore24 October 1784, British
Financier
Haym Salomon07 April 1740, Polish, American
Businessman
Dom Pérignon30 November 1638, French
Monk
Stephen Girard20 May 1750, French, American
Sailor, Entrepreneur, Banker
Jean-Baptiste Say05 January 1767, French
Economist
Matthew Boulton03 September 1728, British
Businessperson, Engineer
Samuel Slater09 June 1768, British, American
Industrialist
Thomas Hutchinson09 September 1711, British
Businessman
Anson Jones20 January 1798, American
Politician
Eliza Lucas28 December 1722, Antiguan, American
Business person
Amschel Mayer Rothschild12 June 1773, German
Banker
Joseph Marie Jacquard07 July 1752, French
Inventor
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Madame Clicquot Ponsardin16 December 1777, French
Businessperson
Charles R. Walgreen09 October 1873, American
American pharmacologist
Thomas Mifflin10 January 1744, American
Politician
Carl Mayer von Rothschild24 April 1788, German
Banker
John Walter01 January 1738, British
Publisher
Simon Cameron08 March 1799, American
Politician
Hennig Brand1630 AD, German
Merchant
James McGill06 October 1744, Canadian, Scottish
Businessman
Henry E. Steinway15 February 1797, German, American
Piano Manufacturer
James Gadsden15 May 1788, American
Diplomat
Benjamin Huntsman04 June 1704, British
Inventor
Paul Cuffe17 January 1759, American
Businessman
John Slidell1793 AD, American
Politician
Pierre-Esprit Radisson1636 AD, Canadian, French
Fur Trader
John Galt02 May 1779, Scottish
Novelist
Matthias W. Baldwin10 December 1795, American
Inventor
William Henry Ashley1778 AD, American
Miner
Louise Juta14 November 1821, German
Bookseller
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll01 June 1682, Scottish
Politician
Daniel Drew29 July 1797, American
Businessman
Robert Livingston the Elder13 December 1654, American, Scottish
Official
Henry Deringer26 October 1786, American
Gunsmith
Samuel Cunard21 November 1787, Canadian, British
Magnate
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet18 April 1740, British
Banker
Glikl of Hameln1646 AD, German
Businesswomen
James Lick25 August 1796, American
Real Estate Investor
Diego Portales16 June 1793, Chilean
Statesman
Henry Kelsey1667 AD, Canadian, British
Explorer
Thomas Pitt05 July 1653, British
Merchant
Francis Cabot Lowell07 April 1775, American
Businessman
Seth Thomas19 August 1785, American
Clockmaker
Barthold Georg Niebuhr27 August 1776, German, Danish
Statesman
Carter Braxton16 September 1736, American
Politician, Merchant
Thomas Guy1644 AD, British
Philanthropist
Fowell Buxton01 April 1786, British
Politician
Jacques Laffitte24 October 1767, French
French banker
Abbott Lawrence16 December 1792, American
Businessman
William Williams08 April 1731, American
Merchant
George Croghan1718 AD, Irish, American
Trader
Sarah Kemble Knight19 April 1666, American
Teacher
Arthur Tappan22 May 1786, American
Businessman
Thomas Attwood06 October 1783, British
Banker
Henry Thornton10 March 1760, British
Economist
Eleanor Coade03 June 1733, British
Businesswoman
Joseph Sturge1793 AD, British
Philanthropist
Billy Caldwell17 March 1782, Canadian, British, American
American Indian leader
Christopher Polhem18 December 1661, Swedish
Scientist
Casimir Pierre Périer11 October 1777, French
Banker
William Pepperrell27 June 1696, American
Merchant
Thomas Hope30 August 1769
Author
Bryan Donkin22 March 1768, British
Developer
Andrew Oliver28 March 1706, American
Politician
Pierre Chouteau, Jr.19 January 1789, American
Merchant
John Dollond21 June 1706, British
Optician
Nicolas Perrot1644 AD, French
Traveler
Jean, Baron de Batz26 January 1754, French
Businessman
Charles Xavier Thomas05 May 1785, French
Inventor
Anne Pépin1747 AD, Senegalese
Business person
Isaac Sears01 July 1730, American
Merchant
Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent1798 AD, Haitian
Businesswoman
John Fielden17 January 1784, British
Industrialist
Hester Bateman1708 AD, British
Silversmith
Karl Schulmeister05 August 1770, Austrian
Tobacconist