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A businessperson (also businessman or businesswoman) is someone who is employed at usually a profit-oriented enterprise, or more specifically, someone who is involved in the management (at any level) of a company, or even an entrepreneur. The term businessperson almost always refers to someone with...
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), aka Aphex Twin, is a British electronic musician described by The Guardian newspaper as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." He founded the record label Rephlex...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1971 (age 38 years)
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1847
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1922 (age 75 years)
Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen (pronounced /ˈmiː.ən/), PC, QC (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1874
Date of death:
- Aug 5, 1960 (age 86 years)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the 38th and current governor of the US State of California. He is also known as a famous Bodybuilder, actor and businessman. Born in Thal Austria to Aurelia Jardny and Gustav Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger had a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1947 (age 62 years)
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (properly pronounced /kɑrˈneɪɡi/, but commonly /ˈkɑrnɨɡi/ or /kɑrˈnɛɡi/) (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur, and a major philanthropist.
He is one of the most famous captains...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1835
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1919 (age 83 years)
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1955 (age 54 years)
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. He was also a Major General in the U.S. Air...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1909
Date of death:
- May 29, 1998 (age 89 years)
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a United States businessman, politician, the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He...
Date of birth:
- Jul 9, 1932 (age 77 years)
Dan Bricklin
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1951 (age 58 years)
Dave Winer
Dave Winer (born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in Berkeley, California. A pioneer in the areas of outliners, content management, XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API, he...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1955 (age 54 years)
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1946 (age 63 years)
Dave Thomas
David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 2002) was an American restaurant owner and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1932
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 2002 (age 69 years)
Don Tennant
Donald G. Tennant (November 23, 1922 - December 8, 2001) was an American advertising agency executive.
He worked at the Leo Burnett agency in Chicago, Illinois. The agency is noted for putting anthropomorphic faces of "critters" on packaged goods....
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1922
Date of death:
- Dec 8, 2001 (age 79 years)
Dean Kamen
Dean L. Kamen (born 5 April 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.
Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating. His father was Jack Kamen, an...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1951 (age 58 years)
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.
Bush was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 12, 1924 (age 85 years)
Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1942
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 1994 (age 52 years)
Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1863
Date of death:
- Apr 7, 1947 (age 83 years)
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1874
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 1964 (age 90 years)
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1923 (age 86 years)
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1860
Date of death:
- Nov 17, 1929 (age 69 years)
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1905
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1976 (age 70 years)
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926), sometimes known simply as Hef, is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him second on the "50 Most Powerful People in Porn"...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1926 (age 83 years)
John Baskerville
John Baskerville (28 January 1706 - 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.
Baskervillle was born in the village of Wolverley, near...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1706
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1775 (age 68 years)
John Jacob Astor
For other pages relating to Astor, see John Jacob Astor (disambiguation)
John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848), born Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob Astor, was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1763
Date of death:
- Mar 29, 1848 (age 84 years)
John Lynch
John H. Lynch (born November 25, 1952) is the 90th Governor of New Hampshire, currently serving his third two-year term.
Lynch was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, the fifth of William and Margaret Lynch's six children. He attended local schools...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1952 (age 57 years)
Larry Sanger
Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American philosopher, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the creator of the encyclopedia Citizendium.
He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1968 (age 41 years)
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom then-United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The affair and its...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1973 (age 36 years)
Mark Whitacre
Mark E. Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) is the chief operating officer and President of Operations at Cypress Systems, a California biotechnology firm. He was the President of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) from 1989 to 1995....
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1957 (age 52 years)
Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds (also called junk bonds) during the 1970s and 1980s, for his 1990 guilty plea to multiple...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1946 (age 63 years)
Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world.
He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which is his private...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1953 (age 56 years)
Robert Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden PC GCMG KC (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office....
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1854
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 1937 (age 83 years)
Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1927
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1990 (age 62 years)
Rudy Giuliani
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1944 (age 65 years)
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC (born 11 March 1931), usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born American global media mogul. He owns media outlets and is a major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp)....
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1931 (age 78 years)
Ron Popeil
Ronald M. Popeil (born May 3, 1935 in New York City; pronounced /poʊˈpiːl/) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1935 (age 74 years)
Ryan Lackey
Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an entrepreneur and computer security professional. He was a co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven. He also speaks at numerous conferences and trade shows, including DEF CON, RSA Data...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1979 (age 30 years)
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and Prime Minister of Italy (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy), a position he has held three times. He is the leader of the Forza Italia political...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1936 (age 73 years)
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1950 (age 59 years)
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1955 (age 54 years)
Steve Ballmer
Steven Anthony Ballmer (born Detroit, Michigan March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1956 (age 53 years)
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1847
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1931 (age 84 years)
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1938 (age 71 years)
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's renowned management style...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1874
Date of death:
- Jun 19, 1956 (age 82 years)
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack or stroke in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher....
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1865
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1923 (age 57 years)
William Seward Burroughs I
William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
William Seward Burroughs was a son of a mechanic, and he worked with machines while growing up. While he was still a small boy,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1857
Date of death:
- Sep 14, 1898 (age 41 years)
Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980, Brockton, Massachusetts), is a computer programmer. He is best known for developing Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms, in 1998.
Shawn worked summers at (uncle) John Fanning's...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1980 (age 29 years)
Andrew Fastow
Andrew Stuart Fastow (born 22 December 1961) was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation until the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his conduct in 2001. Fastow was one of the key figures behind the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1961 (age 47 years)
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US $16 billion, in the Forbes 400 on September 17, 2008, making him the richest resident of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1942 (age 67 years)
Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (4 February 1897–5 May 1977) was a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is notable for his leading role in German postwar economic reform and economic recovery, particularly in his...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1897
Date of death:
- May 5, 1977 (age 80 years)
Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American businessman from Texas best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1930 (age 79 years)
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman ...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1831
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1897 (age 66 years)
W. S. Stratton
Winfield Scott Stratton (July 22, 1848- September 14, 1902) American prospector, capitalist, and philanthropist. He discovered the Independence Lode near Victor, Colorado on July 4, 1891, one of the richest gold mines ever located on earth, and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 22, 1848
Date of death:
- Sep 14, 1902 (age 54 years)
Charles Ponzi
Charles Ponzi (March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was one of the greatest swindlers in American history. His aliases include Charles Ponei, Charles P. Bianchi, Carl and Carlo. The term "Ponzi scheme" is a widely known description of any scam that...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1882
Date of death:
- Jan 18, 1949 (age 66 years)
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model.
During her rise to fame with 1990's pop group the Spice Girls, Beckham was dubbed Posh...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1974 (age 35 years)
Thomas Crapper
Thomas P. Crapper (baptised 28 September 1836 - 27 January 1910) was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co. Ltd. in London. Contrary to widespread misconceptions, Crapper did not invent the toilet, nor is the word crap derived from his name. He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1836
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 1910 (age 73 years)
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the first detective agency of the United States.
Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1819
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1884 (age 64 years)
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse, Jr (October 6, 1846–March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1846
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 1914 (age 67 years)
Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1930 (age 79 years)
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (born Catherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1850
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1904 (age 54 years)
Paul Revere
Paul Revere (bap. January 1, 1735 [O.S. December 22, 1734] – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
He was glorified after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1734
Date of death:
- May 10, 1818 (age 83 years)
