Bartolomé de Medina
Spain
Date of Birth: 1497 — 1585
Bartolome de Medina was a successful Spanish merchant who became fascinated with the problem of...
John (Jan) II Dobry, John the Good - Duke of Opole
Poland
Date of Birth: 1460 — 1532
In 1526 Tarnowskie Góry in Silesia (southern Poland) was awarded the status of a free mining...
Charles Dow
United States
Date of Birth: 1851 — 1902
The Dow of Dow-Jones is Charles Henry Dow, born Nov. 5, 1851, in Connecticut. He went into...
George Eastman
United States
Date of Birth: 1854 — 1932
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company. His invention...
Thomas Edison
United States
Date of Birth: 1847 — 1937
"I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the...
George Richards Elkington
Elkington & Co.
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1801 — 1865
George Richards Elkington was the son of a Birmingham spectacle manufacturer who apprenticed to...
Charles Englehard, Jr.
United States
Date of Birth: 1917 — 1971
Charles W. Engelhard Jr. (February 15, 1917 – March 2, 1971 was an American businessman who...
William Bell Frue
United States
Date of Birth: 1830 — 1881
William Bell Frue, emigrated, at a young age, from Ireland to the United States. His mining...
Juan Godoy
Chile
Date of Birth: 1800 — 1842
Juan Godoy (1801-1842) was a Chilean prospector who made significant contributions to Chile's...
Jabez Gorham
Gorham Manufacturing Company
United States
Date of Birth: 1792 — 1869
Established in 1831 in Rhode Island, as a coin-silver flatware and jewelery manufacturer, Gorham...
Diego Gualpa
Peru
Date of Birth: 16th C
The Spanish conquest of South America led to the discovery of Peruvian mountains rich in gold...
George Guess, aka Sequoyah
United States
Date of Birth: 1775 — 1843
Sequoyah was the creator of the Cherokee writing system. Believed to be the son of a Virginia...
Daniel Guggenheim
United States
Date of Birth: 1856 — 1930
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Daniel Guggenheim was sent to Switzerland as a young man to...
Meyer Guggenheim
United States
Date of Birth: 1828 — 1905
Meyer Guggenheim was born in Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland on February 1, 1828. He was of...
Alvinza Hayward
United States
Date of Birth: 1822 — 1904
Born in Vermont, Hayward moved to Canton, New York early in his life. He studied law in New...
George Hearst
United States
Date of Birth: 1820 — 1891
George Hearst, of Scots-Irish origin, was born near present-day Sullivan, Missouri, to William...
Robert Hennel
Hennel & Sons
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1741 — 1811
Hennell of Bond Street is one of London's oldest silversmiths and jewellers. It was founded by...
David Hennell
Mappin & Webb
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1712 — 1785
The Hennell family silver company is a testament to the enduring appeal of fine craftsmanship...
Tom Herbert
Canada
Tom Herbert was a French-Canadian working on the railroad being pushed through northern Ontario...
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1792 — 1871
Sir John Herschel was a scientist and astronomer, like his father, Sir William Herschel, who...