Robert Young

male, deceased (1888)
Robert Young (1822-1888) was a Scottish publisher who was self-taught and proficient in various ancient languages. He had his own published works,...
Glen Taylor

Glen Taylor

male
Glen A. Taylor is a billionaire American businessman and the head of Taylor Corporation, a privately held multinational company in the printing and...

James Thompson

male, deceased (1874)
James Thompson (October 1, 1806 - January 28, 1874) was a politician and jurist from Pennsylvania. Thompson was born in Middlesex Township, Butler...
John Warnock

John Warnock

male, 69 years old (Los Altos, California, United States)
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the...

David Bruce

male
David Bruce Jr. was a New York industrialist whose inventions revolutionised the printing industry. In 1838, he invented the Pivotal Typecaster,...
Alois Senefelder

Alois Senefelder

male, deceased (1834)
Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 1771, Prague - 26 February 1834, Munich) was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing...

Elizabeth Eisenstein

female
Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein is an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th century France. She was educated at Vassar College...
Dard Hunter

Dard Hunter

male, deceased (1966)
Dard Hunter, born William Joseph Hunter, was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and cr...
Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer

male, deceased (1985) (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect. Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthammer in...

Henri-Jean Martin

male, deceased (2007)
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a...