- Margaret Osborne Dupont
Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont (born on March 4, 1918, in Joseph, Oregon, United States) is a former American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Championships. DuPont teamed with Louise Brough Clapp to win 20 Grand Slam women's doubles titles.
- Aurelie Dupont
Aurélie Dupont is a French ballet dancer who performs with the Paris Opera Ballet as an etoile. She began her career in dance at the age of ten when she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School ("L’Ecole de Danse de l’Opéra de Paris") after giving up her hopes of being a pianist. She joined the company in 1989, and became a "premiers danseurs" in December 1996.
- Andre Dupont
Andre "Moose" Dupont is a retired professional ice hockey player.
- Clifford Dupont
Clifford Walter Dupont (December 6, 1905 - June 28, 1978) served as President of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979. Dupont, a close ally of Prime Minister Ian Smith, previously served as his Foreign Minister. His status as President was not accepted internationally.
- Jennifer Dupont
Jennifer Dupont is a beauty pageant contestant who has achieved the honor of the "Triple Crown" - a title given to those who have achieved state titles in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America programmes. As of 2006, only six women have achieved this feat. Dupont's first title was Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998. The national Miss Teen USA pageant was held close to her home town in Shreveport, Louisiana.
- Tiffany Dupont
Tiffany Dupont (born 22 March 1981) is an actress, known for playing the lead character, Hadassah, a Jewish girl, who will become the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia, in the Hollywood film "One Night with the King".
- Madeleine Dupont
Madeleine Dupont (born May 26 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark) is a Danish curler from Hvidovre. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently throws last rocks for her team skipped by Angelina Jensen. Dupont has skipped the Danish team to two World Championships events, finishing 8th at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championship and 10th at the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship. She won a gold medal at the World Junior "B" Curling Championships in 2004, …
- Pierre Dupont
Pierre Dupont (April 23, 1821 - July 24, 1870), French song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Lyon. His parents both died before he was five years old, and he was brought up in the country by his godfather, a village priest. He was educated at the seminary of L'Argentire, and was afterwards apprenticed to a notary at Lyon. In 1839 he found his way to Paris, and some of his poems were inserted, in the "Gazette de France" and the "Quotidienne".
- Jerry Dupont
Jerome Dupont (b. February 21, 1962 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Jerry Dupont played for the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey League at the age of 16. He was drafted in the first round, 15th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. He retired in 1987 after seven years of NHL with the Blackhawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs and AHL hockey with the Springfield Indians and Newmarket Saints.
- Micki Dupont
Micki DuPont (born April 15, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey player for the St. Louis Blues.
- Raymond Dupont
Raymond Dupont (born 27 December 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a technical and labour consultant, and a businessman by career. He was elected at Sainte-Marie electoral district in the 1972 federal election and was re-elected there in 1974. In the 1979 election, he campaigned in the Chambly electoral district and won re-election there. After one more victory in the 1980 election, …
- Léon Dupont
Léon Dupont was a Belgian athlete who competed mainly in the standing high jump. He competed for Belgium in the 1906 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the standing high jump where he won the silver medal jointly with American pair Lawson Robertson and Martin Sheridan and behind American superstar Ray Ewry.
- Norm Dupont
Norm Dupont (born February 5, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward. Dupont started his National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1979. He also played for the Winnipeg Jets and Hartford Whalers. He left the NHL after the 1984 season. He played 3 seasons in the Swiss A League before retiring from hockey.
- Jonas Dupont
Jonas Dupont was a Frenchman who became famous for the publishing of the book De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis. Dupont became interested in spontaneous human combustion (SHC) after coming across the Nicole Millet case. This case occurred in 1725, where Nicole Millet's husband was accused of burning her to death, but was aquitted after a surgeon named Nicholas le Cat convinced the court that her cause of death had been SHC.
- Ewald André Dupont
Ewald André Dupont was a German movie director. He was born on December 25, 1891 in Zeitz, Saxony, Germany and was one of the founders of the German film industry. A columnist for a newspaper, in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California during the experimentation period for sound in film.
- Jeff Gordon
Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is a professional American race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a four-time NASCAR Winston Cup (now NEXTEL Cup) Series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner, and driver of the #24 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS/Impala SS. His primary sponsor is DuPont, though he occasionally drives a Pepsi-themed car or a Nicorette-themed car.
- Charles O. Holliday
Charles O. Holliday, Jr. (Chad) (born 1948) grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and earned his B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1970. He immediately turned a summer job at DuPont into a full-time position as an engineer. He advanced through manufacturing and supervisory positions around the world. He was named CEO of DuPont in 1998.
- Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Stephanie Kwolek was born on July 31, 1923 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania to John and Nellie Zajdel Kwolek . Stephanie's father died when she was 10, and her mother obtained a job with the Aluminum Company of America to support Stephanie and her brother. Kwolek enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology (the women's college of what is now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh in 1942, graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1946.
- Wallace Carothers
Wallace Hume Carothers (April 27, 1896 - April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who is credited with the invention of nylon.
- Pierre S. du Pont
Pierre Samuel du Pont (1870-1954) was president of the DuPont company from 1915 to 1919, and served on its Board of Directors until 1940. He also managed General Motors for some time.
- Irénée du Pont
Irénée du Pont was a U.S. businessman, former president of the DuPont company and head of the Du Pont trust. A descendant of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, he graduated from MIT in 1897 and worked for Fenn’s Manufacturing Contracting Company for a number of years before he joined DuPont. He was president of DuPont from 1919 to 1925 and remained on the board until he retired in 1958.
- Roy J. Plunkett
Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 - May 12, 1994) was the chemist who accidentally invented Teflon in 1938. Plunkett was born in Orange County, California. He later moved to New Carlisle, Ohio and then to Pleasant Hill, Ohio where he attended Newton High School. For college, he attended Cal State Fullerton College (BA chemistry 1932) and Ohio State University (Ph.D. chemistry 1936).
- Sean O'Keefe
Sean O'Keefe (born January 27, 1956) was the tenth Administrator of NASA, leading the space agency from December 2001 to February 2005. His tenure was marked by a mix of triumph and tragedy, ranging from the tremendous success of the Mars rovers to the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia. O'Keefe is currently the chancellor of Louisiana State University, a job he took after resigning from his NASA position.
- William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly (born January 26, 1940) was a former administrator of the EPA and has been a director of DuPont since 1993. Born in Decatur, Illinois, into a conservative, deeply religious household, Reilly was strongly influenced by his father, a highway construction steel merchant. Reilly's father then led his family from Illinois to South Texas when William Reilly was 10. From the Rio Grande Valley, the Reillys moved to Fall River, Massachusetts, …
- Ricky Hendrick
Joseph Riddick Hendrick IV, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, was a NASCAR driver and owner affiliated with his father Rick Hendrick's Hendrick Motorsports team. He died on a team flight to the race at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia along with his uncle, 2 cousins and six others. Ricky's fiancée, Emily Maynard, was pregnant with his child at the time of his death. His daughter, Josephine Riddick "Ricki" Hendrick, was born June 29, 2005.
- Alfred I. du Pont
Alfred Irénée du Pont was another key player in the du Pont family. He along with his cousins engineered the 1902 rescue of the family business. Orphaned son of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, II, Alfred left MIT in 1884 to work at the family's manufacturing powder plant in the Brandywine. He became a partner in the company and was sent to Europe as the U.S. Army's Chief of Ordnance. He was also assistant superintendent of the Hagley and Lower Yards.
- Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born American chemist and industrialist who immigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the Du Pont family, were one of America's richest and most prominent families in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15 1918 -May 9 2007). Born in Guyencourt, Delaware, Chandler was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Professor Chandler graduated from Harvard College in 1940. After wartime service in navy he returned to Harvard to get his Ph.D. in History.
- Scott Lagasse
Scott Lagasse (pronounced LAG-a-see) (born February 20 1959 in St. Augustine, Florida) is a former race car driver. He raced primarily on road courses during his career. He made his NASCAR debut in 1993 at Watkins Glen, starting 15th and finishing 31st after his #75 Mark III Vans Oldsmobile suffered transmission failure. He also made his Winston Cup debut that year at Watkins Glen as well, finishing 13th in the #39 Pedigree Chevrolet.
- Lammot du Pont
Lammot du Pont was a key member of the du Pont in the mid-nineteenth century. His father was Alfred V. du Pont, the eldest son and successor of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the Dupont. He obtained a chemistry degree from the University of Pennsylvania and entered into the family business. Lammot patented B blasting powder, also known as soda powder in 1857.
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, was a French writer, economist, and government official, who was the father of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company and progenitor of one of America's richest business dynasties of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Brett Lunger
Robert Brett Lunger (born November 14 1945) is a former racecar driver from the USA. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Lunger was educated in dancing schools in Wilmington, the Holderness School, and Princeton University. He dropped out of Princeton after three years to enlist for service in Vietnam. He was a political science major. At the time he was preparing a thesis on U.S. Policy on Southeast Asia.
- John T. Dillon
John T. Dillon, retired chairman and chief executive officer, president and chief operating officer and executive vice president – packaging of International Paper (paper and forest products). Prior to his appointment as Chairman and CEO, Mr. Dillon served as President and Chief Operation Officer of International Paper. Other directorship: Caterpillar Inc. since 1997, DuPont since 2004, Kellogg Co. and Vertis. He is the Vice Chairman of Evercore Capital Partners.
- Richard H. Brown
Richard H. Brown was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Data Systems Corporation from 1999 to 2003; Chief Executive Officer of Cable & Wireless plc from 1996 to 1998; Member of the Board of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company since 2001 and Home Depot. President and chief executive officer of H&R Block, Inc. and vice chairman of Ameritech Corporation. He is a member of The Business Council, …
- Donaldson Brown
He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1902. He completed a postgraduate course at Cornell University in 1903 by passing the senior electrical engineering course examination. On completion of his college education, he sold electrical machinery for a General Electric interest. He was a salesman of commercial explosives for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company for four years, starting in 1909.
- Gerard Colby
Gerard Colby (earlier known as Gerard Colby Zilg) is a former vice-president of the US National Writers Union where he is/was quite active by holding various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he had the chair of the Vermont section. He worked on .. *"Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain" (1974) as the author. The book was the subject of a landmark federal case that won promotional rights for authors. It was re-released as "Du Pont Dynasty" in 1984.
- Rodney Sharp
H. Rodney Sharp III has been a director of DuPont since 1981. Sharp is president of the Board of Trustees of Longwood Foundation, Inc., and a director of Wilmington Trust. He is a trustee and director of Christiana Care Corporation. Sharp also serves as secretary of the board of Planned Parenthood of Delaware.
- Curtis Crawford
Curtis J. Crawford has been a director of DuPont since 1998. Dr. Crawford is President and Chief Executive Officer of XCEO, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in leadership and corporate governance. He formerly served as president and chief executive officer of Onix Microsystems, Inc. and chairman, president and chief executive officer of ZiLOG, Inc. He previously served as Chairman of the board of ON Semiconductors.
- Paul Flory
Paul John Flory (June 19 1910 - September 9 1985) was an American chemist who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a leading pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution.
- Masahisa Naitoh
Masahisa Naitoh has been a director of DuPont since January 2000. Mr. Naitoh is chairman and CEO of The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. He previously was vice chairman of ITOCHU Corporation, an international trading company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and executive vice president, senior managing director and advisor of ITOCHU. Prior to joining ITOCHU, Mr.