- female, 26 years old
- Miranda Lambert is a Grammy-nominated country singer/songwriter who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of USA Network's talent...
- female, 27 years old
- James P. Barker (born 1982) is a former specialist in the U.S. Army who pleaded guilty on 15 November 2006 to the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl,...
- male, deceased (1864)
- Abraham Pineo Gesner, born May 2, 1797 in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, Canada – died April 29, 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was a physician an...
- male, deceased (1882)
- Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil. He was the founder of th...
- male, deceased (1884)
- George Bissell is often considered the father of the American oil industry. He was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1853 he observed by chance...
- male, deceased (1891)
- Charles Pratt was a United States capitalist, businessman and philanthropist. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established...
- male, deceased (1885)
- Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (December 4, 1816 - January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil...
- male, deceased (2007)
- Paul Edward Yost (June 30,1919 - May 27, 2007) was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and was sometimes referred to as the "Father...
- male, deceased (1931)
- Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist was a Swedish inventor. He designed the first sootless kerosene stove, operated by compressed air. He started a company,...
- male
- Chesebrough organized the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company in 1875, of which he was president until 1908. Chesebrough's firm began with the...
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