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Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

1771 - 1834

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Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours ( dew-PONT, DEW-pont, French: [eløtɛʁ iʁene dy pɔ̃ d(ə) nəmuʁ]; 24 June 1771 – 31 October 1834) was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the du Pont family, have been one of the richest and most prominent American families since the 19th century, with generations of influential businessmen, politicians and philanthropists. In 1807, du Pont was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont is the 195th most popular businessperson (up from 236th in 2019), the 1,821st most popular biography from France (up from 2,294th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 195 out of 847. Before him are Torakusu Yamaha, François-Henri Pinault, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Fusajiro Yamauchi, and Hetty Green. After him are Ben Bradlee, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Thomas J. Watson, Fredrik Idestam, Lee Iacocca, and Peter Sauber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 17. Before him are Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, and Mungo Park. After him are Ferdinando Paer, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Mikhail Miloradovich, Rahel Varnhagen, and Nicolas Chopin. Among people deceased in 1834, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 17. Before him are Karl Ludwig Harding, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William Carey, Jacques Balmat, Husein Gradaščević, and Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza. After him are William Wirt, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and James Weddell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 1,821 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775), Pierre Cambronne (1770), Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043), Pierre Levegh (1905), Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), and Marie Trintignant (1962). After him are Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Pierre Nora (1931), Nicolas Anelka (1979), Pierre Charron (1541), and Henri Pitot (1695).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 12. Before him are Christophe Plantin (1520), Pierre Bergé (1930), François Pinault (1936), Armand Peugeot (1849), François-Henri Pinault (1962), and Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777). After him are Yves Rocher (1930), Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Eugène Schueller (1881), Serge Dassault (1925), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), and Guy de Rothschild (1909).

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