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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont has received more than 722,404 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont is the 236th most popular businessperson, the 2,295th most popular biography from France and the 16th most popular French Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 236 out of 847. Before him are John Sculley, Ivar Kreuger, Srettha Thavisin, Max Factor, David Icke, and John C. Bogle. After him are Josep Maria Bartomeu, Mineko Iwasaki, Mike Markkula, Bill Hewlett, Meyer Guggenheim, and Henry Flagler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 20. Before him are Mungo Park, Jean-Andoche Junot, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Mikhail Miloradovich, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg. After him are Rahel Varnhagen, Ferdinando Paer, Nicolas Chopin, Jean Rapp, Fra Diavolo, and Georges Cadoudal. Among people deceased in 1834, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 17. Before him are François-Adrien Boieldieu, Husein Gradaščević, Jacques Balmat, Karl Ludwig Harding, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach. After him are Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, and Robert Morrison.

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In France

Among people born in France, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 2,295 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Claude (1870), Edgar Faure (1908), Pierre Henry (1927), Claire Denis (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), and Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579). After him are Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Alain Robert (1962), Jean Metzinger (1883), Jacques de Morgan (1857), and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ranks 16. Before him are Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Pierre Bergé (1930), Louis Réard (1897), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), François-Henri Pinault (1962), and Guy de Rothschild (1909). After him are Yves Rocher (1930), Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777), Charles Pathé (1863), Albert Kahn (1860), François Coty (1874), and Serge Dassault (1925).

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