Famous Bankrupts
Put the debt behind you, and get on with life
Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States
P.T. Barnum – The Great American circus owner
Kim Basinger – Oscar-winning actress (1993)
Frank Baum – Wizard of Oz author
Miguel de Cervantes – Novelist; Don Quixote
Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”) – best-selling American author/humorist (1894)
Francis Ford Coppola – Oscar-winning film writer/director/producer (1999)
Daniel Defoe – Author; Robinson Crusoe
Walt Disney – Oscar-winning film producer, animation & theme park pioneer (1923)
Henry Dunant – Red Cross founder
William C. Durant – Founder of General Motors
Henry Ford – Automobile manufacturer
William Fox – Co-Founder of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (1936)
Charles Goodyear – 19th century American inventor, who discovered how to vulcanize rubber
Ulysses S. Grant – 18th US President; Civil War general, best-selling American Author, face is pictured on the US fifty dollar bill (1884, after leaving office)
Johannes Gutenberg – Inventor of movable type
H.J. Heinz – Founder of Heinz Ketchup
Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad author
Stan Lee – Comic book industry pioneer, co-creator “Spider Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The X-Men” etc (2001)
William McKinley – 25th US President 1897-1901
Immanuel Nobel – father of manufacturer/philanthropist Alfred Nobel , who founded the Nobel Prize (twice – 1833/year Alfred was born, 1856/ when Alfred was 23)
Oskar Schindler– activist who saved over 1000 Jews from the Nazis
Nikola Tesla – Invented alternating current
Donald Trump – billionaire entrepreneur
Oscar Wilde – acclaimed poet and author
James Wilson – U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1789-1798