Flashcards: American salespeople

Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman and investor.

Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967) was an American best known as the claimed inventor of the Monopoly board game (Elizabeth Magie being the original inventor of the game his was a knock off of).

William Darrell "Billy" Mays, Jr.

Offer Shlomi (Hebrew: עוֹפﬧ שלוֹמי; born April 25, 1964), better known as Vince Offer, Vince Shlomi, or "the ShamWow Guy", is an Israeli American director, writer, comedian, and infomercial pitchman.

John "Jack" F. Gifford (January 11, 1941 – January 11, 2009) was an American engineer and businessman best known as a founder and former CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Maxim Integrated Products, an analog semi-conductor company, located in Sunnyvale, California.

Tom Peterson (February 23, 1930 – July 25, 2016) was an American retailer, pitchman, and television personality from Portland, Oregon.

Donald D. "Don" Lapre (May 19, 1964 – October 2, 2011) was an American multi-level marketing and infomercial salesman.

Mathew Knowles (born January 9, 1952) is a talent manager and businessman.

Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician, businessman, and television personality who has served as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California since 2011.

Adam Ginsberg is an internet marketer.

John Henry Carpenter (June 24, 1928 – September 4, 1998) was most widely known as the friend and accused murderer of actor Bob Crane in 1978.

Joseph Joshua Hirsch (August 27, 1888 – June 11, 1960) was an American furniture salesman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Senate.

Charles Hollis "Chuck" Taylor (June 24, 1901 – June 23, 1969) was an American basketball player and shoe salesman/evangelist.

Bill Porter (September 9, 1932 – December 3, 2013) was an American salesman for Watkins Incorporated of Winona, Minnesota.

Judi Ann "Judith" Stish Ross Nathan Giuliani (born December 16, 1954) is a registered nurse, fundraiser for charitable organizations, former Managing Director of Changing Our World, founding board member of the Twin Towers Fund, and the wife of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Julian Price (November 25, 1867–October 25, 1946) was an insurance executive who made his fortune in the first part of the twentieth century by developing the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, at the time the largest corporation in North Carolina.

Ian Garrad was the United States West Coast sales manager for Rootes Group, parent company of Sunbeam.

Melinda Kae Ledbetter (born October 3, 1946), also known as Melinda Wilson, is an American talent manager who is the wife of singer-songwriter Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.

Roy Joseph Turner (November 6, 1894 – June 11, 1973) was an American businessman and governor of the U.

Amanda Bouldin (born December 27, 1984) is an American politician from Manchester, New Hampshire who has served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives since January 2015.

Roger Clinton Sr.

Harold Charles "Hal" Turner (born March 15, 1962) is an American white nationalist, Holocaust denier, and blogger from North Bergen, New Jersey.

George B. Dovey (April 18, 1862 – June 19, 1909) was the principal owner of the Boston Doves of the National League from 1907 through 1909.

Anthony Joseph "Chef" Tony Notaro (born November 5, 1954) is an advertising pitchman for cooking and kitchen products, seen primarily on infomercials and home shopping channels.

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

Samuel Joseph Byck (January 30, 1930 – February 22, 1974) was a hijacker and attempted assassin.

Samuel Taylor “Beau” Rials (born September 29, 1962) is a host, producer, writer in the direct response television industry, a television reality show producer and fitness expert.

Ben Feldman (1912 – November 7, 1993) was an American businessman and one of the most prolific salespeople in world history.

Noah Kagan is an American Internet entrepreneur and the founder of AppSumo.

Richard Edward "Rick" Forzano (born November 20, 1928) is a former American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels, most prominently as head coach of the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1974 to 1976.

Evan Mecham (/ˈmiːkəm/ MEE-kəm; May 12, 1924 – February 21, 2008) was the 17th Governor of Arizona.

Gavin Arthur (born Chester Alan Arthur III; March 21, 1901 – April 28, 1972) was a San Francisco astrologer and sexologist and a grandson of American President Chester A.

Michael Stephen "Mike" Levey (May 28, 1948 – August 2, 2003) was an American infomercial host.

Christopher S. Raesser (born February 20, 1843) was a commission merchant and a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee.

Anthony Dean "Tony" Rodham (born 1954) is an American consultant and businessman who is the youngest brother of former First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the brother-in-law of former U.

Sara Blakely (born February 27, 1971) is an American businessperson and founder of Spanx, an American intimate apparel company with pants and leggings, founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1844 – December 7, 1913) was an American entrepreneur based in Chicago who made his fortune through the use of mail order for retail sales of general merchandise to rural customers.

Calvin Coolidge "Cal" Worthington (November 27, 1920 – September 8, 2013) was an American car dealer, best known on the West Coast of the United States, and to a more limited extent elsewhere, from minor appearances and parodies in a number of movies.

Charles Davis Tillman (1861 March 20, Tallassee, Alabama – 1943 September 2, Atlanta, Georgia)—also known as Charlie D.

Dial Media, Inc. founded by the pair in Warwick, RI in 1975, irreversibly changed the way products were sold on television.

Howie Gordon (born January 7, 1971) is a reality TV personality and former contestant from the American version of the CBS reality show Big Brother.

Ronald M. "Ron" Popeil (/poʊˈpiːl/; born May 3, 1935) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco.

Jennifer Nicole Lee (born Jennifer Nicole Siciliano on June 13, 1975) is an American fitness model, motivational speaker, and author.