George Eastman
American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer (1854-1932) · United States · Founders · Died at 77
George Eastman is read about 483 times a day, in 60 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 14 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.
Photos 12
Eastman's boyhood home, relocated from Waterville to the Genesee Country Village and Museum
An advertisement from 1888 of the first Kodak camera
Portrait of Eastman by Paul Nadar, 1890
The Kodak factory and main office in Rochester, c. 1900-1910
Eastman with Will H. Hays at the gardens of Eastman's home in Rochester, 1922
Eastmaninstitutet (The Eastman Institute) in Stockholm, Sweden
Memorial at Kodak Park in Rochester. Eastman's ashes lie beneath the Georgia marble monumentAwards
In their orbit
About this person
George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time. Working as the treasurer and later president of Kodak, he oversaw the expansion of the company and the film industry.
Founders from the United States 6
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.