WJohn Adams, pioneer American glass manufacturer, and the founder of Adams Glass was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1823. He began working in glass manufacture at the age of 14.
WRichard Mead Atwater, Sr. was a chemist and public official in New Jersey and Pennsylvania involved in early scientific glass-making.
WVlastimil Beránek is a Czech sculptor, known for his mastery in working with Bohemian glass. Beranek works in his atelier in Stržanov, near Žďár nad Sázavou.
WJosep Maria Bonet was a master glassmaker in the first half of the twentieth century ., Along with his brother, Xavier Bonet (1897-1985), he founded the studio that bears his name which is still active. The family has roots in the ancient town of Arsèguel in Alt Urgell. From a young age, he studied at the Barcelona Llotja school, where he excelled in drawing and befriended the artists who later collaborated with him in the field of stained glass, Montsardà, Labarta, Comal, and continued to learn the craft workshop at the workshop of the glassmaker Oriach, where his brother was already working.
WValentin Bousch was a Renaissance stained glass glazier and painter from Strasbourg, active in the Duchy of Lorraine and the Republic of Metz. A rarity among stained glass artists, Bousch is seen as one who actively sought to express new ideas in his art, often before they were widely used in the area, revising his method even from one window to the next, to create striking Renaissance effects and a personal style.
WRobert Lucas Chance, was the fifth child and eldest son of William Chance and Sarah Lucas. He was always known as Lucas Chance. He founded the company which became Chance Brothers.
WHenry Crimmel was an American glassmaker who became well known in Ohio and Indiana. A German that came with his family to America at the age of eight years, the American Civil War veteran started at the lowest level in glass making, and learned every aspect of the business. A skilled glassblower known for his glassmaking expertise and the recipient of two patents, he also worked in management in at least three glass factories – and was one of the co-founders of the Novelty Glass Company and the reorganized version of Sneath Glass Company. He retired with over 50 years in the industry.
WThe Friedrich are the most ancient German-Bohemian glass-maker family.
WHenry Clay Fry was an American entrepreneur in the glass industry in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
WJohn Gumley was an English furniture-maker, army contractor and MP.
WDeming Jarves (1790–1869) was a 19th-century American glass manufacturer in Massachusetts. He co-founded the New England Glass Company and founded the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, renowned for its pressed glass, and the Mount Washington Glass Company.
WJeštěd Tower is a 94-meter-tall television transmitter built on the top of Ještěd mountain near Liberec in the Czech Republic. It is made of reinforced concrete shaped in a hyperboloid form. The tower's architect is Karel Hubáček who was assisted by Zdeněk Patrman, involved in building statics, and by Otakar Binar who designed the interior furnishing. It took the team three years to finalize the structure design (1963-1966). The construction itself took seven years to finish (1966-1973).
WEdward Drummond Libbey is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company in 1888.
WHermann von Münster was a German master glassmaker, native of Münster, in Westphalia, and active in Lorraine.
WAntonio Neri was a Florentine priest who published L’Arte Vetraria or The Art of Glass in 1612. His father was a physician, and he was an herbalist, alchemist, and glassmaker. Neri traveled extensively in Italy and Holland.
WMichael Joseph Owens was an inventor of machines to automate the production of glass bottles.
WFlavio Poli (1900-1984) was an Italian artist, known for his designs in glass.
WMaximilian Josef Riedel is an Austrian glassmaker and businessman. Born in Vienna, he is the 11th-generation CEO and President of Riedel, a glassware manufacturer established in 1756 and best known for its production of grape variety-specific glassware. Riedel is best known for designing the world's first variety-specific stemless wine glasses in 2004, expanding the company to international markets, and developing double-decanting technology which achieves hours of decanting in a matter of minutes.
WFriedrich Otto Schott was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass. He was the son of a window glass maker, Simon Schott. From 1870 to 1873 Schott studied chemical technology at the technical college in Aachen and at the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig. He attained a doctorate in glass chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena for his thesis “Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Glass Fabrication”.
WJohn George Sowerby (1849–1914) was an English painter and illustrator from Gateshead, and director of Ellison Glass Works, the Sowerby family business, which during the 1880s was the largest producer of pressed glass in the world. The grandson of naturalist James Sowerby, his paintings were exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts, and his children's book illustrations were generally well received.
WWilliam Stephens, known in Portugal as Guilherme Stephens, was an English entrepreneur and glass manufacturer who made a fortune in Portugal manufacturing lime after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and then operating the Portuguese Royal Glassworks. He was a brilliant organiser, intelligent and charismatic, and he charmed dictators, queens and princes to become one of the richest industrialists in Europe.
WHenry William Stiegel was a German-American glassmaker and ironmaster.
WDaniel Swarovski was a Czech-born Austrian glass cutter, jeweler, and founder of the Swarovski crystal dynasty.
WVictor Amalric Walter was a French glass maker mainly known for his pâtes de verre pieces.
WJohn Mickle Whitall was a prominent US sea captain, businessman and philanthropist in New Jersey and Pennsylvania involved in the spice and silk trade, glass-making, and missionary work.