Caleb Bradham
Entrepreneur
Pharmacist who stumbled across greatness by inventing Pepsi-Cola.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina before dropping out of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
His soft drink was named Brad's Drink before settling on Pepsi-Cola in 1898.
He had three children, Mary, Caleb Jr., and George, with wife Charity Credle.
He and John Pemberton invented two of the world's best-known soft drinks.