- Born
- February 26, 1829
- Died
- September 26, 1902 (aged 73)
- Known as
- entrepreneur, designer, inventor
Levi Strauss was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
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