John Harrison ( 1579–1656 ) was a prominent inhabitant people.place_lived Leeds , in Yorkshire , England , in the sixteenth and seventeenth century , variously as one of the early woollen cloth merchants , and as a benefactor of the town .

Fernão Lopes ( died 1545 ) was the first known permanent inhabitant people.place_lived the remote Island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean , an island that later became famous as the site of Napoleon 's exile and death .

However , its most famous inhabitant people.place_lived Thomas Jefferson , who built his estate home , Monticello , in the county .