___ Bradham, inventor of Pepsi

CALEB

This first name belongs to a 19th-century pharmacist who created a famous cola alternative.

This clue is asking for the first name of Caleb Bradham, the pharmacist who created Pepsi in the 1890s. The blank signals you need a single name, and since "Bradham" is already given, the answer is his first name, "CALEB." It’s a straightforward fill-in-the-blank with no wordplay—just a historical fact about the drink’s inventor.