Asa Griggs Candler was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia.
So the original inventor of Coca-Cola was John Stith Pemberton
Answer:
John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in May of 1886. Coca-Cola was originally a medicine, which later became the beverage we know today as Coca-Cola.