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Mining and metallurgy

Multiple industries

Patrons and philanthropists

Real estate and landowners

A. S. W. Rosenbach

American book collector (1876-1952)

Aaron Montgomery Ward

American businessman (1843–1913)

Adnan Khashoggi

Saudi Arabian businessman (1935-2017)

German cobbler, inventor and entrepreneur

Japanese businessman

Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud

Saudi Arabian businessman, investor and royal

English-born Australian businessman

American businessman

Relative and companion of William I of England (the conquerer)

British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor

Italian printer and humanist

Alexander Turney Stewart

American businessman (1803–1876)

Alfred P. Sloan

American businessman (1875–1966)

Dutch-American businessman

Nigerian entrepreneur

Publisher, founder of Penguin Books (1902-1970)

Alvah Curtis Roebuck

American businessman

Amadeo Giannini

American businessman and banker

Spanish business tycoon

Andrew Carnegie

American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

Australian mining businessman

American businessman, engineer and author

American diplomat, banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector

British business woman, founder of The Body Shop (1942-2007)

American entrepreneur

Antonia Ferreira

Portuguese businesswoman and winemaker

American businessman, Hollywood mogul CEO of Endeavor, and owner of UFC

Aristotle Onassis

20th-century Greek shipping tycoon

American business manager and owner

Arthur Guinness

Irish brewer (1725–1803)

Asa Griggs Candler

American business magnate

Extremely wealthy American family

Greek-born arms dealer and industrialist (1849-1936)

Beate Uhse-Rotermund

German pilot and sex shop entrepreneur (1919-2001)

American publisher and author

Bernard Arnault

French businessman

American businessman (1860–1938)

American fraudster

German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)

American businessman and former CEO of The Walt Disney Company

Boris Berezovsky (businessman)

Russian businessman

American businesswoman

American businessman (1854–1914)

Calouste Gulbenkian

British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist

American businessman

Mexican businessman (born 1940)

American businesswoman and politician

Caroline Rose Hunt

American hotelier and philanthropist

Swiss hotelier (1850–1918)

American businessman, co-founder of YouTube

Chaleo Yoovidhya

Thai businessman

Indian businesswoman

Charles Crocker

American railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad (1822–1888)

American businessman and philanthropist

American-Canadian businessman

British motoring and aviation pioneer (1877–1910)

Charles Simonyi

Hungarian-American billionaire software architect (b. 1948)

American businessman

South Korean business magnate

Clarence Birdseye

American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist

Australian businessman and politician

English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)

Collis Potter Huntington

American businessman (1821-1900)

Colonel Sanders

American entrepreneur and businessman

Condé Nast (businessman)

American publisher (1873–1942)

American hotelier

Cornelius Vanderbilt

American businessman and tycoon

British insurance businessman

Daniel K. Ludwig

American businessman

American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist

American pioneer of broadcasting media

Muslim traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur

Dhanin Chearavanont

Thai industrialist

Dhirubhai Ambani

Indian business tycoon

Dick Smith (businessman)

Australian aviator, adventurer, entrepreneur, and political activist

Donald Wills Douglas Sr.

American aircraft industrialist

Wealthy American family

American businessman

American academic

Édouard Michelin (industrialist)

French industrialist

16th/17th-century English stationer and publisher

Japanese industrialist

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

French-American chemist

Elias Hasket Derby

American businessman

Elizabeth Arden

Canadian-American businesswoman

Elizabeth Holmes

American businesswoman (born 1984)

Businessman (born 1971)

Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur

American businessman and founder of Blackwater (born 1969)

French businessman (1878-1955)

Ernest Oppenheimer

South African businessman (1880-1957)

Estée Lauder (businesswoman)

American businesswoman

Eugène Schueller

French pharmacist and entrepreneur, founder of L'Oréal (1881–1957)

American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.

Ferdinand Piëch

Austrian industrialist (1937–2019), head of Volkswagen

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)

Folorunso Alakija

Nigerian billionaire businesswoman

Forrest Mars Sr.

American businessman

Francisco Lopes Suasso

Dutch-Sephardi Jewish banker

French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts

Australian businessman, founder and chairman of Westfield

American businessman (1920-2005)

Frank Winfield Woolworth

19/20th-century American entrepreneur and variety store mogul

American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)

Freddy Heineken

Dutch businessman

Friedrich Engelhorn

German businessman

Friedrich Weyerhäuser

German-American industrialist (1834-1914)

Dutch entrepreneur

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Swiss businessman (1868-1920)

Indian businessman

Roman political advisor (d. 8 BC)

American businessman

American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist (1795-1869)

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

George Westinghouse

19th century American engineer and businessman

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

American sculptor, art patron and collector

Italian businessman (1921–2003)

Australian Billionaire Businesswoman

Giovanni Agnelli

Italian businessman

American businessman (1929–2023)

Gracia Mendes Nasi

Sephardi businesswoman (1510 – 1569)

American businessman and inventor

American businessman

American businessman

Harry Triguboff

Australian businessman

Harvey S. Firestone

American businessman (1868–1938)

Helena Rubinstein

Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist

German-Swiss businessman (1814-1890)

Henry Clay Frick

American industrialist (1849–1919)

American entrepreneur (1830-1913)

American business magnate (1863–1947)

Henry Huttleston Rogers

American businessman

American businessman (1844–1919)

Henry J. Kaiser

American industrialist

American businessman (1805-1878)

American businesswoman

Hieronymus Cock

Engraver and printmaker from the Southern Netherlands (1518-1570)

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Japanese businessman (1927–2013)

American aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)

American businessman (born 1953)

Chinese businessman (1769-1843)

Indian business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo

Swedish founder of IKEA (1926–2018)

Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá

Brazilian politician

Isabella Stewart Gardner

American art collector, philanthropist, patron of the arts

Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist

English businessman

American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)

20th-century American industrialist and collector

American distiller and founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.

Internet computer software executive and CEO of Twitter and Square

Chinese businessman

American executive

American businessman and banker

German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker

James Buchanan Duke

Founder of the American Tobacco Company (1856–1925)

James Fisk (financier)

American businessman (1835–1872)

American politician

James Gamble (industrialist)

Irish-American industrialist

James Goldsmith

Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon

American computer scientist and entrepreneur

American railroad promoter and financier (1838–1916)

Canadian-American businessman

British politician and merchant (1796-1878)

American businessman

Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase

Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group

German-American software engineer and co-founder of YouTube

American financier

American railroad magnate and financier

American businessman (born 1964)

Computer programmer and co-founder of Yahoo!

Jesse Livermore

American stock trader

Wikipedia co-founder

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Dutch statesman (1547-1619)

British businessman (1801–1889)

John D. Rockefeller

American business magnate and philanthropist

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

American financier and philanthropist

John Insley Blair

American businessman (1802–1889)

John Jacob Astor

German-American businessman

John Macarthur (wool pioneer)

British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer in Australia (1767-1834)

John Walker (grocer)

Scottish grocer

John Warne Gates

American industrialist (1855–1911)

Entrepreneur and philanthropist

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Swiss-Brazilian banker and businessman

Joseph Seligman

American banker (1819-1880)

Josiah Wedgwood

English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)

American commercial aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways

German entrepreneur (1920-2014)

German engineer

Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet

Canadian businessman

Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon

Singaporean hotelier (1917–2004)

Kiichiro Toyoda

Japanese businessman

King C. Gillette

American entrepreneur

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist

Kōnosuke Matsushita

Japanese industrialist

American media personality (born 1997)

British-indian steel magnate

Australian businessman

American businessman and entrepreneur (born 1944)

American business magnate and Internet entrepreneur

American Internet project developer and Wikipedia co-founder

Founder of the Samsung Group

American businessman

Former Chairman of the Samsung Group

Leland Stanford

American politician and railroad tycoon

American businessman, co-founder of Cisco Systems

American financier and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

Léopold Louis-Dreyfus

French businessman

German-American businessman

Hong Kong entrepreneur (born 1928)

Liliane Bettencourt

French heiress, socialite and businesswoman (1922–2017)

Lincoln Kirstein

American writer

American businessman

Louis Chevrolet

Swiss race car driver

American toy maker and businessman

Chinese internet entrepreneur (born 1971)

Madam C. J. Walker

19th and 20th-century African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist

Pakistani business tycoon (born 1954)

American commodities trader (1934–2013)

Marcel Dassault

French aircraft industrialist (1892–1986)

German - American banker

Marcus Licinius Crassus

Roman statesman

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted

British entrepreneur and politician (1853-1927)

Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage

American philanthropist

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

Mark Hopkins Jr.

American railway entrepreneur

American entrepreneur, founder and president of Herbalife International, Inc.

Mark Shuttleworth

South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station

Mark Zuckerberg

American businessman (born 1984)

American businessman

American businesswoman

Australian businesswoman

20th-century Japanese businessman; co-founder of Sony

Chairman, President and CEO of Softbank

Massimo Moratti

Italian oil tycoon

Matthew Boulton

English industrialist, business partner of James Watt

Polish beautician and founder of Max Factor

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Melinda French Gates

American philanthropist (born 1964)

Meyer Guggenheim

American businessperson

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician from New York

Chairman & CEO of Dell Technologies Inc.

American business executive (born 1942)

American financier

Michele Ferrero

Italian entrepreneur (1925-2015)

Mikhail Fridman

Russian–Israeli billionaire businessman and oligarch (born 1964)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

Mikhail Prokhorov

Russian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)

American publisher and game designer

Milton S. Hershey

American chocolatier

Mir Osman Ali Khan

Last and 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, 1911–1948

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Egyptian businessman (1929–2023)

American banker

Indian billionaire businessman (born 1957)

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Indian businessman

Businessman (1928-2010)

Norberto Odebrecht

Brazilian engineer, businessman and philanthropist

American industrialist and philanthropist

American businessman (1769–1852)

German-American entrepreneur

American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat

American businessman (1953–2018)

American banker (1868-1932)

Pavel Tretyakov

Russian businessman (1832-1898)

Peter Manigault

Attorney and legislator in colonial America

Peter Stringfellow

British nightclub owner

American billionaire business magnate (born 1938)

Philip Danforth Armour

American meatpacking industrialist/founder: Chicago based Armour & Company

EBay founder, US entrepreneur and philanthropist

Indian Industrialist

American business magnate (1902–1984)

Uyghur politician (born 1946)

American entrepreneur and education philanthropist

Chinese entrepreneur and engineer (born 1944)

Richard and Maurice McDonald

American fast food company founders

Richard B. Mellon

American banker (1858–1933)

Richard Branson

English business magnate (born 1950)

Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel

Earl of Arundel

Richard Warren Sears

American businessman

German industrialist, engineer and inventor

American medical doctor, nephrologist, research scientist, inventor of Gatorade

Robert Holmes à Court

Australian businessman (1937–1990)

Rockefeller family

American industrial, political and banking family

American television executive and political consultant

Roman Abramovich

Businessman and politician (born 1966)

Rothschild family

Family descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Rowland Hussey Macy

American businessman (1822–1877)

American businessman

American businessman, founder of Victoria's Secret

German businessman (1898–1974)

Australian-American business magnate (born 1931)

American financier and congressman for New York

American businesswoman and inventor

American businessman, founder of Kmart

American businessman

19th-century American industrialist and inventor

English-American business magnate (1859–1938)

American businessman (1851-1935)

British businessman and politician

English-American industrialist

Sanford I. Weill

American banker and philanthropist (born 1933)

Political family

Japanese video game executive (1959–2015)

American entrepreneur and philanthropist

Co-founder of Google

Sheldon Adelson

American businessman (1933–2021)

Sheryl Sandberg

American social media executive, activist, and author

Shibusawa Eiichi

Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)

Shoichiro Toyoda

Japanese businessman

Japanese engineer and industrialist

Solomon R. Guggenheim

American businessman and museum founder

Chinese entrepreneur

French-born American banker and philanthropist (1750–1831)

Stephen Van Rensselaer

New York landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician (1764-1839)

Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur (born 1978)

Steve Cohen (businessman)

American hedge fund manager and sports team owner

American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)

British businesswoman and philanthropist

American real estate businessman and art collector

Stroganov family

Family of successful Russian merchants and statesmen from the 15th century onward

American business executive (1968–2024)

T. Boone Pickens

American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management

Japanese Billionaire Retailer

Taikichiro Mori

Japanese businessman

American media mogul (born 1938)

Founder of Foxconn

German businessman

Thomas Blake Glover

Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan

Thomas J. Watson

American businessman

Scottish businessman (1848–1931)

American politician (1731-1821)

American business executive, CEO of Apple Inc.

Swahili slave trader

American internet entrepreneur

Vagit Alekperov

Russian Billionaire Businessman

Vanderbilt family

Prominent American family

Verghese Kurien

Indian entrepreneur

Convicted illegal arms dealer

Rich merchant of Mughal Empire

Indian entrepreneur

Vladimir Gusinsky

Russian media tycoon (born 1952)

Walter Chrysler

American automotive industry executive

Chinese businessman

American businessman and philanthropist (1887–1977)

American investor, entrepreneur, and businessperson

Augsburg mercantile family

Whitney Wolfe Herd

American entrepreneur (born 1989)

Wilhelm von Finck

German entrepreneur and banker

Will Keith Kellogg

American businessman

William Bingham

American Continental congressman and senator for Pennsylvania

William C. Durant

American businessman and co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet

15th-century English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer

William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey

Norman noble who fought in the Battle of Hastings

William E. Boeing

American aviation pioneer

American businessman and former mayor (1818-1881)

William Henry Vanderbilt

American businessman and philanthropist

William Knox D'Arcy

British businessman

William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme

English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician (1851-1925)

American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia

William Procter (industrialist)

Co-founder of Procter & Gamble

William S. Knudsen

Danish-American automotive industry executive and American general during World War II

William S. Paley

American television executive

William Weightman

American chemist

William Zeckendorf

American real estate developer

Chinese entrepreneur (born 1970)