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A. Bruce Bielaski

Director of the FBI (1883 - 1964)

A. S. W. Rosenbach

American book collector (1876-1952)

Aaron Montgomery Ward

American businessman (1843–1913)

American life extension activist (1989–2018)

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

American socialite and philanthropist (1874–1948)

Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019

Ada and Minna Everleigh

American brothelkeepers in Chicago from 1900 to 1911

Adam Johann von Krusenstern

Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe

Adnan Khashoggi

Saudi Arabian businessman (1935-2017)

German cobbler, inventor and entrepreneur

German Nazi official and war criminal (1906–1962)

American hacker and threat analyst

Brazilian model and actress

Italian painter (c.1580-1644)

Ahmad ibn Fadlan

10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer

American serial killer

Japanese businessman

American gangster and businessman

Pimp, early entertainment entrepreneur in Deadwood, South Dakota

Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud

Saudi Arabian businessman, investor and royal

French chef (1937–1990)

American astronaut

English-born Australian businessman

British astrologer

American businessman

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

First American To Travel Into Outer Space

British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor

Albert Anastasia

Italian-American mob boss

American serial killer and cannibal

Albert Hastings Markham

British explorer and Royal Navy officer

Albert Pierrepoint

English executioner

CIA analyst and Soviet spy (born 1941)

Italian printer and humanist

Portuguese conquistador

Alessandro Cagliostro

Italian occultist

American radio host and conspiracy theorist

Alexander Gordon Laing

Early 19th-century Scottish explorer; first European to reach Timbuktu

Alexander Litvinenko

British-naturalised Russian defector

Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)

Scottish explorer

Alexander Turney Stewart

American businessman (1803–1876)

Alexander von Humboldt

German geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto

Explorer and soldier

Soviet cosmonaut, first person to perform spacewalk

Alexei Stakhanov

Hero of Socialist Labour

Alfred P. Sloan

American businessman (1875–1966)

Dutch-American businessman

American astronaut

Honduran charlatan

Alija Sirotanović

Yugoslav coal miner (1914–1990)

Nigerian entrepreneur

Allan Pinkerton

Scottish-American detective and spy (1819–1884)

Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1953-61

Publisher, founder of Penguin Books (1902-1970)

Alonso de Ojeda

Spanish conquistador, navigator and governor

Alphonse Bertillon

French police officer and biometrics researcher (1853-1914)

American suffragist

Alvah Curtis Roebuck

American businessman

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Spanish explorer of the New World

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Spanish explorer

Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón

Spanish Conquistador

Pakistani diplomat and socialite

Amadeo Giannini

American businessman and banker

Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Mexican drug lord (1956–1997)

Spanish business tycoon

British serial killer

American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1937)

Amerigo Vespucci

15th and 16th-century Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer

Nazi German military officer and war criminal

Pioneering English aviator

Anders Behring Breivik

Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist

André Borschberg

Swiss businessman and pilot

André Tchelistcheff

American winemaker

German left-wing terrorist

Andrei Chikatilo

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

Andrés de Urdaneta

Spanish Basque explorer

Andrew Carnegie

American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

American serial killer

Australian mining businessman

American businessman, engineer and author

American mass murderer

American rapist

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

Andrew Wakefield

Discredited British former doctor (born 1956)

Andriyan Nikolayev

Soviet cosmonaut

Angus MacAskill

Scottish strength athlete

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

Romanov impostor

American entrepreneur

Anne, Princess Royal

British princess (born 1950)

American pornographic actress and sex educator

Anthony Bourdain

American chef and travel documentarian (1956–2018)

Anthony van Diemen

Dutch colonial governor (1593–1645)

Antonia Ferreira

Portuguese businesswoman and winemaker

António de Abreu

Portuguese explorer

António de Noli

Genoese nobleman and navigator

Antonio Pigafetta

Venetian diplomat, historian, and explorer of the Pacific and Chile

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

British explorer (1886-1959)

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

Bosnian Roma metal worker

Aristotle Onassis

20th-century Greek shipping tycoon

Serbian paramilitary commander and career criminal

American business manager and owner

Finnish-American beauty queen and philanthropist (born 1934)

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Cuban cosmonaut (born 1942)

American medical researcher

Arnold Rothstein

American crime boss who operated primarily in NYC

Arthur Guinness

Irish brewer (1725–1803)

Arthur Whitten Brown

British Army officer

Asa Griggs Candler

American business magnate

American politician (1808-1882)

Extremely wealthy American family

20th-century American artist's model and film actress

Auguste Escoffier

French chef and culinary writer (1846–1935)

Unidentified internet pirate

American chiropractor

Indian astrologer

American editor and socialite

Baby Face Nelson

American bank robber

Drug smugglers convicted in Indonesia in 2005

Balthasar Gérard

Murderer of Dutch independence leader William the Silent in 1584

American medium

American philanthropist and socialite

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

English royal mistress from the Villiers family

Barney and Betty Hill incident

United States couple who said they were abducted by aliens in 1961

Bartholomew Gosnold

English barrister, explorer, and privateer

Bartolomeo Scappi

Bartolomeu Dias

Late 15th-century Portuguese maritime explorer

Baruch Goldstein

20th-century Israeli mass murderer

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

American army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist

Beate Uhse-Rotermund

German pilot and sex shop entrepreneur (1919-2001)

Roman noblewoman

English man of fashion

American fashion model (born 1996)

Norwegian-American serial killer

Australian engineer and adventurer

Benjamin Bonneville

Union Army general (1796–1878)

Benjamin of Tudela

Jewish explorer and writer

Eora interlocutor with the British in Australia and the United Kingdom

American publisher and author

Bernard Arnault

French businessman

Bernard Heuvelmans

French cryptozoologist

American businessman (1860–1938)

Bernardine Dohrn

American radical activist, law professor

Bernarr Macfadden

American physical culturist and magazine publisher

American fraudster

German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz

British criminal and supergrass

Bertrand Piccard

Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist

American pin-up model

American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer

Beverly Johnson

American model, actress (born 1952)

Lebanese Australian serial gang rapist (born 1981)

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)

American fitness guru

American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)

Billy Wright (loyalist)

Ulster Loyalist Force Brigadier (1960-1997)

Bjarni Herjólfsson

Norse explorer, first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas

American murder victim

American businessman and former CEO of The Walt Disney Company

American professional makeup artist and businessperson

Bonnie and Clyde

American bank robbers

Boris Berezovsky (businessman)

Russian businessman

American murder victim (1972–1993)

Australian bank robber

Brigitte Bardot

French actress and singer (born 1934)

American philanthropist, socialite, and writer

American businesswoman

American criminal (1893–1957)

American mobster

Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner during the Civil Rights Movement

African-American mobster (1905–1968)

Aboriginal Australian

American gangster

American astronaut; second person to walk on the Moon Last Surviving Crew Member of Apollo 11

British writer and railway modeller

American businessman (1854–1914)

Calogero Vizzini

Sicilian Mafia boss

Calouste Gulbenkian

British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist

American businessman

American mobster (1902–1976)

Carlos de Beistegui

Spanish-French art collector, interior decorator and socialite

Mexican businessman (born 1940)

American businesswoman and politician

Carme Ruscalleda

Caroline Rose Hunt

American hotelier and philanthropist

Catherine, Princess of Wales

Member of the British royal family (born 1982)

Swiss hotelier (1850–1918)

Italian prefect and politician (1871-1942)

American businessman, co-founder of YouTube

Chaleo Yoovidhya

Thai businessman

Indian businesswoman

Chandra Bahadur Dangi

Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history (1939–2015)

American bodybuilder

Charles Boycott

English land agent who operated in Lough Mask

Charles Crocker

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

Charles Debrille Poston

Early Arizona politician (1825–1902)

American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former astronaut for NASA

Charles Heidsieck

French businessman and Champagne merchant

Charles J. Guiteau

American assassin (1841–1882)

Charles Kingsford Smith

Australian aviator

Charles Lindbergh

American aviator (1902–1974)

American criminal and cult leader

English burglar and murderer

Italian businessman and con artist (1882–1949)

American businessman and philanthropist

Charles Ranhofer

American chef (1836-1899)

American-Canadian businessman

British motoring and aviation pioneer (1877–1910)

Charles Simonyi

Hungarian-American billionaire software architect (b. 1948)

Charles Starkweather

American spree killer

Charles Whitman

American mass murderer (1941–1966)

American businessman

Charlie Siringo

American detective (1855–1928)

Former fashion model, editor and television producer

Retired Canadian astronaut

Christa McAuliffe

American teacher and astronaut killed in the Challenger disaster

Christie Brinkley

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942–2017)

Christopher A. Wray

8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Christopher Coke

Jamaican drug lord

Christopher Columbus

Late 15th-century Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer

Christopher Paul Neil

Canadian convicted serial child molester (born 1975)

Christy Turlington

South Korean business magnate

American model and actress

Mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

Northern Irish chef

Clarence Birdseye

American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist

Clarence M. Kelley

2nd Director of the FBI (1973–1978)

French wine merchant

Claudia Schiffer

Australian businessman and politician

English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)

Associate director of the FBI

Samian explorer

Collis Potter Huntington

American businessman (1821-1900)

Collyer brothers

American compulsive hoarders

Colonel Sanders

American entrepreneur and businessman

Condé Nast (businessman)

American publisher (1873–1942)

American hotelier

Constantine Hering

Homeopathic physician and naturalist

Cornelius Vanderbilt

American businessman and tycoon

British insurance businessman

Unidentified airplane hijacker in 1971

American mixologist

London brothel keeper, entrepreneur and property developer

French-American astrologer

American frontiersman and explorer of Kentucky

Daniel David Palmer

Canadian-born American spiritualist and activist (1845–1913)

Daniel Dunglas Home

Daniel K. Ludwig

American businessman

English gaol keeper, animal breeder

Chief of Los Angeles Police Department

David Berkowitz

American serial killer (born 1953)

British model born 1980

English conspiracy theorist

British author and Holocaust denier

David Livingstone

British colonialist and missionary to Africa (1813–1873)

American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist

American pioneer of broadcasting media

American astronaut

David Thompson (explorer)

Canadian fur trader and surveyor (1770–1857)

American sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (1971–1984)

Indian criminal and terrorist (born 1955)

American serial killer (1939–1973)

Muslim traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur

American astronaut

American engineer and entrepreneur

Devaneya Pavanar

Indian writer, etymologist

Dhanin Chearavanont

Thai industrialist

Dhirubhai Ambani

Indian business tycoon

Dick Smith (businessman)

Australian aviator, adventurer, entrepreneur, and political activist

Dick Smith (make-up artist)

American make-up artist (1922-2014)

Spanish explorer and son of Christopher Columbus

Diego de Almagro

Spanish conquistador (1475-1538)

Diocletian Lewis

Prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate

Portuguese explorer

Diogo de Azambuja

Portuguese explorer

Diogo Fernandes Pereira

Portuguese explorer

Egyptian film producer and partner of Princess Diana of Wales

Dom Pérignon (monk)

French Benedictine monk and inventor of champagne

Donald Eugene Chambers

American Marine and outlaw biker (1930–1999)

Donald Wills Douglas Sr.

American aircraft industrialist

American model (1917-2008)

American billionaire (1912–1993)

Dorothy Stratten

Canadian actress and model

Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882–1958)

American actress and model (1927-1990)

Wealthy American family

American bounty hunter

American mobster (1901–1935)

American mass murderer

American businessman

American academic

American serial killer (1897–1928)

Ed and Lorraine Warren

American paranormal investigators

American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984)

Ed White (astronaut)

American astronaut

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2016)

American socialite, actress and model (1943-1971)

Édouard Michelin (industrialist)

French industrialist

16th/17th-century English stationer and publisher

British police commissioner

Edward Howland Robinson Green

American businessman and politician (1868-1936)

Japanese industrialist

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

French-American chemist

Elias Hasket Derby

American businessman

American Prohibition agent

Elizabeth Arden

Canadian-American businesswoman

Elizabeth Báthory

Hungarian countess

Elizabeth Cresswell

English prostitute and brothel keeper

Elizabeth Holmes

American businesswoman (born 1984)

Elizabeth Needham

English procuress and brothel-keeper

Elle Macpherson

Australian model, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist

Ellen MacArthur

Long-distance yachtswoman

Elmer Lincoln Irey

American chief of the International Revenue Service (IRS)

Hungarian painter and art forger

Businessman (born 1971)

American gossip columnist, author, songwriter, and hostess

French winemaker

14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955

Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States (1818–1880)

Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

American mass murderers (1981–1999)

Erich von Däniken

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

German politician and SS general

American businessman and founder of Blackwater (born 1969)

Russian-French perfumer

French businessman (1878-1955)

Ernest Oppenheimer

South African businessman (1880-1957)

Ernest Shackleton

Anglo-Irish polar explorer (1874–1922)

Estée Lauder (businesswoman)

American businesswoman

African explorer

Eugene Klein (philatelist)

American philatelist (1878–1944) and president of the American Philatelic Society

Eugène Schueller

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

Eugène-François Vidocq

French criminal and criminalist

Eugénie Brazier

Wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)

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

Ottoman writer and explorer

Russian-American-Jewish mobster (1932-1985)

Pioneer of Washington Territory who later publicized the memory of the Oregon Trail

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

19th-century Russian Navy officer, cartographer, and explorer

Italian model, actor, and author

American body piercer, photographer and BDSM figure

American prostitute

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer (1480–1521)

Ferdinand Piëch

Austrian industrialist (1937–2019), head of Volkswagen

Ferdinand von Wrangel

Baltic German explorer and Russian admiral (1797-1870)

Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy

French army officer (1847-1923)

Fernão Mendes Pinto

Portuguese explorer and writer

Spanish chef (born 1962)

Ferruccio Lamborghini

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

American blues vocalist, guitarist and pimp

Florence Owens Thompson

Native-American farm worker, subject of Dorothea Lange's famous photo Migrant Mother

Folorunso Alakija

Nigerian billionaire businesswoman

Forrest J Ackerman

American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia

Forrest Mars Sr.

American businessman

Francisco de Orellana

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Francisco Lopes Suasso

Dutch-Sephardi Jewish banker

Francisco Serrão

Portuguese explorer

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Spanish explorer of the American southwest

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

François Ravaillac

French Catholic zealot who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610

François Vatel

French chef (1631-1671)

American security consultant and former fraudster (born 1948)

Italian-American mobster

American law enforcement officer

Australian businessman, founder and chairman of Westfield

American drug lord (1930–2019)

American businessman (1920-2005)

Frank Winfield Woolworth

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

Franklin Chang-Díaz

NASA astronaut and entrepreneur

Austrian war criminal (1908–1971)

American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)

American astronaut

American aviator and navigator (1893–1937)

American animation historian

Freddy Heineken

Dutch businessman

American baseball spectator

American explorer

Fredericka Mandelbaum

American fence and gang boss of German origin

Freeway Ricky Ross

American former drug trafficker

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861–1930)

Friedrich Engelhorn

German businessman

Friedrich Weyerhäuser

German-American industrialist (1834-1914)

Dutch entrepreneur

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Swiss businessman (1868-1920)

Indian businessman

Canadian flight attendant, long misidentified as the index case of the North American AIDS Crisis

Italian anarchist and assassin (1869–1901)

Roman political advisor (d. 8 BC)

Gameel Al-Batouti

Egyptian aviator

García López de Cárdenas

Spanish explorer

British suspected hacker

Gary Richards (music executive)

American music executive

American serial killer (born 1949)

Gaspar Corte-Real

Portuguese explorer

Gavrilo Princip

Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1894–1918)

Niece of Adolf Hitler (1908–1931)

Last Apollo astronaut to walk on the Moon

Genie (feral child)

American feral child (born 1957)

George Barrington

Irish-born pickpocket

American businessman

American police murder victim (1973–2020)

George Freeman (bookmaker)

Australian turf accountant/bookmaker (1935-1990)

American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist (1795-1869)

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

George Vancouver

18th-century English naval explorer

George Westinghouse

19th century American engineer and businessman

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

American sculptor, art patron and collector

Soviet cosmonaut

Italian businessman (1921–2003)

American intelligence officer

Australian Billionaire Businesswoman

Giovanni Agnelli

Italian businessman

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine

Roman Catholic archbishop and traveller

Giovanni da Verrazzano

15/16th-century Florentine explorer of North America for France

Giovanni de' Marignolli

Czech medieval chronicler

Gisele Bündchen

Brazilian fashion model and activist

Giuseppe Genco Russo

Italian mafioso and politician (1893–1976)

Giuseppe Morello

Italian-American crime boss

American pornographic actress, feminist (1940-2014)

Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor

Gonçalo Coelho

Portuguese explorer

Gonzalo Pizarro

Spanish conquistador

American astronaut (1927–2004)

American businessman (1929–2023)

British chef (born 1966)

Gracia Mendes Nasi

Sephardi businesswoman (1510 – 1569)

British adventurer, filmmaker and television presenter

Gregory Blaxland

18/19th-century English-Australian farmer and explorer

American astronaut and businessman

Griselda Blanco

Colombian drug lord (1943–2012)

Guillaume Tirel

Medieval French cook and food writer

First African-American astronaut in space

American astronaut (1926–1967)

American game warden and deputy sheriff

British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent

American television personality

American businessman and inventor

American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)

American businessman

Han van Meegeren

Dutch painter and art forger (1889–1947)

Hanno the Navigator

Carthaginian explorer

American businessman

English doctor and serial killer

Harrison Schmitt

United States astronaut, 12th man to set foot on the Moon

British explorer and travel writer

Harry J. Anslinger

1st Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1892-1975)

Harry Kendall Thaw

American playboy

Harry Triguboff

Australian businessman

Harvey S. Firestone

American businessman (1868–1938)

Hazza Al Mansouri

Emirati astronaut

American former madam

German-American model, television personality, and businesswoman

German explorer

Heinrich Himmler

High Nazi Germany official, head of the SS

Helena Rubinstein

Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist

Henenu (high steward)

Ancient Egyptian explorer

German-Swiss businessman (1814-1890)

Henrietta Lacks

African-American woman whose cancer cells produced the HeLa immortalised cell line

Henry Clay Frick

American industrialist (1849–1919)

American entrepreneur (1830-1913)

American business magnate (1863–1947)

English-born Australian seaman and explorer (1750-1831)

American mobster-turned-state's-witness

English explorer

Henry Huttleston Rogers

American businessman

American businessman (1844–1919)

Henry J. Kaiser

American industrialist

Henry Lee Lucas

American serial killer

Henry Morton Stanley

19th-century Welsh journalist and explorer

American businessman (1805-1878)

German-American bank robber

Hernando de Soto

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Hernando Pizarro

16th-century Spanish conquistador

Ancient Greek arsonist

Heston Blumenthal

American businesswoman

Hieronymus Cock

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

Carthaginian navigator and explorer

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Japanese businessman (1927–2013)

American aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)

Welsh author and drug smuggler

American businessman (born 1953)

American spree killer

Chinese businessman (1769-1843)

Hugh Despenser the Younger

English peer and favourite of Edward II (c.1287/1289–1326)

American fur trapper and frontiersman

Hugh Willoughby

English polar explorer

Humphrey Gilbert

English explorer, politician and soldier

American revenge porn hacker (born 1986)

Maghrebi traveller and scholar (1304–1368/1369)

German war criminal

Somali model, actress, and entrepreneur

Indian business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo

Ingólfr Arnarson

9th century Norse explorer

Swedish founder of IKEA (1926–2018)

Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá

Brazilian politician

German Holocaust perpetrator and war criminal (1923–1945)

British explorer (1831-1904)

Isabella Stewart Gardner

American art collector, philanthropist, patron of the arts

Isabelle Eberhardt

Swiss explorer and writer

Last of the Native American Yahi people

Australian serial killer who murdered seven hitch-hiking backpackers between 1989-1993, convicted in 1996

Ivan T. Sanderson

British biologist

Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist

English businessman

J. Edgar Hoover

20th-century American law enforcement officer and first director of the FBI

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

American exercise instructor

Chinese businessman

Jack Pierce (make-up artist)

American makeup artist (1889–1968)

Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911–1967)

American theoretical physicist

English thief and prison escapee

American astronaut and politician

Jack the Ripper

Unidentified serial killer

American executive

Jacob Roggeveen

17/18th-century Dutch explorer of the Pacific Ocean

American businessman and banker

Jacob van Heemskerck

Jacques Cartier

French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

Jacques Marquette

17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer in North America

Jacques Mesrine

French criminal

French-American chef

German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker

James A. Johnston

James Augustus Grant

Scottish explorer and collector (1827 – 1892)

James Braidwood

British firefighter

James Buchanan Duke

Founder of the American Tobacco Company (1856–1925)

American Makeup Artist and YouTuber

James Clark Ross

British explorer and naval officer

Former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

British explorer and naval officer (1728–1779)

American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.

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 astronaut

American railroad promoter and financier (1838–1916)

Canadian-American businessman

British politician and merchant (1796-1878)

American businessman

James Tyler Kent

American physician

James W. Marshall

American pioneer who discovered gold in California in 1848

James W. Moseley

American UFO commentator(1931–2012)

Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase

English chef and restaurateur (born 1975)

Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group

American serial killer

Janice Dickinson

American model and actress

German-American software engineer and co-founder of YouTube

American financier

American railroad magnate and financier

French navigator and colonizer

English model and actress

American astrologer and psychic

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse

French Navy officer and explorer

Oldest known person ever (1875–1997)

Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy

French adventuress

American businessman (born 1964)

American serial killer (1960–1994)

Jeffrey Epstein

American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)

American actress, model, television host, author, anti-vaccine activist and screenwriter

American astronaut

Jerry Thomas (bartender)

American bartender

Computer programmer and co-founder of Yahoo!

American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber

Jesse Livermore

American stock trader

American explorer

American astronaut

Jim Ward (body piercer)

American body piercer (born 1941)

Wikipedia co-founder

Jiro Ono (chef)

Jiroemon Kimura

Japanese supercentenarian, verified oldest living man in history

João Álvares Fagundes

Portuguese explorer and shipowner

João Fernandes Lavrador

Portuguese explorer

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison (born 1957)

American former law enforcement officer and politician

Italian-American Mafia boss (1886–1931)

French chef (1945-2018)

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Dutch statesman (1547-1619)

John Alcock (RAF officer)

British aviator (1892–1919)

John and Lorena Bobbitt

American couple

John Bellingham

English merchant who assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Percival in 1812

American politician

John C. Frémont

United States Army officer, explorer, and politician (1813–1890)

Italian navigator and explorer (c. 1450 – c. 1500)

British businessman (1801–1889)

John D. Rockefeller

American business magnate and philanthropist

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

American financier and philanthropist

John Davis (explorer)

English explorer and navigator (1550–1605)

American bank robber (1903–1934)

American computer programmer and former phone phreak

British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)

American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)

American mobster (1940–2002)

American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming

John Hanning Speke

British Indian Army officer and explorer

John Hemming (explorer)

Canadian explorer

John Hinckley Jr.

Man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan

John Insley Blair

American businessman (1802–1889)

John Jacob Astor

German-American businessman

John Lloyd Stephens

American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)

John Macarthur (wool pioneer)

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

John Marshall (disambiguation)

British captain (1748-1819)

British naval officer

American mobster

John Smith (explorer)

English soldier, explorer, writer (1580–1631)

Swiss pioneer of California

John Walker (grocer)

Scottish grocer

John Warne Gates

American industrialist (1855–1911)

John Wayne Gacy

American serial killer (1942–1994)

John Wilkes Booth

19th-century American stage actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln

American bank robber

John Young (astronaut)

American Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut (1930–2018)

Italian-American mob boss

Entrepreneur and philanthropist

Jon Brower Minnoch

Heaviest ever recorded human

18th century English criminal

Jon-Erik Beckjord

American paranormal investigator

American former stockbroker (born 1962)

Jorge de Menezes

Portuguese explorer

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Swiss-Brazilian banker and businessman

German SS officer

American organized crime boss

Former boss of the Colombo Crime Family

Joseph D. Pistone

American FBI agent (born 1939)

French statesman, revolutionary and police chief (1763–1820)

Joseph James DeAngelo

American serial killer and serial rapist (born 1945)

Italian-American mobster

Man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man

Joseph Petrosino

American police officer

Joseph Seligman

American banker (1819-1880)

19th-century Canadian-American seaman; first to circumnavigate the world solo

Josiah Wedgwood

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

American phone phreak

Juan Díaz de Solís

16th Century navigator and explorer

Juan Fernández (explorer)

Spanish explorer

Guatemalan Mesoamericanist

Juan Ponce de León

16th-century Spanish explorer and conquistador

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Portuguese or Spanish explorer

Juan Sebastián Elcano

Spanish seafarer and circumnavigator

American commercial aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways

Croatian-born Argentine police official, pioneer in fingerprint classification systems

American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

Jules Dumont d'Urville

French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)

American cooking personality (1912–2004)

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

American couple executed for spying for the Soviet Union

Chinese politician

German entrepreneur (1920-2014)

German engineer

German SS officer (1897–1945)

German youth kept in total isolation

English supermodel and businesswoman

Japanese mob boss

American astronaut

American model and media personality (born 1995)

Japanese general

Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet

Canadian businessman

Queen consort of Hawaii

Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon

American computer security consultant, author, convicted criminal, and hacker

American computer hacker

American make-up artist and photographer

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Pakistani militant (born 1965)

Singaporean hotelier (1917–2004)

Burmese warlord

Kiichiro Toyoda

Japanese businessman

South Korean military officer (1926-1980)

American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rain Man"

British intelligence officer and KGB double agent for the Soviet Union

King C. Gillette

American entrepreneur

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist

American frontiersman and guide (1809–1868)

Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord)

Dutch drug lord

SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member

Kōnosuke Matsushita

Japanese industrialist

German illustrator and forger (1938-2000)

British criminal duo during 1950s and 1960s

Russian explorer

American media personality (born 1997)

British-indian steel magnate

Lancelotto Malocello

Italian explorer

Australian businessman

American businessman and entrepreneur (born 1944)

American artist, co-founder of Burning Man (1948–2018)

American gang leader (born 1950)

American business magnate and Internet entrepreneur

American Internet project developer and Wikipedia co-founder

New Zealand-born Dutch solo sailor

Lavrentiy Beria

Soviet secret police chief (1899–1953)

American chef and artist

Leatherman (vagabond)

Famous American vagabond of unknown and disputed identity

Founder of the Samsung Group

Lee Harvey Oswald

Assassin of John F. Kennedy (1939–1963)

American businessman

Former Chairman of the Samsung Group

Norse explorer (c. 970–c. 1020)

Leland Stanford

American politician and railroad tycoon

Jewish-American lynching victim (1884–1915)

American steel worker and assassin of U.S. President William McKinley

Leon Klinghoffer

American businessman

American businesswoman

American businessman, co-founder of Cisco Systems

American financier and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

Leopold and Loeb

American kidnapper-murderer duo

Léopold Louis-Dreyfus

French businessman

Lepke Buchalter

20th-century American mobster

German-American businessman

American prison reformer (1883-1947)

Hong Kong entrepreneur (born 1928)

Liliane Bettencourt

French heiress, socialite and businesswoman (1922–2017)

Youngest confirmed mother in history

Lincoln Kirstein

American writer

Linda Evangelista

Canadian model (born 1965)

Lisa del Giocondo

Subject of the Mona Lisa

Lisa Fonssagrives

American NASA astronaut (b. 1963)

American murder suspect (1860–1927)

Lope de Aguirre

Basque Spanish conquistador (1510–1561)

American businessman

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

French admiral and explorer

Louis Chevrolet

Swiss race car driver

German–Hungarian writer and astrologer

Louis E. Eliasberg

American numismatist (1896–1976)

Explorer of North America

American toy maker and businessman

Louis-Gustave Binger

French explorer (1856-1936)

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón

Spanish explorer

Italian criminal with murder conviction

Lucky Diamond Rich

New Zealand-British Stunt performer

Italian-American mobster

Colombian serial killer and rapist

Luís Vaz de Torres

16th- and 17th-century Galician maritime explorer

American mother of several criminals who ran the Barker gang

Chinese internet entrepreneur (born 1971)

Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)

American gangster (1895–1954)

Madam C. J. Walker

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

Madame de Montespan

Most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV

Madame du Barry

Mistress of Louis XV

Pakistani business tycoon (born 1954)

Mandeville's Travels

Canadian mass murderer (1964–1989)

American commodities trader (1934–2013)

Marcel Dassault

French aircraft industrialist (1892–1986)

Marco Pierre White

British chef and restaurateur

Italian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia

German - American banker

Marcus Licinius Crassus

Roman statesman

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted

British entrepreneur and politician (1853-1927)

Marcus Schenkenberg

Margaret Gorman

American beauty queen, Miss America winner

Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage

American philanthropist

Margo St. James

American activist

Marguerite Gourdan

French brothel owner

Maria Pronchishcheva

Russian explorer

Marie Duplessis

19th-century French courtesan

French athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist

Marie-Antoine Carême

French chef (1784-1833)

Marinus van der Lubbe

Dutch communist and alleged arsonist (1909–1934)

American actress (1897–1961)

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

Mark "Chopper" Read

Australian criminal

Mark David Chapman

American murderer (born 1955)

Watergate scandal whistleblower (1913–2008)

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

Martín Alonso Pinzón

Spanish explorer, oldest of the Pinzón brothers

Australian mass shooter

Martin Frobisher

English sea captain and privateer (1535–1594)

American businessman and convicted felon

American businesswoman

English pickpocket and fence

Mary Kay Letourneau

American sex offender (1962–2020)

Irish cook who was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever in New York

Australian businesswoman

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

Chairman, President and CEO of Softbank

Massimo Moratti

Italian oil tycoon

Matteo Messina Denaro

Italian mafia boss

Matthew Boulton

English industrialist, business partner of James Watt

Matthew Flinders

English navigator and cartographer

American explorer (1866–1955)

Matthew Hopkins

English witch hunter

Matthew Shepard

Gay American murder victim (1976–1998)

Polish beautician and founder of Max Factor

American farmer (1919–1973)

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

American member of the British royal family (born 1981)

Melinda French Gates

American philanthropist (born 1964)

American FBI agent (1903–1960)

Meriwether Lewis

American explorer

Meyer Guggenheim

American businessperson

Russian-American gangster (1902–1983)

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician from New York

Michael Collins (astronaut)

American astronaut (1930–2021)

Chairman & CEO of Dell Technologies Inc.

American business executive (born 1942)

American financier

Michele Ferrero

Italian entrepreneur (1925-2015)

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

Mexican drug trafficker

Miguel López de Legazpi

16th-century Spanish conquistador, navigator, and colonial governor (1502–1572)

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)

Mikhail Stadukhin

Russian explorer

Milton A. Rothman

Nuclear physicist and college professor (1919-2001)

American publisher and game designer

Milton S. Hershey

American chocolatier

Mir Osman Ali Khan

Last and 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, 1911–1948

Australian model

English aristocrats

Ancient Greek chef and food writer

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Egyptian businessman (1929–2023)

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel

Tunisian terrorist

Monica Lewinsky

American activist and former White House intern

American mobster

Monster of Florence

Unidentified serial killer

American banker

American hairdresser

Indian billionaire businessman (born 1957)

Mungo Park (explorer)

Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent

American celebrity chef

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Indian businessman

American girlfriend of Sid Vicious

English supermodel, actress and entrepreneur

African-American cowboy following the American Civil War

Natascha Kampusch

Austrian kidnapping survivor (born 1988)

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910–1949)

Indian con man and forger

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)

British textile worker

American convicted drug trafficker

Businessman (1928-2010)

Nicole Brown Simpson

American murder victim, ex-wife of O. J. Simpson (1959–1994)

English food writer and television cook

Nikolay Przhevalsky

Russian soldier, explorer, and geographer

Norberto Odebrecht

Brazilian engineer, businessman and philanthropist

American industrialist and philanthropist

16th-century French apothecary and reputed seer

Odilo Globocnik

Oleg Nikolaenko

Russian national (born 1987)

American businessman (1769–1852)

American mass murderer (died 2016)

Osama bin Laden

Militant leader (1957–2011)

German-American entrepreneur

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén

Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison

Oskar Dirlewanger

German military officer (1895–1945)

Mbuti pygmy featured in an exhibit in 1904

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1907–1951)

American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea

Natural mummy of a man who lived c. 3,300 BCE

American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat

Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)

Paddy Roy Bates

Founder of the Principality of Sealand

Pánfilo de Narváez

Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas

American lawman (1850–1908)

American kidnapping victim and actress (born 1954)

American businessman (1953–2018)

Paul Castellano

American mobster

Paul Scully-Power

American astronaut

American banker (1868-1932)

Pavel Tretyakov

Russian businessman (1832-1898)

Paweł Strzelecki

Polish explorer and geologist

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Portuguese explorer (c. 1467/8 – c. 1520)

Pedro de Alvarado

Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Portuguese explorer

Pedro Mascarenhas

Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator

Peggy Guggenheim

American art collector

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

American actress, model and dancer (1893–1957)

American astronaut and biochemistry researcher (born 1960)

British geographer, artillery officer and archaeologist

Pêro da Covilhã

Portuguese explorer and diplomat

Perry Edward Smith

Executed American mass murderer

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)

Danish explorer of Greenland, author

Peter Manigault

Attorney and legislator in colonial America

Peter Scott (thief)

British burglar and thief

Peter Stringfellow

British nightclub owner

Peter Sutcliffe

English serial killer (1946–2020)

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972

American billionaire business magnate (born 1938)

Philip Danforth Armour

American meatpacking industrialist/founder: Chicago based Armour & Company

Philipp von Ferrary

Noted postage stamp collector

American brain injury survivor (1823–1860)

Phoebe Snetsinger

American birder

Courtesan in ancient Greece

EBay founder, US entrepreneur and philanthropist

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

Italian explorer

American madam and author

Porfirio Rubirosa

Dominican diplomat, playboy, polo player and racecar driver

Praskovya Angelina

Soviet war worker

Pretty Boy Floyd

American bank robber

Ancient Greek geographer (born ca. 350 BC)

Q. David Bowers

American numismatist

Chinese doctor and secret agent

Ralph "Papa" Thorson

American bounty hunter

Ramón Mercader

NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky

Ranulph Fiennes

British explorer born 1944

Indian Industrialist

Bosnian Serb war criminal (born 1942)

American business magnate (1902–1984)

Raymond Bessone

British hairdresser (1911-1992)

Raymond Washington

American gang member

Uyghur politician (born 1946)

American oil well firefighter

American entrepreneur and education philanthropist

Reinhard Heydrich

Nazi high official, deputy head of the SS

Chinese entrepreneur and engineer (born 1944)

19th-century French explorer

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America

Richard and Maurice McDonald

American fast food company founders

Richard B. Mellon

American banker (1858–1933)

Richard Bandler

American author and trainer in the field of self-help

Richard Branson

English business magnate (born 1950)

Richard E. Byrd

American naval officer and explorer

Richard F. Gordon Jr.

American astronaut

Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel

Earl of Arundel

Richard Francis Burton

19th-century British explorer, translator, writer, and linguist

Richard Hauptmann

German-American executed for kidnapping and murder (1899–1936)

Richard Hawkins

17th-century English seaman, explorer and pirate (1562-1622)

Richard Hickock

American mass murderer

British convicted sex offender (1986–2019)

Richard Kuklinski

American criminal

Richard Ramirez

American serial criminal (1960–2013)

Richard Simmons

American fitness instructor, actor, and video producer (born 1948)

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

Richard Trethewey

American plumber, HVAC contractor and television personality

Richard Warren Sears

American businessman

American former special make-up effects creator and actor

Canadian actor, model and musician

Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the South Pole

German industrialist, engineer and inventor

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

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

English nobleman and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Robert Falcon Scott

British explorer, leader of expeditions to the Antarctic

Robert Gray (sea captain)

American merchant sea captain

FBI agent who spied for the USSR and Russia

Robert Holmes à Court

Australian businessman (1937–1990)

American winemaker

Sixth director of the FBI; American attorney

Robert O'Hara Burke

Australian explorer

American Arctic explorer (1856–1920)

American teenager who died in 1969, thought to be the first death from AIDS in North America

Robert Tappan Morris

American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT

American man who was the tallest person in recorded history

Canadian astronaut

Portuguese explorer

Robin Knox-Johnston

British yacht racer

Rockefeller family

American industrial, political and banking family

American television executive and political consultant

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March

Early 14th-century English nobleman

Australian former detective sergeant and convicted murderer

Roman Abramovich

Businessman and politician (born 1966)

American restaurant waiter

Ronald Evans (astronaut)

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–1990)

American law enforcement officer

English thief - Great Train Robber

Rosemary Crossley

Advocate for facilitated communication

Rosemary Kennedy

Sister of John F. Kennedy

American founder of the Silk Road (born 1984)

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)

Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp

Indonesian wine collector and wine counterfeiter

Australian-American business magnate (born 1931)

American financier and congressman for New York

Ruth Ann Steinhagen

American criminal

American businesswoman and inventor

AIDS spokesperson and "poster boy"

American businessman, founder of Kmart

American groupie

Native American woman & companion to Lewis and Clark at age 16

20th-century Japanese murderer

American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)

Sally Salisbury

English prostitute

Salvatore Riina

Italian crime boss and member of the Sicilian Mafia

American mobster

American businessman

Samantha Cristoforetti

Italian ESA astronaut

Samantha Lewthwaite

Terrorism suspect

American former mobster

British explorer, officer and naturalist (1821–1893)

19th-century American industrialist and inventor

American chemist (born 1965)

Samuel de Champlain

16/17th-century French explorer of North America

Samuel Hahnemann

German physician who created homeopathy

English-American business magnate (1859–1938)

American serial killer

American businessman (1851-1935)

British businessman and politician

English-American industrialist

18th-century British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean

Sanford I. Weill

American banker and philanthropist (born 1933)

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

British duchess

Political family

Persian explorer

Japanese video game executive (1959–2015)

Scott Carpenter

American astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)

Scott Kelly (astronaut)

American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy captain

Scottsboro Boys

Nine African American teenagers accused of rape in 1931

Scylax of Caryanda

Greek explorer and writer of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE

American entrepreneur and philanthropist

Sebastian Cabot (explorer)

Venetian explorer, son of the explorer John Cabot

Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas

Spanish conquistador

Japanese painter (1882-1961)

Semion Mogilevich

Russian organized crime boss (born 1946)

Russian explorer

Co-founder of Google

(1849-1919) American lawman, businessman

South Korean mass murderer; perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre

Shannon Larratt

Canadian webmaster and body modification figure (1973-2013)

San Diego Comic-Con co-founder, comic strip letterer, artist, and writer

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

East German cosmonaut, 1st German in space (1937–2019)

Simmias (explorer)

Officer of Ptolemy III and explorer

Simonetta Vespucci

Italian noblewoman

Palestinian convicted of the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Slobodan Praljak

Bosnian Croat war criminal (1945–2017)

Japanese engineer and industrialist

Solomon R. Guggenheim

American businessman and museum founder

American outlaw biker (1938–2022)

Sonya Golden Hand

Russian legendary thief

Sophie Blanchard

French balloonist (1778–1819)

Native American contact of the Pilgrims

American man best known for extensive body modifications

First director of the FBI, from 1908 to 1912

Chinese entrepreneur

Stanley Williams

Founder of the Crips (1953–2005)

Stanton T. Friedman

American ufologist (1934–2019)

Stéphane Breitwieser

French art thief

Stephanie St. Clair

Caribbean-French mobster and community activist

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

Stephen Paddock

American terrorist

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, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer

American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)

British businesswoman and philanthropist

American real estate businessman and art collector

American physician and retired NASA astronaut

Stroganov family

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

American lunar astronaut (1933–1994)

Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary

Indian teacher known for attending every home match of the Indian cricket team

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

Saudi Arabian royal, astronaut, and government official

American business executive (1968–2024)

American model and actress

Svetlana Savitskaya

Soviet cosmonaut (born 1948)

American astrologer (1926-2003)

Psychic and paranormal author (1936–2013)

T. Boone Pickens

American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management

Japanese Billionaire Retailer

Taikichiro Mori

Japanese businessman

American serial killer (1946–1989)

American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)

American media mogul (born 1938)

Founder of Foxconn

German businessman

Théoneste Bagosora

Rwandan convicted of Genocide

Théophile Obenga

Congolese academic and politician

Thomas Blake Glover

Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan

Thomas Cavendish

English explorer and privateer (1560-1592)

British businessman, plumber (died 1910)

Thomas Hardy (winemaker)

Australian winemaker

Thomas J. Watson

American businessman

Scottish businessman (1848–1931)

Thomas P. Stafford

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2024)

Thomas Silverstein

American murderer (1952–2019)

American politician (1731-1821)

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914–2002)

Thuggee cult leader

American business executive, CEO of Apple Inc.

Timothy McVeigh

American domestic anti-government terrorist

Swahili slave trader

Iron Age bog body from Denmark that was hanged to death

American internet entrepreneur

Tommaso Buscetta

Sicilian Mafia boss and government informant

Italian-American crime boss

American teenager killed in 2012 shooting

Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard)

British bodyguard

Tristão da Cunha

Portuguese explorer and diplomat

German hacker and phreaker

British model, actress and singer (born 1949)

American model and actor

German left-wing militant

English socialite best known as a devotee of Adolf Hitler

Israeli-British illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic (born 1946)

Vagit Alekperov

Russian Billionaire Businessman

Valentina Tereshkova

Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space

Valeri Polyakov

Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1942)

Valeria Lukyanova

Ukrainian model (born 1985)

Vanderbilt family

Prominent American family

Vannozza dei Cattanei

Portuguese explorer of Africa and India

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador

Verghese Kurien

Indian entrepreneur

Veruschka von Lehndorff

German model, actress and performance artist

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Spanish navigator, explorer

Czech fraudster

Víctor Manuel Gerena

American bank robber and fugitive

British hairstylist (1928–2012)

Convicted illegal arms dealer

Vincent Gigante

American boxer and mobster

Vincenzo Peruggia

Vincenzo Pipino

American mobster

Rich merchant of Mughal Empire

Italian-born American mobster

Indian entrepreneur

Danish-born Russian explorer (1681–1741)

British explorer

Vladimir Gusinsky

Russian media tycoon (born 1952)

American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut

American numismatist, writer and convicted sex offender

Walter Chrysler

American automotive industry executive

English statesman and explorer (1552–1618)

Royal Navy sailor and plastic surgery recipient

Chinese explorer

Chinese businessman

American businessman and philanthropist (1887–1977)

American investor, entrepreneur, and businessperson

Augsburg mercantile family

American gangster and crime boss

Whitney Wolfe Herd

American entrepreneur (born 1989)

Wild Bill Hickok

American folk hero and lawman

Wilhelm von Finck

German entrepreneur and banker

Will Keith Kellogg

American businessman

Willem Barentsz

Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer

Willem Janszoon

Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c.1570–c.1630)

Willem Schouten

William Adams (samurai)

English navigator who travelled to Japan (1564–1620)

William Bingham

American Continental congressman and senator for Pennsylvania

William C. Durant

American businessman and co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet

William Calcraft

English executioner

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

American explorer and territorial governor (1770–1838)

William Dampier

British scientist, pirate and explorer (1651–1715)

William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey

Norman noble who fought in the Battle of Hastings

William E. Boeing

American aviation pioneer

William Edward Parry

English naval officer and Arctic explorer

American businessman and former mayor (1818-1881)

William H. Parker (police officer)

American law enforcement officer

William H. Webster

American judge, FBI director, and CIA director (1924-2025)

William Henry Vanderbilt

American businessman and philanthropist

William J. Burns

American private investigator (1861–1932)

William J. Donovan

American soldier, lawyer, & intelligence officer (1883–1959)

William J. Flynn

American Secret Service agent (1867-1928)

William James Sidis

American mathematician, polyglot and child prodigy (1898–1944)

William John Wills

Explorer of Australia

William Keeling

British sea captain for the East India Company

William Knox D'Arcy

British businessman

William Lawson (explorer)

English born Australian explorer and politician (1774–1850)

William Leonard Pickard

American convicted felon

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

English astrologer (1602–1681)

William Marwood

Hangman for the British Government

William of Rubruck

Flemish missionary and explorer (fl. 1248–55)

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 S. Sessions

Ugandan mass murderer (1929-1957)

William Weightman

American chemist

William Wentworth

19th-century English-Australian journalist, politician, and explorer

William Zeckendorf

American real estate developer

American bank robber

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur (born 1949)

Woo Bum-kon incident

South Korean policeman and perpetrator of a 1982 mass shooting

American gambler and frontier marshal (1848-1929)

Xaviera Hollander

Dutch prostitute

Chinese alchemist and explorer

7th century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar

Chinese astronaut

Yñigo Ortiz de Retez

Spanish explorer

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

Soviet cosmonaut

Zacarias Moussaoui

French citizen and convicted criminal associated with the September 11 attacks; Al-Qaeda operative

Paranormal Investigator and Television Personality

American general and explorer (1779–1813)

Zelda Fitzgerald

American novelist

Imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BC

Chinese mariner and diplomat (1371–1433/1435)

Chinese entrepreneur (born 1970)

Serial killer in California in the 1960s

Hungarian-American socialite and actress (1917–2016)