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Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud
Saudi Arabian businessman, investor and royal
Aliko Dangote
Nigerian entrepreneur
Astor family
Extremely wealthy American family
Carlos Slim
Mexican businessman (born 1940)
Dhanin Chearavanont
Thai industrialist
Dhirubhai Ambani
Indian business tycoon
Folorunso Alakija
Nigerian billionaire businesswoman
Fred C. Koch
American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)
G. D. Birla
Indian businessman
Henry Flagler
American entrepreneur (1830-1913)
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Hu Xueyan
Chinese banker
Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá
Brazilian politician
Ivar Kreuger
Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist
John Jacob Astor
German-American businessman
Lee Byung-chul
Founder of the Samsung Group
Lee Kun-hee
Former Chairman of the Samsung Group
Léopold Louis-Dreyfus
French businessman
Li Ka-shing
Hong Kong entrepreneur (born 1928)
Mikhail Fridman
Russian–Israeli billionaire businessman and oligarch (born 1964)
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Egyptian businessman (1929–2023)
Richard Branson
English business magnate (born 1950)
Sassoon family
Political family
Shibusawa Eiichi
Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)
Stroganov family
Family of successful Russian merchants and statesmen from the 15th century onward
Wang Jianlin
Chinese businessman