This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the business world.
Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
Cosimo de' Medici | 1389-1464 | | |
Jakob Fugger | 1459-1525 | | |
Nikita Demidov | 1656-1725 | | |
Akinfiy Demidov | 1678-1745 | | |
Arthur Guinness | c. 1725-1803 | | |
Matthew Boulton | 1728-1809 | | |
Josiah Wedgwood | 1730-1795 | | |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild | 1744-1812 | (Meyer) | |
John Jacob Astor | 1763-1848 | | |
William Backhouse Astor Sr. | 1792-1875 | | |
Eliphalet Remington | 1793-1861 | | |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | 1794-1877 | | |
Horace Smith | 1808-1893 | | |
Thomas Cook | 1808-1892 | | |
P. T. Barnum | 1810-1891 | (Phineas, Taylor) | |
Charles Tiffany | 1812-1902 | | |
Facundo Bacardí Massó | 1814-1886 | (Facund) | |
Samuel Colt | 1814-1862 | | |
Henri Nestlé | 1814-1890 | (Heinrich) | |
Domingo Ghirardelli | 1817-1894 | (Domenico) | |
George Henry Corliss | 1817-1888 | | |
Louis Vuitton | 1821-1892 | | |
Marcus Goldman | 1821-1904 | | |
Henry Lehman | c. 1822-1855 | | |
Daniel B. Wesson | 1825-1906 | (Baird) | |
Joseph Wharton | 1826-1909 | | |
Meyer Guggenheim | 1828-1905 | | |
Levi Strauss | 1829-1902 | | |
William Backhouse Astor Jr. | 1829-1892 | | |
Edward Harland | 1831-1895 | | |
Charles T. Hinde | 1832-1915 | | |
Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | | |
Gottlieb Daimler | 1834-1900 | | |
Adolf Lüderitz | 1834-1886 | (Franz, Eduard) | |
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff | 1834-1913 | | |
Andrew Carnegie | 1835-1919 | | |
Augustus D. Juilliard | 1836-1919 | | |
Thomas Ismay | 1837-1899 | | |
J. P. Morgan | 1837-1913 | (John, Pierpont) | |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838-1917 | (Adolf, Heinrich, August) | |
James J. Hill | 1838-1916 | (Jerome) | |
William A. Clark Sr. | 1839-1925 | (Andrews) | |
Jamsetji Tata | 1839-1904 | | |
John D. Rockefeller | 1839-1937 | (Davison) | |
Henry J. Heinz | 1844-1919 | (John) | |
Carl Benz | 1844-1929 | (Karl, Friedrich, Michael) | |
Joseph Pulitzer | 1847-1911 | | |
Jack Daniel | 1849-1911 | (Jasper, Newton) | |
Samuel Sachs | 1851-1935 | | |
Asa Griggs Candler | 1851-1929 | | |
Cecil Rhodes | 1853-1902 | (John) | |
David Dunbar Buick | 1854-1929 | | |
Daniel Guggenheim | 1856-1930 | | |
Gerard Philips | 1858-1942 | | |
Samuel Insull | 1859-1938 | | |
Will Keith Kellogg | 1860-1951 | (William) | |
Robert Bosch | 1861-1942 | | |
William C. Durant | 1861-1947 | (Crapo) | |
Charles M. Schwab | 1862-1939 | (Michael) | |
Pierre de Coubertin | 1863-1937 | | |
Henry Royce | 1863-1933 | | |
William Randolph Hearst | 1863-1951 | | |
Henry Ford | 1863-1947 | | |
John Jacob Astor IV | 1864-1912 | | |
Giovanni Agnelli | 1866-1945 | | |
Calouste Gulbenkian | 1869-1955 | | |
Sergei Diaghilev | 1872-1929 | | |
Gerard Swope | 1872-1957 | | |
Helena Rubinstein | 1872-1965 | | |
Adolph Zukor | 1873-1976 | (Adolf) | |
Jules Rimet | 1873-1956 | | |
Walter Chrysler | 1875-1940 | | |
Louis Cartier | 1875-1942 | | |
Ferdinand Porsche | 1875-1951 | | |
Louis Renault | 1877-1944 | | |
Charles Rolls | 1877-1910 | | |
Joan Gamper | 1877-1930 | | |
André Citroën | 1878-1935 | | |
Alvan T. Fuller | 1878-1958 | (Tufts) | |
Louis Chevrolet | 1878-1941 | | |
B. C. Forbes | 1880-1954 | (Bertie, Charles) | |
William S. Harley | 1880-1943 | (Sylvester) | |
Arthur Davidson | 1881-1950 | | |
Eugène Schueller | 1881-1957 | | |
Guccio Gucci | 1881-1953 | | |
Ettore Bugatti | 1881-1947 | | |
William E. Boeing | 1881-1956 | (Edward) | |
Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974 | (Szmuel) | |
Franklin Clarence Mars | 1883-1934 | (Frank) | |
Louis B. Mayer | 1884-1957 | (Lazar, Burt) | |
Franz Josef Popp | 1886-1954 | | |
Conrad Hilton | 1887-1979 | (Nicholson) | |
W. O. Bentley | 1888-1971 | (Walter, Owen) | |
Charles Darrow | 1889-1967 | (Brace) | |
Harland "Colonel" Sanders | 1890-1980 | | |
Jack L. Warner | 1892-1978 | (Leonard) | |
J. Paul Getty | 1892-1976 | (Jean) | |
Roy Disney | 1893-1971 | (Oliver) | |
Kiichirō Toyoda | 1894-1952 | | |
Enzo Ferrari | 1898-1988 | (Anselmo, Giuseppe, Maria) | |
Rudolf Dassler | 1898-1974 | | |
Adolf Dassler | 1900-1978 | (Adi) | |
Walt Disney | 1901-1966 | (Walter, Elias) | |
Ray Kroc | 1902-1984 | (Raymond) | |
Maurice McDonald | 1902-1971 | | |
J. Howard Marshall | 1905-1995 | (James) | |
Howard Hughes | 1905-1976 | | |
Aristotelis Onasis | 1906-1975 | (Aristotle) | |
Sōichirō Honda | 1906-1991 | | |
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach | 1907-1967 | (Felix, Alwyn) | |
Oskar Schindler | 1908-1974 | | |
Estée Lauder | 1908-2004 | (Josephine, Esther) | |
Richard McDonald | 1909-1998 | | |
Leo Fender | 1909-1991 | (Clarence, Leonidas) | |
Peter Drucker | 1909-2005 | | |
Lee Byung-chul | 1910-1987 | | |
David Packard | 1912-1996 | | |
Bill Hewlett | 1913-2001 | (William) | |
Thomas Watson Jr. | 1914-1993 | | |
David Rockefeller | 1915-2017 | | |
Ferruccio Lamborghini | 1916-1993 | | |
João Havelange | 1916-2016 | | |
William Rosenberg | 1916-2002 | | |
Kirk Kerkorian | 1917-2015 | | |
John H. Johnson | 1918-2005 | (Harold) | |
Sam Walton | 1918-1992 | (Samuel) | |
Malcolm Forbes | 1919-1990 | | |
Alfred Peet | 1920-2007 | | |
Akio Morita | 1921-1999 | | |
S. Truett Cathy | 1921-2014 | (Samuel) | |
Liliane Bettencourt | 1922-2017 | | |
Sumner Redstone | 1923-2020 | (Murray) | |
Freddy Heineken | 1923-2002 | (Alfred, Henry) | |
Merv Griffin | 1925-2007 | (Mervyn, Edward) | |
Ingvar Kamprad | 1926-2018 | (Feodor) | |
Hugh Hefner | 1926-2017 | (Marston) | |
James McLamore | 1926-1996 | | |
David Edgerton | 1927-2018 | | |
Barron Hilton | 1927-2019 | (William) | |
T. Boone Pickens | 1928-2019 | (Thomas) | |
Li Ka-shing | 1928- | | |
Jack Tramiel | 1928-2012 | | |
Mohamed Al-Fayed | 1929-2023 | | |
George Soros | 1930- | (György) | |
Warren Buffett | 1930- | (Edward) | |
Bernie Ecclestone | 1930- | (Bernard) | |
Rupert Murdoch | 1931- | (Keith) | |
Munib al-Masri | 1934- | | |
Adolf Merckle | 1934-2009 | | |
Adnan Khashoggi | 1935-2017 | | |
Sepp Blatter | 1936- | (Josef) | |
Amancio Ortega | 1936- | | |
Silvio Berlusconi | 1936-2023 | | |
Aga Khan IV | 1936- | (Karim) | |
Tom Monaghan | 1937- | (Thomas) | |
Kerry Packer | 1937-2005 | | |
Cor Boonstra | 1938- | | |
Phil Knight | 1938- | (Philip) | |
Ted Turner | 1938- | (Robert, Edward) | |
Carlos Slim | 1940- | | |
Muhammad Yunus | 1940- | | |
Martha Stewart | 1941- | | |
Frank Williams | 1942-2021 | | |
Lee Kun-hee | 1942-2020 | | |
Joop van den Ende | 1942- | (Johannes) | |
Michael Eisner | 1942- | | |
Larry Flynt | 1942-2021 | | |
Zev Siegl | 1942- | | |
David Geffen | 1943- | | |
Dietrich Mateschitz | 1944-2022 | | |
Larry Ellison | 1944- | (Lawrence, Joseph) | |
Vince McMahon | 1945- | (Vincent) | |
John McAfee | 1945-2021 | (David) | |
Boris Berezovsky | 1946-2013 | | |
Donald J. Trump | 1946- | (John) | |
Florentino Pérez | 1947- | | |
Steve Forbes | 1947- | (Malcolm, Stevenson) | |
Bernard Arnault | 1949- | (Jean, Étienne) | |
Jerry Baldwin | 19xx- | (Gerald) | |
Richard Branson | 1950- | | |
Lakshmi Mittal | 1950- | | |
Jeffrey Katzenberg | 1950- | | |
Bob Iger | 1951- | (Robert) | |
Jerry Greenfield | 1951- | | |
Ben Cohen | 1951- | (Bennett) | |
Muhtar Kent | 1952- | (Ahmet) | |
Paul Allen | 1953-2018 | | |
Oprah Winfrey | 1954- | (Orpah, Gail) | |
Steve Jobs | 1955-2011 | (Steven, Paul) | |
John de Mol | 1955- | | |
Eric Schmidt | 1955- | | |
Renzo Rosso | 1955- | | |
Bill Gates | 1955- | (William, Henry) | |
Indra Nooyi | 1955- | | |
Jamie Dimon | 1956- | (James) | |
Steve Ballmer | 1956- | (Steven) | |
Meg Whitman | 1956- | (Margaret) | |
Eike Batista | 1956- | | |
Mukesh Ambani | 1957- | | |
Nouriel Roubini | 1958- | | |
Satoru Iwata | 1959-2015 | | |
Linda Avey | 1960- | | |
Tim Cook | 1960- | (Timothy) | |
John Schnatter | 1961- | | |
Stockton Rush | 1962-2023 | (Richard) | |
Gabe Newell | 1962- | | |
Kate Spade | 1962-2018 | (Katherine, Noel, Valentine) | |
Mikhail Khodorkovsky | 1963- | | |
Jeff Bezos | 1964- | (Jeffrey, Preston) | |
Melinda French Gates | 1964- | | |
Jack Ma | 1964- | (Yun) | |
Michael Dell | 1965- | | |
Mikhail Prokhorov | 1965- | | |
Roman Abramovich | 1966- | | |
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson | 1967- | | |
Satya Nadella | 1967- | | |
James Packer | 1967- | | |
Susan Wojcicki | 1968-2024 | (Diane) | |
Jerry Yang | 1968- | (Chih-Yuan) | |
Gianni Infantino | 1970- | | |
Elon Musk | 1971- | | |
Sundar Pichai | 1972- | | |
Larry Page | 1973- | (Lawrence) | |
Anne Wojcicki | 1973- | | |
Sergey Brin | 1973- | | |
Mark Shuttleworth | 1973- | | |
Jack Dorsey | 1976- | (Patrick) | |
Virgil Abloh | 1980-2021 | | |
Scooter Braun | 1981- | (Scott, Samuel) | |
Alexis Ohanian | 1983- | (Kerry) | |
Mark Zuckerberg | 1984- | | |
Pavel Durov | 1984- | | |