Notable Businesspeople

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the business world.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Cosimo de' Medici1389-1464
Jakob Fugger1459-1525
Nikita Demidov1656-1725
Akinfiy Demidov1678-1745
Arthur Guinnessc. 1725-1803
Matthew Boulton1728-1809
Josiah Wedgwood1730-1795
Mayer Amschel Rothschild1744-1812(Meyer)
John Jacob Astor1763-1848
William Backhouse Astor Sr.1792-1875
Eliphalet Remington1793-1861
Cornelius Vanderbilt1794-1877
Horace Smith1808-1893
Thomas Cook1808-1892
P. T. Barnum1810-1891(Phineas, Taylor)
Charles Tiffany1812-1902
Facundo Bacardí Massó1814-1886(Facund)
Samuel Colt1814-1862
Henri Nestlé1814-1890(Heinrich)
Domingo Ghirardelli1817-1894(Domenico)
George Henry Corliss1817-1888
Louis Vuitton1821-1892
Marcus Goldman1821-1904
Henry Lehmanc. 1822-1855
Daniel B. Wesson1825-1906(Baird)
Joseph Wharton1826-1909
Meyer Guggenheim1828-1905
Levi Strauss1829-1902
William Backhouse Astor Jr.1829-1892
Edward Harland1831-1895
Charles T. Hinde1832-1915
Alfred Nobel1833-1896
Gottlieb Daimler1834-1900
Adolf Lüderitz1834-1886(Franz, Eduard)
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff1834-1913
Andrew Carnegie1835-1919
Augustus D. Juilliard1836-1919
Thomas Ismay1837-1899
J. P. Morgan1837-1913(John, Pierpont)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin1838-1917(Adolf, Heinrich, August)
James J. Hill1838-1916(Jerome)
William A. Clark Sr.1839-1925(Andrews)
Jamsetji Tata1839-1904
John D. Rockefeller1839-1937(Davison)
Henry J. Heinz1844-1919(John)
Carl Benz1844-1929(Karl, Friedrich, Michael)
Joseph Pulitzer1847-1911
Jack Daniel1849-1911(Jasper, Newton)
Samuel Sachs1851-1935
Asa Griggs Candler1851-1929
Cecil Rhodes1853-1902(John)
David Dunbar Buick1854-1929
Daniel Guggenheim1856-1930
Gerard Philips1858-1942
Samuel Insull1859-1938
Will Keith Kellogg1860-1951(William)
Robert Bosch1861-1942
William C. Durant1861-1947(Crapo)
Charles M. Schwab1862-1939(Michael)
Pierre de Coubertin1863-1937
Henry Royce1863-1933
William Randolph Hearst1863-1951
Henry Ford1863-1947
John Jacob Astor IV1864-1912
Giovanni Agnelli1866-1945
Calouste Gulbenkian1869-1955
Sergei Diaghilev1872-1929
Gerard Swope1872-1957
Helena Rubinstein1872-1965
Adolph Zukor1873-1976(Adolf)
Jules Rimet1873-1956
Walter Chrysler1875-1940
Louis Cartier1875-1942
Ferdinand Porsche1875-1951
Louis Renault1877-1944
Charles Rolls1877-1910
Joan Gamper1877-1930
André Citroën1878-1935
Alvan T. Fuller1878-1958(Tufts)
Louis Chevrolet1878-1941
B. C. Forbes1880-1954(Bertie, Charles)
William S. Harley1880-1943(Sylvester)
Arthur Davidson1881-1950
Eugène Schueller1881-1957
Guccio Gucci1881-1953
Ettore Bugatti1881-1947
William E. Boeing1881-1956(Edward)
Samuel Goldwyn1882-1974(Szmuel)
Franklin Clarence Mars1883-1934(Frank)
Louis B. Mayer1884-1957(Lazar, Burt)
Franz Josef Popp1886-1954
Conrad Hilton1887-1979(Nicholson)
W. O. Bentley1888-1971(Walter, Owen)
Charles Darrow1889-1967(Brace)
Harland "Colonel" Sanders1890-1980
Jack L. Warner1892-1978(Leonard)
J. Paul Getty1892-1976(Jean)
Roy Disney1893-1971(Oliver)
Kiichirō Toyoda1894-1952
Enzo Ferrari1898-1988(Anselmo, Giuseppe, Maria)
Rudolf Dassler1898-1974
Adolf Dassler1900-1978(Adi)
Walt Disney1901-1966(Walter, Elias)
Ray Kroc1902-1984(Raymond)
Maurice McDonald1902-1971
J. Howard Marshall1905-1995(James)
Howard Hughes1905-1976
Aristotelis Onasis1906-1975(Aristotle)
Sōichirō Honda1906-1991
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach1907-1967(Felix, Alwyn)
Oskar Schindler1908-1974
Estée Lauder1908-2004(Josephine, Esther)
Richard McDonald1909-1998
Leo Fender1909-1991(Clarence, Leonidas)
Peter Drucker1909-2005
Lee Byung-chul1910-1987
David Packard1912-1996
Bill Hewlett1913-2001(William)
Thomas Watson Jr.1914-1993
David Rockefeller1915-2017
Ferruccio Lamborghini1916-1993
João Havelange1916-2016
William Rosenberg1916-2002
Kirk Kerkorian1917-2015
John H. Johnson1918-2005(Harold)
Sam Walton1918-1992(Samuel)
Malcolm Forbes1919-1990
Alfred Peet1920-2007
Akio Morita1921-1999
S. Truett Cathy1921-2014(Samuel)
Liliane Bettencourt1922-2017
Sumner Redstone1923-2020(Murray)
Freddy Heineken1923-2002(Alfred, Henry)
Merv Griffin1925-2007(Mervyn, Edward)
Ingvar Kamprad1926-2018(Feodor)
Hugh Hefner1926-2017(Marston)
James McLamore1926-1996
David Edgerton1927-2018
Barron Hilton1927-2019(William)
T. Boone Pickens1928-2019(Thomas)
Li Ka-shing1928-
Jack Tramiel1928-2012
Mohamed Al-Fayed1929-2023
George Soros1930-(György)
Warren Buffett1930-(Edward)
Bernie Ecclestone1930-(Bernard)
Rupert Murdoch1931-(Keith)
Munib al-Masri1934-
Adolf Merckle1934-2009
Adnan Khashoggi1935-2017
Sepp Blatter1936-(Josef)
Amancio Ortega1936-
Silvio Berlusconi1936-2023
Aga Khan IV1936-(Karim)
Tom Monaghan1937-(Thomas)
Kerry Packer1937-2005
Cor Boonstra1938-
Phil Knight1938-(Philip)
Ted Turner1938-(Robert, Edward)
Carlos Slim1940-
Muhammad Yunus1940-
Martha Stewart1941-
Frank Williams1942-2021
Lee Kun-hee1942-2020
Joop van den Ende1942-(Johannes)
Michael Eisner1942-
Larry Flynt1942-2021
Zev Siegl1942-
David Geffen1943-
Dietrich Mateschitz1944-2022
Larry Ellison1944-(Lawrence, Joseph)
Vince McMahon1945-(Vincent)
John McAfee1945-2021(David)
Boris Berezovsky1946-2013
Donald J. Trump1946-(John)
Florentino Pérez1947-
Steve Forbes1947-(Malcolm, Stevenson)
Bernard Arnault1949-(Jean, Étienne)
Jerry Baldwin19xx-(Gerald)
Richard Branson1950-
Lakshmi Mittal1950-
Jeffrey Katzenberg1950-
Bob Iger1951-(Robert)
Jerry Greenfield1951-
Ben Cohen1951-(Bennett)
Muhtar Kent1952-(Ahmet)
Paul Allen1953-2018
Oprah Winfrey1954-(Orpah, Gail)
Steve Jobs1955-2011(Steven, Paul)
John de Mol1955-
Eric Schmidt1955-
Renzo Rosso1955-
Bill Gates1955-(William, Henry)
Indra Nooyi1955-
Jamie Dimon1956-(James)
Steve Ballmer1956-(Steven)
Meg Whitman1956-(Margaret)
Eike Batista1956-
Mukesh Ambani1957-
Nouriel Roubini1958-
Satoru Iwata1959-2015
Linda Avey1960-
Tim Cook1960-(Timothy, Donald)
Yevgeny Prigozhin1961-2023(Yevgeniy)
John Schnatter1961-
Stockton Rush1962-2023(Richard)
Gabe Newell1962-
Kate Spade1962-2018(Katherine, Noel, Valentine)
Jensen Huang1963-(Jen-Hsun)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky1963-
Jeff Bezos1964-(Jeffrey, Preston)
Melinda French Gates1964-
Jack Ma1964-(Yun)
Michael Dell1965-
Dmytro Firtash1965-
Mikhail Prokhorov1965-
Roman Abramovich1966-
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson1967-
Satya Nadella1967-
James Packer1967-
Susan Wojcicki1968-2024(Diane)
Jerry Yang1968-(Chih-Yuan)
Gianni Infantino1970-
Elon Musk1971-
Sundar Pichai1972-
Larry Page1973-(Lawrence)
Anne Wojcicki1973-
Sergey Brin1973-
Mark Shuttleworth1973-
Jack Dorsey1976-(Patrick)
Virgil Abloh1980-2021
Scooter Braun1981-(Scott, Samuel)
Alexis Ohanian1983-(Kerry)
Mark Zuckerberg1984-
Pavel Durov1984-