Notable Businesspeople
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 | (Antufiev) | |
| Akinfiy Demidov | 1678-1745 | | |
| Arthur Guinness | c. 1725-1803 | | |
| Matthew Boulton | 1728-1809 | | |
| Josiah Wedgwood | 1730-1795 | | |
| Mayer Amschel Rothschild | 1744-1812 | | |
| 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 | | |
| Charles Tiffany | 1812-1902 | | |
| Facundo Bacardí Massó | 1814-1886 | | |
| Samuel Colt | 1814-1862 | | |
| Henri Nestlé | 1814-1890 | | |
| Domingo Ghirardelli | 1817-1894 | | |
| George Henry Corliss | 1817-1888 | | |
| Louis Vuitton | 1821-1892 | | |
| Marcus Goldman | 1821-1904 | | |
| Henry Lehman | c. 1822-1855 | | |
| Daniel B. Wesson | 1825-1906 | | |
| 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 | | |
| Gustav Wilhelm Wolff | 1834-1913 | | |
| Andrew Carnegie | 1835-1919 | | |
| Augustus D. Juilliard | 1836-1919 | | |
| Thomas Ismay | 1837-1899 | | |
| J. P. Morgan | 1837-1913 | | |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838-1917 | | |
| James J. Hill | 1838-1916 | | |
| William A. Clark Sr. | 1839-1925 | | |
| Jamsetji Tata | 1839-1904 | | |
| John D. Rockefeller | 1839-1937 | | |
| Henry J. Heinz | 1844-1919 | | |
| Carl Benz | 1844-1929 | (Vaillant) | |
| Joseph Pulitzer | 1847-1911 | | |
| Jack Daniel | 1849-1911 | | |
| Samuel Sachs | 1851-1935 | | |
| Asa Griggs Candler | 1851-1929 | | |
| Cecil Rhodes | 1853-1902 | | |
| David Dunbar Buick | 1854-1929 | | |
| Daniel Guggenheim | 1856-1930 | | |
| Gerard Philips | 1858-1942 | | |
| Samuel Insull | 1859-1938 | | |
| Will Keith Kellogg | 1860-1951 | | |
| Robert Bosch | 1861-1942 | | |
| William C. Durant | 1861-1947 | | |
| Charles M. Schwab | 1862-1939 | | |
| 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 | (Zuckery) | |
| 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 | | |
| Louis Chevrolet | 1878-1941 | | |
| B. C. Forbes | 1880-1954 | | |
| William S. Harley | 1880-1943 | | |
| Arthur Davidson | 1881-1950 | | |
| Eugène Schueller | 1881-1957 | | |
| Guccio Gucci | 1881-1953 | | |
| Ettore Bugatti | 1881-1947 | | |
| William E. Boeing | 1881-1956 | | |
| Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974 | (Gelbfisz) | |
| Franklin Clarence Mars | 1883-1934 | | |
| Louis B. Mayer | 1884-1957 | (Meir) | |
| Franz Josef Popp | 1886-1954 | | |
| Conrad Hilton | 1887-1979 | | |
| W. O. Bentley | 1888-1971 | | |
| Charles Darrow | 1889-1967 | | |
| Harland "Colonel" Sanders | 1890-1980 | | |
| Jack L. Warner | 1892-1978 | | |
| J. Paul Getty | 1892-1976 | | |
| Roy Disney | 1893-1971 | | |
| Kiichirō Toyoda | 1894-1952 | | |
| Enzo Ferrari | 1898-1988 | | |
| Rudolf Dassler | 1898-1974 | | |
| Adolf Dassler | 1900-1978 | | |
| Walt Disney | 1901-1966 | | |
| Ray Kroc | 1902-1984 | | |
| Maurice McDonald | 1902-1971 | | |
| J. Howard Marshall | 1905-1995 | | |
| Howard Hughes | 1905-1976 | | |
| Aristotelis Onasis | 1906-1975 | (Onassis) | |
| Sōichirō Honda | 1906-1991 | | |
| Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach | 1907-1967 | | |
| Oskar Schindler | 1908-1974 | | |
| Estée Lauder | 1908-2004 | (Mentzer) | |
| Richard McDonald | 1909-1998 | | |
| Leo Fender | 1909-1991 | | |
| Peter Drucker | 1909-2005 | | |
| Lee Byung-chul | 1910-1987 | | |
| David Packard | 1912-1996 | | |
| Bill Hewlett | 1913-2001 | | |
| 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 | | |
| Sam Walton | 1918-1992 | | |
| Malcolm Forbes | 1919-1990 | | |
| Alfred Peet | 1920-2007 | | |
| Akio Morita | 1921-1999 | | |
| S. Truett Cathy | 1921-2014 | | |
| Liliane Bettencourt | 1922-2017 | | |
| Sumner Redstone | 1923-2020 | | |
| Freddy Heineken | 1923-2002 | | |
| John DeLorean | 1925-2005 | | |
| Merv Griffin | 1925-2007 | | |
| Ingvar Kamprad | 1926-2018 | | |
| Hugh Hefner | 1926-2017 | | |
| James McLamore | 1926-1996 | | |
| David Edgerton | 1927-2018 | | |
| Barron Hilton | 1927-2019 | | |
| T. Boone Pickens | 1928-2019 | | |
| Li Ka-shing | 1928- | | |
| Jack Tramiel | 1928-2012 | | |
| Mohamed Al-Fayed | 1929-2023 | | |
| George Soros | 1930- | (Schwartz) | |
| Warren Buffett | 1930- | | |
| Bernie Ecclestone | 1930- | | |
| Rupert Murdoch | 1931- | | |
| Munib al-Masri | 1934- | | |
| Adolf Merckle | 1934-2009 | | |
| Adnan Khashoggi | 1935-2017 | | |
| Sepp Blatter | 1936- | | |
| Amancio Ortega | 1936- | (Gaona) | |
| Silvio Berlusconi | 1936-2023 | | |
| Aga Khan IV | 1936- | (al-Husayni) | |
| Tom Monaghan | 1937- | | |
| Kerry Packer | 1937-2005 | | |
| Cor Boonstra | 1938- | | |
| Phil Knight | 1938- | | |
| Ted Turner | 1938- | | |
| Carlos Slim | 1940- | (Helú) | |
| Muhammad Yunus | 1940- | | |
| Martha Stewart | 1941- | | |
| Frank Williams | 1942-2021 | | |
| Lee Kun-hee | 1942-2020 | | |
| Joop van den Ende | 1942- | | |
| Michael Eisner | 1942- | | |
| Larry Flynt | 1942-2021 | | |
| Zev Siegl | 1942- | | |
| David Geffen | 1943- | | |
| Dietrich Mateschitz | 1944-2022 | | |
| Larry Ellison | 1944- | | |
| Vince McMahon | 1945- | | |
| John McAfee | 1945-2021 | | |
| Boris Berezovsky | 1946-2013 | | |
| Donald J. Trump | 1946- | | |
| Florentino Pérez | 1947- | | |
| Steve Forbes | 1947- | | |
| George Foreman | 1949-2025 | | |
| Bernard Arnault | 1949- | | |
| Jerry Baldwin | 19xx- | | |
| Richard Branson | 1950- | | |
| Lakshmi Mittal | 1950- | | |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | 1950- | | |
| Bob Iger | 1951- | | |
| Jerry Greenfield | 1951- | | |
| Ben Cohen | 1951- | | |
| Muhtar Kent | 1952- | | |
| Paul Allen | 1953-2018 | | |
| Oprah Winfrey | 1954- | | |
| Steve Jobs | 1955-2011 | | |
| John de Mol | 1955- | | |
| Eric Schmidt | 1955- | | |
| Renzo Rosso | 1955- | | |
| Bill Gates | 1955- | | |
| Indra Nooyi | 1955- | | |
| Jamie Dimon | 1956- | | |
| Steve Ballmer | 1956- | | |
| Meg Whitman | 1956- | | |
| Eike Batista | 1956- | | |
| Mukesh Ambani | 1957- | | |
| Nouriel Roubini | 1958- | | |
| Satoru Iwata | 1959-2015 | | |
| Linda Avey | 1960- | | |
| Tim Cook | 1960- | | |
| Yevgeny Prigozhin | 1961-2023 | | |
| John Schnatter | 1961- | | |
| Stockton Rush | 1962-2023 | | |
| Gabe Newell | 1962- | | |
| Kate Spade | 1962-2018 | (Brosnahan) | |
| Jensen Huang | 1963- | | |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky | 1963- | | |
| Jeff Bezos | 1964- | | |
| Melinda French Gates | 1964- | | |
| Jack Ma | 1964- | | |
| Michael Dell | 1965- | | |
| Dmytro Firtash | 1965- | | |
| Mikhail Prokhorov | 1965- | | |
| Jimmy Wales | 1966- | | |
| Roman Abramovich | 1966- | | |
| Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson | 1967- | | |
| Satya Nadella | 1967- | | |
| James Packer | 1967- | | |
| Peter Thiel | 1967- | | |
| Susan Wojcicki | 1968-2024 | | |
| Jerry Yang | 1968- | | |
| Gianni Infantino | 1970- | | |
| Elon Musk | 1971- | | |
| Sundar Pichai | 1972- | | |
| Larry Page | 1973- | | |
| Anne Wojcicki | 1973- | | |
| Sergey Brin | 1973- | | |
| Mark Shuttleworth | 1973- | | |
| Jack Dorsey | 1976- | | |
| Virgil Abloh | 1980-2021 | | |
| Scooter Braun | 1981- | | |
| Alexis Ohanian | 1983- | | |
| Mark Zuckerberg | 1984- | | |
| Pavel Durov | 1984- | | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy | 1985- | |