Notable Businesspeople

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