This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the business world.
Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
Adolf Dassler | 1900-1978 | (Adi) |  |
Adolf Guyer-Zeller | 1839-1899 | |  |
Adolf Lindskog | 1751-1836 | (Per) |  |
Adolf Lüderitz | 1834-1886 | (Franz, Eduard) |  |
Adolf H. Lundin | 1932-2006 | (Henrik) |  |
Adolf Merckle | 1934-2009 | |  |
Adolf Müller | 1857-1932 | |  |
Adolf Törngren | 1824-1895 | |  |
Adolf Zethelius | 1781-1864 | (Erik) |  |
Adolph Zukor | 1873-1976 | (Adolf) |  |
Akinfiy Demidov | 1678-1745 | |  |
Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | |  |
Alfred Peet | 1920-2007 | |  |
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach | 1907-1967 | (Felix, Alwyn) |  |
Amancio Ortega Gaona | 1936- | |  |
Andrew Carnegie | 1835-1919 | |  |
Anne Wojcicki | 1973- | |  |
Aristotelis Onasis | 1906-1975 | (Aristotle) |  |
Arthur Davidson | 1881-1950 | |  |
Arthur Guinness | c. 1725-1803 | |  |
Asa Griggs Candler | 1851-1929 | |  |
Augustus D. Juilliard | 1836-1919 | |  |
Barron Hilton | 1927- | (William) |  |
Ben Cohen | 1951- | |  |
Bennett Greenspan | 1952- | |  |
Bernard Arnault | 1949- | (Jean, Étienne) |  |
Bernie Ecclestone | 1930- | |  |
B. C. Forbes | 1880-1954 | (Bertie, Charles) |  |
Bill Gates | 1955- | (William, Henry) |  |
Bill Hewlett | 1913-2001 | |  |
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson | 1967- | |  |
Carlos Slim | 1940- | |  |
Cecil Rhodes | 1853-1902 | (John) |  |
Charles Digby Harrod | 1841-1905 | |  |
Charles Henry Harrod | 1799-1885 | |  |
Charles T. Hinde | 1832-1915 | |  |
Charles Rolls | 1877-1910 | |  |
Charles M. Schwab | 1862-1939 | (Michael) |  |
Charles Tiffany | 1812-1902 | |  |
Christian Sharps | 1810-1874 | |  |
Conrad Hilton | 1887-1979 | (Nicholson) |  |
Cor Boonstra | 1938- | |  |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | 1794-1877 | |  |
Cosimo de' Medici | 1389-1464 | |  |
Dan Carney | 1931- | |  |
Daniel Guggenheim | 1856-1930 | |  |
Daniel B. Wesson | 1825-1906 | (Baird) |  |
David Dunbar Buick | 1854-1929 | |  |
David Edgerton | 1928- | |  |
David Packard | 1912-1996 | |  |
Domingo Ghirardelli | 1817-1894 | (Domenico) |  |
Donald J. Trump | 1946- | (John) |  |
Edward Harland | 1831-1895 | |  |
Edward Beale McLean | 1889-1941 | |  |
Eike Batista | 1956- | |  |
Eliphalet Remington | 1793-1861 | |  |
Elon Musk | 1971- | |  |
Estée Lauder | 1908-2004 | (Josephine, Esther) |  |
Eugène Schueller | 1881-1957 | |  |
Facundo Bacardí Massó | 1814-1886 | (Facund) |  |
Ferdinand Porsche | 1875-1951 | |  |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838-1917 | (Adolf, Heinrich, August) |  |
Frank Carney | 1938- | |  |
Frank Packer | 1906-1974 | |  |
Franklin Clarence Mars | 1883-1934 | (Frank) |  |
Franz Josef Popp | 1886-1954 | |  |
Freddy Heineken | 1923-2002 | |  |
George Henry Corliss | 1817-1888 | |  |
George Soros | 1930- | (György) |  |
Gerard Philips | 1858-1942 | |  |
Gerard Swope | 1872-1957 | |  |
Gordon Bowker | c. 1947- | |  |
Gottlieb Daimler | 1834-1900 | |  |
Gustav Adolf Jebsen | 1884-1951 | |  |
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff | 1834-1913 | |  |
Harland Sanders | 1890-1980 | |  |
Henri Nestlé | 1814-1890 | (Heinrich) |  |
Henry Ford | 1863-1947 | |  |
Henry J. Heinz | 1844-1919 | (John) |  |
Henry Lehman | c. 1822-1855 | |  |
Henry Royce | 1863-1933 | |  |
Horace Smith | 1808-1893 | |  |
Howard Hughes | 1905-1976 | |  |
Hugh Hefner | 1926-2017 | (Marston) |  |
Ingvar Kamprad | 1926-2018 | (Feodor) |  |
Jack Daniel | 1850-1911 | (Jasper, Newton) |  |
Jack Dorsey | 1976- | (Patrick) |  |
Jack Tramiel | 1928-2012 | |  |
Jacques Cartier | 1885-1942 | |  |
James J. Hill | 1838-1916 | (Jerome) |  |
J. Howard Marshall | 1905-1995 | (James) |  |
James McLamore | 1926-1996 | |  |
James Packer | 1967- | |  |
Jeff Bezos | 1964- | (Jeffrey, Preston) |  |
Jerry Baldwin | 19xx- | |  |
Jerry Greenfield | 1951- | |  |
John Jacob Astor | 1763-1848 | |  |
John Jacob Astor IV | 1864-1912 | |  |
John de Mol | 1955- | |  |
John H. Johnson | 1918-2005 | (Harold) |  |
John Roll McLean | 1848-1916 | |  |
J. P. Morgan | 1837-1913 | (John, Pierpont) |  |
John D. Rockefeller | 1839-1937 | (Davison) |  |
John Schnatter | 1961- | |  |
Joop van den Ende | 1942- | |  |
Joseph Pulitzer | 1847-1911 | |  |
Joseph Wharton | 1826-1909 | |  |
Josiah Wedgwood | 1730-1795 | |  |
Karl Benz | 1844-1929 | |  |
Kate Spade | 1962-2018 | (Katherine, Noel, Valentine) |  |
Kerry Packer | 1937-2005 | |  |
Kirk Kerkorian | 1917-2015 | |  |
Kjeld Gogosha-Clark | 1967- | |  |
Lakshmi Mittal | 1950- | |  |
Larry Ellison | 1944- | (Lawrence, Joseph) |  |
Larry Flynt | 1942- | |  |
Leo Fender | 1909-1991 | (Clarence, Leonidas) |  |
Levi Strauss | 1829-1902 | |  |
Linda Avey | 1960- | |  |
Louis Cartier | 1875-1942 | |  |
Louis Chevrolet | 1878-1941 | |  |
Louis Vuitton | 1821-1892 | |  |
Malcolm Forbes | 1919-1990 | |  |
Marcus Goldman | 1821-1904 | |  |
Marius Kloppers | 1962- | (Jacques) |  |
Marius Nacht | 1962- | |  |
Mark Zuckerberg | 1984- | |  |
Martha Stewart | 1941- | |  |
Marthinus Strydom | 1965- | (Johannes) |  |
Matthew Boulton | 1728-1809 | |  |
Maup Caransa | 1916-2009 | (Maurits) |  |
Maurice McDonald | 1902-1971 | |  |
Mayer Lehman | 1830-1897 | |  |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild | 1744-1812 | (Meyer) |  |
Meyer Guggenheim | 1828-1905 | |  |
Michael Eisner | 1942- | |  |
Mohamed Al-Fayed | 1929- | |  |
Muhtar Kent | 1952- | (Ahmet) |  |
Munib al-Masri | 1934- | |  |
Nikita Demidov | 1656-1725 | |  |
Nouriel Roubini | 1958- | |  |
Oprah Winfrey | 1954- | |  |
Oskar Schindler | 1908-1974 | |  |
Passmore Williamson | 1822-1895 | |  |
Peter Drucker | 1909-2005 | |  |
Phil Knight | 1938- | |  |
Pierre Cartier | 1878-1964 | |  |
Ray Kroc | 1902-1984 | |  |
Renzo Rosso | 1955- | |  |
Richard Branson | 1950- | |  |
Richard McDonald | 1909-1998 | |  |
Roy Disney | 1893-1971 | (Oliver) |  |
Rudolf Dassler | 1898-1974 | |  |
Rupert Murdoch | 1931- | (Keith) |  |
Sam Walton | 1918-1992 | |  |
S. Truett Cathy | 1921-2014 | (Samuel) |  |
Samuel Colt | 1814-1862 | |  |
Samuel Insull | 1859-1938 | |  |
Samuel Sachs | 1851-1935 | |  |
Silvio Berlusconi | 1936- | |  |
Steve Forbes | 1947- | (Malcolm, Stevenson) |  |
Steve Jobs | 1955-2011 | (Steven, Paul) |  |
Sumner Redstone | 1923-2020 | (Murray) |  |
Ted Turner | 1938- | |  |
Thomas Ismay | 1837-1899 | |  |
T. Boone Pickens | 1928- | (Thomas) |  |
Thomas Watson Jr. | 1914-1993 | |  |
Tim Cook | 1960- | (Timothy) |  |
Tom Monaghan | 1937- | |  |
Vince McMahon | 1945- | |  |
Virgil Abloh | 1980-2021 | |  |
Walt Disney | 1901-1966 | |  |
W. O. Bentley | 1888-1971 | (Walter, Owen) |  |
Walter Chrysler | 1875-1940 | |  |
Warren Buffett | 1930- | (Edward) |  |
Washington McLean | 1816-1890 | |  |
Will Keith Kellogg | 1860-1951 | |  |
William S. Harley | 1880-1943 | (Sylvester) |  |
William Backhouse Astor Jr. | 1829-1892 | |  |
William Backhouse Astor Sr. | 1792-1875 | |  |
William A. Clark Sr. | 1839-1925 | (Andrews) |  |
William C. Durant | 1861-1947 | (Crapo) |  |
William Randolph Hearst | 1863-1951 | |  |
William Rosenberg | 1916-2002 | |  |
Zev Siegl | 1942- | |  |