Business & Industry
76 people, in date order
- Cosimo de' Medici 1389–1464, banker
- Jacques Cœur c. 1395–1456, merchant
- Jakob Fugger 1459–1525, banker
- Josiah Wedgwood 1730–1795, potter
- Richard Arkwright 1732–1792, industrialist
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744–1812, banker
- Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794–1877, shipping and railroad tycoon
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806–1859, engineer
- Thomas Cook 1808–1892, travel entrepreneur
- P. T. Barnum 1810–1891, showman
- Alfred Krupp 1812–1887, industrialist
- Louis Vuitton 1821–1892, trunk maker
- Levi Strauss 1829–1902, entrepreneur
- Gottlieb Daimler 1834–1900, automobile pioneer
- Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, steel magnate
- J. P. Morgan 1837–1913, financier
- Jamsetji Tata 1839–1904, industrialist
- John D. Rockefeller 1839–1937, oil magnate
- H. J. Heinz 1844–1919, food entrepreneur
- Karl Benz 1844–1929, automobile pioneer
- George Westinghouse 1846–1914, industrialist
- Marcus Samuel 1853–1927, oil entrepreneur
- George Eastman 1854–1932, entrepreneur
- Milton Hershey 1857–1945, chocolate maker
- Henry Ford 1863–1947, auto tycoon
- William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951, newspaper publisher
- Madam C. J. Walker 1867–1919, entrepreneur
- Calouste Gulbenkian 1869–1955, oil businessman
- Helena Rubinstein 1872–1965, cosmetics entrepreneur
- Willis Carrier 1876–1950, engineer and entrepreneur
- William Boeing 1881–1956, aviation entrepreneur
- Coco Chanel 1883–1971, fashion designer
- Harland Sanders 1890–1980, restaurateur
- Kiichiro Toyoda 1894–1952, automaker
- Konosuke Matsushita 1894–1989, industrialist
- Enzo Ferrari 1898–1988, automaker
- Adi Dassler 1900–1978, shoemaker
- Vehbi Koç 1901–1996, industrialist
- Walt Disney 1901–1966, animator and entrepreneur
- Ray Kroc 1902–1984, fast food entrepreneur
- Christian Dior 1905–1957, fashion designer
- Howard Hughes 1905–1976, aviator and tycoon
- Aristotle Onassis c. 1906–1975, shipping magnate
- Soichiro Honda 1906–1991, industrialist
- Estée Lauder 1908–2004, cosmetics entrepreneur
- Sam Walton 1918–1992, retailer
- Akio Morita 1921–1999, electronics entrepreneur
- Ingvar Kamprad 1926–2018, entrepreneur
- Warren Buffett 1930–, investor
- Rupert Murdoch 1931–, media mogul
- Sakıp Sabancı 1933–2004, industrialist
- Giorgio Armani 1934–2025, fashion designer
- Yves Saint Laurent 1936–2008, fashion designer
- Ratan Tata 1937–2024, industrialist
- Phil Knight 1938–, entrepreneur
- Ted Turner 1938–2026, media entrepreneur
- Ralph Lauren 1939–, fashion designer
- Carlos Slim 1940–, investor
- Muhammad Yunus 1940–, social entrepreneur
- Martha Stewart 1941–, entrepreneur
- Larry Ellison 1944–, entrepreneur
- Richard Branson 1950–, entrepreneur
- Steve Wozniak 1950–, engineer and entrepreneur
- Oprah Winfrey 1954–, media entrepreneur
- Bill Gates 1955–, entrepreneur
- Steve Jobs 1955–2011, entrepreneur
- Aliko Dangote 1957–, industrialist
- Jensen Huang 1963–, entrepreneur
- Jack Ma 1964–, entrepreneur
- Jeff Bezos 1964–, entrepreneur
- Michael Dell 1965–, entrepreneur
- Elon Musk 1971–, entrepreneur
- Sara Blakely 1971–, entrepreneur
- Larry Page 1973–, entrepreneur
- Sergey Brin 1973–, entrepreneur
- Mark Zuckerberg 1984–, entrepreneur