Bios: Business Leaders
From dKosopedia
- William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - newspaper magnate
- Arthur Andersen - Arthur Andersen
- Kunitake Ando - Sony
- John Jacob Astor - fur trading and real estate
- Percy Barnevik - investor
- Bernard Baruch - financier, investor, Presidential advisor
- Andy Bechtolsheim - Sun Microsystems
- Silvio Berlusconi - Italian media
- Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
- William Boeing - Boeing Aircraft
- Matthew Boulton - metal products
- Richard Branson - Virgin
- Samuel Bronfman - distilling
- Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway
- Asa Candler - Coca-Cola
- Michael Capellas - Compaq, Worldcom
- Andrew Carnegie - American Steel
- Samuel Cunard - passenger ships
- Michael Dell - Dell Computers
- John Deere - John Deere
- Walt Disney - Disney
- Larry Ellison - Oracle Corporation
- Lars Magnus Ericsson - Ericsson
- Carly Fiorina - Hewlett-Packard
- Henry Ford - Ford
- Bill Gates - Microsoft
- Lou Gerstner - IBM
- J. P. Getty - Getty Oil
- King C. Gillette - Gillette Razors
- Andrew Gould - Schlumberger
- Andy Grove - Intel
- William Randolph Hearst - media magnate
- Conrad Hilton - Hilton Hotel
- Soichiro Honda - Honda
- Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster
- Howard Hughes - Hughes Aircraft
- H. L. Hunt - oilman
- Charles Hurwitz - CEO, Maxxam
- Lee Iacocca - Chrysler
- Jeff Immelt - General Electric
- Yotaro Isawaki - Mitsubishi
- Steve Jobs - Apple
- Michael Johns - Gentiva Health Services
- Steve Jurvetson - Hotmail
- Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - investor
- Denis Kozlowski - Tyco
- Sanjay Kumar - Computer Associates (CA)
- Henry Kravis - financier
- Ray Kroc - McDonalds
- Alfred Krupp - Krupp
- John Law - banking
- Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - ship building
- Rush Limbaugh - right-wing media
- Daniel Ludwig - cargo ship building
- Guglielmo Marconi - Marconi
- Scott McNealy - Sun Microsystems
- Andrew Mellon - banking, steel, oil, ship building
- Michael Milken - High-Yield Bonds
- John Pierpont Morgan - J. P. Morgan Bank
- Akio Morita - Sony
- Rupert Murdoch - News Corporation
- Pierre Omidyar - e-Bay
- Aristotle Onassis - shipping
- Tony O'Reilly - INM
- Lindsay Owen-Jones - L'Oreal cosmetics
- Kerry Packer - Australian media
- John S. Pemberton - Coca-Cola
- Ross Perot - Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
- Paul Reuter - Reuters
- Cecil Rhodes - mining, etc
- John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil
- Anita Roddick - Body Shop
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild - banking
- David Sarnoff - RCA
- John Sculley - Apple
- Alfred Sloan - G.M.
- Martha Stewart - Omni Media
- Calisto Tanzi - Parmalat
- E. P. Taylor - Argus Corrporation, Windfields Farm
- Donald Trump
- Cornelius Vanderbilt - shipping
- William Henry Vanderbilt - shipping, railroads
- Peter Wallenberg - investor
- Sam Walton - Walmart
- John Wanamaker - Wanamaker Department Stores
- Charles Wang - Computer Associates (CA)
- Jack Welch - G.E.
- Eli Whitney - American System
- Jerry Yang - Yahoo!